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LATE CORN IN SOME SECTIONS
SUFFERING FROM TOO MUCH
RAIN"ANU GRASS.
TOBACCO AVERAGE INCREASED
General Average of Other Grain and
Forage Crops Are Around 85 Per
Cent of Normal; Fruit Poor.
PRESIDENT TALKS
0.0. P. LEADERS
Washington, July 17.—«ow the Ver
sailles conference reached many of
the agreements embodied in the trea
ty of peac was dscribed by President
WfTBPn today to three Rcpobliean eea-
Columbia.
A report issued by B. fi. Hare, 1
South Carolina held agent of Upited
States Bureau of Crop Estimibpf,.
shows an increase of 4 per -cent of
corn acreage in South Carolina over
that of last year, the estimated acre
age being 2,340,000 acres. Condition
on July 1, was 81 per cent of nor
mal, equivalent to an average yield
of 17 bushels per acre. The early
plantings range from "fair” to
“good.” Intermediate plantings are
generally “good,” while late plantings
in various sections are suffering from
too much rain, many fields being foul
with gress and very much in need of
cultivation. Considerable damage is
reported to bottom lands from over
flow of creeks and rivers, caused by
recent excessive rains.
The acreage in Irish potatoes
shows a reduction of 5 per cent as
compared with last year, while the
acreage of sweet potatoes remains
the same. Condition of the former is
85 per cent and the latter 90 per cent
of normal.
Acreage in tobacco has increased
from 86,400 acres in 191 to 112,000 in
1919. Condition on July 1, is report
ed at 85 per cent of normal, equiva
lent to an average yield of 765 pounds
per acre.
Acreage in peanuts has beep re
duced 10 per cent as compared with
last year, and a 5 per cent reduc
tion in acreage of sorphum cane (for
sirup is noted. Condition of both
is 88 per cent of normal.
The apple and peach crops are both
reported at 48 per cent, or 2 per cent
less than one-half of k normal crop.
The condition of other crops is as
follows: Rice 88 per cent of normal;
wheat 75; oats 80; rye 86; hay 84; al
falfa 85; millet 85; cowpeas 85; toma
toes 85; cabbages 85; onions 86;
grapes 80; pears 58; watermelons 8(1;
cantaloupes and muskmelons 78.
The estimated production of corn
for the entire United States is 2,815,-
400,000 bushels, as against 2,583,000,-
000 bushels last year. The production
of cotton in round numbers is estimat
ed at 11,000,000 bales as compared
with 12,000,000 bales in 1918. The
production of wheat will approximate
1,160,000,000 bushels, or 244,000,000
bushels more than last year and 370,-
000,000 bushels more than the five-
year average from 1913 to 1917 inclu
sive. The prices of wheat per bushel
•n July 1, was $2.22 as against $2.08
en the corresponding date of last year.
ators invited to the White House at
the head of a long list of republican
members whom he purposes to take
into his confidence.
Afterward one of his callers, Sena
tor Colt of Rhode Island, said Mr.
Wilson had been able to place the
Shantung settlement in a new light
and had clarified other disputed points
in the treaty.
Senator McCumber of North Da
kota, and Senator Nelson of Minne
sota, the others who saw the presi
dent, were reticent as to the subjects
discussed but said the President had
given them muh interesting informa
tion.
Senator Colt, who announced his
general approval of the league of na
tions in a senate speech delivered
shortly before he went to the White
Housey- indicated after thfr-conferencfl
that his doubt over certain portions of
the league covenant had not been re
moved. He said he was not. ready to
express an opinion regarding Shan
tung and intimated that the President
might make public a statement soon
on the subject
Senator McCumber is the only re
publican member of the foreign rela
tions committee who has favored the
league and it is understood. Mr. Wil
son talked over with him committee
action on the treaty and the general
situation on the republican side of the
senate. Senator Nel&on- never has
Invited fb New London.
S. M. Wolfe, attorney general, has
been invited to deliver a 30 minute
address before the National Associa
tion of Attorneys General, which holds
its annual meeting in New London,
Conn., September 2. Mr. Wolfe will
discuss “The Abuse of Law Making
and Its Possible Results.” The Amer
ican Bar Association meets in Boston,
September 3, 4 and 5, and Mr. Wolfe
will also attend this meeting.
Many Diplomas Issued.
Twenty-six physicians, 74 nurtes
and three osteopaths successfully
passed examinations, conducted by the
State board of medical examiners last
mouth. Fourteen other young women
took the examination for registered
nurses, but failed to pass. Nine ap
plicants for the practice of medicine
also failed with one for the practice
of osteopathy.
Judge Henry H. Watkins.
Washington (Special).—The long
fight of the vacancy on the bench of
the Federal court for the Western
district of South Carolina was settled
here by the nomination of Henry H.
Watkins, a well-known Jawyer of An
derson.
Shsriffa Grieve for Rector.
Resolutions on the recent death of
the late Sheriff Hendrix Rector of
Greenville were adopted by the South
Carolina Sheriffs’ Association, which
met immediately after the conference
of solicitors, sheriffs, magistrates and
foremen of grand juries with Gover
nor Cooper. The resolution was offer
ed by Sheriff Cannon G. Bieaae of
Newberry and was adopted by a ris
ing vote. The association sent a
beautiful floral wreath, costing $50,
at the time the Greenville sheriff was
killed July 4.
