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V VOL. 10, NO. 14, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1914. $1.50 A YEAR. WW LESS COIION, ID'ADOO'S ADVICE Says Wade Fund Won t Help Without Crop Diversification. BIG EUROPEAN D$g4AND Says Never Before Have tlie Chanm Been So (J<km1 to Heap Sure Profits. Washington, Nov. 18.?Although the $136,000,000 cotton loan fund has been completer! officials of the -.1 .....J ?!.- ' iouci ui iuovi v ** uviti i u iliui tin* lll'ilh* ury department declared today that ? the South must introduce liversificatlon of crops and a reduction of cotton acreage next year to get the full benefits from the fund and insure a material increase in the price ot raw cottou tor nex' year's crop. Secretary McAdoo in a statement ton'ght called this "the other pressing and important problem" with which the South must deal. He urged the raising of other food products, which, he predicted, will find a 1 mdy market, particularly if the European war persists. "The Southern farmer," said Mr. McAdoo. "therefore, has an unusual opportunity now for changing existing methods and habits, with certain profit and permanent ben o-t to himself." He suggested that the department of agriculture would gladly outline methods of crop diversification suitable to different localities, and added that bankers had an excellent opportunity t? aid in this work by using thot'r influence to direct, the character of crops by imposing "proper conditions" upon advances to farmers. SURE PROFITS. "The farmers of the South," con eluded the statement, "ought to wake up to the importance of crop diversification. There never before was a time when they could wake up with such certain profit to themselves.'' Members of the federal reserve board were inclined tonight t.> be heve that present conditions pointed to a decided reduction in the cotton acrouge through influences outside the cotton producing states, and predicted that with acreage reduced cotton would go to a normal level next year. General supervision of the cotton loan fund will be under the reserve board members, with the recently appointed cotton loan committee In active charge of tne work, according to announcement at the treasury tonight. Tlife first meeting of :1iIf committee will be held :n New Vo'k Fridey morning McADOO'S fi'J ATEMENT. Mr .McAdoo s rtatement said In part: The plan gi.es the cotton loan committee pover to appoint corn mlttees In each of ;he cotton productug states of \labaraa, Arkansas, Floi>da, Georgia. Louslana, Mlvd.v aippl, Nort>> Carolina, Oklahoma, / South Carol.nn Terse and Tennessee to assist It in carrying on the practical work. "While the creation of the cotton loan fund ard its use under the plpn will have a fnr reaching anil beneficial infiuo , upon the cotton and business situation, nevertheless the attention of :!>. South should not he drawn n.*ny from the other ores' lug a "i important problem ..*;*l? which it must intelligently and effectively deui, :;ainery, a mater'nl reduction of editor, acreage In "i ??"? and the ralpiug of fcod product, on a large part of the acreage be''" lofore devoted to c Hon. WILL HELP COTTON. "Not only will crop diversification help *.Le prosperity of the South, hut the rafrc assurance of a largo decrease tn the cotton crop next year w:li immediately enhance the value of the present crop. The food products which the South can advao ageojaly raise on a part of the acreago will find a ready market at profitable prices, even if the S.ntr it*elf cannot absorb them with greater advantages than by buying n?p piles from neighboring state;. If the war in Kurope Is protracted the demnnd for foodstuffs will grow in volume and intensity and must b? suppl ed In large part by this coun try. "The itrentlv expressed view* <.f w icc secretary or agriculture on ?l?is | subject should be read by ev -ry farmer in tjio South. The department of agriculture will gladly give Information to the farmers of the South alout the best means e.i d methods of crop diversification su:tuble I) the condlitons of each ?o- ] ( callty. BANKS'-S' OPPORTUNITY*. "The ban.