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heXX IL A U E N S S O U I W SD A "SCA IN COTION" l[C[AR[8 II[SI[R He issues a Statement of Encouragement DRASTIC DECLINE DUE TO SELLING tin Ten weeks More Than One Million Bales of Cotton Iaye Ween Thrown on the Market Without lihyit or Iteason, Says Statement. Now Orleans, Oct. 20.--In a state 'ment prepared at the instance of the New Orleans cotton exchange direc tors and] made public tonight, IHenry (i. liestter, secretary of the exchange and, for 20 years regarded as an in ternat ional authority on matters per tainlg to cotton mxarketin , declares Ithere is "no reason for rushing for federal financial aid'" and asserted (.hete was "nothing the matter with the So lh -bdyond ani unreasonable scare in cotton." The satement, prepared "for the benefit and encouragement of those who are not fully informed," follows: "The drastic de,'lIno that has oc curred in cotton since the first of August, amounting to nearly $90 a bale, or about 41S per cent, has been mainly due to the pressure to sell or a shrinking market, undermining con. i(ence on both sellers and coniumers, accn(':tuating the fears of the forier and increasing the reluctance of the latter until they practically abandan doned the market except at. constant cones ssions, which in the aggregate probab ly constitute the 'greatest droop that has ever taken place in the staple in any like period. In the past ten weeks, xxore than 1,000,000 bales of spot -cotton have literally been "thrown overboard" without rhyme or reason. :;early three-fourths of th2 Texas ginnings to September 2 have been rushed to market and while oth er sections have sold more sparingly, the reported sales at three leading Texas centers have amounted to more than 200,000 hales. Futures have per force followed spots, the pressure hav ing bcn accentuated by sales to hedge spot. Various Theories Given arious theories have 'been given for the 'scare' mainly the question of flnnanxing, ur.aavorable attitude of the federal bank and tight mxoney. Neit'h er of these, however, should reason ably h: ve precipitated i practical panic. Calm thinkers consider there -wa'; no rearon for asking for federal ai d !an dui ng the 'buy a bale' period of 191.1. \'- marketed that year more lhx.3 2 '"Ii er marketed in any year in I t eior yof trade and if we did :" :xi- :;stchi for ouxr hales as we "h' ve, we laid thit' fouidation Qr: upw ard trend andl brouclt xxi- oney Into the Soutih, faIrly <:irned.x ini the years that fotllowxxi, thIaix had ever hefoire benoiaie i ouir hxitory. Whyx~ then'i sixoult we af loer fourx seasoins iin wichi ourx i'-~ (Old 'd in valuxe $7,970,000,000,x had I 4a ca rnI~g a few m ni i b~a ls penxd Iixg a len'rary'~ 11ilt iin'deaand? lhas not t hal v'ery liiuIlx eenx lengthlenedx by the produxi xers. , Of cour se, everybjody nowxvs li xt the govern mieixt's eff'orits tox lower ithe high eo.<t of livting fis (exerc0 il some1 Intlhiene buti t hal has beenx by nox meanus (nix rely respIoni 11 for n'(0 the iottonI('. Let uis look ait thei werm enxext's fiurs foir t( noaso Atigxxst andi Septiemberx I -ix, in fxxct oxf xall thme Ialk abIouit reduionii~ or consum xpt ion, we ftind t hat Ithe ''xills Nor'thI andi South conxsumaed of ('CtIon from Axiuut I to Sepxtembher 30, 8841,000 bales xagatnst 913,000 for the samexj tixme Inst yeai, a decrease of Only 59,000 hales. This then was not whiere the shoe pxiached as fair as dlo mnestice consumipt ion was teoncernedI. When the m~il hxecaixe Informnedj of lihe gr'owin,'g fears of the Souithrin tiroducers of a declIne In values they fell 'back on their' supptltes Of ranw cot tonx and dIuring the two imonthis usedl iup 413#,000 bales xof thou' reseirve stocks. Thuxxs on Juily 31. thme census ;1aidl mIlls Noith and South held 1.2(09,000 hales of Anmerican lint cotton while on October 1, the same author ily gav'e them a total of only 773,000 hales. lin September In face of the panicky feeling that -was sprangn AUTOMOBILES KILL THRiEE ON SUNDAY One Victim "orner Judg'e of Probate in Cherokeo County. Greensboro, N. C., Oct. 24.