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II: S. MUST BUILD HER 01 SHIPS "WHY LET ENGLAND DRAW BIG REBATES ON OUR FOREIGN TRADE?" Declares Future Prosperity of the United States Depends on the Establishment of an Adequate Merchant Marine System. (By Steven B. Ayers.) Y Former Representative in Congress from New York City and author of "Building an American Merchant Marine.") Prosperity in the near future? greater prosperity than this country j has ever enjoyed?seems assured, "but there is one question which has first to be settled before the United States can properly enter into its rights and obtain the full fruits of its energies. We have got to have an adequate American merchant marine, and now is the time. Unbounded capital is coming into the country. Quite unexpectedly the war in Europe is going?at least, such is the outlook?to pay off for us the money we borrowed long ago to build our great railroads and other big permanent works. It seems likely that we shall not hereafter have to pay out vast sums annually to Europe as interest on loans to us. We may, in fact, even find the international financial situation so strongly reversed that in fu. ture we shall be drawing interest fjom Europe on loans from us. Urges American Ship*. Part of this wealth should go straightway to the building of a great American steamship service. Why should we continue to sumbit to -a tribute levied by Europe on practif cally every ton of our fereign commerce, even on that to South America? The position can beput in a sentence. Should a great merchant control the delivery of his goods to his customers, or may he intrust that important part of his business to the tender mercies of his rivals? The United States is now the world's greatest manufacturer and merchant. Is it conceivable that this country is going to be content to leave its delivery svstem in the hands of the British? I think not, for we Americans have some justification in priding ourselves on our hard business sense. Shouldn't this big America of ours put in a delivery service of its own? We must dx> so. Briton Dictates Terms. We are trying hard to get trade with our sister republics in South America. Do the American people / realize whit it must mean to the prospects of our getting that trade that a British member of Parliament, sitting in London, practically dictates the terms? What must they think of us down in Argentina and Brazil for allowing this to be so? This is no exaggeration. The steam ship lines that carry freight to and from Argentina are governed by a ' conference that meets each week in New York City. But if the representatives of the lines can not agree, they have to cable to England, and Ithe final word lies with R. P. Houston, M^P. A similar conference that meets in the Produce Exchange Building in New York fixes the prices it shall cost us to ship American manufactures to Brazil, and the final decision on the rates is made in London, England. We have no word in it. Independent Venture Fails. Some venturesome merchants at New Orleans tried to establish an American line from that city to Brazilian ports. Their ships took down American-made machinery and had I 1- X? ? Iw tumc uatu empty?ana mey never went again. The reason they could not get any return freight was because the British lines running from Brazil to the United States had estab lished a system of deferred rebates with all the merchants in the Brazilian ports. That closed us out. I Favors Free Canal Use. There are other ways which, I believe, would be more successful and not be fraught with such grave danger. The first of these is the free use of the Panama Canal, as I have urged. Another way would be the adoption of discriminating duties in indirect trade. The advantage of levying such duties would be that we should be utterly indifferent to reprisals. Such a provision would in five years restore to us as direct trade all the carrying that now goes to foreigners as indirect trade. The trouble at this moment is that ships can not be built in this country as cheaply as in Europe. This is due to two causes?the higher cost of labor here and the compara COT! CROP MAY BE CARRIED OVER CONTROLLER OF CURRENCY ISSUES ENCOURAGING STATEMENT?BANKING SYSTEM STRONG. / Washington, August 19.?Comptroller of the Currency William announced today that the present unemployed loaning capacity of nationbanks and reserve banks was sufficient to finance at market value the entire cotton crop and half, if not all, of the tobacco and wheat crops, and to justify an expansion of credit of co nnn nnn nnn sa nnn nnn nnn ?p-uyvw,v/vv/,vvv ~ A statement by the comptroller referred to the prospect for unusual demands for funds, particularly if cotton should be declared contraband, and