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)LUME3 XXXV. LAURENSSOUTH CAA)UINA, WEDNESDIAY, FEBRUARY 18,1 1920. R3 PRIMARY [LCTION GO[8 TO RICKY C. M. Babb Defeated by Capt. W. R. Richey HEAVY VOTE IS POLLED tilhey Polled Majority of Votes in Wards One, Two and Five. 1a)b Carrie% Three, Four and Six. Four New Councilmen are Elected. A new mayor and four new council m1en -Were lnminated for election in the Democritic primary for city of fices held yesterday. C. M. Babb, tho mayor incumbent, was defeated by Capt. W. I. Iltichey by a margin of 22 votes out of a total of 614 cast. I). If. Irvin was elected alderman in Ward 1, 1). I. Simpson in Ward 2, J. MciD. *loore in Ward 3, C. F. Dishop in Ward 4, Joe P. Smith in Ward 5 and Albert Dial in Ward 6. Aldermen 111sho) and Dial are the only two of the ipresent administration re-elected. However, Alderman E. D. Easterby, in Ward 1, was the only other alder man asking for re-election. Mr. Easterby has been confiked to his home for the past week on account of sickness. \ Of the seveni members of council, three are veterans of the 'World War and saw service in France. -Mayor Elect -ichey was a captain in the 371st Infantry, 93rd 1 Division, and now holds a collmIission las major in tile .Reserve Corps.. AldermanJlect ). I. Simpsori was a first lieutenant in the I18th Infantry of the 30th Division and Alderman-Elect .Joe F. Smith was a -first lieutenant in tile same regi mlnlt and division. With the excep tion of the two year term of former Mayor .1. C. Owings, Alayor Babb has been. mayor of the city continuously since 1907. The following is the result of the election by wards: F,or Mayor Vard 1 2 3 4 -5 6 Total abb ......35 17 94 48 77 410 Richey .....18 41 87 33 85 39-333 For ldermai Ward I Easterby............... ...41 Tvil 44.... .... .........4 "'lt tle .. . . . . . . . . 11 Simpson ................ 46 Ward 3 Lewis ................... .. 45 Moore ......................136 Ward I Bishop ................ .. 61 Solomon ................ 18 ,Ward 5 F'rancs ........ ........14 Smith .. ................ 16 Ward 6 Albert -Dial .............. 77 Will Canady. Mr. .Will (Cannady, a wvell known ilt Fzen of the upper0l part of the country, died( at his home Saturday and1( was buried the following day at Friendship chulrchl in Youngs townshlip. Mr. Canmnadly had been ill of influenza and pneumonia for several (lays and his death wvas not unexplectedl. Ills wife tpreceded 1h1m to the grave about a year' ago, leaving him with several sma11 llhiren to care for. A relap~se after several wveeks' -illness -was duec largely to efforts to care for the chil dren whlen lhe should have remained in bed5 and1( his (leath was directly ascrib ed to tils exposure1'. lie was a popu1 lar' citizen in ils neighblorhlood and Is death was a great shock to thlem. Greenville Concert Postponed. Announcement has been made from Greenville of the postilonemnent of the Lazzari and Ganz concert, which was to be giveun inl tihe 'Textile llall last night. Thle concert has1 been post ponced un~til AprIl 9th, onl account of the influenza epidemic. 'The concert of Madame F~ranices Alda, scheduled for March 15th, has not been changed no far. Season tickets, it is stated, wvill hold good for' the chlanlged dates. Mr. 'W. Bi. Iliackwell, of tihe ENkomI viclitiiy, wasl inl the city Onl bumsJncss yester'day. W\hiile here' he said thuat lhe head recenltly overhaitled and recon structed tihe old Mcianiel Miii on Recedy 'River' and has been1 oplerating it now for aI week. (Irinding (lays wvill be TFuesdays, Thullrsdafys 11nd( Satur days. RURAL POLICE REDUCED TO FIVE Salary of Seven )ivided Between Five. Other Local Matters in Legislature. Representative It.. (D. Boyd spent the woek-end in the.city, having come up after adjournment of the Legisla ture Saturday evening.,' Mr. Boyd stat ed that the lower bt'hnch of the Legis lature was a little ahead of the upper branch in Its work now and that the representatives were having more o a breathing spell. Speaking of local legislation, Mr. Boyd said that the delegation, over his protest, had reduced the number of riural pilicemen from seven i. five, di viding the salary of the seven among the five. Rural Policemen 'Bryson, Sullivan and Martin are left out of the list this year and Claud Owings, of Gray Court, added. Other policemen are Chief -C. L. Owings, Andy Boyd, Abrams and Thompson, Rnreenta tive Kinard, who was here last week, said that the reduction in the rural poilde force was made as a matter of economy so that a necessary salary increase would not be burdensome, The county sulpply bill was about completed, said Mr. Boyd, and would