-Two au tomobile accidents in Greensboro and this section this afternoon resulted in the deat/h of two persons and the se rious if not fatal injury to two others. J. E. Webster, aged 72, formerty a probate judge in Gaffney, S. C., and Mrs. WVolster, while attempting to cross one of the principal streets in 'Greensboro late today, were struck by an automobile. Mr. Webster died from the effects of his injuries soon after the accident while Mrs. Webster is In a local hospital, not ex,,ected to live. On the Reidsville highway, near Greensboro, late today Mi3ss Lucile Roberson was killed alid her sister, Miss Annie Rioberson, and Will )an l1es were seriously injured when a car driven by hiss Annie Danels, sis ter of the injured man, ran oft an em banikment and turned turtle. Ilendersont, N. C., Oct. 2 I.--.Joseph T. Watkins, aged :0, died early today from fractured skull suffered last night when an automobile ran into him as he stepped from a sidewalk while assisting a blind man across the street. Watkins, though never or dained was well known in North Car olina for his work in prison evan gelim. 3iarriagea of Cross ill1 Boy Miss Edna I1. England, of \Westmin ister, and Mr. Geo. P. Martin, of Cross 11111, were happily married at the home of the bride in Westmtinster last Tues day, the ceremony being performed by Rev. J. A. Martin, father of the groom. The young cmt Ple wilI make their home in Cross ill, where the groom is engaged in business. in the spot market the Southern mills eon:nanmed 2S1,A00 baes of lint cotton and they held remaining but about 283,000 bales or about a month's sup ply. ('om1parlson of Figures. "Comparing t'ie situation now with July 31, the showing Is: Stocks, American mills, North and South, of American lint cotton, July 31, 1920 (per census), 1,200,000 bales. "European port stocks and afloat, tober 1, 1,001,000. Decrease lint cotton since July 31, 778,000 bales. "Totals, 2,124,000. "In other words, there wa.s a shrink age in mill stocks at home and abroad and !n the Etropean .$t upply of about k00,000 bales of lint cotton-a hacuum that must aml will be filled when the m,.ret is i'rmit'' to set tle down to normal cn: onsh, In considerin.g these fl cie ':e are deal ing i"'th the ;'pr=n'. ;'i with the Pa:st. 't'l(,c'u tiit'i It:. in latrge pat to ti .m t:c o: h irs which have reuealed upo ciO~ onl "'miers, utn ettling hoth ''ndei of: th. .:n, cani t0o he otha 'a-i'' tsane .;morary and will hard we''" The mills ate ajiaite as anx ion.> ,d the lirodatcers f'otr the i'estttim p t iona of atotnia I fta net lon. Th'le rem edy l ies wih the S'ouathern prioduc~er' and htol der, w hi oiu le qito a ble to coIII withi the situtitIon. ''The tetail trade, whaich Is the teal foiuntdationt, is, we ate told by thle best authboitie's, "pr ioceedaling ott a neatly normoalI basis so fat' as voltume is con 'Con iilane tttit'itble rtori I il fromt lie pr toduaerts' 'nd Tlhte wa-e of buy ing or for the aeplenishmient for' thteta Srilvies with only a I: now ledge that the toomt Is at thle top1 anad tiot at I the bottomn. ''TVhere Is not hinag th' atter i'I th thte South beyon d aa an uneasoan rg seaaae in cottont. Oura listitttons arae solid, ot'r banks ate In siplendid~ con dition, better thtan ever' known, and they have ben made so by the apno 11le's money, resultant from thte pros perity of the past few years, Thtea' lnter'estr, ate the peolhe's Interests atnd we need not be0 forcede to seek outside of out' own section for' the solvIng of out' prtolem 'Te world wants ourt cotton, the lIke of whtlehi can not be obtalined elsewher'e. The wvoald muist supply its needs from ottr suptply and a people who wvould throw overhoat' dtthir 'products at 'less thtan cost' utnder ex IstlDg condItIons woutld cilss nor~tig shor't of 'bedlamites.' We are not and have never 'been that -kind." A"TfElt FAS'' OF 73 DAYS -iondon, Oct. 25.