Must Report Promptly.
At the meeting of the South Caro
lina railroad commissioners a letter
was directed to superintendents of the
Atlantic Coast Line, Southern and
Seaboard Air Line Railways, calling
to their attention the importance of
reporting promptly. In its letter the
commission cites the instance of the
wreck occurring on the Atlantic Coast
Line between Camp Jackson and Co
lombia, July 11. It is claimed that
while t\c wreck occurred at 10:30
o’clock in the morning the commis
sion was not notified until 4 p. m.
made a public declaration for or
against the treaty. To all of his call
ers the President is said to hav£ l g$U-
erated his opposition to reservations
of any character in senate ratification
of the treaty.
The President, tomorrow will con
tinue his talks with senators inclined
to be friendly towards the treaty pro
visions, though it is expected that
later he will seek a conference with
virtually every republican senator, in
cluding those who have most bitterly
opposed ratification. Senators Kel
logg, Minnesota, and Kenyon, Iowa,
both of whom have kept open minds
on the treaty, have .been invited to
call on the President tomorrow morn
ing and Senators McNary, Oregon, a
league supporter, and Capper, Kan
sas, who has taken no definite stand,
la the-afternoon. - .
The position of the foreign rela
tions committee with regard to meet
ing the president as a body was ex
plained in a statement tonight by
Chairman Lodge, who said no congres
sional committee "has any right or
should have any right to summon" a
president before it, and that Mr. Wil
son had not been asked to appear. He
made no prediction whether the com
mittee would accept later the' Presi
dent’s qffe'r to receive it at the white
house but pointed out that so far
committee consideration of the treaty
is in its preliminary stages. ^
While* the President was beginning
his white house conferences the sen
ate debated Shantung and the league
and adopted without a record vote a
resolution by Senator Borah, republi
can, Idaho, asking for information re
lative to the Shantung negotiations.
Specifically the measure, which was
not debated, asks the President for
any information as to whether the
Chinese delegates were “intimidat
ed" by the Japanese and requests a
copy of a lettr said to have been
written on behalf of General Bliss,
Secreary Lansing and Henry White
protesting against the Shantung set
tlement
In his address announcing accep
tance of the league principles, Sena
tor-Colt declared the covenant Would
not conflict with the American con
stitution nor create a super-govern
ment, and asserted that “if it is un
thinkable for us to desert England,
France and Italy when the world is
in chaos, then we must become a mem
ber of the league as providing the only
machinery for the restoration of
peace and order.” He withheld judg
ment, however, as to the Monroe doc
trine and other features.
Senator Sherman, republican, Illi
nois, attacking the Shantung provision
as a step toward the dismemberment
of China and the enthonement Wf “an
Asiatic kaiser” at Tokio, declared Ja
pan never intended to give up thfl'pen-
insula passing to her control under
Miss Cora Horton has gone to
Augusta, to spend some time with
her sister.-
Miss Edna Clayton is visiting
friends in the city.
Wonderful Miniature Motor.
A miniature electric motor is dtah
scribed as weighing only 150 grains,
and as being inclosed in a shell about
uram ana a half loug aud au lucli
and a quartern diameter. The shaft
Is designed especially for holding tools
of dentists or surgeons, but it may be
used for fine drills for metals or gems,
or for other similar purposes. The
motor Is driven at a maximum rate of
about 6,000 revolutions per minute,
and la adapted for use with either di
rect or alternating current.
the peace treaty. He characterized
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the league of nations as “the collosal
confidence game of the ages.”
PREDICT* REVOLT W
SHANTUNG CITIZEN
Chinese Envoys Say $4000,000 Will
Not Surrender to Japaneoe Aggros-
slon. ,
• New Yprk, July 19.—-Predicting that
“the 36,000,000 people of Shantung
will never surrender to the Japanese
aggression,” Dr. H. F. Kung and T.
H. 9su, Chinese delegates from Shan-
■iunir nrnvJnrft tr> tho p»a™> oontmmp.a
in a statement here today declare that
the boycott on Japan’s goods through
out the province was the prelude to a
possible “uprising.”
“Shantung has sent tens of thous
ands of its citizens to Europe, to help
win the war,” said ' the statement.
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“Many lives were sacrificed. Now the
reward for this service is to turn
Shantung’s economic and political
rights over to Japan. What will these
soldiers find when they go back to
their native land? Japanese police,
Japanese miness, Japanese enterpris
es on their own properties. Can we ex
pect these men whq have experienced
the terror of war on European battle
fields o rest satisfied?
“The Shantung settlement has rais
ed a new issue in the far east-. Japan
Is satisfied with the clause and will
attempt to carry it out but the Chin
ese people will never acquiesce.
Our people have experienced the
cruelty of the Japanese bushlde dur
ing the capture of Klao Chow. They
will not be responsible for any action
they may take when their territory la
Invaded or their properties robbed.”
The envoy said that not only was
Shantung regarded as “sacred terri
tory” because of the birth of Chinese
civilization there but that its people
would not allow it to be dominated
by a foreign power because of their
sense of justice and desire for self
determination.
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