On# Hundred Fifty Students
Are Expected-Football
Practice Has Begun.
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TUe 'Presbyterian College of
South Carolina will begin another
school year on next Tuesday morn
ing at 9:00 o’clock.
Dr. Douglas, * presigeait of the
college, states that the prospects
-for the opening this year are
usually encouraging. About one
hundred and fifty students are ex
pected to attend the college this
coming year. Practically all the
old students will be back and there
will be an unusually large fresh
man class.
There have been several changes
in the faculty. Dr. Horatio Hughes
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who was professor of Chemistry
last year, has been succeeded by
Prof. Sturgeon. He has taught in
the University of Arkansas, and is
said to be a fine scholar. Dr. W.
E. Hoy, a Ph. D. of Princeton Uni
versity, will have charge of Biology.
Coach Walter'A. Jdhnson, ath
letic director, arrived in the city
this week and has already begun
work with the fiootbail squad.
Quite a number of students are on
hand for early practice and a few
more are expected. Among the
men here are Kirven, P. W. Wil
son, J. K. Wilson, McMillan. Hay,
Richardson, Fulton, Durant, Haf-
ner, E. Woodson^ Eichellbergcr,
and M. Woodson are expected back
m the near future. ♦With this line
up P. C. is going to have one of the
best t$ams in the state.
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RIOT LEADERS
TO RE PROSECUTED
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“Labor Executive Board” Formed in
Charlotte Bdng GdHtx to Jistice.
Charlotte, Aug. 31.—Organization of
“Charlotte labor executive board” for
the announced purpose of prosecuting
relentlessly through legal channels
those responsible for the riot at the
car barn of the Southern Public tUili-
ties. company last Tuesday morning,
when five men lost their lives, and a
dozen were wounded, was announced
today. This was the chief develop
ment of the day hi the street railway
strike situation. The organization is
composed, according to official an
nouncement, of one representative
from each of the several local labor
organizations and one from Central
-labor Union. Jt Is announced that
‘‘eminent-legal talent has been retain
ed to dTrect tFe MvestTgatldh aiid de
fend Innocent.” - *
N. C. Cooke, counsel for J. F. FiU-
gibbons, strike-breaker, who Is in Jail
charged with murder In connection
with the car barn riot, said today that
he would confer with a justice of the
peace tomorrow with a view to secur
ing at once a‘preliminary hearing in
the case. Hie statement of the “labor
executive board” intimated that it was
that organization which secured the
arrest .of Fitzgibbons and says others
will be arrested "as soon as evidence
can be secured that will Justify.”
Today, as for the four days preced
ing, street cars were operated in in
creased numbers in the city lines.
There were no incidents of an unto
ward nature. f
CUMAX EXPECTED
IN TREATY nGHT
Controversy Over Ratification In Sen
ate While President Toariag Coun
try* Busy Week Ahead for Both
Senate and House.
Washington, Aug. 31.—'Efforts of the
senate forefgn relations committee to
report out the amended German peace
treaty soon after Presld&it Wilson's
departure Wednesday on his western
tour, Is of greatest interest on this
week’s congress program starting
Tuesday after the labor day recess.
Republican leaders expect to report
the treaty to the senate late his wek
or early next week for open consider
ation, while the president is address-
’ Thg the country, thu*r-bringing~~the
treaty contest to a climax. Contro
versy over ratification amendments,
reservations and interpretations is ex-
peced to ensue indefinitely and be in
tensified by the president’s addresses.
In addition to the l traty contest,
other important developments expect
ed In congress during the week are
disposal by the senate of the prohibi
tion enforcement bill and the oil land
leasing bill and report by the senate
interstate commerce sub-committee of
a bill proposing a permanent railroad
regulation policy. Work in the house
will be confined largely to committee
work in ^preparing legislation.
In connection with the treaty, the
foreign relations committee will con
tinue hearings this week on questions
affecting smaller European nations
and peoples and also act on remaining
provisions of the treaty, probably by
adoption of further amendments.
