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W VOL 10, NO. 12, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1<)14. ^1.50 A YEAR. WILSON REFUSES 10 HEAR AN IRATE BLACK Boston Negro Warms Up Over Segregation Question. OTRPS OVRR AI T HAITNnc President Tells Negroes They Must Get Another Spokesman llefore He Will Hear Them Again. j Washington. Nov. 1U.-?President Wilson while receiving a delegation of negroes today who came to the White House to protest against segregating the race in government departments, objected to the tone adopted tby their spokesman, W. M. Trotter of Boston, and told the committee that if it called on him again it would have to get a new chairman. The President added he had not been addressed in such manner since he entered the White House. The delegation charged that Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams, in the treasury, and Post, master General Burleson had en forced segregation rules In their offices. President WtlBon replied that he had investigated the question and had been assured that there had been no discrimination in the comforts and surroundings given to tin negroes. He added he had been Informed by officials that the segre gation had been started to avoir friction between the races and 1101 with the object of injuring the nog roes. The President said that lie was deeply interested in the negro rae< and greatly admired its prepress. He declared tlie thing to be sought b> the negro people was complete in. dependence of white people and that he felt the white race was willint to do everything possible for them. Trotter and other members toot ^ issue with the President declaring i the negro people did not seek charitt or assistance, but that they tool the position that the negroes hue equal rights with the whites ant that those rights should lie respect ed. They denied that there had beei any friction between the two racebefore segregation was begun. President Wilson listened to whai they had say and \^.hen told the dele gation that Trotter was losing con trol of his temper and that "tin President would not discuss the mat ter further with him." After leaving the President's pri ate ofilce Trotter, Maurice V. Spen cer and others of the delegation de clared their talk had been "thor oughly disappointing." They declar ed they would hold a mass meeting in Washington Sunday to discuss tin question. Mr. Wilson is understood to hav< told the committee the questoin was not a political one and that he woulc not take it up on political grounds. Trotter came to the White Hous< with a prepared speech to which tin President listened. It was after de iivering this address, however, thai Trotter made remarks in a ton* which displeased President Wilson. ^ In delivering the address Trottei reminded the President that a dele gation called on Mr. Wilson a yeai ago and at which time he had prom ised to investigate the question. "We stated," said Trotter, "thai there would be no freedom, no re spect from others and 110 equality ol citizenship under segregation foi rBif.. rur sucn placement 01 em ployes meuns a charge by the gov ernment of physical indecency or in fection or of being a lower order 01 beings or u subjection to the pre judico of other citizens which con stitutes inferiority of status. "We stated that such segregutior was a public humiliation and degradation entirely unmerited and farreaching in its injurious effects, No* after the lapse of a year we havt eome back, having found that nil the reforms of segrogatlcn ,of Government employes of African extraction are still being pracuced In th* Treasury and Postofflce Department buildings, and to a certain exteni have spread into other Government fcaildlngs." The delegation presented a resolu, (Ion of the Massachusetts I^egisla tare and letters from several Massachuetts Democratic members ot t'nnfrma nrntoitlnir o>nlnai ron nefrrngatlon In Federal Government departments. ~ t xt l GOVERNORS END MEETING. I jf (Governor ttlease lieaves Without Making Speech. 1 Madison, Wis., Nev. 11.?Western governors before the Governors' Conference today announced what they called unfair treatment of public land states by the federal government. Ellas A. Amnions of Colorado. Joseph H. Carey of Wyoming and A. O. Eberhart of Minnesota, seconded the plea of William Spry of Utah that the Western otates be alI lowed to develop their resources without, interference. The conference tonight chose Hos-, ton for the 1915 mooting. Governor Cole L. Blease of Soul i ' Carolina looked in on the conference today and then started for home without making a speech. He i ; published a statement, however. j saying that before the end of his' I j term in January he would have repleased l.fiOO convicts under parole j ! to give them a chance to break their ' . ; liking for ltyuor. ?i CARLESTON MADE A RESERVE CITY i Designated by Federal Hoard Under I Deserve Law?Many .