carry the same tax levy as last year, viz., 9 14/mills for general county pur poses and two mills extra for roads. In the appropriation this year is $1,500 for a rural school supervisor and $500 for making a stairway to the ladies rest room in the court house. Speaking of road legislation, Mr. Boyd said that M a result or a meet ing with 'the highway.commission last summer the delegation had pledged itself to provide at least $100,000 for the completion of the present improved road plan of the county and that this pledge -would be carried out. Provi sion will be made for a $100,000 bond issue for this ipurpose. The conimis slon, he said, waA confronted with heavy increases in the cost of road work and would have to have more -1oney to carry out the plans as orig inally mapped out. 31r. Boyd said that lie was very much pleased with the progress of his bill requiring a standard set of school books for all the schools of the state, both city and county. He said that the difference in these books now was costing the rural school pupils who attended the city schools- over $375,000 a year and that his bill would do away with this extra expense. His bill has now passed the lower house and is in the hands of the senate. EXIENSIVE ELECION. What .11m Lewis Says It. Cost imli1 to Get Defeated for Aldermian. Jim Lewis, who lost out in the al dermanic race in War.d 3 yesterday, says that the campaign was an expen sive thing for him. Here Is his tale of woe as he put it up yesterday: "Lost 1,349 hours' sleep thinking about the election. Lost two front teeth and a lot of hair in a personal encounter with an opponent. Donated 0one beef, four shoats and five sheep to country barbecues. Gave awvay two pairs of sisapenders, four' calico dress es and1( $5 ini cash. "Kissed 126 babies. Put up four stoves. JKindieed 14 fires. Walked 4,076 miles. Shlook hands with 9,608 peole. Told 10,101 les, and talked enough to make in print 1,000 volumes. Attended 16 revivals ammnd contrIbuted $50 to foreign missions. Made love to nine widiows--lye grass, four sod. Hluggedl 19 old malds. Got (log-bit 39 times-andl was not elected 'by 91 voles." Anm Early Promotion. Friend of Edwin P. Fuller, son of Mr. and Mfrs. G4. A. Fuller, of this city, who is~attending 'Clemson college, will b~e interested in is -promoltion to the rank of Sergeant in lisa colmany. This is an unusual fattainment, as the rank of sergeant is not generally conferred on students under the Junior class, ando .Sergeant Fuller is only in hiR sophonmore year. ie has also been selecd as assistant manager of time foot-ball team, another' honor general 13y giveni to older students. Theiz iledpa~ith 'TLyceum '1Bureaui tele graph~ed Mir. W. ii. .McCuen Monday morning to time (effect that the Tyirolean Yodlers, the attraction whlliih was to apipear hmere tonight as the third num ber~ on" the lycumn course, were forced to postponme thmeir engagement here as several of the players aire sick of in fluenza. Announcement of the defer rc'd date will he made at n. fture time. ADRIATIC QUESTI . STIR IN United States Expresses [ ment of Adriatic Que nant to Treaty of Vers -Washington. Fe). 16.-Decided ob. jection to recognition or a settiemen1ci of the Adriatic question on lines re pugnant to those agreed upom in the treaty of Versailles, and not recon. cilable wlth the principleis embodied in the 14 Ipoints of President Wilson was exipressed by the United States Ir the recent note to the allied govern ments. The note was not a threat to with draw from partici)atiQyp in European affairs, It was sitid oflally at th "jhIte House, but said indt this coun try could not be a party, to the dis position of Flume asiagre'd upon by the allied premiers withdut consulting the United States and consequently would not concern itself with the ques tions involved, including the policing of the Adriatic, if the settlement wert enforced on the government of Jugo. Salvia. The next step of the Washingtor government waits on the reply of th< allied premiers to the American pote The interesting suggestion was mad< in offlcial quarters that the United States might. cease its European relle: work, which the allies have been anx. lous this country should continue tc keel) down unrest, if a modification o: the peace treaty were put into effec which the United States would regard as contrary to the iprinciple of self-de termination. The *acts which influenced the de partment of state in framing the new American note were as follows: December 9 last, at a meeting of thc supreno coitncil in P1'arsn,4 aettlenen of the Adriatic question was agreec upon, which, to become effective, re quired acceptance