Debate in the senate on the treaty
will continue, ' Senator Hitchcock,
Democrat, Nebraska, speaking Tues
day in reply to recent addresses by
Senators Lodge, Massachusetts, and
Knox, Pennsylvania, Republicans. The
senate judiciary committee is called to
meet tomorrow to 'consider the con
stitutionality of the French defense
treaty.
The railroad hilt, agreed upon Dy
the senate sub-committee, is to be in
troduced Tuesday by Chairman Cum-
—MuA* digc^i 5 p i$ anticipated
and later the full committee will con
sider Its provisions, whic hare expect
ed to outline a plan for federal reg
ulation but not ownership of railroads.
Transportation and joint wage boards
with wide powers are understood to
be provided for.
Passage early this week by the sen
ate of the oil land leasing bill is ex
pected and the prohibition enforce
ment bill will come-up next Only
brief debate is planned on the latter,
leaders believing it can be passed in
one da> and sent to conference.
To provide for permanent rank of
general for General Pershing before
his arrival from overseas, senate lead
ers pla nto pass on Tuesday the house
bill granting him the life-time title.
Congressional committees continue
work this week on measures designed
to rednee the cost of living, with the
house bill extendtng the food control
Miss Ruby Tolbert of Greenwood
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. A.
J. Milling.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Adair re
turned on Wednesday from a two
weeks’ stiy at Tate Sprrajpr
Mr. George H. Ullis' has been
spending’a few days in Charlotte
this week.
Mr. Boraep Tinsley has gotten
his discharge and is now at home.
Miss Ruth Davidson leaves Fri-
djay for her,school at Central.
' Mr. Harr^ Layton, who has been
•pending some time in Milwaukee,
is now at home, v
Mrs. Johrr T. Ballenger of Seneca
has* been spending a few days in
Clinton. '
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PUNSJMWE
In Labor Day Message to
Workers Says Ha Will Call
Conloranca Soon.
Washington, . Aug. 31.—President
Wilson‘ in a Labor Day message to
American workers tonight announced
that he would call in the near future
a conference of representatives of la
bor and industry “to discuss funda
mental means of bettering the whole
relationship of capital and labor and
pulling the whole question of "wages day how soon resuTts coutd be expect-
upon another footing.” The president
said he was encouraged and pleased
with the results thus far of the gov-
erment’s efforts to bring down the
cost of living and expressed confi
dence that substantial results would
be achieved In the solving of this
problem/ Patience and vigilance,
however,, he said, must be exercised
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and the government’s efforts must
have the co-operation of every citi
zen. | —
Live Stock Prices in Chicago
Show Drop of One Dollar
per Hundred Pounds.
Washington, Aug. 27.—Prices are
beginning to turn downward in vari
ous parts of the country, but the
sluinp has not yet gathered momen
tum sufficent to effect purchases be
ing made for immediate use, according
to reports to the department "of justice.
Attorney General Palmer asked to
la w against profiteers on- the senate
calendar awaiting to be brought up.
The house agriculture committee
hopes to report soon a bill to regulate
cold storage.
Hearings by^the senate agriculture
committee on the Kenyon-Kendrlck
bills to regulate the packing industry
will continue this week. ,
Principal bills before the housfl this
week are minor stariff measures and
those appropriating funds for comple
tion of the Alaska railroad and to re
peal the law establishing the* housing
corporation.
-Consideration of a permanent mili
tary policy will occupy both senate
and house military committees this
week. Other committee activities in
clude the resumption today of investi
gation of coal prices by a senate inter-
tsate commerce sUb-commlttee and
hearings o» courtmartial reform legis
lation by a senate military sub-com
mittee.
Presumably referring to the exist
ing labor unrest and threats of strikes
the president appealed to dVery citi
zen to refrain from doing anything
that would tend to Increase the cost
of living but instead to do kll possible
to promote production.
The president expressed particular
gratification at the attitude taken by
the representatives of organized labor
in supporting the government's pro
gram to meet requests for additional,
wages through a lowering of living
costs and said he hoped that the
workers themselves would “move with
the government Instead of against It
in the solution of this great demo
cratic problem.”
The labor day message as made
public tonight at the White House fol
lows:
“I am encouraged and-gratlfl
the progress which is being made in
controlling the cost of living. The sup
port of the movement is widespread
and t conffdehtYV 'took fftf suWftantlal
results, although I must counsel pa
tience as well as vigilance because
such will not come instantly or with
out team work.,.