\ppli. ! cants Lose. Washington Special to Charleston News and Courier, Nov. 12.?No cities under the new federal reserve ' lation will be approved as reserve ' Under the federal reserve act a j banking act, according to a state1 ment made public today by the treasury department. Tlie federal reserve board ap- j proved the applications of Charles. - ton and of Birmingham, Ala., to be L made reserve cities and turned down ' tne applications of Tulsa. Okla.. with a population of 18,000. and Jopiin, 1 Mo., with a population of 32,000. To Hold l'art of deserve. I Washington, Nov. 12.?The fedjeral reserve board tonight announrt ed the designation of Charleston, S. and Birmingham, Ala., as reserve cities, and at the same time declared * no more reserve cities under 100,-' oon population would he named. Under tho federal reserve ac a specified portion of the reserves of member banks may he held In reserve and central reserve cities for a period of three years. A large number of applications were received. Those of .TulHn, Okln., and Jopiin". Mo., were rejected. About fifty resorvo cities scattered all over the country already have been designated under the national | bank act. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. .1 ? I Mrs. Itclmnnt Says All Women Will | Have linllot Within Few Years. ? Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 11.? i Predictions that the women of the - United States will have the ballot t within a comparatively few years i and assertions that there will be no , quarrel among the leaders over the r 1 methods by which it is to be obtain-ied, were made by Mrs. O. 11. P. | r Belmont of New York and other wo men prominent In the suffrage movement throughout the country in 1 II their addresses before the Southern I States Suffrage Conference here last , f night. "We suffragists have progressed so far." said Mrs. Belmont, who de-: -ilivered tho principal address, "that' wo are actually disagreeing about f|the terms upon which we shall ac cept tho vote?the Inevitable pre ' monition of victory. I am not par. ticular how the political emancipa- j i non 01 women is aneeted. We have I - j sworn allegiance to the national | amendment for woman suffrage, I ' ! while the Southern conference ) seems to hold to the principles of > states' rights. If the latter method | 'proves effective, I shall gratefully i ! nccept the results." ?' These sentiments w<."e endorsed ! L by half a dor.ea other speakers, ir- l ' eluding Mrs. Harriet Stanton l | 1.latch of New York and Miss Lasre jC'ay of Kentucky. .i Among other speakers who sound-j tied tho note of optimism for the suf | fruge cause were Mrs. Nell e N. f' Somervllle of Greenville. Miss., Mrs. | s liattle It. I'arker of New Orleans L and Mrs. Ida Porter-Hover nf avlvanla. i . DIXMUDE CAPTURED BY Tl THE GERMAN TROOPS Fort Center of Some of Fiercest 1 Pinrkfinflp of Ka W7 n? B i|^ii%iiim VI ill^ TT <11 RETURNS TO ASSAULT. < Men from the North Knter Heart of Poland at the Hate of Fourteen Miles Daily. London, Nov. 11. The Germans have resinned the'r attack on the ' allied line between the const and the ' Lys river, and while the French 1 ' claim generally to have held their ' positions the Germans have oaptur-|' ed Dixtnude, center of some of the ' fiercest and most sanguinary fight.! ing of the war. ; 1 The country between I i\n vide and i! Ypres, where the belligetei ts have; made violent attacks and counter-' ' attacks for weeks and where losses j 1 have been heavier even than those'! in the battle of the Ypres, again is the scene of a battle, which for fury, seldom, if ever, has been equalled Rehind Dlxmude is the direct road 1 to Dunkirk, one of the French ports on which the Germans have set their hearts, and if they can break through here the allies will have to 1 fall back to new positions. The in- ! vaders have concentrated their i forces at this point and their success i>, ...i "? . , ... ./imuuiii.', ? uerc nicy ciuim to have captured 500 prisoners, and positions west of Langemarck where, according to the Rerlin report, 11,000 ! prisoners fell into tlieir hands, shows > that the statements that they have] been sending troops front the. west j to Poland, are without foundation. Military men here believe the Germans, as soon as they saw they ' could not capture Warsaw, dispatched troops front that