-Terencee Mac Swine', lord mayor of Cork, the most prominent- of the Irish hunger strikers and said to have been the brains of the Republican party in Ireland, died early -today in Brixton prison. The end was not unexpected, for the lord mayor had been unconscious for several days. He was' entering upon the seventy-fourth day of his hunger strike as a protest against a sentence of two years imprisonment on several charges, including one of having seditioud documents in his pos session. " Only his brother, John MacSwiney, and his private chaplain, Father 'Dominie, were with himu when he died. Mrs. ilacSwiney and the pris oner's two sisters, Annie and Mary were at a nearby hotel. The lord mayor, who was terribly emaciated as a result of his long ah stinence from food, had been delir ious; for many hours. and was uncon scious when death cate. It was several hotur' after the lord mayor died before his brother was permilted to tell MIrs. MaacSw iney the sad news. She immediately went to the prison, accompanied 'by her pa rents and the \Misses MaeSwiney, and the family group stoical and dry-eyed, prayed over the body as it lay on the cot. No I) enonstrationsi. There were no untoward demon strations outside the prison after the flews of Mac .winey's death became generally known. A large force of police had been concentrated to put down any disorder that might occur. It was said at the prison that the reason for withholding permihsion to .ohn MacSwiney to inform the dying man's relatives *of his conditons was that it was in the prisoner's interest. Just before MIacSwiney died, Father Dominie and ,lohn MacSwiney knelt. at the bedside and offered up tpray ers. The priest administered the rites of extreme unction. It is well within 'the possibilities that the body .will be taken to Cork secretly In order to avod unpleasant results frim whatever demonstrations might be arranged in England and Ireland along the route traversed by train bearing the body. There is no intimation that any official advocates refusal to send it to Cork. The home offiee in charge of pris ons, which would control the move ment of the body in lIingland, said that no plan for the removal of the body had been officially considered. At the Irish office it was declared that no plan had been formulated for the transfer of the body to Ireland agnd that final decision on this point woflld rest solely with Dublin Caste. It is within the powers of the home office to give up the body of a prison er in whatever way is deemed most expedient. It is pointed out that it could legally transfer the bodv in secret to somte ou t-of-t he-wayn 'port anid later to a governimentI vessel and deliverc it at C'ork. Aio Terencll(e .\lacS wintey was forty er old antid wias 0one of the mtost lpromli nent Sinl ieineors. lie startedI life as a driaperc's assistant, but hlecame a p~oet, author01 and a playwivright before0 tak intg up) polities ser'ioulsly. 1Later lie I'eante violently anti-10nglish. WVhileIi in Wakefield jail, Yorkshiire, in I191I6, he met Niiurio '.luiirphy, daughter' of a wvealthy Cork distillet', who visited thle jail anld shor'tly afteor th1ey wer mar 111ried, 1511 desit muh opl Pos ition. .\lac~iwin ey was electedn as a Sinnt Fiin membl 1111er from ('ork to thle Iiltishi i'arliamlent in 1915, bu11 tCverl took is seat, lie was presenIIt at. lie first sess ion of tile Irlish Parilian tt ill 191 9. Whenl the estabIlishment01 o~f the Repulblic wns confirmed, and wiak elected lord may0or of Cor'k in I1920. Foi' various political offenses, he( htad 'been in jail, with brief intervals of lIberty, silnce Janular'y, 1916,. and in Octobei', 1917, securedl his release fromt jail b~y hunget' striking. N'far'tedi "Strike" Aug. t'2. .\acSwiney's htunger' strike was be gunj on August 12 when'l wvith tenl of his associates, he was arre'(sted by sol dier1s ini Cor'k while attending a ses sion of Sian lFein court. After tr'ial b~y a courtmat'tal under~t the reOgula tionls of the Defence of the Realmi Act, he wvas found guilty of sedition atnd sentenced to two years8' imlpr'isonl meat, which he was serving in 'IBrik ton 'Prison in London. .