“Let me agajn emphasize my appeal
to every citizen of the country to con
tinue to givfe hts personal support In
this matter, and to make It as active
as possible. Let him not only refrain
from doing anything which, at the
moment will tend to increase the cost
of living, but, let him do all in his
power to increase the production; and
further than that, let him at the same
time himself carefully economize in
the matter of < consumption. By com
mon action in this direction, we shall
overcome a danger greater than the
danger of war. We will hold steady a
situation which is fraught with possi
bilities V)f hardship and suffering-to a
large part of qur population; we will
enable "the'“processes of production to
overtake the processes of consump
tion; and we will speed the restora
tion of an adequate purchasing power
for wages.
“I am particularly gratified at the
support which the government’s poli
cy has received from the representa
tives of organized labor and I earnest
ly hope that the workers generally
will emphatically endorse the posi
tion of their leaders and thereby move
with the government Instead of
against it in the solution of this
greatest democratic problem.
“I am calling for as early a date
as practicable, a conference between
the authoritative leaders of labor and
those who direct labor will discuss
fundamental means of bettering the
whole relationship of capital and la
bor and putting the whole'question of
wages upon another footing."
ed from the campaign to reduce the
cost of living, the outcome of which
railroad employes have been requested
to wait before pressing demandfc for
wage Increases, said all the govern
ment wanted was a fair chance to
show what could be done to take the
artificial inflation out of the market
He said officers were well pleased
with the success* so far attained and
that cumulative results were expected
when congress enacts amendments to
the food control law, by which crim
inal penalties can be imposed on profi
teers and hoarders.
“We hope the public will begin to
reap the benefit of our efforts before
long,” Mr. Palmer sai<l. For instance,
we are making progress in obtaining
promises from the shoe manufactur
ers as to fixing a limit beyond which
prices shall not go.”
Propaganda, which apparently is
nation-wide on the part of shop-keep
ers seeking to induce purshases now
on the pretext that prices wilt be ma
terially higher next season, was con-
demed by Palmer as one certain thing
that would make prices continue ris
ing if heeded. His attenion w T as call
ed to advertisements In various papers
In which it was stated that straw hats,
clothing and other nonperishable arti-
^“fcTea should be bought before next
Other School Districts Report En
couraging Progress In Soliciting
Members. State Manager Wittes of [
Prospects In Other Sections 9t
South Carolina.
Laurens, S. C., Sept 3, (Special)—
Trinity-Ridge school district is the
first school district in the county to
report a complete canvas of members
for the Laurens county branch of'the
American Cotton Association. The
committee from that district has can
vassed all prospects and reported a
98 pen cent enrollment with dues all
paid. In a few cases members were
not able to pay dues at this time and
checks were given by tfiernloTaTI tfSe
later in the fall of the year. Mr. 0. A.
Power, county chairman of the as-
aociation, reports that a number of
other school districts had sent In en
couraging reports and that much pror
gress v Is indicated all over the coun
ty. It is expected that all committees
will make reports before the end of
this week so that a complete and final
report can be sent to state headquar
ters in Columbia.
Mr. Power has received the follow
ing letter from B. F. McLeod, state
manager, which gives an idea of the
interest being taken in the associa
tion in other sections of the state:
We are receiving splendid reports
from a large per cent of the counties.
We have not received full reports
from any one county but have full re
ports from some of the townships in
several counties. All of the townships
from .which wc have received complete
returns show 100 per cent. We have
not heard of a single man declining
to join the Association, and many of
the workers say the only reason all of
the townships do not show 95 to 100
■per cent Is because 95 to 100 per cent
has not been solicited. If 80,000 farm
ers, merchants, bankers and profes
sional men were solicited, we would
wind up with not less than 75.000
members. ■
Opening
Several New Teechera
in Facility.
year’s prises become effective. .
“It is very unfortunate that some
merchants take that attitude and we
have been studying die situation,” the
the attorney general said. Extensive
purchases now, reducing the supply
and increasing the demand, would
make their predictions come through,
whereas .we hope for a normal price
level if the people do not stampede
into a buying hysteria”.