he declared that never before had the banks been strong and thoroughly prepared to handle any problem. j Just before the statement was issued the British embassy authorized the announcement that the allies had agreed on the principle that cotton was contraband. | Special requirements, which the banks may have to meet in the near future, were summarized by Mr. Williams as follows: I What Banks Must Meet.' "First: The yearly recurring de mand lor iunos witn wmcn to move the crops, which this year, except as to cotton, are unusually large and commanding full prices. "Second: The unusual demand which may arise to enable cotton growers to meet any congestion in the movement or marketing of the crop, in the event that cotton should be declared contraband. "Third: Demands which are likely to be made on national banks, both directly and indirectly, in connection with the extension of credit to foreign purchasers of supplies of all kinds, and to pay for the American securities which may be returned to us by foreign creditors." Concluding, the statement said: National Bank Strong. "The actual figures show that the present condition of the national banks of this country have never before been so strong and so thoroughly prepared to grapple with and handle successfully any problem, how tvu iai(c, rviiiv.il may uc jiicociiicu to them, as they are today. These figures show that the national banks of this country and the twelve federal reserve banks, exclusive of state banks and trust companies, have at this time an unemployed loaning ca-: pacity sufficient to enable them, if need be, to carry for our own people at market value, the entire cotton c^op, and half, if not the whole, of the wheat crop and tobac-' co crop, which it is not, of course,! conceivable that they will be asked! to do, and also finance, until the pur-' chasers can pay us in gold or its equivalent, $1,000,000,000 or so of exports of foodstuffs or manufactur-' ed products to be shipped to the rest of the world. "It is far better for the banks to1 employ their surplus funds in making ' loans on staple commodities' where they can relieve congestion or, promote legitimate commercial trans-1 actions rather than permit these funds to be used for the inflation of the stock markets, where speculation 1 in securities has already reached a 1 point which invites caution. . . . New Banking System Sound. "The soundness of our new banking system and its ability to meet successfully even the most trying emergencies have been demonstrated. We also have confidence that it will be equally able to cope with and control inflation growing out of prosperity. It behooves the national banks and the department of the government charged with their supervision to exercise, under present cirpl]mstan/>oc +Vio * ui? uuuu3i vigilance and a wholesome restraint, lest over confidence ^nd unwise expansion or speculation may check the prosperity which now seems so likely to increase and endure." i; i' tive smallness of our shipbuilding business. j What must be done is to establish ' an interoceanic commerce commis-,' sion to regulate waterborne traffic,'' just as our Interstate Commerce Com ' mission regulates transportation on land. This could be effected by sim- : ply enlarging the Interstate Commerce Commission by the addition, say, of two more members. Com- 1 bines and rebating should be made il legal, ana all shippers put on an equality. Then American capital would soon regain its old fondness for ships. I Sometimes ignorance is worse than a little learning. ^ _ J TEXT OF NOTE SENT TO AUSTRIA (Continued from Page One) and industry of legitimate fields of enterprise, already heavily burdened by the unavoidable restrictions of war. Attention is directed to the fact that Austria and Germany before the ) war produced a great surplus of war munitions and sold them throughout the world "especially to belligerents" and "that never during that period did either of them suggest or apply the principle now advocated by the imperial and royal government." A table of sales by Germany and Austria to Great Britain during ,the Boer war is appended to the note, and it is suggested that had Austria and Germany refused to sell arms to Great Britain at that time, "on the ground that to do so would violate the spirit of strict neutrality, the imperial and royal government might with greater consistency and greater force use its present contention." Note Cabled August 12. The note was cabled to Ambassador Penfield at Vienna, August 12. The text of the American reply follows in part: "The government of the United States has given careful consideration to the statement of the imperial and royal erovernment in retmrrl tn the exportation of arms and ammunition from the United