region to lite west, not imagining that the Russian pursuit could be carried out with such rapidity. At other points along the battle from it in France, the French of-] tidal cotnmuit cation claims some success for the Allies hut the tier, man headquarters siaff declares all attacks have been repulsed. .mi i rum r,i i SKiih'. It is considered certain that with the enormous forces required for the escort to get through to the coast and to protect their own country ' from German invasion, the Germans i cannot throw additional troops into the lines which stretch through ' northern France and along the Franco-German border. The French, though, whose army is growing daily, m ght attempt an offensive against Lorraine or Alsace as a diversion which would relieve the pressure in the west . The Germans, according to Petrograd dispatches, have suffered a more serious defeat on the Fast Prussian border than official statements have disclosed. Advices from the Russian capital today say that in the recent fighting there the Russians have captured more than 20,000 prisoners and quantities of guns and munitions. The Russian advance in Poland, which has been at the rate of 1 1 miles daily, has astonished military j experts. This advance has continued for 18 days. In OaWcia the Russians continue to push the Austrians back, but the i Austrians are having their revenge along the Servian border, which they threaten to cross in an endeavor to u crush Servia before Russia can come to her assistance. Of the lighting betwedn Turkey I and tho allies, reports are so con.' tradictory there is no reconciling them. While some continue to beVeve i the war will be one of years there is 11 an increasing belief that the great! Alfonolvo en r? ~ ' " " nr.xn miu|faiKii \ty inn allies in the spring, when England's new army of a million men can take the field and Russia and France will be i stronger than ever, will bring the confltct to a nend . I>crented Republican Make* Hiuiple i t'nnffiwliia, Washington, Nov. 11.?Charles' 11. S. Robinson of Roxburg, Mass.,! a defeated Republican candidate for Congress, filed this report at theji capital today: "I received notliiug, promised nothing, expected nothing. pot J i nothing.'' i ( 1ARRANZA AND VILLA1 HAVE DECLARED WAR: fi c Preliminary Fight Occurs at r Leon Between Rival Forces. p 2HIEF IS AT CORDOBA, E f \11 South anil Kant Salcl to Im? loyal v to (ieneral Carrair/a?General " Villa Issiips fall. .t El Paso, Texas. Nov. 11.?War 1 v las been declared between the Car-1 anza and Villa elements of the Constitutionalist army, according to idviees received at Juarez tonight from ollicials of the conclave of ^ chieftains at Agues Calientes. A preliminary battle has occurred at Leon, between Aguas Calientes end Queretaro, it was reported. Gen. Pablo Gonzales, the Car-, e ranza commander, has moved his ' <1 Forces from Queretaro north to Silao to meet the Villa advance. I General Manuel Chao, a Villa chieftain. departed today from | Angus Calientes with a strong col. iimn. ' A maaaooro f rone /\ff5/?L?l ...v.'Ui*nv Hum "1111 iiii suurn^ r In Mexico City given out today by Rafael Muzquiz, the Carranza con- -i sul general to the United States, <ays: "The first chief is at Cordoba. Most of the principal chiefs have declared in favor of Carranza. Villa has called upon the people to take arms. All the south and er<" is loyal to the first chief. * Washington < 'onTerence. Washington, Nov. 11. -President 1 Wilson and Secretary llryan discuss- 1 ^ ?u for nearly three hours tonight f the questivi of evacuation of Vera * Ci uz bv. tho AUier can forces. No * announcement was made n* th co.i 5 elusion of the ? : i-f. renee, but >' was 1 un ' -stood the j tsident ?!e ' > < ' to uwiit furth t uavtces to' .. -- a 1 as to (he political nation ii Met- ' loo. ' The decrees issued hv CI en oral ' Carranza granting all the requests1' of the American government were 1 carefully considered 1. Carranza 1 granted amnesty to the Mexicans ' who served the American govern- 5 ment during its occupation and or- ' dered taxes and customs paid to the American officers be not reimposed. x Inasmuch as the national convention'' at Aguas Callentes ordered Carranza ' to comply with the wishes of the c American government in connection 11 with these guarantees, the Wash. 1 ington government, was confronted ' with the fact that its demands were ' acquiesced in by all factions of,( Mexico. , 1 In official circles generally it was ' believed that whiie the President 1 would order the evacuation he 1 might wait a few days for a definite alignment of the various chiefs in the latest civil