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WATCH Tour Label and Keep I Paid Up. JL VOL. 11. No. 32, SKA: CONSIDERABLE FIGHTIN ENTIRE FRENCH FROI t German and French Accoui uisagree as to tne Outcome. ON RUSSIAN FRONT IN EAST GALIC Battles at Various Places But Important Result Has Beei Attained. "Vexatiously inquisitorii "unwarranted interference" i "impress upon Sir Edward G] the necessity for prompt act 'n this matter" are terms e ployed in the protest of 1 American government agai Great Britain's interference w neutral mails, the text of wh ^has been made public by Wa ington. The tentative reply of Gr< Britain promises, "before lor to state the result of a consul tion between great Britain i her allies with respect to 1 pol'cy to be pursued. Denunciation of the expor tion of arms and ammunition the belligerents in the world v has been voiced in the Uni . States senate by a dozen se tors?democrats and repi cans. The debate which folk ed presentation to the senate a huge petition of the organ' tion of American wompn strict neutrality calling for enactment of embargo legb tion, seemed to presage tha vote may be forced upon the e bargo issue. The British labor congrt while opposing by a large maj ity the provising of the militi service b'll. has defeated a p posal that the working n should agitate for its repeal. Walter Runciman. preside of the board of trade in . i British cabinet, has infom fmrliament that in order to ieve the pressure on shipp and make room in vessels for ditional imports of foodstu fuel, mun'tions and other ess tials, restrictions against imp tations of certain goods will put into effect by the gove ment. Considerable fighting has b< taking place along the ent French front. Berlin asse that between 500 and 600 ya of French trenches were stoi ed bv the Germans in the vicin of Neuville and that Frei counter attacks were without suits. In this reg'on the French sprt thp dr?rmnn<5 wpvp rlrn from mine craters they had cupied and were repulsed in t ing to recapture them ; while i British report the progress occupation by their men of m craters and German listen! po?ts in the Neuville region. Paris announces also that G man trenches in Belghim and the north of the Aisne have b( badly hammered by the Frer guns and that the Germans s fered serious losses in a fight "m* a mine crater in the Argor forest. While considerable fighti has been going on along the R sian front at various places fr te region of Riga down into E Galicia, no important resu have been attained by e'tl side. The same is true as to 1 ? Austro-Ttalian front, the G; casus region, and the Balkans. The British report that t Turks have evacuated th trenches on the land side of I Kut-el-Amara defenses to ab< a mile from the entrenchm< occupied by the besieged Briti force. The report says there no change in the situation of 1 BHtish force marching up t Tigris river to the relief of K el-Amara. FIFTY PER CENT PENAJ/ Columbia, Jan. 28.?The tii for filing returns and payment the bankers' special tax urn the emergency war act expii January 31, and unless these turns and taxes due have b< tt received by that time a pena jjr of 50 per cent will be asses? against any bank violating t] provision of the act. ^ I ijfejj I HE L. [I-WEEKLY. Gbig convention IS NOW ASSURE! ut Flying Squadron Will Hold Ral N I ! lies in Several Counties ! Sunday. n*s ! Columbia, Jan. 28.?About 70( I t P.q Vinvo of AVA/1 C U Laymen's Missionary meeting i which will be held in Columbij 'IA soon? anc* the indications are foi : an attendance in excess of tha No' ?t the meeting held in Columbi; i j several years ago. ! The executive committee me here yesterday and made fina d,"i plans for meeting. The flyinj ind| squadron will hold meetings ii rey several counties Sunday an< ion there are applications for abou ;m- three times as many speakers a; the the committee can supply, nst At least five counties will sen< ith delegations of 150. Almost ev ich ery county will send enough t< sh- justify a snecial coach. Thi delegates will arrive Monday eat February 7. lg" W. M. Perry, chairman of th' ta- the committee to secure homo md for visiting ministers, report the that he expects to have at leas 500 ministers here, ta- About 200 laymen from Au to gusta will come to Columbia in var stead of going to Atlanta, and J ted K. Breedin, field secretary, wil na- go to Augusta Monday for a con ibli ference on this matter. He wil nv- be in St. George and other Soutl of Carolina towns for the week-end za ! SWORI)-SW A LLOW ERS eJ OFFERS TO SERVE 11. S | 1 Would He Prepared for An; Eventuality if Bosco Volunteers Now. iSS. FY SUES STATE FOR DEATH mfi OF HIS TWO CHILDRE> of Columbia, Jan. 28.?A resolu ler tion was introduced in the seriab res by Senator Ranks to empovei re- Jonah Sandel, of Calhoun coi n' >en' ty, to sue the state for the dea't Ity of two children alleged to hav< ied | been caused by inoculation fron his I contaminated typhoid vaccina | about one year ago. UI_ I Chicago, 111., Jan. 28.?As i iry proof to friends of his unhy ro- j phenated devotion to the lan< ien of his