by both the Italiar and the Jugo-Slav governments. The basis of this In brief was the creation of a buffer state of Flume and ad. jacent territory, and America, as rep resented by Under Secretary Polk, was party to the arrangement. After the withdrawal from Europe of the Amerilcan peace commissioner and while the Adriatid issue was stil a subject of discussion between the principals, a meeting was held in Lon day of the entente premiers. Lloyt George, Cleienceau and Nitti, and an entirely new plan was drawn up ,ith out participation by America and for. warded in the shlpe of an ultimatun to. the Jugo-Slav government. Th( basis of this was the recognition o: Italy's title to- much of the eastern coast of the Adriatic and 'Dalmatih and there were other substantial ad ditions to Italian claims which (id nol agree in principle with the origina undelitandings. O*lNVILL1E 1f>EFEATt4 LOCA L. lligh School Biasket Blail Tieamus, both 11oys and Uils, Lose to Greenville The Liaurens High -School baskei ball teams, both boys and girls, wvent down in duc'at before the twvo Green vylle Hiigh School teams last. F~rda) evenin1g. The boys lost by a score 01 22 to 9 and the girls lost by a margir of two points. B3othu games were wvell pllayed and developed keoen rivalry. Another dlouble-headler is scfteduled for next Friday afternoon when thu boys' team wvill meet the Woodrufi team and the girls will play a teanr from tie same school. Admission tc the two games wvill b~e 25 cents a head A heated contest is promised by all aggregations. Ryan Martin on Weost Coast. The friends of Rlyan Martin wvill be glad to kntow that he landed safely in Tacoma, W~ashington, a few days agc from his trip to South America. i~c goes in a few (lays to Illavana, Cuban. A recent, letter states that lie la wvell and hav'ing a good time and wvill ret urni to New York about the last or April when lie hopmes to visit home for a few dlays. Aindng 31edical ('onventqnm. Dr. Ilolfe i0. Ilughes, secretary of tihe Trn-State Medical Asr~ociation, left yesterday to attend the Association convention hbeing held in Chuarlotte tif weook. ON CAUNES k LIED QUARTERS. )ecided Objection to Scttle stion Along Lines Repug ailles. The latest American. note was in the < nature oi a iprot sL against this me ithod : of procedutie. It was not an ultimatum I or1 a threat, but pointed out that If < persisted in this would leave the I United States in the position of being 4 ex)ected to ratify a treaty which con firmed boundary lines beyond i'e adjustment which it already had de- 3 clared to be wrong. And further more, it was recalled that this latest J move had been made by the premiers without consultation or advice from s the Washington government, though . this country would be bound to abide by the results should it ratify the k treaty. * London, Feb. 16.-PIresident 'Wil son's note to the peace conference on the Adriatic question has furnished London political and newspaper cir cles with a surprise and interest sur passing that evoked by the Wilson Lansing correspondence. The Lansing Incident was regarded as an Amenri can family affair toward which for eigners should be merely disinterest ed spectators. The president's reappearance as a determined party In the peace negotia tions was construed as almost as I threatening as his order for the i George Washington to be prepared to take him home fromaiFrance. The first version of the event gave it the aspect of an ultimatum, which meant that the council of the allies must stand by the agreement which President Wilson aopepted In Decem ber, or Amrica would shake the dust of European affairs off het' feet alto gether, and also that the council had framed a stiffly worded reply adher Ing to its January offer to the Jugo Slavs. Later Information appeared to soft en the stiff necked ps itions credited to both tpartles. This consisted of messages from Washington that too sweei)ing a construction had been given to the president's wordsl for tifled by news from Downing street that the council had not finished com posing its answer. Nevertheless Pre mier Mullerand's cheerful observation to the reporters on Friday--"there Is not a cloid ahead"- -Is taken as a purely diplomatic optimism. The afternoon papers displayed stir ring headlines, in which bombshells" was the favorite word. If not a bomb shell, it was an entirely unexl)ected ruffling of the waters about the parlia ment houses where it appears to have been presumed that so long as Amer lea had not eveni a representative at the conference table, her voice would not he heard In the lebates. 