THE CHRONICLE Strives to be a clean newspaper, complete, newsy and ^reliable. VOLUME XIX •A CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Utfc, 1919 TO LOTH It , County Delegation Provides Additional 2 1-2 Nills-Sup- ply Bill as Introduced. DIAL I* WASHINGTON. f Two and a half mills extra levy fbi immediate work on roads is pTovided for in a bill introduced by the couuty delegation in the General Assembly, according to a statement by Repre sentative ID. T, Kinard while in the city Monday. Mr. Kinard said that it vras the conviction of the delegation that immediate provision should be made for repair and mainteuance of roads, while the hand. wtill n matteY of uncertainty. It is estimated that the^levy will produce about $20,- 000 out of which a considerable sum can' be used for labor saving machin-' efy and the remainder go for mainten ance. He said that the delegation felt that it was carrying out the wishes of the tax-payers in making this imme diate provision for better roads. In speaking of other local legislation Mr. Kinard said that the policy of the delegation was not to make radical changes in the county’s government, but to go slow and consider all mat- tesa before taking decided action. The rural police system, he said, would not be molested this year nor would there be any reduction in the appro- liriation for the farm demonstator. The i supply bill for the county will be prac tically the same as last year with the exception of the special levy for ,0a. 6,000.00 Uniforms and equipment' for rural policemen ..- -rr .. 417.48 Homo demonstration rwork-rr 750.00 Interests on bounty Indebtedness: Interest oh current loans, in anticipation of collection of - taxes 2,800.00 BrifTges, bonds, interest $22,- 250.00, sinking fund $1,t‘ 095.50 .. 3,347.50 Railroad bonds .. 5,777.50 Jail bonds, Interest and sink ing fund, one-half mill fixed “by Act... ‘ .> *3690.00 To ^the Farm Demonstrator of Laurens .... .« .. . Sec. 2. That this-Atf^hairgo-iftto effect immediately upon its jppprova' by the Governor. INTERNAL SITUATION - IN GERMANY BAD Berlin. Feb. 8.—The; Internal situa tion in Germany is seriously menaced numerous Spartancan groups who are showing themselves in the North and East coast cities and at various places in Central and Southern Ger many. The newspaper publica'tioi^of war bulletins on happenings on the new German-Polish * and German- Rolsheviki fronts adds to the nation's woes. ^ While the Spartancan insurgents ap parently have been-routed ijr Bremen, they are fomenting fresh riots at Hamburg, Kiel and Lubeck and are, becoming extremely bold in Dussel- dorf, Gotha. Jena, Erfurt and Eisen ach. .■* In Berlin government troops are carrying bn a renewed search of houses for concealed weapons and ammunition because of the open threats of the communists that a now insurrection is being organized.. • FAST BASKET BALL GAMES Last v week several games of basket ball were played in the col lege gym by Clinton high school teams, l - • . • First was.the game with Green ville high school girls and Clinton high school girls.. The game was a good one and quite exciting, the score being 16 to 15 in favor of the home team, of course! The team for Greenville was as follows: ; Forwards—Misses Mary Mliller and Alma Rawson. Guards—Misses (Jennie Barton and Nettie Moore. Centers—Misses Ruth Jones and Laura Woodside. * ' ' ' SuDatit ut es—M i sses Ev el yn A us- tin and Willine Spann. Cofich—Miss Grace Pack. Clinton’s line-up was as follows: Forwards—Misses Eula Grace Bobo and Nanindl Blalock. • Guards—Misses Nell IIunter_aud Mercer Vance. Centers—Misses Louise Davidson and Loiida Copeland. This team has done good work under their coach. Miss Belle Free. The GrrcuvrlIp- hnrs-played the Clinton high school hoys next, Greenville- winning this game. Greenville’s line-up Was ax foL LOSES BY ONE LONE VOTE Washington, Feb. of one vote 10.