- rs also have an exccp! tional opportuulty to aid In th s com- 1 mendable work. They can. In large j | measure, Influence the character 01 j i j crops by Imposing proper conditions ! upon the advances they may make to the farmers. Where the bankers are not dealing direct with the farm > is. (he merchant who supplies the 1 ' i.ertssary credits can exert the notes ' sj.rv influence. "I earnestly hope that the farm- ' ers, the bankers and the merchants 1 in the South \sil 1 co-operate with ' I each other for the purpose of niater- *1 I ally reducing the cotton crop in ; 1915 and securing satisfactory crop < diversification. Not only should I the Southern farmer plant food I (rops, but he can raise cattle and I | poultry with great benefit to himself ' and the country at large. He can- < not do this, however, unless ho re- ' duces cotton acreage and raises food I supplies." < MEETING CALL FOR FOOD FROM EUROPE | I li Despite Great Increase in Foodstuffs ( Total Exports Show Large Falling Off?Increase in Cotton. Washington. Nov. 17.?How Eu- i ! rope's cry for food is being answered | by the United States was set forth j n statistics made public today by the bureau of foreign and domestic I commerce. They showed that during last month exports of breadstuffs amounted to $38,247,570, an incease of nearly $25,000,000 over those of October, 1913. Exports of frefdi beef last month were more | than double those of October a year : ago. the figures thjs year being ! $83,940 as against $36,863. In spite of the tremendous in-11 I crnnoii it, fr?,1 -1.1 ? ? x <?ov tu ci1111mt*iiih, in?wover, , exports as a whole did not measure i Hp to last year's figures. The total ( for October as recorded at the country's 10 chief ports was $83,513,406 as against $147,833,016 the previous year. The districts selected handled nearly 80 per cent of the nation's ! export trade and the tabulation , shows the balance '.n favor of this country on international trade stood last Saturday at $32,392,214 for the i first half of November. It was said at the commerce bureau the increase In November ex! ports probably would show bread, stuffs and fresh meat were still in greater demand than during last | month. Officials also pointed to the increase in cotton exports as a sig-,: ! niflcant feature of the situation. So great has been the European ' demand for breadstuffs that wheat, ; corn, barley, oats and flour are going across the Atlantic from every ; port in the United States. Huge shipments have been made from San I Francisco via the Panama canal. I The total of breadstuffs exports for I the 10-months ending with October I this year was, $1204,216,478 as j, against $170,220,519 for the like pe | ' rlod of 1913. Export trade in mineral oils show-, I ed a marked decline last October, ;; proDUDiy because of the seizure of j 1 many oil-lndon ships by British l cruisers. The decrease tn all ex- < ports for the 10-months period of 1914 was $212,326,321. Cotton exports for October 1914 wore valued ; i at $20,420,043 against. $107,37!",. 197 In October 1913. The decrease < for the 10-months period in cotton ( shipments alone between 1913 and i t 1914 amounted to $127,180,748, '< !>. A. It. School for Mountain Girls. Hock Hill Special to Charleston News and Courier, Nov. 19.?The Daughters of the American Hevolu- ' tion, South Carolina Division, in an- I uuui vomerence nere, today selected j, Greenville as the place of meeting for next yar. Aside from routine business two ' other matters of interest occupied ; Hie attention of the delegates at to- { day's session. They decided to es-1. tablish an industrial school for mountain girls, and also endorsed |( ( the "wear cotton" movement. 3 Mrs. P. H. H. Calhoun, state re- ! t gent, who wns detained Wednesday, i , arrived and presided todny. Mrs. ,W. ?. Ardrey of Fort Mill. Mrs. .!. 1 H. Johnson of Hock Hill and Mrs. E. 1C. Von Trescow of Camden were elected to fill the exfl'red terms of 1 vice regent, auditor and assistant f historian, respectively. 1 STRUGGLE FOR POLAND A WATCHED ASBAROMETER Russians and Germans Are F Locked in Severe Fiffht. GERMANS FALL BACK. A \ilvanre ( tiarils of Knssian Cavalry , F Meet With Idtlle Kesistanoe. IU'IkiuiIc I*tiller ItomhariliiiiMit. London, Nov. !! .- Public interest now is centered in the battle of " Russians and Germans he* ween the '' Vistula and Warta rivers in Poland. for it is believed the outcome tiler- v>" will have a marked effect on the op- ul ?ratlons elsewhere and on the dura- ^ tton of the war. if* 1,1 Hoth German and Russian Head- ' inarters are very sparing with in- ! ronnation. All that is defln'tely -l known is that the Russian advance '' guard, consisting largely of cavalry, 1 which advanced right on to the ^ Herman frontier after the battle at ol fr Warsaw, met superior forces and has fallen back more than half the distance covered in the advance. w The Germans are sending forces r< into the country between the two1 rivers where tlie buttlo must bo j 0( fought, hoping that in this confined;0' -irea the Russians will not be able to 1 deploy their enormous armies to ad vantage. The Russians, however sj now can choose their own ground tc Lor the battle, and it is probable they I bi will select it as far a;- possible from ol the German lines of eomniunicatior pi In Galieia. before Cracow, and in u Fast Prussia the Runs ians are push- pi ing tlie'r advantage, apparently di'i- n regarding the fact that theii center | has been compelled to fall back. Tbev also are showing much act'vpa* 1 ni in the Carpathians to prevent the Austrians from retiring into Hun-' t ei gary. It is stated they already have i j cut off 800,00(1 Austrians, who will ' now be compelled, if defeated, to ro. ni treat westward. j la Flanders and France the b: t ni tie which ha ; been going on for ?f> p days has again developed nto an artillery duel. This douhties- la d ie lo inability of tlie infantry u.i either . ,?