\acSwinev. than an Aleran,. of INF ANT'S IIODTY CAST INTO FilRE Norfolk Woman Who Gave Buindle of "!tags to Fireman, Charged With Murder. Norfolk, Va., Oct. 25.-Mrs. Emily IWilson, 21 years, old, was arrested here this afternoon on the charge of ilfantilde. Immediately after her ar rest she was ordered by a health de -partment physician sent to a hospital as her condition is serious. :While a circus parade was in pro gress this morning Alirs. Wilson en tered a down town laundry and going hack into the fire room handed a bun die to a negro fireman and requested him to throw it into the furnace, tell ing him that it contained rags. The fireman's curiosity was aroused by a mnovemient he felt in the package as it left his hands for the Rlames. itaking the bundle from the coals, he discov ered that it contained the body of an infant. The body was so badly iiuti Ia'ted from the filaie that the coro ner was unable to detertine the man ner of the child's death. Mirs. Wilson, who is the mother of two children is separated from her husband 'I'h police said she stated the infant was born dead last Satur day. SO1'ilfl'' 1'!1W'1:{_. IB1tIEAIhN(; 1)0W N U'nited Sintes of Russia 1ay Bie Evolved. Washin:ton, Oct. 2-.-A tInited States of Rlssia is now looked for by officials here as the most likely pos sibility along forms of governmieWnt to follow dissoluition of the soviet re' i me. Official advices today . 1 the 101 shevik breakdown was rapidly con tinuing in Russia. A new central government pattern ed roughly after the form of the United States of America, it is be lieved here, might include even king doms such as have been recently es tablished in Turkestan together with the socialiitic forms represented by the republic carved out of Siberia and forming now the Far East republic. Among the states which a United States of Russia would be expected to include, officials enumerated: Lithu ania, Esthonia, Latvia, Georgia, Azerbaijian, Ukrainia, Republc of Onsk, the kingdoms arising out of the government of the provnces of Tur kestan and Rusha proper. Cork, was elected Lord Mayor of the city at a s'pecial session of the Cork Corporation on March 30, of this year. Ile was a well-known Sian Fein lead er and, prior to his election, had been deported and imprisoned several times, one of the latest notable in stances of his confinement having been in 196It; in connection with the Irish Easter revolt. W\hen arrestei on august. 12, .\lac Swiney managed to c.'lcape to tihe st rlet from thle hack of the ('ity iilall, whleh11 sold irs hadIC surrounded1CC, but1 was capturedCl outside. lie was taken to) the miilitary barrai~ck5 andl c'aiie upi for trial on1 Attguist I16. TheW(011 couiiar ti al foundm himi guilty (If having control in his p~o55'ssess a doe(linien t ilkely to C'aite dlisaffect ion, niamiely, a copy oi a re'so lut ion of' tihe ('ork Coriporiat ion tlldgi ng alle(gianice to tile D~ail 1e arl~i, tile Irlisih Iliulican P'arliameint, anid oft hav'ig mai~de a 51'ditious5 sp~leh (in thle ovenasion of hiis eleec Already wea':k at the~ trial heenualse of his refusal to take food, Miac~w iney diislputed the( juisi5cltioni of tie court, saying: "'I amII thle lord miayor of thlis city' anq its chief magstrate. I de c lare this couri ilIilegal,. and those ta k Inug iiart in It Iliablle to arirest unhder the laws oif the Iish republic.'' The day folowing his trial, Lord Mayor' MaeSw iney was dep~or'tedi to 10nglandc aboardi a destroyer', undeir a heavy military eseort and w~as lodged in llrixton jail. The government an Ilo~uni~cd on August i19 that he was senltenced to two years' imlpr'isonment. MaeSwiney s hunger stike brouight numer'ous solicitatioins and prhotests to the Bitish authtlorities, many of the appieal.4 becing from symp iatizerts In the United States. Even a threat from the Sinn Fein