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68TH YEAR. NO. 99. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919. SUBSCRIPTION12!OO AYEAR
SEABOARD TO USE
OIL TYPE ENGINE
Reported That Company Has
Arranged to Replace The
Coal Burners
MUCH CHEAPER THAN CC^AL
Mexican / Petroleum Company
Will Finance Deal and Supply
Fuel Oil Saving Half
Million a Year.
Conversion of a large number of Its
freight and passenger engines to the
oil burning type Instead of the common
coal burning type :s planned by
the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company,
according to a current report.
The Seaboard will be the first Important
road in the southeast to employ
vuftiiim ui me uii uununK type, although
such engines have been used
in other parts of the country for
years. It Is believed that the cost of
transportantion will be decreased by,
the step.
According to the report, the Seal
oard has entered into a live year
contract with the Mexican Petroleum
Company, by the terms of which the
oil company is to furnish it with 40
per cent of its fuel requirements, the
oil to be sold on a basis of $3 per net
ton of coal at the railway junction
points, where the fuel is ordinarily
taken. A ton of coal Is taken to be
equal to 3.66 barrels of oil.
The Mexican Petroleum Company,
is to loan the Seaboard $1,000,000 in
cash $250,000 of which is to be used
in erecting tanks at Tampa and Jacksonville,
where the oil will be brought
by the oil companies' steamers direct
front Mexico. The other $7 50,000 is
to be used in converting 2 50 locomotives
from coal to oil burners. This
'loan is to be repaid, according to the
^report, at the rate of ten cents for
"" each barrel of oil delivered.
It was only about ten days ago tnat
the Mexican Petroleum Company entered
into a contract with the receivers
of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad, whereby thev are to
supply this road with fuel oil. this to
foe delivered at| Galveston. .Texas.
Thlfl milrnnH loot vone i' 1 ^ IAO
tons of coal, at a cost of $-1,51 per
ton or a-total of $2,806,486.52.
Others Have Changed.
In the petition to the court t permit
the receiver to enter into a contract
with the oil company. It was
shown that other railroads in the
southwest have changed from coal to
oil. During the period of the war one
road was compelled to return to the
osal burning type of locomotive, so
that the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
was constrained to hold proposals it
had made for suhstituting oil in
abeyance. The Texas & Pacific has
also determined to burn oil.
. There is comparatively little coal
In Texas and the cost of obtaining
coal from Oklahoma, Kansas and
other States is constantly mounting
the petition states. The cost of the
changing of its equipment for substituting
oil will not exceed $650,000,
and the contract with the oil company
provides for the advancement
of that sum or that part of it that
may be needed.
The contract calls for 2,000,000
barrels of oil a year to he furnished
the railroad company between September
1, 1010 and December 21,
1924. The railroad Is to pay sixtyfive
cents a barrel of forty-two gallons,
plus the handling charge. When
the railroad has its locomotive equipment
ready to begin exclusive use of
oil for fuel the oil company will furnish
about 166,000,000 barrels Der
month.
Advimrc tlie Money.
The o'.l corporation in to advance
not In excess of $650,000 to allow the
railroad funda wUh which to refit
Ita locomotlvea with oll-burining
equipment and provide storage fncll"tlea
at other places than on Galveston
Island where the oil company will
Install three or four standard 5,000barrcl
tanks. The railroad company
will reimburse the oil company by a
payment of thirty-five cents additional
on every barrel deceived un^ll the
debt Is satisfied.
The primary saving by the substitution
of the oil burners will
amount to $538,4-53 a year, accepting
the 1918 costs of coal as a basis,
(Continued on Page Three.)
COMPOSER OF FAMOUS 1
AIR COMMITTED SUICIDE '
Two Misfortunes Unbalanced Mind
W 4
of Auttior of the 'Internationale."
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Lille, Oct. 6.?The tragic death of
Adolphe Degeyter, the composer of
the "Internationale,'* who passed
away here during the German occupa- 1
tlon, has juBt become known to the
city. Degeyter, a man of Strang character,
a laborious worktngman, had '
written several songs which he and
his brother-'.n-law used to sing. He
made no pretension to being a musician
but took great pleasure In playing
the bugle. It was on this instrument
that he played the famous air
which he wrote to the words of Eugene
Pottier's hymn and the first time
he sang It was to some of his comrades
in a cabaret here.