11EY. RI. Wy. fl URTIS 1DAD. Nailve of thlis ('ounty Dlied in Hlonent Path Suntdaty. Rev. R1. WV. Burts, a native of this -county, father of Mm'. TP. H. 'Hurts, of IBarksdale Station, (lied at his home in Honea Path Sundlay morning, agedI 86 years. Th~e funeral services were held at flroadmouth church, of which he was pastoir for' 35 years, Monday afternoon. Decathi was due to compli eations incident to advancing age. The deceased was one of the oldest lpreachiers in the Haptist denomination in this state andl hadt given long and faithful service.,~ei survived bya wido, seen onsDr.C. E. Hurts, o Columbia, S. L. hurts, of Atlanta, Ga.; Prof. R1. C. Burts, of Rock H1i11; Sheriff R. M. Burls, of Abbeville; TP. H. Burts, of Laurens, and G. Burts, and WV. L. Hurts, of Hlonca Path; three (laugh ters, Mr's. J. 11. Watkins, of Belton; Mrs. WV. T. Wood, of Wi'iamston, andl MIiss Amanda liuirts, of 1lionca Path.. , Dr. Cody to P'reach. ' -D.7F. Co~dy, edlitor of the flap ilst Courer', Is ln'becup jy the' pulpit tt thle First flaptist c'huirch next. Sunday in the place of thle pastor', Rev. S. Hi. Tiemphllemian,' who has been- sick for several weeks. Although R1ev. 'Temn lileman had sufilently recovered from his slckness to return home from the Steedly Hospital last Saturday, he Isa Rtill too weak to p~reach. His many friends arei glttd tu sea h-im horse again. iOLOINS BEGIN SIXTU WEEI ilxtl Week of Legislative Sessjo PromIses to be Important. 1lin Bill Amended. fiquor Law 3ay b M1a1de to Coiform to Federal. Coluimbia, Feb. 17.-Three old limt egislative suljects, li(lior, good road nd iinances are to occupy the atten Ion of the South Carolina solons, wi )en tile sixth week of their 1920 ses ion here tonight and aomehinig delIn to Is expected to follow their consid rations of these old-time problems. I s1 hoped that two of them vill be set led once and for all, as far as Sout ,arolina is concerned, and the thir oon to be disposed of for anothe ear. The general assembly is due to ad ourn sine die before the first u larch, but the prospects are that th ession will last into next month b week or more. The judiciary committee of th benate .will this week, probably, in roduce a bill, to amend the presen iquor law of the state to make I onform to the federal prohibitloi tatute. The federal law allows th murchase of a pint of whiskey ever en days, on prescriptions of physi lans. The state law allows only luart a month. United States Die rict Attorney Weston -has asked th enate to enact legislation which wil ake the two laws conform. The highway bill is on the calen lar, and will likely make good head vay during tihe week. There is som piosition to the heavy motor trucl icense provided in the measure an n effort will be made during the wee' o amend this. The license now rang s from $6 fr a one-ton truck t 1.000 on a seven-ton or truck of great r capacity. An effort will be made t nerease the one-ton license and re lice the higher license ilgures. Sligh Llmendients have already been offei d, but are as yet to be voted on. On >f these would 'increase the highwa omnission from six members, as call d for in the highway bill, to eight, an vould provide that 90 per cent, in toad of 80, of the incomes from licens 5 on motor vehicles, go to the etun y tredsuries, tile remaining 10 ipe ent to go to the state highway com nIsslon. The state appropriation bill, whic vill occupy much attention this wee! ias been set as a special order fo 2:30 p. in. Tuesday in the 'ious of representatives. Still another bill that the ious vill debate this week is that to prc 'ide increases in the salaries of stat >fficials and members of ile legisla ure. The senate has selit the hill t he hiouise. Its success is predicted b lie fact that the house has alread lassed a bill providing for increase >f legislators' pay. 400DYEAll TIRtE POP11'1A11, NEILEit HElli 'actory 'N'ow Prodtelug- Over Thirt Thouasand Tlires Per D)ay. Mr. C. A. Perry, factory reprecsenta lye of the Goodyear Tire andl Rubbe 'o., of Akron, Ohio, wvas in Laureni ast wveek calling on his dlealers. WhIle here Mr. Perry statedl tha~ mae large factory' with a emipacity |0000 tires an~d 30,000 tubes per dam 11nd recenitly beenl comlietedl in Ak rot )hto for the manufacture of tires fo he smaller make cars and that th actory was no0w in positloll to supll his popular make tine to all t hel lealers in (iuanltitle suillcient to tak are of the large dlemandl by the ca Iwners for Goodyear Tires. Cord Tires are fast taking the plac ft Fabr'ic Tires in the larger sizes, hi aid, andl pracitically all trucks no' 'eng manututetredl are bleinig equip ed( with Pnleumiathc 'Cord Tire's. Tiher re Severa Ilarge truIcks inl Lauren ounty eqIuippeld wiuth cord