adoption, Signor Gregorii Carcuiti, a sword swallowe ent and cannon-ball juggler wel the known to thousands of sid ied show followers, today offerei re- his services to the Unitei ing States marine corps in the even ad- of this country being plungei ffs. into a foreign war. en- Sergeant Louie W. Putnam or-; of the local recruiting office o be: the marine corps on Soutl rn- State street, received Carcuiti' J application and entered the pa sen triotic showman's name on hi ire! list of possible war-time volun rtsj teers. rdsj "Now if we could only ge m- liosco, who cats 'em alive. t< itv volunteer," Sergeant Putnan ich | mused, "I'd feel that the Unitei )"3- i l.' es marine corps was prett; well prepared for any eventual as- ity." /en oc- PRESIDENT WILSON ryJ WILL NOT PROMIS! the I jve| South Carolina Delegation lTrg ed Him to Accept Invitajnjz' tion of Legislature. Washington, Jan. 28.?Th< e,l"j South Carolina delegation call 4(> ed on President Wilson am urged him to accept the invita ^ tion of the legislature to deliv L ~ er an address in Columbia 01 the subject of preparedness. ine .j^(i pre9if|ent said he appro ciated the invitation, and wa ir^r anxious to accept it. He said hi lls" 1 would go to Columbia if hi I found it possible to do so. bu could not make a positive prom i ise at this time, lev . ho i COTTON GINNED SO FAR mi-! TOTAL 10,766,202 BALE? ???:he| Prior to Jan. 16. to Which Dab e'r Figures Are Given For thej South Carolina. Washington, Jan. 28.?Cot rnA ton ginned prior to January 1( . was 10.766.202 bales, includinj ' lg| : 106,096 round bales, and 90, hi bales of Sea Island, th? ' G census bureau announced. ut" South Carolina ginning: I amounts to 1.149.669 A.NCA LANCASTER, S. C. F1 >|VWLSON EXPLAINS ' CHANGED ATTITUDE I w~~ I )! President Outlines to Kitchin His Position in Regard to Tariff Commission. I OUTLINES WORK OF t TARIFF HOARD 1 To Deal With Unfair Methods of , Competition Between This j and Other Nations. ? Washington, Jan. 27.?Presi1 dent Wilson has sent a letter to * | Chairman Kitchin, of the house t ways and means committee, exs plaining why he had withdrawn his opposition to a tarff commis* 3ion and now was urging the creation of such a body by con3 gress. He wrote frankly that he e had changed his mind because '? "all the circumstances of the world had changed." e; Declaring that he had "no s j thought whatever of a change in R | attitude toward, the so-called ^ j protection question," the presij dent said the proposed commis'|sion would have nothing to do "| with theories of policy, but would be charged only with the 1 duty of seeking facts to guide " congress in legislation. In an" other letter to Mr. Kitchin Mon1 day he set forth fully his ideas ' of what a tariff commission should be, and urged that the | ways and means committee cor.; I sider the matter immediately. He favored a wholly non-part i,, san, expert organizfaion. "I have changed my mind.1 said the letter, "because all the circumstances of the world have [i changed, and it seems to me that - in view of the extraordinary ard i far-reaching changes which the 0 European war has brought abmit r it is absolutely necessary that II we should have a competent ine strument of industry along the 1 whole line of the many questions 1 which affect our foreign com t nierce. * * * "I dare say you feel as I do. | that it would be folly at this i, | time, or until all the altered f! changes are clearly understood, ti I to attempt to deal with quess I tions of foreign commerce by - legislation, and yet having dealt s! directly and clearly with the whole question of unfair compej tit ion within our own borders, it t is clear that as soon as we know 0 the facts we ought to deal with 1 unfair methods of competition i as between our nation and ofhVjers, and this is only one of the many things, that we would prob ably wish to deal with. * * * "You will remember that in , my last message to congress ! foreshadowed just the considerations which were operating in my mind in this matter. The passage to which I refer was i this: i ! " 'Many conditions about which . we have repeatedly legislated 1! are being altered from decade to . | decade, it is evident, under our . very eyes, and are likely to t change even more rapidly and 1 more radically in the days irntne_ diately ahead of us, when peace si has returned to the world. * "" ? .Just what these changes will be 5 no one more certainly can forsee t or confidently predict. * * * The - most we can do is to make certain that we have the necessary instrumentalities of information { constantly at our service so that > we may be sure that we know exactly what we are dealing with j when we come to act, if it should be necessary to act at all.' : * * "Congress has so much to do . at the present time that it is 5 clearly impossible that it should , j be able to collect all the data _ which such a commission would . gather, and I feel that it would nrr>Sf?r?tlv finH oiu-li o n*\~ ~ r. v..w v.j \? quvii (? vvhiiii i ^! indispensible to it." In his letter sent to Mr. Kitchin Monday the president said: i "I