Then his wife died. His brother
went to Paris and passed himself off
as author of the famous air.
7&o miles. The base from which
the airplane will start Is about that H
distance' from the pole. The air r
plane will be heavily loaded. I,
"We shall be compelled to take a r
sledge with us and extra provisions
to enable us to return in case the airplane
breaks down," said Mr. Cope, v
"Because of this additional weight It r
will be necessary to cut down o:ir r
fuel to the minimum for taking off i
will be very difficult and It will be
impossible to lift the machine for
crossing the mountain ranges.
"We propose to set off with as J
much petrol aa we can and then. half
way on the outward journey n
JuHt before we get'to a croa*, to dump o
half of It and to pick It up on the j
way back." a
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The two misfortunes worked disas- J
trously on Degeyter's mind. He began
to drink heavily and conceived
for all music a dislike so strong that *
he would leave a cafe if any one be'
nan to sing or play some musical in* 1
strument. (
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Then the Germans came. Degeyter
suffered acutely from having to work j
for them on the town water supply.
When the typhus epidemic spread he
was ordered to report at the military
hospital and one day he failed to present
himself. The "Kommandantur"
issued a warrant for his arrest. In
the evening he hanged himself.
He Is buried in the cemetery near
the hill here where a little wooden
cross with the name "Adolphe Degeyter"
marks the grave of the author
of the "Internationale."
OMAHA ORGANIZING FOR
FURTHER EMERGENCIES
City Carry ir# Out Recommendations
of General Wood For a Semi
Military Force to (Juell Riots
Omaha, Oct. 2.?In response to rec,
ommendations of Maj-Gen Leonard
Wood, who was assigned to quell rioting
in Omaha following the lynching
of a negro Sunday and the burning
of the courthouse, the city council
today voted to appoint 100 new policemen
and carry out a proposed semimilitary
organization.
Two machine guns, 30 riot guns
and motorcycles and automobiles for
emergency use will be secured at
once. A comptent military instructor
I will be engaged to drill the reorgani- ^
zed department.
General Wood said tonight there (
was no evidence of further trouble f
and all parts of the city wep quiet. (
lie made preparations to leave the
city tomorrow. .
Civil authorities are continuing the t
arrest of men and boys alleged to t
have participated in the riot. All are
being held without bond for a special j
session of the grand jury next Wed- j
} t'Rday. I
Military authorities are holding a 1
negro suspected of the assault yester- ?
day afternoon of a white woman liv* 1
lng on the edge of the "black belt" t
1 He has not been identified.
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AN- AIRPLANE TRIP TO
SOUTH POLE PLANNED f
leader of Pro|x>se<l Flight Will Stmt c
From lliu>*> 750 Miles From
the South Pole.
London, Oct, 6?John L. Cope,
leader of the expedition to the south p
pole to start next June, saya his air- t
plane flight to the pole will be about
HAS CHANGED MIND
AS TO SOCIALISM
William Z. Foster, Under Grilling;
Fire of Questions, Makes
Weak Witness.
KE HAS HIS OWN IDEAS
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Sut He Says Views Expressed in
His Previous Writings Are
Not Now Entertained?Heard
by Committee. I
Washington, Oct. 6?William Z.
Poster, secretary of the general committee
conducting the steel strike,
vhen confronted before the senate
abor committee with his writings advocating
various forms of revolutioniry
socialism, declared under a grillng
fire of questions that his views
lad changed.
How much they had changed. Poser
declined to tell the senators, unless
they excluded newspaper cor espondents
from tlie room while he
lid it. This the committee did not
lo.
Armed with books, which Foster
lad written during his career in labor
drcles, which advocated revalutioniry
socialism and sabotage, and with
opies of the I. W. W. organ "Solida ity."
containing articles contributed
)y him from Europe, where he went
n 11111 as a represetative of that
H'ganization, Foster was pressed ipto
i lengthy explanation of the doctrines
ind views he advocated in 1H14 and
arlier years.
Foster first attemped to parry the
juestions, at the outset refusing to
inswer until newspaper reporters
vere excluded from the room on the
rrounds that "lying, prejudiced news>apers
have misconstrued and misrepresented
my personal opinions
vith the whole idea of injuring the
'ause of 300,000 steel workers." He
vas finally crowded into a declaraion
when Senator McKellar, democrat.
of Tennessee, reading many
tuoatations from his works, demanded
that he say whether or not he still
idhered to his beliefs.
i nose are not my views now," he
mid. in a subdued tone, after lieteni^g
to his own words repeated, dedaring
"the state to he a meddling,
capitalistic institution," and advocatng
violence in strikers, and nil in ac eptance
of bloodshed as necessary to
he forwarding of the revolutionary
a use.