war. The American government is on record :n diplomatic correspondence as promising the withdrawal of the troops when the guarantees it requested were complied with and persons conversant with the President's point of view believe he proposes to redeem this promise as soon as possible. It has been pointed out that the American garrson might he placed in an embarrassing situation If the forces controlled by Carransa and those of the convention carried on their conflict near the city of Vera Cruz, as ihe Washington government i? desirous of maintaining its absolute neutrality as between the two fact. ons. WILT, WAIT. It was suggested after tonight'? conference that the Washington government might await some formal expression from the convention at Aguns Calientes. as well as from General Kulallo Gutierrez, whom it has selected as provisional president, before withdrawing the American troops. General Gutierrez told American consular agents that as soon as he was sworn in he would issue a proclamation covering the points desired by the United States, fl As Gutierrez was to have taken the , oath at the convention last night. | tomorrow's dispatches may bring: word that he, too, has compiled with i c the demands of the United States !' t Kven though the American forces are withdrawn, however. It Is not be. ( lleved that the $3,000,00ft and up- ^ wards in customs duties collected by * the American officers will be turned ( over f?v I he Washington ndmlnistra- i Ion until a central govern meat T rises out of the present tangled sit- I ation. As the convention has delared itself supreme, it is pointed ut it probably would look with disavor on the delivery by the Amerian government of the funds to Caranza, whom it had ordered de_ U used. TROOPS READY. Secretary Garrison told Secretary , Iryan before the White House con-1 V erence, that the American troops; yere ready to embark, all arrangedents having been completed someime ago. Twentyfour hundred niaines also will be taken away by the rar department's transports, as the lavv has no adequate number ot essels u> enrrv them away. Tin- (l roops will go to Texas City and the () narines prohahlv t?? I'onsacola. a I > 1 la., or Guantanamo. The political situation in Mexico tad not cleared, according to the ' atest ollicial advices. General Car-I^ an/.a asked the convention for an *' xtension of 15 days to discuss the je' luestion of a successor to whom he ? could deliver the executive power 1,1 ?ut the request was denied. ? Although otlicials had no complete a idvices, there were intimations that tarleys were continuing by telegraph a >etween the convention and C'aranza . f, MALARIA BURDEN n WILL BE REMOVED v a tiscussion ltefore Southern Medical , Association at Kicluiiond l.cd n by Surgeon General Gorgas 1 0 Richmond, Va., Nov. -11.?Surteon General W .C. Gorgas of the Jnitetl States army, which rid the p Panama canal zone of malaria, be. ieves the tropical countries of the vorld are about to undergo a great j hange in population "We are on the we," he said, addressing the South, j. rn Medical Association toady, " of , teeing the tropical zones settled by j, he white people of the Saxon race ( ts we have it in the United States. ' . lecause we know the white man can : ;o there now. The great valleys of he Amazon and the Congo will prob- t| itibly produce all the food needed b\ he world, if they are settled bv vhite people. The I'uro; ean army .vill further change social and ccolomic conditions and will result in j. i vast emigration into the tropical ^ ountries." ^ Colonel Gorgas said that malaria R vas the most important disease to be ombnted in the sanitation of the ropics and in the southern portions w >f the temperate zones. He has seen 8( i wonderful change for the better in t, he past 12 years and beleives that f| n a few years malaria will be much n ess widespread than it is now. Kath>r than general measures for fight- j ? ng the disease he advocates instrucions to th eindividual in cleaning 10 tp his premises and making condi- ' ^ ions sanitary. This was the general theme of the ,'arious physicians who spoke?that v he rural populations should be Educated in the prevention of mal_ p ria which is so widespread in the ^ South. Dr. H. It. Carter of the United v States Public Health Serv'ce, atribu- 0 ed the increase of malaria-earrying ^ nosquitoes in the South to the increase of impounds! water, which he tj >elieved should he put under control t] >f boards of health. y Others who discussed malaria and () ts prevention were Dr. C. C. llass of a tew Orleans. La., L. O. Howard of r( he Itureau of Kntomology, Wash- f( ngfon l>. C. and Dr. Wright of Mon- ,, oe, La. a Symposiums on blood diseases. ,t look worm, pellagra and surgery y vere hehl today and a large number >f technical papers were road. Tonight, Kupert II. Dlue. : urgeon- n jeneral of the United States Pnbli< ;i Iealth Serice, told the association if the anti_plague campaign in New (j Orleans; George H. Simmons, gener- i il manager of the American Medical V Association of Chicago d'scussed the! vork of the council on pharmacy and j hemiRtry, and W. L. Rodman, presi-1 p lent of the American Medical Asso-1 tl iation, of Philadelphia delivered an ! X Lddress on cancer. tl No Important Changes. 