in -Irelandl, that, in the event of his (leath, a general strike and serious dis turbances would pirevail throughout the island. An alppeal was taken di recty to the King, butt this also prov' edl unavailing. GIVEN MEDICAL EXA1INATION ChIlldren's health Conference in the Court. House F1 irday and Saturday Attended by 31Iny Mothers. Forty-five babies, both male and fe male, from among which may be so lected in the years to come a gover nor, senator, notary public or even a president, were given thorolgh e' am inations at the Baby Health Confer ence held in the court house Friday and Saturday of last week uinder the direction of .liss Minnie Rogers, coun ty nurse under the Red Cross, with the co-operation of ladies of the city. Forty-live mothers brought. their chil dren for voluntary examination by -physicians of the city, had physical defects pointed out to them and ad vlco given as to how the children may be made stronger and better fitted for the battle of life'. Saturday afternoon Cr. Lesne Smith, chIild specialist of Spartanbu'g, was present and spoke to a num ber of mothers on the care of babies and later examined several ('hiidren. The address of IDr. Smith was given close attention by the assembled iothers and many rtiueltions were asked him after he had cc rncludeil. The Baby Ilealth Conference was one of several conferences given over the county under the aus ices of the lled Cross and which will be I.iven in other sections where they are de sired. 'T'lhe obj ect of the conferences is to to determine the developme01t and present condition of children brought by their mothers for examination. It includIes a careful Iphysicial examiina tol of each child, in which the child is weighed, measured and compared, point by point, with what would be normal for that child. In this way the mother may see where she is failing, where she is succeeding and how she may secure better results. A Children's health conference is not a contest or a clinic. It is for the great mass of children who, though apparently well, are-rarely found with out defects. The discovery of such de fects at an early age when they may be easily remidied, Is the chief aim of the Conference. BERKETT W. DAVENPORT Well Known Citizen Died at His Home Here Saturday After a Brief Illness Berkett W. Davenport, a well known citizen of the city and county, died Saturday afternoon at his home on Laurens street. Last Monday he was stricken with paralysis, soon lapsing into a state of coma from which he never rallied. The interment was at Prospect church Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, following funeral services led by his pastor, the iterv. Samuel Ii. Temple man, of the Pi rst Baptist church of Laurens. The active and honorary pallbearers were the meibers of the sen ior. 1 aracL(a class of the Firist IHap list ('hurch'l Sundl~ay school, of which lhe had been a faithful miemberI for' a numberiit' of yearIs. Al'. D~avenpor't was a ha!tive 01' the 'outly, a son of the late Li. P. Daven lort, schlool t 'eiher, and one t imel coilnty sch l~oo ll oissionier. Some yearis ago lie moved to town, anld dlirI ing the Past year- or so he has con dutelt :I a green groclry. lIeI is surlviv ildlbe his wido~w, wilo was eoemr by four I son;, ierrci Daven port 01' Charleston, JTames, Br-ookA and Thlomas D avenp1)rt, of L auren'hs andu one daiigh Mit. .1. H. P h ilpot, su1perlinitenident of thei cily vIlih andr water' plant, has re Cei ve'd th le mlonithIy ana Iys is of thle City w~ater' from Dr1, F. L. Par'ker, stale chemist. The hacter'ial analysis stateu "Bacterial Indricat ions of Con tanminiation, 'NegatIve" and water' ini cated to be of goodl quality and free fr'omi conitamlination. VH AS4INi N I0110t T IC~OUGHI SWIA MP'S Nor'th C'arolinialns Threat en to Lynch. (irocerymian AssaIu~tl. WilmIngton, N. C., Oct. 24.