President Gompers of the American
federation of Labor, broke into the
examination in irritated fashion at
>ne point, when Foster was standing
>n his objection to newspaper reports
)f his testimony.
"Well, they can't say anything
vorse about you than they have,"
he aged head of the labor federaion
adjured him.
Foster would not, however, com
)letely abjure his old works, and
prefaced one line to the effect "that
he syndicalist workers will not be
teld bnck from direct action by the
capitalistic crowd of ethics, duty,
tonor, patriotism," he told the comnittee.
"Put quotation marks around some
)f those, and I'll stand by them yet.
They'll show how the words are used.'
Other excerpts from later writings,
dating that "government as we know
t will shrivel up and die," and "inlustries
now in the hanUs of the state
nunicipalities and the nation, will
>e given completely over to the workers
in them" he was quite well pretared
to defend.
"I have my own ideas about govirnment,"
he said of the first, and of
he second:
"That's not so startling nowadays."
"Well, that's syndicalism, pure and
ilmple. Isn't it?" Senator Storil?.??
epuhllcan, of South Dakota, one of
its most poPBistent IntrrogaterH, denanded.
"I think not." Foster said.
The wltnesH endorsed his own ad
ooary of race sulfide with the statenent
that "It is foolishness for worknen
to undertake to raise big familen."
Mayor of llaleigh Dead.
Raleigh. N. C.. Oft. 6.?-James I.
ohnson. for 12 years mayor of the
lt.v, died at 8 o'floek Friday night j
t Hot prings, Va.. following a stroke
f paralysis. His grandfather was
ames Iredell. United States judge
nd United State* senator.
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KING AND QUEEN OF
BELGIUM WELCOM1
I
Come to Voice Their Gratitud
For Generous Aid Given by
the Cnited States.
RECEIVED BY MARSHAL!
Vice-President Meets Transpoi
r* "T 1 *
\*wrKe wasmngton on Whic
Belgian Royalty Comes to Thi
Country.
New York, Oct. 6?The king an
queen of the Belgians, with Print
Leopold, heir apparent to the thorm
were the guests of the United Statt
in New York They have come as h
majesty expressed it. to voice the
gratitude and that of their peop!
for the generous aid given them ti
this country in years of direst nc
when their nation was threatene
with extermination.
Their first hours on American so
were spent quietly at their hotel, res
ing after their voyage across the A
lantic and celebrating their l!?th wei
ding anniversary.
The Belgian royalty were given th
official freedom of the United State
by Vice-President Marshall when the
stepped ashore from the transpo:
George Washington on the cover!
ment pier at Hoboken Thursday.
As the George Washinton w.i
warped in her berth, a fanfare <
trumpets proclaimed the coming c
the King. Dressed in the unifon
of a lieutenant general in the Be
| gain army, with not a single deco
latino on his brest, lie walked un
tended down the gangplank.
Behind him, seemingly scarcely h:
his height, came Queen Elizabeth. Sli
wore a long traveling coat of whil
broadclotl? over a white gown, a whit
fur stole and a close titting whit
hat with chiffon veil.
Walking behind his mother was
| slender lad of 18, the heir apparei
to the throne wearing the unifbrm c
a private in the 12th Belgain infai
try.
As the king set foot on the peir. tli
hand of the George Washington s\
ung into the strains of "ha Gratia
conne," the Belgian national antheu
The king expressed great regr*
at ttie state of President Wilson
health, and sincerely hoped for h
eoinlete recovery, adding that tl
President was very precious.
With the formal greeting over tl
king, queen and prince were prcs
ted to the members of the officii
government reception committ ee.
The king clasp most warmly tl
hand of Mr. Whltlock. although \
ASK INVESTIGATION * 4
OF CROP ESTIMATE
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Discrepancy Pointed Out by Muny
Observers Significant < 'oni6
purison.