States to the countries at war with Austria-Hungary and Germany. The government of the United States notes with satisfaction the recognition by the imperial and royal government of the undoubted fact that its attitude with regard to the exportation of ai-ms and ammunition from the United States is prompted by its intention tOj maintain the strictest neutrality and to conform to the letter of her provision of international treaties," but is surprised to find the imperial and royal government implying that the observance of the strict principles of the law under the conditions which have developed in the present war is insufficient, and asserting that this government should go beyond the long recognized rules governing such traffic by neutrals and adopt meas >u? w uituiiutin an atutuae of strict parity with respect to both belligerent parties." i "To this assertion of an obligation to change or modify the rules of international usage on account of special conditions the government of the United States cannot accede. The recognition of an obligation of this sort, unknown to the international practice of the past, would impose upon every neutral nation a duty to sit in judgment on the progress of a war and to restrict its commercial intercourse with a belligerent whose naval successes prevented the neutral from trade with the enemy. The contention of the imperial and royal government appears to be that the advantages gained to a belligerent by its superiority on the sea should be equalized by the neutral powers by the establishment of a system of nonintercourse with the victor. The im penai ana royal government confines its comments to arms and ammunition, but if the principle for which it contends is sound it should apply with equal force to all articles of contraband. A belligerent controlling the high seas might possess an ample supply of arms and ammunition but be in want of food and clothing. On the novel principle that equalization is a neutral duty, neutral nations would be obligated to place an embargo on such articles because one of the belligerents could not obtain them through commercial intercourse. "But, if this principle, so strongly urged by the imperial and royal government should be admitted to obtain by reason of the superiority of a belligerent at sea, ought it not to operate equally as to a belligerent superior on land? Applying this theory of equalization, a bellieerent who. lacks the necessary munitions to contend successfully on land ought to be permitted to purchase them from neutrals, while a belligerent with an abundance of war stores or with the power to produce them should be debarred from such traffic. During the Boer war between Great Britain and the South African Republics the patrol of the coasts of neighboring neutral colonies by British naval vessels prevented arms and ammunition reaching the Transvaal or the Orange Free State. The allied republics were in a situation almost identical in that respect with that in which Austria-Hungary and Germany find themselves at the present time. Yet, in spite of the commercial iso lation of one belligerent, Germany sold to Great Britain, the other belligerent, hundreds of thousands of kilos of explosives, gunpowder, cartridges, shot and weapons, and it is known that Austria-Hungary also sold similar munitions to the same purchaser, though in smaller quantities. "It might be further pointed put that during the Crimean war large quantities of arms and military stores were furnished to Russia by Prussian manufacturers; that during the recent war between Turkey and Italy as this government is advised, arms and ammunitions were furnished to the Ottonfan government by Germany; and that during the Balkans war the belligerents were supplied with munitions by both Austria-Hungary and Germany. While these latter cases are not analogaus, as is the case of the South African war, to the situation of Austria-Hungary and Germany, in the present war, they nevertheless clearly indicated the long established practice of the two empires in the matter of trade in war supplies. "In view of the foregoing statements, this government is reluctant to believe that the imperial and royal government will ascribe to the United States a lack of.