--Wlth r'esidents of the WrIght sville Beaech section thr'eatening him with lynching if caught, John Allen, negr'o, chiarged with murlderouis assault on N. S. Veille, aged gr'ocer' of VIlla VIew, is hbeIng hunted tonIght In the swamps of New Hanover coulnty where 'he Is thornght tn. be hidmmr COX PR[DICTS [L[CTION SRPRI8[ Strong Sentiment Against G.0. P. Leaders SENTIMENT GROWS FOR THE LEAGUE The Fos of the League of Nations Will liate Their Surprises in New Eng land, Atlantic States and Midwest, Snys Governor Cox. Washington, Oct. 24.-Suillprises in election results for his Opponents ill mlany parts of the country were pre (irt((l by Governor Cox while the Democratic r1) iesidential canlidate was en rout' tonight from New York to West Viuiginia, where he will cam paign tiioorrow. "The foes of the league," said the governor, "will have their suiiprlse; in1 New ingland, in some of the Atlantic states, in he middle west and the far west. I have talked with men of long (xperience in New York who have seen manifestations of public feelings in lpresidential campaigns anmd ther .judgment s that the tide wihilh set in about two weeks ago is unprece denltedi." Governor (ox in his statement de (lared there was profound resentment agailst llepuhlicat leaderdi back of the "roulend robil." "In the last ten days," hi' said, "and iart iclilarily in the last week every aum dience that I have addressed has giv en ('vilence of this when the names of the leading conspirators were recited. I have in mind Senators Lodge, Bran d1clgee, Moses, Wadsworth, Watson, 'enrose, Smootil Newberry and Hard ing." Deception regarding the League of Nations almost succeeded. Governor Cox added, but now "the truth has tri umIn phed." Senator i-larding's election, the Democratic nominee said, would carry a sigificance "that could not be misunderstood and further postipone "uent of action by the senate would be out of the question." , Gov. Cox daid he was advised that in one day 7,000 contributions, mostly small, had been recelved at Now York headquarters and indicated, he declare ed, a popular awakening to "the re actionary campaign fund amounting to millions of dollars" and "spiritual fever that has seize dthe hearts of the people." Stating that he had spoken in thir.. ty-six states with an itinerary ar ranged without regard to past politi cal alignments, the governor said: "We are on the last turn in the campaign. As we go back to the mid dle wvest, it is perfectly alpparent that Our estimate was appraised correctly almost two months ago when the statement was n(le that poli-tica pu rualiti ls as establ ishedt byw past elee.. ti on contests meant nothing this year'.'' (;ov. ('ox was accomplaniiedi this far byv Josieph F. Guffey, national comlmit 1 eenman for P'ennisyhl ania. 1. If. More, ofi Yolingstown, 0., tile eandi daite's lpreconivenition malnger, was antheriii traltling (ompllanion of the .Lotvernori to remlain wvithI him. An en lthuisast ic crowdt greetedj Gov. Cox at tii'he ll nion stat ion wh leni he reached here.' Leaving his private ear,- thie aoero pa~ssed thirouigh ohieein'g thron1 s to ihe titres idlent's- room in the station. w here lie shoo(1k hand(s wvith bilndlreds tduriig: thei timne his train Stolilped htere. Yieldling to the crowd's inlsistenici* for a s'ee hi, thle Demo-. cratic nomniint'i cxliressedl his ''(eep) S ra tir t1d1." for the demons rat o "To say more," lie addedi, "wold he to trespass on 'the sirmit of the Sab balthi, an 111we arie a religious people whoi I' reet our1 ireligious -tr'ad itionms."' Amlon~g those who met Gov'. Cox on his arrival here wer'e Attorney Gen eral 'Palmer and .Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the president. Manny Aftenid Sales ThelC dry gootis and clothling mner (-han is of the city, wholr have been put.. ting on special sales dumring theC past week or two, rebort that business has been very gratIfying, considerIng the stringent condlitions, and thlat peop~le seem to applreciate the reducetions thatt have been made. The sales are stil In progress and the merchlants are expectIng still 'better trade with the recent advances h to n.n