<.i? icui lur UUKIUC8S piaces. i m fapanege renters on share baste are ga lot tabulated in the report. tb in HnimlnK in IMeilniont. n|l Spartanburg, Nov. 19.?Snow he- , Can falling here In large flakes at 1:30 o'clock tonight. "( 19 side to operate successfully over li w muddy ground, and to the extend* <i j flooded area between 'lie coast and ^ Dixmude. While tliev are a.nvaia w men eastward to oppose the Ruso? sians, the Germans are reported to be bringing more big guns to the J western front. Russian and Turkish j squadrons have met n a long dis- r< tance duel off Sebaatopol and iota claim victory. Tho Russian report: says tho Turkish cruiser Goebea wa3 I damaged, while the Turks claim a Russian battleship suffered severely (1 and that the other Russian warsntps tied. Reminiscent of early days of the war is the report from Vienna that : Belgrade has been called upon o jn' surrender. This city. cap'tal of Servla, was under bombardment for weeku and was relieved only when dl the Russian advance In Galtcln 'cm- 1 ei pilled the Austrians to *.ook aftei '01 heir northern frontier*: Now t!'c fc vians, like the Montenegrins, are t.'d- In their ewn eouia . and tliAi btriana, unmindful of the fccoint , fc Invasion of their northern provinces, P< are endeavoring to destroy the two,'8 little armies. [b' 4 lapana.se Holdings in California *1' I.anil. S1 Cacrawento, Cai., N'ov. 19.? Jap- (>l inese holdings in California land, a 1 ?' ; year and a half of the passage of the .tale's al en land law wliich excited as si diplomats of two nations, are set i forth*-In a report made today by Iho ?' statistician of the statu board of a*- \ p< rlculture. The Japanese own S31 farms in :he state, comprising 12,726 acres pi uid valued at 1609,000. Lease1 th Holds, permltte<l under the law,' cr nuount to 17,606 acres. m The Japanese also own 218 town ' th ots valued at 9238,676, they have se J,676 places of business with metre m han four million dollars of capital li( nvested in them and on this cap tal I ti< lo business amounting to $16,000,00 rearly. They pay about $ 1,000,000 j ad iDVOCATES BIGGER ARMY FOR U. S.I i orce of 500,000 Urges Gen-' eral Wotherspoon. RMY IS INADEQUATE. nvors Increase of the >1 i I if in to Form a Seron?l Line of l?efence. Washington, Nov. 18. ?Declaring would bo impossible to defend the unumu canal and-^Ameriean terriirial possessions against attack tb present or proposed garrisons nles$- they could be rapidly reinirced. Major General Wotberspoon. (tired chief of stall, in his report tony recommended the increase of , le regular amy to a strength of 95,000 enlisted men. He proposed iat this force be augmented trough u system of reserves until tero was created a mobile strength ' 500,oOO first line troops equipped >r a six months' campaign. General Wotherspoon said there as need for more forces to protect tar approaches to American coast ^fences and those points not cover1 by fortresses, and urged that the rganized militia bo developed to a i rength of :$od,000 men. "It is manifest." General Wotherioon asserted, "that the great wa rway of the Panama canal cannot a protected against the operations f a first-class military power by the resent or proposed garrison we con-' (tnplnte placing there, without the owor and ability to reinforce it ipidly from the United States. IN THli PI II LIP PINKS. "That an effective defence against n entrpris ng enemy in the Philipines could be made with a defied-1 ncy of 88 per cent of the manning I etails of the coast defences of [anila and Subig Hay, and with a , lobile force of a little over seven lousand American troops, supplelented liy less than six thousand hilippine scouts, is manifestly intjss'ble; that we can retain our iluable territory of Alaska in ii olated position against en eiiemv ith any military power by placing un <1 him isuii ui iksb man ;?