—By a margin suffrage me fourth defeat today in the senate. further action at this session is now possible, but advocates announced that the now nearly half a century old cam paign for submission of the Susan B. Anthony constitutional amendment'to the states would be renewed when the Sdxty-sixth congress convened. On. the final roll call today 55 sena tors—one less than the two-thirds re quired—voted for adoption of the reso lution and 29 senators cast their bal lots against it. Comparatively brief debate preceded the vote which official ly killed the resolutton adopted by the house jon January 10, 1918, by a vote of 274 to 136.- Defeat of thje measure, was wtthessed by crowds of women in the galleries, but there were no demon strations and dramatic incidents whici have marked previous senate votes on the question were lacking. Up to the last moment managers of the resolu tion expressed confidence in securing the one vote they needed, but the op position held firm. 0 immediately after the vote was an nounced suffrage leaders issued state ments, prepared In advance, criticising the senate’s action and announcing that the fight would be renewed in the next congress. Supporters of the reso lution generally predicted that sue- GERMAN MENAGE IS NOT PAST Payla. Feb. KL—TJia—suprfcnaw war- council, In which Marshal Foch and other military cammanders sit with the council of the great powers, con tinned today the aiscdssion of th terms for the renewal of the German armistice, without reaching a decision. At the same time the league of nations commission virtually completed the final draft of that project, assuring its presentation at a plenary lession the latter part of the week. The discussion of the armistice took a wide range, including the failure to execute some of the claus.es of the pre vious armistice; the blockade and the ^Organization Headed by G. M. Wright—Will Work for Improved Highways. ♦ At an enthusiastic good roads meeting held last Friday night at the office of the Barrow Motor & Truck Company, the Clinton Au tomobile Association-way organized. This organization proposes to work use of enemy merchant^shipping. But i„ season and out. for a system of -. ,Lo turned fln a,«rte» of. . H ,,, iL ,g*gg olma that will enable the automo- bilist, the farmer, the visiting tour ist, the man'that'has products to market, in fact every citizen in the state who uses its highways, to go from one oity .or center of popula tion to another, any season of the year. The meeting was well at tended, and a number of enthusias tic speeches were made stressing tire need of good roads and planning the work that will bcTuidertaken. —The assoi-iation was—organized cess would be attained then. Twenty-four democrats and thirty- one republicans voted for the resolu- • )iley. Guards—Messrs. Herman Hun ter and Goyue Simpson. Center—Mr.\ Joe Mason, Next-«ame the two game* with Simp the Irish coast. This is approximately 2,000 miles and a plane capable of a sustained speed of 100 miles an hour, it could be made in 20 hours. So far as known, how- Mer. no plane has yet been built which could "make the trip without stopping for re-fueling. The route mbst generally favored, in naval circles,,- however, is via the Azores, with, a stop at the islands for fiiel aii'd oil. Some officers favor a half * . way stop at sea to refuel from a de stroyer if it is Considered Impossible th make the trip in a single flight. “* , In a general -way'it has been said heretofore that the crow of any plane attempting to cross the Atlantic would he composed of at least five men; two pilots to provide relief, at. the levers two mechanics to care for the engines and a navigation officer to chart the course. »- A'ffto'leather conditions it was said prpbably not before June would con ditions becomp stable enough 7o war rant the attempt before ^aarjiL- fall. IV-/iR , regarded as doubtful that all preparations could be made by the summer -pifrtod, although this ts one of the things Com mander Tow^r vill have to determine by careful study. ‘ . While there is a gtiptHfeal of friend ly rivalry with the British govern- and Eleven republicans opposed it. Of the senators absent and paired, eight were recarded in the affirmative and four in the negative, indicating