am convinced, as I suppose j I every disinterested person nnnt i be, that it would be a mistake to ~ provide for such a board with ~ the idea of serving any particular theory of fiscal policy. What we would need would be above all > things else a board as much as ,; possible free from any strong ? prepossession in favor of any j political policy and capable cf lSTER ilDAY, JANUARY, 28, 191( COL LEROY SPRINGS MEMBER NAVY LEAGUE Special Letter Notifying Him of His Appointment From Col. Thompson. j LEAGUE TO MAKE AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN Will Lend His Energetic Support For Adequate Preparedness. Col. Leroy Springs has been appointed to the membership committee of the Navy league of the United States and will help to represent that organization in this district in the active, aggressive campaign which it is carrying on in all parts of the country in behalf of adequate preparedness against invasion and disaster. He will co-operate with the members i of the Navy league's state committee for South Carolina, of which Mr. J. P. Bryan, of Charleston, S. C., is chairman, and will lend his energetic and enthusiastic support to the work undertaken to consolidate and i organize the overwhelming sen inment ot thinking people of this state in behalf of measures of adequate preparedness. A special letter has been received by Col. Springs from the Navy league, notifying him 01 his appointment. The Navy league is not in anv sense a militarist organization. Since its foundation more than fourteen years ago it has been , foremost in the work for international peace. The Navy league holds that this country's best defense lies > in the three thousand or more miles of water which separate it from the nearest of its pow. erful neighbors. Should wai > ever be forced upon this counj try, the Navy league holds, itbattles ought not to be fought by armies on American soil, but ' by trained fighting men in i ships, far out on the ocean ! where destruction of life am property will bo kept to a mini. mum. and the savage business of killing will bo kept as far apossible from America's home., md shores.. To this end it has always ad vacated a navy second to none which will be able to guarantor lbsolutely that no hostile arm\ will bo able ever to etfect n v,?,1; ? ?i. , mining upun me snores ol oui ountry, and in this demand i believes it is backed by public opinion all over the country. The Navy lerxgue is the oldest of the national defense societies. It was foundned and chartered in 1902, and among its of fleers and members are Admir al Dewey, Theodore Roosevelt, Cardinal Gibbons. Rt. Reverend Philip Rhinelander and Dr. Ly j man Abbott, while many of America's most prominent wo 'I men are among the members ot j its woman's section. : HMI'ED 10 STORIES AND STILL LIVES Chicago, Jan. 28.?Minnie B. Worner, a stenographer, employed by the Railway Age Gazette. plunged from the sixteenth floor of the Transportation building, and is still alive. A motor truck loaded with paper boxes broke the fall. Her skull is fractured and she will probably die. An eye witness told the police he saw a young | woman climb on a window edge. i TU? i:? I--'-* - I i nc puuee ueneve sne jumped. looking at the whole economic ait nation of the country with a dispassionate and disinterested scrutiny. I believe that we could obtain such a board if the proper j legislation were enacted." j He outlined in detail his plana for the work of such a board, including the collection of tariff figures, investigation of the output of products at home and abroad of the workings of commercial treaties and preferential agreements, of unfair methods of competition, of "dumping" and of scientific methods of creating new industries and building up old ones. . nev REPUBLICANS PLAN I OR CONVENTION ' Strong for Harmony, but Unwilling to Accede to Nomination of Roosevelt. Chicago, Jan. 27.?Prelimi! nary arrangements for the rej publican national convention t which opens here June 7, next. ' were approved by members of j the subcommittee on arrangei ments of the republican na' tional committee. Monday. Various members of the subI committee on convention arI rangements without making a i j positive statement let it be i known that there was a dispoi sition to go to any extreme in I the selection of a harmony can| didate provided only that Col. Roosevelt would not be made ' j the nominee. RAILWAY MAIL PLAN REPORTED TO HOUSE j Proposal to Pay by Space Instead of Weight Wins Committee . Approval. Washington, Jan. 28.?Pay J for railway mail transportation j on a basis of space measure: ment instead of by weight is post oflice appropriation bill as approved bv tho . ^uoini ! committee. The bill increases remuneration for the roads $1,, 600,000 an dadds $4,500,000 to the rural mail service appropriation. The committee voted favorably also on a bill to spend any profit t n highway construction. This measure was recommended by the department and contemplates federal and state co-operation. MANUFACTURERS TO MEET IN CHARLOTTE . I . Convention of Underwear and Hosiery Manufacturers