- impartial neutrality in continuing its legitimate trade in all kinds of supplies used to render the armed forces of a belligerent efficient, even though the circumstances of the present war pre vent supplies from the market of the United States, which have been and remain so far as the action and policy of this government are concerned open to all belligerents alike. "But, in addition to the question of principle, there is a practical and substantial reason why the government of the United States has from the foundation of the republic tq the present time advocated and practiced unrestricted trade in ai-ms and military supplies "The United States has always depended upon the right and poweir to purchase arras and ammunition from neutral nations in case of foreign attack. This right, which il; claims for itself, it cannot deny to others. FLOWER POT COOKERY FOR THE CHILDREN. If you want to keep the children quiet and happy for a long morning, set them at flower-pot cookery. It a erama mill mn+ lioua annnnL -W mm g?M?v WftlWJ TTU1 UVW VUVU^U of in many mornings, in fact; for its possibilities are many. Get a big flower-pot for each child; the large 12-inch potii make the most successful' "stoves". Set a goodsized candle in a low candlestick and place the flower-pot over it, bottom side up, in such a way that the flame is directly beneath the hole in the bottom of the pot. The candle should be just long enough to reach the hole. Over this tiny but effective burner all sort? of cooking can be done in little aike tins. Tiny bits of meat can be broiled, potatoes can be cut in tiny cubes and fried, little pieces of bread can be toasted and water can be boiled. Eggs,' too, can be fried, one at; a time. If mother has timo, the cliildren can be taught to cream various vegetables in thickened milk:; tiny pancakes might be tried, or wee quantities of soup made. The overturned flower-pot range can be safely manipulated out of doors, for the pot protects the candle flame from the wind and is itself, of course, not inflammable. It is email enough to seem like dolls' plaj- for the children and requires fewer materials than when they try to cook in the kitchen.? Christian Science Monitor. CHICHESTER SPILL? DIAMOND BRAND o? jfe m LADIES | r JLtk yonr l>ru(r*li( for CHT-CHES-TER S A, DIAMOND BRAND PILLS in Red and/^\ Gold metallic boxes, sealed with Bluev%jy Ribbon. Taes no other. BnyoFyou*^' Dnntit and aih for CIII-CHK8-T.ER 8 V DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for twenty-five years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE TESXEO APPLE DUMPLING RECIPE. Peel and core as many apples as you need, fill each with butter, sugar, and a clove or two, cover everyone with pie crust, until they look like balls, put in baking pans, with a bit of butter on the top of each, sprinkle with sugar and a nip of cinnamon, put butter, sugar and a very little water in the pan. Bake thoroughly done, they must be delicately brown, with a candied jelly in bottom of part. Serve hot or cold, as desired, with cream.?Anderson Intelligencer. When the home team wins it's due to good playing; when the other fellows win it's merely an accident. Train up a child in the way he - 1 1 1 J !i.?_ J T 4.^. -T.- ~ snouia go ana 11s uougimuts lu mug*; he'll take a flier in the opposite direction. Malariaor Chills & Fever Prescription No. 666 ii prepired'especiilly for MALARIA oj: CHILLS & FEVER, Five or aix doaea will break any com, and If takeo then aa a tonic the Fever will not return. It acta on the liver better than Caloind and doca not gripe or wefrea. 25<: | TEN DA | Seaboard 1 ft "The Progressive I ft FROMft Abbeville, S. C. Qj Anderson, S. C., t lyJ Athens, Ga., 31 Atlanta, Ga., Uj Belton, S. C. _, lUUlgllcUU, A1 d ..... Gedartown, Ga. [fi Donalds, S. C., J Elberton, Ga f 1 Greenville, S. C. S* Greenwood, S. C. Greer, S. C. Hodges, S. C. Jf| Lawrenceville, Ga. UZ Pelzer, S. C. [ 1 Piedmont, S. C. j. 1 Rockmart, Ga. I : Sheals Jet., S. C - Spartanburg, S. C. 1 Union, S C I I Williamston, S. C. [ Winder, Ga. , r J ' Tickets on sale each Thurs 1 2, 1915, bearing final limit to I * turning prior to midnight of [ I sale. Extension of final limit J f erence between the ten day ai 1 Call on nearest Ticket Aj I f ' formation, or write. | J C. S. COMPTON, | J T. P. A., Atlanta, Gf iraiitigianmimfimuEm RELIEF RUSHED TO GALVESTON Houston, Tex., Aug. 30?Fifty in jured soldiers arrived here today fron Texas City and^with them came man; women and children, most of the par ty being wiyes and children of eithe offlers or enlisted men. A majorit; of the soldiers were not badly hurt The remainder of he party will b scattered over the city. At presen there is lack of accommodations i] Texas City as the buildings erectei for occupancy of families of the arm; men there were destroyed. Fifty thousand loaves of breai from Houston were started to Galvea ton today along with 50 barrels o staple foodstuffs. Twenty thousand loaves are expected to pass throug] here from San Antonio and Dalla* Galveston's water supply immediate!; after the storm was estimated as sui ficient to last until tonight at least Mayor Lewis Fisher of Galveston , however, sent word here that the cit; hoped to have a new supply today. Gov. Ferguson returned to Austin last night, announcing that he wa informed there was no need of stat aid at Galveston. Women seem to have more busines acumen than men. A man squander his money for hair restorers an< loses; a woman buys her hair out right and wins. Southern Railway Schedule. Effective July 4,1915. k \r T>VT T>1 a.iu, Xiii in Leave Abbeville 9.55 3.45 6i Arrive Abbeville 11.20 5.10 8.1 Cleaning, Pressing and Altering WHILE YOU WAI1 Six Suits in one (M nr Month $1,111 Four Suits in 1 Of two Months.. I.Uli H. H. DuPRE CO. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Abbeville, Court of Common Pleas. Frank E. Harrison and Augustine T. Smythe, as Receivers of Calhoun Falls Company, Plaintiffs, against Patrick Calhoun, Defendant. SUMMONS, FOR. RELIEF, / > O J \ ^oinpicwiiu oei vcu.; To the Defendant above: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Coirnlaint ir this action, of which a coi-y is here with served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the subscribers, at their office No. 30 Broad Street, Charleston S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the daj of such service, and if you fail tc Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. J. Fraser Lyon, Henry Buist, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. To the Defendant, Patrick Calhoun: Take Notice, That the Summons in this action, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed in the Office oJ the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in the city oJ Ahhoviiip. State of South Carolina together with the Complaint in th< above entitled action on the lOtl day of August, Nineteen hundret and fifteen. J. Fraser Lyon, Henry Buist, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. Abbeville, S. C., August 10, 1915, -Y RATES jl Lir Line Ry, 11 Railway of the Souli" ? lc.oo 3^ 10.00 5*: lLlUtf bgjn ? 8.0? 5LEI' 8.5? aw 5 SJM\ ~~ZZZZZZ"IIZZZZZZZZZZZZ~8.00. ffijti ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZIZZZieioff | ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ iL2g i jk IZZ"_ZZ:Z~Z.ZZZZZZZZL11ZIZ.Zio.8O X?. day up to and including Sfept&mber reach original starting point; resecond Monday following- d&te. of' may be bad upon payment o? dii- SHzd ^ . id season rates. 9ft/' jent for Pullman reservations^ in- gfcrj FRED GEISSLER, 3B ' U Aji't Gen'l P. A., Atlanta, G*~ iiUHigiaaiBigiziHHam? Ab Deyille-OreenwMd MtTUAL iUlflCi ASSOCIATION t ' ' i 1 Property Insured, $2,100,00?E> I January 20th, 1915, i xmrvara to ob cam, en u? inKiei* ?w, or the Dlrtotor-ftf vot/ TonlisBdtevx i- formaj Information yon m*y dMZrp f our piwi,of Inromwa. <?' We 'nstire your property Mime t 1 Uanbj n .E, raosTsu ia ussm ir and ?o ao cheaper Ujwi anjr junugt'OiaM^ f - r%&y in exlsUno*. Dwellings covored wtttmmetal room ?re lomryl lor 85 pwr wart. UMljIi ~ tb?n oi her property. . , * Remember we su?>fliei*red to peovet?3i*si ? tb?t oari li the uM ant eheapert pita ?* 7 iBsnnmM known. ' J. B. BLAKE, Gen. Ageirt ft I k vi _i? n g ADDOT1119, 0. %h* J. FRASER LYOST, Pre?. Abbeville, 8. CT?. 8 B. u. Majori,..? Greenwood . S .T " v?hrv Cokesbnry j C H. Dodson _ Donalds >' u T. tt. Ellin.. Dne VKt ^ W. W.Ii.Keller^.^.-Jxmff Owi?' I. A. Keller JHmllUvUle ., t D.A. Ward law Oedar B^rrlne W. W. Bradley... .-...Abbeville Dr. J. A. Anderson.......An trevllle 8.8. Bole*..., LowndesTllle A ft. Sunt M?gnnilt W. D. Morrah Oalhocn Mill* ' , jt B.P. Morrah ?._BordeaO* . 'I H. L. Rasor.. Walnnt Grove 15 W. A Nloklee .............?~_J3odse*? ?2 M. O. Bowlee Opronaea D. 8. Hattl wanger Ninety-Blx " " ...Klnardi " " .rellowsbln Joseph Lake PbCBn'X J. w. Smith Verd?ry- < J. H. Chiles....... Bradley. T T,vr>r) ...? t. TroyE. K. Moseley?..?. ^...Y^'delF T. B. Bell r*l!iso? ' " " " ..'irkseys i Abbeville, S. C.. Jan. 20.1015 ' r PASSTWmSP SnTTFTlTTT.-lS? . ' /" I Piedmont & Northern By. Effective June 6th, 1915, J GREENWOOD, S. C' Arrivals. Drpnrmw No. 1 8:00 A.1I. No. 4 No. 3 .10:00 A.M. .No. 6 8cet?JU3S.v No. 5 12:15 P.M. No. "8 l&.-0fr_4ini No. 9 4:10 P.M. No. 12 ZSti/jJb. No. 15 7:20 P.M. No. 14 ,, 4>:20 P'JE'.s No. 17 10:55 P.M. No. IV 8:45 ^JJCD C. S. ALLEN, . Traffic Manaeen ' f Reduced Rates ; . VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAf I , . i "Pn/^TinTAYi flovviflit nf nrjf f-a > i. lOUiXCi UaillDi Ui Lilt UUUUJul fEOM ABBEVILLE, S. CL r ) SAX FHAX'tlSfO.CAL 3 ! Panama-Pacific International E5??'k?tion. February 20-December 4, 1915. B. F. Sweetenburg-, AgeaA. SEABOARD SCHEDULE : NORTHBOUND' SOUTHROLCSL^ : Arrives: Departs\ No. 30 12:54 M No. 29 4:00v'FSTi No. 6 8:11 PM No. 5 r:6W-ESB ( ; No. 18 10:00 PM No. 17 5:00'.4135/ [ No. 12 1:43 AM No. 11 Z?TiOST Love is a malady of the mind ffarerr swells the head but makes $10 laaciz. like 30 cents. I .. , X-^> / '