<iu en verges on the ridiculous unless e have an ample force at home to , ccupy that territory in the ver> ;rlles*. stages of an impending collect. As regards the Hawaiian ilands, all military persons will ?cognizo that the proposed garri>n in this possession is far below hat It should be to meet a serious ttack." Outlining his view or the army's rst line requirements, General ^ fotherspoon said: FORCE OF HALF MILLION. i "Careful consideration of our eeds would indicate the advlsubill-1 r and necessity for having at all mes, available at home, and in ad- i Itlon to the necessities in our for- > gn possessions In the first line of , tr military establishment, a mobile tree of at least 500,000 thoroughly alned and thoroughly equipped <hting men .with adequate supplies ir the operation of this force fur i sriod of at least six months. This a conclusion that seems to have sen reached by all those who have ven careful consideration of this ; lestion. It is also agreed that wa I tould have a second lino, a thorlghly equipped and trained force ' organised militia of not less than 10,000 men, properly proportioue 1 i to its stnff, several arms \ ores and supplies necessary for it jerat'on in the field for a lif.e >riod." OUTLINES HIS PLANS. General Wotherspoon outlined the an through wh'ch he would double e strength of the regular army and , eate the reserve. The enlisted en would serve a short term with e colors, then pass into the rerves for periods of five years or ore, being at all times under ob-' ;atlon to respond in case of na-1 ( >nal need. "Assumln#,'' the report aaya, "the loption of a short term of enlistsnt?say three years?for the pan- j ge of men thoroughly trained in , e school of the regular or stand- . g army into the reserves, and that! i*n so trained ?hr?ni<i nwi ur 11 tlj the first reserve for a longer pe- i )d than five years, it would appear i>.\iu;k invkhtments n Concerned in Appeal to Vnited States Supreme Court. Washington, Nov. 19.?Invest-! ment of about $150,000,000 in Chi- j cago office buildings by corporations was said today to be concerned in p the outcome of the Imperial Building Company's appeal to the supreme court from the action of state courts in declaring its charter void. F Argument on the appeal has been completed. i ff The .state forfeited t'.ie charter on the ground that the primary purpose i of the corporation was not to operate an office building, but to hold real estate as an investment. "Tin* dec'sion of tin- Illinois court ' lias in iis effort destroyed a number " of ( barters." declared tlie attorney- 111 in their brief, "and placed tlieir stock and bond holders at the mercy s* of the ground lessor, or where a " deed has been given, at the mercy of " the grantors. Several of these companics have stock issues of from 111,000,000 to $2,000,000?the lat- P< ter being that of the Chicago Masonic Temple enterprise." J< GEN. VILLA MOVING K ON CITY OF MXEICO n The First Clash of Arms lOxpected c< at t^neretaro?( 'oiklit ions In Very Serious. is Washington, Nov. 18.?(Jon. Fran- hi cisco Villa, commanding troops un-!ti dor control of the Aguas ("al entes w convention, is marching on Mexico City. His army today reached Leon, the tirst important railroad st center south of Aguas Calientes. ' d' Clen. l'aolo (lonzales Carranza tl forces tire at Queretaro and Irapua- a ..mic mi' nisi important clash tj between General Carranza and thoj convention probably will occur. it The facts were reported today by n George ('. Carrot hers, American on- p sular agent, accompanying Gei etal b Villa. Carrothers declared Villa w was well equipped for the march. ti Amer can Consul Sillitnan tele a; graphed that conditions were Ion more serious in Mexico City than at tl any time since the parley tor pone*, id began, lie regards actual lioRtiiitie 31 as inevitable, though some general- cc rtill tire trying to patch up dilcr c pees. General Carratr/n. according te at messages from Mr. Sillim oi and' rh Leon Canova, spec al agent at \guas hi Calientes, declared that he hr.d been a misunderstood, that he never itmnd-.di i d to deliver the executive pow? r ei except to some one of liis own s. lev- fi t.on. tl Otilcials here tonight believed tl Gen. Eulailo Guiterrez, chosen p.*.- ct visional president by the convention, p had ordered a general attack on Car- a ranza garrisons. Guiterrez controls cl Northern Mexico and General Vila's n advance guard Is within 200 miles n of the Mexican capital. c; Que column of convention forces 1< is moving eastward from San Luis w Potosi to Tampico. Another is in- n deavorlng to cut off the forces of tl General Jesus Carranza at Puerto, w Mexico. An engagement at Julie, near Puerto .Mexico, was reported K tooay by American Consul Canada h Gen. Jose Carbajal, a Villa com- w matuler, was killed. w Whether or not ex-federals, under b Genernls Higenio Aguilar and \rgu- b raedo, which threaten Puebla, are f< working in harmony with General h Villa is not known, but