Columbia. Oct. 6? J. Skottowe
Wannamaker, President of the
American Cotton Association has announced
that the association would
ask for an investigation by. Congress
of the government report on cotton
issued Thursday. This action, he
h started, would be* taken as a result
of urgent requests received by the
association not only from the producers
and business enterprises. but
from other interests in the various
(j fect|ons, including the cotton ex>e
changes. The request, he said, had
come, from various sections of the
^ country.
"The association has been urged
I from every section," said Mr. Wanna.
maker, "to take the necessary steps
^ to have resolutions passed by Con
gross providing for an investigation
, as to the indicated yield shown by this
d I
report. The association is making
.j a painstaking investigation through(
out the entire belt as a result of these '
t complaints and will lay the information
which it obtains before Congress.
Strange Discrepancy
"The government report issued
>s Thusrday gave the condition of cot- '
| ton as r.4.4. The condition of the
crops on the name day last year was
given as 54. 4. The indicated yield for *
this year, according to the government 1
report, is 158 pounds lint cotton per
^ acre. Last year when the condition 1
- was given as being the same as this
year, the indicated yield was given as
only 137 pounds. Regardless of 1
the fact that the report shows serious- <
a damage from boll weevil, boll worms I
and insects, it gives the indicated |
j yield as being greather than last , i
iC year's. The government repo-t ap- t
f pearetl this time in somewhat chang 1
[e form, the indicated yield being given
. by States. The indicated yield for ,
South Carolina is given as 311 pounds .
a per acre. We know abslutely that ,
is wrong. A canvass made by our as- ,
, sociation shows this to be an error. ,
>f
A canvass made by our the asn
sociation throughout the belt shows
that cotton is opening prematurely.1
that the liolls are nudersize, *he lint
vshows
a marked decrease.
ft-,
Overestimate Apparent.
^'i "In justice to the farmer, the mar.-,
..'fuacturer and the consumer, an in-:
i vestigation should be authorized by
Congress. We do not charge that
to
Ithe Department af Agriculture would j
i ii m-imlummy overestimate the yield.,
; We have not, however, the slightest j
ji doubt hut that an over'estimate has
I been made. Had the correct indicated
yield been given based upon the
acreage shown by the department |
()j tifh r deducting for abandoned acreage
of 1, 570,000, leaving total acreage
at .:12,390,000, the highest es{:I
mate possible under the existing conjditions,
which diseased plant, ravages
II | by insects, premature opening, etc.,
11 the indicated yield could not have
' exceeded 9,775,000 hales at the outV
side, exclusive of linters, even with
a very late frost.
f"With
representatives throughout!
si the length and breadth of this en-j
I ! firsthand information the crops and
? firsthand information the crops and
ie
base our statement upon actual facts.
>r
| We shall use every effort in our power
jr to have this error corrected. In the
meantime, we feel convinced that if |
the department itself will make a
recanvass. it will detect the error in- j
dicated and take necessary steps to
.. correct same.
n "We are writing every member of
(1! Congress from the South urging that
,t they insist upon this investigation.and
s. we shall call upon cotton producers all
s. over the South to do likewise."
<* DKADbV POISON* TO WKKVIIi
- POt'NB BY TilK BKPAIITMKNT
Washington. Oct. 0. A deadly pois
>n to the boll weevil, the insect which
,,'has cost Southern cotton planters
, ! f 100.000,000 annuallvfi has been disg
covered in the for of dry powdered '
s calcium arsenate by the bureau of en- 1
(
f. tomobogy of the department of agri- ,
I culture.
<> Although calcium arsenate has j
I- been used at the government experi- 1
II mental stations since 19J4 as an in- :
sect it tide, the department of agrleu'g
i tare has started only recently tho
? campaign for wide application of th
| poison.
greeted Secretaries Lansing at
Baker as old friends.
The formal welcome over, the royi
party entered automobiles and drot
to the station, where they boarded
special ferryboat which brought the:
to Manhattan. When they arrive
on the New York side, they were dri
i en through throngs which had waitc
for them in the rain to the Waldor
Astoria hotel. The royal party wj
entertained at luncheon by Vice Pre
dent Marshall and Mrs. Marshall an
then went to their suite. hate in tti
afternoon they went by motor car ft
a sightseeing trip about the city, bi
passed almost unnoticed, as was the
wish.