SPECIAL MEETING. 1
Special attention is called to the
U. D. C. meeting Friday afternoon
at 4:30 at the home of Mrs. Will
Dillard.
REGULAR SERVICES.
The union services of the church
es of +he city came to a close last
Sundry night at iht Thomwcll
Memorial church and regular Sun
day night services will be held in
the different churches on next -Sun
day night.
Mr. Gossett, a former .student
of P. C., was in town for a few
days this week.
M. D. W. A. Neville, who has
boon in Washington for several
months, is now in Clinton.
- Mr. and Mrs. Will Bailey and
Mr. Cyrus Bailey spent the week
end at Grove Park Inn.
Mr. William Jacobs is on a bus
iness trip through Georgia and
Alabama.
Mr. W. B. Clark of Greenwood
is visiting relatives in the Tylers-
ville community. '
Mrs. George tVright and chil
dren returned Monday from a six
weeks’ stay in Montreat.
Chicago, Apg. 17.—A drop of fl a
hundred pounds on the average for
hogs with lower prices of beef cattle
at the stock yards today was ascribed
to several reasons, including the gen
eral protest, against the high cost of
living. Market men said the tenden
cy wa» all still lower hog prices, par
ticularly after ^he fall marketing, and
they prifessed to see a break in high
living costs.
The public has curtailed Its buying
of pork and beef recently while live
stock receips are large. The eastern
market failed to act as an emergency
outlet and* the packers virtually with
drew their buyers from the pens to
day leaving thousand If hogs and cat
tle without buyers. Speculators were
hit hard.
Live stock men say exports business
has been depressed by the foreign ex
change situation and that this, coup
led with the receipt of hogs that ac
cumulated on farms during the rail
road shopmen's strike, and the pros
pect of a strong run of hogs, helped to
case the weak market.
While the average drop for hogs
was at $1, the difference between to
day’s lowest point and yesterday’s
hightest point was fully $1.50, live
stock authorities said, while the aver
age drop for beef cattle, today ranged
from 50 to 75q 4 a hundred pounds.
Sheep also sold lower.
The Clinton public schools
open Monday, September 8th.
opening exercises will be held in
the auditorium of the old school
building, beginning promptly M
9:30 and all the pupils will come
tber& first, and after the exercises
k — jgr.y.Tr:gi9rj^l8BW siiuri ■istfr *■. \ « „
go to their respective places.
All parents and other friends of
the school are invited to attbnd the
opening.
The school invites the hearty co
operation of the entire community
that the coming school year will be
a most profitable one in the promo*
tion of educational interests. No
phase of civic life should be nearer
the hearts of the people than the
educational system.
The teachers for this session are:
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First Grade—'Misses Nita. Moore
and Evie Shands.
. Second Grade—Misses Ellne El
lison and Mell Burgess.
Third Grade—Misses Cleo Bald
win and Nancy Owens.
Fourth Grade—Misses Essie
Young and Nell Payne.
Fifth Grade—Misses Nena Mar
tin and Gertrude ^mith.
Sixth Grade—Open.
.SeVenth Grade — Miss Sara
James.
High School—Met hematics. Miss
Lucy Riser; Latin and French,
Miss Frances Andem>n ; English
New York, Aug. 27—In an effort
to stabilize meat prices, the committee
on fair prices for meat of the. New
York state association of United Mas
ters Butches of America today,agreed
upon a tentative fair margin schedule
covering eighteen basis meat items.
The .list will be given a trial during
the month of September.
The margins agreed upon are two
cents higher than those in in effect
during the wartime period, but it was
understood that reductions in whole
sale prices would enable them to sell
at lower than war time figures.
The maximum fair margin profit
schedule agreed upon today follows:
Beef of good and medium steers:
Chuck steak, 13c a pound: whole cross
rib 2O9; cut cross rib 24c; stew beef
13c. .< *
Hinds and ribs of good an$ medl-1 rentals and labor.'
We received a wire last night from
the Chesterfield chairman, who re
ports 400 members for Cheraw town
ship, and that a large per cent paid
double the dues asked. This is prac
tically 100 per cent. I am under the
impression that there are not more
than 400 voters In Cherdw township.