tires an omeC Sllendlid mileage recordls are be( nig madle biy them. Auctioni Saile of Lots, As wviili e seen by3 a page advert ise Went in) alnot hoter ollo of thIIis pa pel he0 Flirst National Aultiton Comran) f iFlorenice, S. C.. wVill putt on1 a1 t w lay nue tloln sale hle neOxt Wedn lesdA lnd Thur i sdlay. In thle propierty 1(o b (1ld airr tihe B'inunons!a store bullildin n t 'ie publ1,1ic (1 sqare, thle hous'e an Uin in g lots of the Irbiy 1)1c ~Io0 lihy Avenue, r'esidlentlal i'proerty (1 Vest Alainl street adjoining thme Gelde iomec andi siXteen houses 01n Gray' liii in the Jersey section of the cit3s 'Tasy terms, a brass hand and fr'e Ori'/.0 nre aelvertiserl ill the sale. CIURY LANSING QUIlTS CABINET ,I Disagreement Between Him and President ) LANSING CALLED CABINET MEETINGS - President Asks for 111s Resigitation - When Secretary t asing Admits I (filling Cabinet. Meetings- During 1 Illtess of tille President. Differ. enes Loiig Slitundineg, Washington, Feb. 13.-Robert Lans - Ing ended his career as Secretary of f State today after 'President Wilson had e accused him of usurping the powers Y ol President by calling meetings of the cabinet during Mr. Wilson's ill 0 ness. - 'Mr. Lansing denied that he had t sought or intended to usurp the pres t idential authority.1-e added, however, 1 hat he believed then and still be lieves that the cabinet conferences were "for the best interests of the re - public"; that they were "proper and 1 necessary" because of the President's - condition and that he wiuld have been 3 derelict in his duty if he had failed I to act as he (lid. As the record stands Mr. Lansing - tendered his resignation and Mr. Wil 'on accapted it. The resignation was 0ioffered, however, only after the pres C ident, under date of February 7, had written asking if it were true that C.r. Lansing had called cabinet meet ings and stating that if such were ) the case he felt it necessary to say - that "under our constitutional law and practice, as developled hitherto, no one but the President has the right to t sumnlon the heads of the executive de partments into conference." e , Mr.. Lansing answered tw.o days Y later--last Monday --saying he had - called The cabinet conferences because I he and others of the President's oflie lal family "felt that, in view of the - fact that we were denied comnimunica - tion with you, it was wise for us to confer informally together on matters as to which action could not be post polled until your medical advisers per iitted you to pass upon them." The secretary concluded by saying , that if the President believed lie fail ed in his "loyalty" to him and if Mir. Wilson no longer had confidence in him he was ready to "relieve you of ~ any embarrassment by placing my resignation in your hands." The President replied last Wedlnes d day that he was "much disappointed" by Mr. Lansing's letter regarding "the .o-called cabinet meetings." Ile said lhe found nothing in tie Secretary's letter "which Justifies your assumption of Presidential authority in such a matter" an( added that he "must frankly take advantage of your kind suggestion" to resign. "I must say," continued tile Presi dent "that it wold relieve me of em barrassment, .Mr. Secretary, the em barrassmnent of feeling youir reiluctance Sand dilvergence of judgment, if you w sould give uip your tiyresent office and afford me an opiportunity to select some one else whose mind would more willingly go along with mine." IBefore tIs letter was written, the (lay for the regular cabinet meeting Ilast Truesdiay-hadl iassedl and the corresp~ondence dliscloses why tile cab r inet (11( not meet. On the same day that he receivedl thlis letter from the r residlent Mr. Lansing announced that he hadl written other cabinet offiers that he wold not call any more cab e inet conferenlces for tile plresent, but no explanation was olfered. Tnquiry at Sthle Whlite llouse brloulght only the stateme'nt that Mr. Wilson himself prob~ably would call andl preside at the next session of his oficial advis ers. .iut tihe difference btetween the Pres ident iong tprc-datcs theC first cabinet -call by Mr. Lansing, which was issued last O' c c'er .h seven dlays after Mr. Wilso an re't urned from h1is western spe'ak ing tour and took to huis bed. IThey hen.an at thl" peace con ference in IParis, as Mr. Lansing disclo)sed in Is final In('tter to tile Pre'sident,. unde r date 1of yest eday, and hadr conltinuet cd sin1ce that tim- one 1' of thle chilef differences betin g over' the gove'rnmeln t's atIitide towardI Mexico. When thICecabinnt mlet onl October 5, JIosepht P. Tiumultiy, private' 8eeretar'y (ontinned on Pae li gh t.1