Appeal for Pardon.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 0.?Attornr
Sherlock Rrunson has filed with Go
ernor Davis an appeal for pardon t
the cases of Wesley Edwards an
Sidna Edwards, participants in wha
were known at the time as the "Hill
ville murders " In uhUh i .,a.... m.
sie. of thfc eircult beneh. was sh<
and killed wlille residing in pniirt an
several other court officers and spe<
tators were killed and wounded.
I'. I). <\ Mivtinit.
The Lancaster chapter. IT. I) C
met Thursday afternoon with Mr
\V. P. Mennett. Thirteen member
were present Mrs. J M. Knight wa
elected t-oasuror and Mrs. It. N
Walkup and Mrs. Ann'e Crawfor
l.lmUnv Utirn niooloa -
. ...i i. > <ivirnal'"t ill ill
national chapter. with Mr*. J. M. Rid
dlo and Miss Annie E. Witherspooi
as alternates. A feature of the meei
lnR wns the reading of a touchin
poem on the Women of the f on fed
eracy. A delicious salad course wa
served by the hostess.
MORE THAN 65,000
AUTOS IN STATE
License Fees Up to End of September
Amount to
$300,941.48.
PART TO THE COUNTIES
Lancaster Has $2,821.39 Returned
to It From Fees Paid
By Citizens of Lancaster
County.
Automobiles licensed by the state
highway commission during the presnt
year total 65,501.' The total
amount ot license lees taken in by the
commission up to the end of September
totals $300,041.4 8. Of this
amount $346,731.84 has been returned
to the various counties of tbo
state to be used by them on road construction.
According to figures recently compiled
by the highway commission,
Itichlaiul county heads the list in tbo
number of automobiles with 4,750 licensed.
Greenville has 4,300; Anderson.
3,ft30; Charleston, 3,470; Spartanburg,
3,925, and Orangeburg, 3,331.
In the number of transfers in nr..
- -
eration, Richland again heads the list
of counties by a wide margin. Ia
Itichland there are 1 7 transfers; Anderson.
62; Charleston, 87; Greenville,
i?5; Spartanburg, 7 5.
During the past six months Richland
led again in the number of cars
sold. The figures for Richland showthat
1.178 cars were sold during the
past six months; ligures for other
counties are Anderson, 747; Charleston,
681; Greenville, 1,060; Spartanburg.
684.
In motorcycle sales for the past six.
months Richland and Spartanburg
are tied for first place, each having
recorded 117 sales Figures for a few
other counties are Anderson, 20;
Charleston, 113; Greenville, 108.
In different makes of cars hnmit.-wi
in the various counties Richland
leads with 73. Greenville and Charleston
each handle .72 different variet
es. Anderson comes next with 4 8
and Spartanburg next with 47
The fees taken in from licenses are
distributed in part to the various
counties. For the whole year Anderson
county has received $17,441.65;
Charleston. $16,003.4 6; Greenville,
$19,525.80; Richland. $21,013 07;
Spartanburg. $18,159 62.
The share by counties of the auto
license fees up to the present time is
given below;
Abbeville $ 3,825.13
Aiken 8.171.30
Allendale 1,745 01
Anderson 17,441.65
lO.r..
ii,uis.4r>
Barnwell 6.14 3.34
leaufort 1.603.20
lerkeloy 1,301.85
Calhoun 3.938.60
'harleston 16.003. <6
'herokee 4,316.32
'heater 4.397.36
Chesterfield ft.669.67
Marendon 4,973.92
'olleton 3.619.78
larlington 7.818.05
lillon 5,397.77
lorchester 3.016.43
Cdgefield 4,007.08
''airfield 2,69ft,83
"Morence 9,533.79
ieorgetown 2.024.70
Jreenvllle 19.525.80
Greenwood 7,542.23
lapton 4.040.26
lorry 2,825.25
Jasper 704.63
<ershaw 4,140.21
JS.BZl.o'l
Laurens 8.162.54
!'e<? 5,022.33
Lexington 9,470.45
MeCormlok 2,179.03
Marion 3.60 1 9 J
Marlboro 8.683.08
Newberry 6,423.10
flconee . , , . . . . m a.189 84
Orangeburg ir?.:<32.45
Pirkpn? 4.130.93
Klchland 21,u1 1 97
Saluda . . , 4 28.? 7!)
Spartanburg IS.159.62
Sumter 8.270 94
l n,on , 3.576 87
Williamftburg i 4 c 41
York K.907.95
Total $.".00,811.48