We have complete returns from two
townships in Lee county, St. Charles
and Lynchburg. Every man In these
townships joined the Association, a
100 per cent score. There was a gen
tleman in our office yesterday after
noon who workd in one of the school
districts In Richland county, who said
that he saw every man In his territory,
and every one joined the Association
without any hesitation, did not need
any argument.
We feel sure that all^of your town
ship comnftteep who are w r orklng,
and of course all are working, are
meeting with the same response. Ab
solutely all that is necessary to se
cure, a large mem hr ship is to see that
every man InlYOUr county Is called
upon and the matter intelligently pre
sented to him.
Many counties report inability to
complete their canvass In three days.
Do not hesitate to*continue the cam
paign until your county has been thor-
otighly covered. We are setting the
pace for the other cotton states and
they are ■watching us. I^et us keep
the standard high. The results will
more than repay for the time and
*n,rt necessary to make the Soutn
Carolina Cotton Association a success.
Very truly yours.
B. F. McLEOD.
State Manager.
um steers:
Sirloin steaks. 17c; bottom round.
19c; rib roast, prime, 18c; whole top
sirloin. 15c; cut top sirloin, 15c.
Lamb: leg of lamb, 14c; rib, chops
14c; chuck, Cc; stew lamb, under
cost .04c.
Pork products:
Smoked hams, undraipped, 8 to 10
pounds 8c a pound; smoked shoulders,
picnics 2 1-2 to 7 pounds. 7c; smoked
bacon, unwrapped, 13c; pork Chops,
ends, 8c; pork chops, middle, 12c.
The margins are based on “cash and
carry" and do not Include the cost of
delivery service.
The meat dealers explained that the
margins fixed were the differences al
lowed them between the cost and sell
ing prices, profit and expence of hand
ling. They declared that the Increase
of 2c over the war time margin was
made necessary by the increased
cost of overhead expences Including
and History, Miss Emma Wright;
Science, Miss Marie - Hall; Music,
Miss Emily Hutson.
Lydia Mill School—Miss Mary
Bean and Miss 'Sabin. ^
Adult School at Clinton Mills—
Miss Beatrice Sloan.
Adult School at Lydia Mill—
Mrs. Annie Oxner.
Superintendent—A. C. Daniel.
PLUMB DISAGREES
WITH PRESIME5T
Does >ot Approve of Labor Being
Asked to Wait on President’s H. C.
L. Ffirht ‘
Richmond. Va., Aug. 31.—lEtforts of
the government to restore normal
price conditions will fail so long as a
"financial autocracy is kept in power
through the inflation of prices and
.values.” Glenn E. Plumb, author of
th (T p r 0 posed * trl-pa rrtF'ral Iroad” orm-■—
trot nlan, dprhrrrd tonight m address*—
ing a meeting of organized railroad
employes of Richmond.
The speake likened Europe to “a
run dow'n railroad.” staggering under
the burden of a “heavily watered book
value” as a result of “the manipula
tion of Wall Street and other money
renters.”
"With the cause of high prices
world wide and fundamental, does
the President believe that the value ^
of money can be restored by setting
up temporary chain stores under
government supervision, or by pun
ching individual hoarders pf food?”
asked Mr. Plumb. “To be asked to
wait upon strike or failure of this
campaign is as though we werq told
to suffer in silence while An unhealthy
financial process continues Its opera
tions unchecked and unchanged.”
Declaring that the issue between
labor today was not "intrinsically ‘a
wage issue at all,” Plumb said that 4f
a strike vote were returned by the
railroad shopmen in rejection of the
President’s decision on their demand
for a 17 perjeent increase in wages, .
the issue would “almost inevitably
"extend beyond the field wage adjust
ments and into the field or “economic
reconstruction/*
While increased production through
out tne world Is urgently needed to
bring relief from, present economic
conditions. Plumb said, men can not
increase their productivity in a “sys
tem which bestows the profits from a
greater effort upon non-producers.”
' 4 *» can come only, he said, through
participation of labor in tfe* mahage-
ment and contra! of industry.
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