to Hold Meeting Feb. 1. ;| Charlotte, N. C.. Jan. 28.?A (convention of Southern manu1 facturers of hosiery and underwear will be held here Friday, | l| February 4, at the Selwvn hotel I ( under the auspices of the Na-j tional Association of Hosiery' ' and Underwear Manufacturers, i Between 150 and 200 mill men are expected to nttend. The; morning session will begin at 101 >j o'clock. At 1 o'clock luncheon, will be served and the afternoon session will begin at 2: JO. i| BABY HAS SEVEN GRANDMOTHERS Can't Well Be Named for All of Them, and Parents Don't Want to OlTonil \nv i ; ' " Atlanta, Jan. 28.?Georgia now boasts a baby with seven living grandmothers. The proud possessor of ill these desirable relatives is a plump rosy little lady just arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Council French of Buena Vista. Mr. and Mrs. French haven't decided what to name the little visitor. Babies are seldom .blessed with seven grandmothers, and Mr. and Mrs. French are planning to exercises their mature judgment in order that none of th< equally beloved grandmothers may be offended. PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK FRANKLY Trip Begins in Pittsburg Sat iirdav Morning?Outlines Views Before Cabinet. Washington, Jan. 27.---The cabinet discussed the preparedness sDeeches President YYibnn will make on his midd'e western trip, which opens at Pittsburgh | Saturday, January 29.. While in New York Thursday the president received 1,500 J clergymen of various denomi-1 I nations who expressed their appreciation for his efforts in behalf of peace. HARDEN MOVES HIS PAPER. Paris, Jan. 27.?Maximilian Harden has arrived in Switzerland to resume there the publication of his periodical Die Zukunft which was suppressed in Geri many, according to a dispatch j from Basel to The Journal. ~~r > f* + r v ! WEATHER ^ M I Local rains F*rtA m I day and probably I Saturday; colder I Saturday. $1.50 A YEAR. DECLARES COLLEGE TRUSTEE OFFICER Senate V?t?? \ - . ^auiM r^xpniption From Two-Ofiice I'rovision of Constitntinn. BARS THE STATE LEGISLATORS Opposes Members of General Assembly Becoming Trustees of State Colleges. Columbia, Jan. 27.?The question of whether a college trusteeship is an office within the meaning of the constitution came squarely before the senate Wednesday, when the house bill proposing to submit to the people an amendment to the constitution adding to the constitutional exceptions of the inhibition against two-office-holding, trustee of a state institution or regent of a school. The senate I voted down the bill after rejecting several amendments, and after an extended debate. Senator Laney proposed an amendment to permit members of the general assembly to hold the office of a state college. Senator Banks attacked this amendment as a dangerous tendency towards concentration of power. The amendment was rejected by a vot eof 17 to 24. The question of biennial sessions of the general assembly would be submitted to the people, according to a proposed constitutional amendment introduced by Senator Mullins. The proposition received a favorable rennrt fvnm ~ ..ww me juuiciary committee. The bill creating the 14th judicial circuit out of the counties of Jasper, Beaufort. Hampton and Colleton, and leaving the county of Charleston alone in the ninth circuit, was received in the senate from the house and referred to the judiciary committee. DEMONSTRATION MEN MEET AT < LEMSON Farm Agents Hold Annual Session at College Under Leadership of \V. W. Long. Clomson College. Jan. 27.? Xhe farm demonstration agents of South Carolina are in annual session under the leadership of W. \V. Long. Forty or more agents are here, representing practically every county in the state! Sessions are held morning. afternoon and evening, and exceedingly helpful discussions are held on vital topics. The meeting was opened with prayer l\v Mr. Lott. after which an address was made by President W M. Riggs. Tn the course of his very pertinent remarks, Dr. Riggs stated that the demonstration agents were doing n work worth more to South Carolina than that done by any other organization in the state. Ho stressed the importance of per'oualiiy in the agent, and warned the men not to allow criticism of any sort to swerve them from their work. He praised the missionary snirit that kept the men in the great work of helping . >t iVtmiorH tVirnr v..'/. tuv ,> icvcivn; 11 salaries for their services. Among the demonstrators there are many Clemson men. This fact is of course gratifying to the college. One can not help wondering at the possibilities for good in the seemingly con sec-rated services of these young and enthusiastic men. Their work has helped greatly during the hard times through which the state has been coming. The loyalty ot 4he men to their untiring leader, W. \V. Long, is remarkable. There is the utmost frankness in all the discussions, and every man seems to he eager to get the best possible results * u ~ 1 ~ v. ~ W141, \JJ L11CJ 1111i' 1111 <111(1 IU UtT eager for information that will help his people. The meetings will close Friday afternoon.