that sentiment of the 96 members stood 63 to 33 in favor of the resolution. Those voting in favor of the resolu tion were: Democrats—Ashurst. Gore, Hender son, Culberson. Johnson of South Da kota, Jones of New- Mexico, Kendrick j Kirby, Lewis, McKellar. Myers, Nu gent, Pittman. Pollock, Ransdell, Robinson, Shrafroth, Sheppard. Smith, of Arizona, Jhomas, Thompson, Var danian and Walsh—24. ~ . “-“VtcpuTiI i ca n s—Ca 1 d e r, Johnson of ^I^QIIllai^Haxdllng. Jones of Wash- ingtoh, Frelin&huysen, Grohna, Colt, Cummins, Cuvtis, Feg-nald, France, Kellogg, Kenyon. I^aFollette, Lon root. McCumber, McNary, Nelson, Now. Nor ris, Page, Poindexter, Sherman, Smith of Michigan, Smoot. Spencer. Sterl ing. Sutherland, Townsend. Warrc* and Watson—31. Total, for, 55. Againftt — Democrats: Bankhead. BeckhanrrFletcher, Gay, Hardwick. .Hitchcock, Martin of Virginia, Over man, Pomerene, Saulsbury, Simmons, Smith of Georgia. Smith of South Caro lina, Swanson", Trammell, Underwood, .Williams and Wolcott—18. Republicans -B^ird, Borah. Brandc- -gefy DHlin-g-ham, Hair, Lodge, McLerm Moses, Penrose, Wadsworth and Weeks '—11. Total, against, 29. .. The following were paired: Cham berlain of Oregon and Martin of Ken- proposals of a rather drastic nature, designed to place the enemy beyond the possibility of re-arming and renewing the conflict. From the French standpoint the me.- nace of such renewal is not past, and it is urged as a matter of foresight that suitable safeguards be established. What these safeguards are has not been disclosed, but it is generally un derstood that they, include the limita tion of Ihe production of field and heavy guns, and an exact accounting of heavy guns now on hand, also some limitation of the military organization w-hich Is to be of police service. -r—r While some of the military com manders take the view that radical measures are needed to assure the al- possibllity of renewed peril, yet other views tend to place reliance on eco nomic measures as the best means of preventing any renewal of enemy ac tivity. Besides the discussion of the armls- time terms, M. Klotz, the French min ister of finance, presented documents of the German general staff showing a systematic plan to destroy French industry: not only as a military meas ure, but as a means to promote Ger man industial interests. The docu ments were referred to the "economic conference recently established. The discussion of the armistice-terms will be continued tomorrow.. Ixuirion, Feb. 10.—British newspa pers of all shades of opinion are de voting .aeriojifl attention to the *444-- tudo adopted by Ihe.Gorman govern ment toward the armistice conditions The iTaily News’ Paris correspond ent sends a dispatch from “autlioi it:; live sources” on the subject, in which he" says ’KTs informant told him that he had the best.reason to believe that Germany is not continuing to demob-, ilizo. “She has now concerrfrated--more than eighteen division under Von llin- denT)uTg~bn the western front,“ The correspondent quotes his informgni .1’ -ISC. ."-We also have.•theiwuil. iva sons to believe that Germany is ; ing her troops under arms on-tire pro• ♦ext 4 of economio neeessity. Some -of he military authorities think that Ger-’ tuck,), with Reed of Missouri, Gofibof. maTiy—has-.--OfftigM more material' to West Virginia arid Owen of Oklahoma with Shields of Tenhessop: Hollis of. Now Hampshire and King of Utah with Knox of Pennsylvania and Phelan of California and Fall of New Mexico with Smith of Maryland. A BUSINESS €IIAX44B,„ Clinton saw another business given.-H^hii^t^his week when Stanton & Johnson bought the hardware and grocery business of the J. \Y. Cope land Company, one of the oldest and best established concerns in the city, and beginning Tuesday the business is now being conducted iin-’f d' resentatives of each government, who shall con spit with the Alied high com mand hut w ho may report direct .to the supreme economic council.” “The next meeting will take place on Monday at. 3 o’clock in the after* \* r- \ * ■' -x.'. ij ■ y ' r’ • * ..: Ik I- Wamik&LtfmiiM