0 Paris, Nov. 12.?The French oth- j 0 ial statement given out in i??iriu ?hiai . ifternoon says that the fighting on s he left wing continues with violence md has been characterized with al. ernate advances and retirements, ti vlthout importance. Generally g ipeaking, the statement declares. v he battle front shows no important hanges since the tenth of Novero-1 s >er. t RIBUTE TO MRS. WILSON'S MEMORY . D. C. in Savannah Pass Resolutions of Love and Honor. /HO DESIGNED THE FLAG? miiinittee to Decide Southern Stnrs mid liars Dispute of North t'urolina and Alabama. Savannah. (i;i? N'ev. It.?Trihtite its paid here today by the general invention of the I'nited Daughters f the Confederacy to the memory of Irs. Wood row Wilson, wife of the resident. Resolutions introduced by Mrs. allies Rritton Grant of Jefferson ty. Mo., and unanimously adopted, laracterized Mrs. Wilson as a mod. I for American womanhood and as ne to whom prominent position leant "not an exaltation of self, but n opportunity to he more useful nd to help the greatest number." The text of the resolution as uopieu, iouows in part: "If he lives most who thinks most, els the noblest, acts the best, theD Irs. Woodrow Wilson lived a lifo inch longer than that counted by ears, for her life was filled with 11 the dignity, grace and virtue that onld be crowded into it. Promient position meant to her, not an xn It at ion of self (she loved self ast) but an opportunity to be more seful and to 1 elp the greatest numer. ".She had a heart for humanity in ihicli dwelt the pure, genuine and oly. \bBolute loyalty was chief niong her characteristics; her old riends were never forgotten and i hen she became tlie first of the iid' her home was always open to hem as of old. Mr . Wilson was a el ever in the high destiny of wolanhood and taught her daughters hat onlj the true, the beautiful and lie good were worth while. "Mrs. Wilson entered into all the lans of her distinguished husband ?to him she wo. a guiding star ointing to all that was high and oly. * * * * It has been said that Irs. Woodrow Wilson gave her life. ?r her country as surely as a soldier ives his on the field of battle, and s we, the Daughters of the Confedracy, 'honor the memory of those ho served and those who fell "in the ervice of their country.' so we will nshrine her in our heart of hearts lie brightest jewel of Southern wolanhood." Mrs. Wilson was born in Georgia nd formerly lived in Savannah. She as not a member of the Daughters f the Confederacy, although eligible er father having been a chaplain i the Confederate army. Other resolutions adopted todav ere to the memory of Stunner A. unringhatn of Nashville, Tenn., edo of The Confederate Veteran, and Ir. C. N. (lood'ett, also of Nashille. who was known as "The Moth, r of the United Daughters of the onfederaey." Adoption of the memorial resoluions was followed by the reading of lie reports of the general officers. Irs. Daisy Mcl.aurin Stevens, the resident-general, made her report t the morning session, in which she commended the raia'ng of $5,000 >r a window to he. placed in the ew Vinerieun Red t'ross building t Washington, which is planned as memorial to the women of the Cm r Met ween the States. The president-general also recommended the appointment of a com tlttee, on which North Carolina nd Alabama shall have no repreentntion to determine definitely the isigner of the Confederate flag. rirginia-Carolitia Fertilizer Company (Jives Richmnnd Va M-v?. i o v ??. , mn . t ?V-UUI aratlvely little cotton planted in hia state, but the business men of 'Irginia have subscribed more than heir quota, $1,000,000, to the rotmn loan fund. Richmond's portion f this, half a million dollars, was ver subscribed by t bout thirty housand dollars within twentyeven minutes at a meeting of the "hamber of Commerce The Richmond list was headed by the Viriinia-Onrol'na Fertilizer Company, v i t h $100,000, the largest singl" ubscription. five time? a? large as he next highest.