renewed t- t| tacks on the Carranza lines by Zapata troops are expected. doctors DIscoyci' \e\\ Compound I'm ' Slo|)jiiiik KIihiiI Flow. (ioneva, Switzerland, Nov. Is. \ preparation which it is claimed willjn . op almost instantly the ilov of v. blood from a wound lias been in tl \enied by I'rof. Theodor Koclicv ol ; cl i'erne. winner of the Nobel pri'? for cl surgery in 1912, and his as8V.?.nt, I >r A. Fonoe. The new preparation, it called Coagulen, is a powder, and is s\ dissolved in water before being ap- tl plied to a wound. The discoverers have made a gift & of their invention to the armies in the field and have sent large quanti- hi ties of the powder to French and ti German surgical headquarters. Med'ral men here declare the lives of ni thousands of soldiers prohahly will ho saved by it. It can be applied ai by untrained hands, it is said, or by m the wnniwioii ???" *-* " uiiiiBeir. at that ihe size of the regular or stand- c< Ing army to be used as a sehool for ir the training of reservists should be in about 205,000 enlisted men." A URNIN6 SCHOOL COST TEN LIVES loritlu State Reformatory Proves Death Trap. IRE ESCAPES BARRED. oors l<oH(liiiK to It l>ouhlo<l l,?xk<Ml. I'ri'VAIltlliir 'A ?n " > nn ?? Ih? Investigated. Marianna, Flu.. Nov. 18. Eight .udents and two officers of the loriila Reform School lost their ves here at an early hour this lornitig when the main building as destroyed by lire. Nearly 100 udents escaped by climbing trough a skylight to the roof and tence making their way down the tree stroies on the fire escape. The dead: Bennett Evans, car?nter; Charles Evans, guard; Joe featherhee of Jacksonville, Clifford affords, Louis Hanff, Louis Perundez, Walter Fisher, Waldo Drew, arl Morris. Clarence Parrott, inintes, boys under 21 years of age. Tonight (5ov. Park Trammell wir1 President (1. JI. Milton of the aard of directors to immediately sue a call for a meeting of the Dttrd to make a thorough investigaon of the fire. President Milton ill issue tlio cull tomorrow. FIRE ESCAPE LOCKED. The governor's action followed a atement wired him by Superintennnt Bell and by information that le fire escap ? doors were locked ud the keys were in the office on the rst floor where the fire started. The fire was discovered only after had ga'ned great headway and nllilni' ..ia 1- ^ ? vuuiu n\- mini' 10 Slop ltfi rogress. Tlie building was of riuk, ."><? by i;.o feet, with two ings 50 feet in length. It was nish'Ml inside 11 pine, all partitions ad 1' iors being of wood. This had cently been panted and the oils in le paint made the wood burn raplly, so that it i.. said, that within it minutes after the fire was disivered the building was in ruins. SOUGHT TO SAVIO THBM. When Superintendent Hell was ivakened the stairways were in tines. The two lire escapes being icked, he could only make his esipe through the roof, and th's he Id, climbing to the tower he juinpl to the roof and from this to the. re escape, from which he reached le ground and tried to enter the ofce to obtain the keys to the fire eslpes. The office being in flames, he rocured an axe and with the assistnee of Allen, one of the guards, he limbed to the landing of the fire esiipe as the second floor, where three len were trying to make their esape. He succeeded in breaking the lcks of the barred grating to the indow, but was unable to get the letal frame out. In the meantime lie floors gave wnv and th? innmiM era hurled to their doom. The men at the window were A. B, Ivans, a carpenter; C. M. Bvans_ is son, a guard, and one other, who as an inmate. The seven others ho perished are supposed to have een suffocated before they were crned, as their < barred bodies were Mind on the bedsprings of their eds. All were in the same ward in ie north wing of the building. STO?'K i:\< ii \\<;r. TO OPKX nr< stlil ted Tending in ll? nd* <>l Ml Kinds to Begin Satm lay. 1 New York, Nov. 1!).? Arnounoeicni was made today that there ouid be unrt strioted trading on to lloor of the New York stock exliango next Saturday in bonds of all lasses, at certain minimum prices This was considered the most nport-int step yet taken towards reimption of unrestricted trading on 10 exchange. The bonds to be traded in include large variety of government, state ad municipal 'issues, as well as the ands of numerous private corpora ons. Today's action is regarded ? ft 1 rtp'i oo 1 * * _ uuicume or (lie better larket for investment securities. It was intended to extend the rea of open trading to certain guarute.ed stocks, but on further oenderation such action was dearned nwise for the present. Advices resived by stock exchange officials idicate that London will be a loderate purchaser of this class of merican securities.