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Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, July 22,1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. ' 75th Year. ffmfr
VETERANS GATHER
IN GREENWOOD
Old Time Welcome to be Extended
Them?Many From Abbeville to
Attend?Committees to Meet
All Trains.
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A large number of Confederate
veterans from this county "will attend
the South Carolina Division, Confederate
Veterans, meeting in Greenwood
today and Wednesday.
No great display will mark this
gathering of the old heroes of the
'60s, whose thinning rank each year
are greeted with a deeper love and respect
and a homage of tenderness
that /brings a catch to the throats of
the younger generations.
Courtesies For Veterans.
Following the desires and requests
of the veterans themselves, voiced by
headquarters of the division, strict
attention will be paid to assisting
every veteran to meet and mingle
with bis brother-in-anns and to take
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an active pare in cne reunion ~wiui a
maximum of pleasure and a minimum
of exertion and confusion. The program
has therefore been devised with
this end in view, to spending the two
days sprat there pleasantly and comfortably
without an undue tax upon
the gaNant old heroes.
Committees will meet all trains
with automobiles and the veterans
and their friends will be met and
taken to the bureau, at the Southern
Railway etatiort where they will be
assigned homes and sent directly
from the station to their hosts. Each
veteran will be supplied with an envelope
containing the official badge
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of the reunion, the official program,
an identification card bearing the
name of the guest and his assigned
hosts and paper drinking cups.
He Lhres At Home.
J. D. Duncan, who lives on the
Due West road, was in the city on
Monday. Mr. Duncan has one of thej
best appointed small farms in the
county. He produces very little
cotton himself, renting out his cotton
land. His home is surrounded
by other farm products. He has two
fine watermelon patches, a patch or
so of cantaloupes, tomatoes and other
things which command a good
price on a ready market. In addition
to these, he has fine orchards of
grapes of all kinds, strawberry
patches, etc.
Mr. Duncan is also interested in
bees and chickens. He has two
patches of buckwheat growing in his j
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goraen. iuc uuLanu??i> ? j
tall stem about the height of ordi-j
nary' small grain, while on the top!
at this season you find a cluster of J
beautiful white flowers. These flow-j
ers furnish a feeding place for the!
bee* while the honey season is on,j
and later develop into the grains of,
buckwheat on which the chickens,
thrive.
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Mr. Duncan is a raser 01 nne nogs,i
having in his lot some fine Berk-j
shire pigs at present. He produces hisj
own meat and has some for the mar- j
kert.
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WATERING FARM HORSES.
"It is a common thing for farmers J
to work their horses in the hayfieldj
from morning to night, watering)
them only art noon. This is done oni
days of excessive heat. The driver i
HnannTlv has two or more refreshing]
drinks in the middle of the morning,!
land again in the afternoon; but the
Ihorses, who are equally as thirsty,
go without. This want of water is
not only distressing, but it causes
Ithe horse to drink to excesi at noon
land again at night, which cften reIsuits
in colic, and always tends to
Iprodvce a distended stomach, or
Iwhat-fanners call bay belly.'
Farmers who would treat their
I horses humanely should take water
I in to the field for them in liofc weathler."
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COTTON MARKET MUST r
RESPOND TO LAW OF j
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Columbia, S. C., July 19.?"The
object of the American and South
Carolina Cotton Associations is sim- (
ply to see to it that henceforth capital
shall be available or the financing
of cotton produced by the poor farmer
and thus to make the cotton
market truly respond to the law of
3upply and demand instead of being
controlled by what is distress cotton
thrown on a bad market the owner g
is compelled to sell immediately," a
says a statement issued from the g
headquarters of the South Carolina
Cotton Association today setting ^
forth the purposes of the organiza- r
tion. The statement declares that ^
the association is working for the e
economic freedom of the South. j
"American citizens outside of the e
cotton belt," says the statement, n
should take a lively interest in these n
Cotton Associations, organizations c
moving rapidly forward toward com- ^
plete and permanent form, and look- n
ing to the best interests of the cotton
producing states of the nation.
There is no reason whatever why 8
American Citizens of all parts of the ^
country should not feel the most
friendly interest in the success of "
this Southern organization. Its ulti- ^
mate success will react favorably j"
upon all parts of the country. 0
"The primary step being taken by 0
the associations looks to the organization
of the cotton interest of the
South for mutual benefit. This does;
not involve any animosity or hostHi-; n
ty towards cotton interests in other jt
parts of the nation. All who know j s
the history of cotton will readily ad-' f
mit that cotton has enriched all who! y
have handled it except the farmers a
who do the mo3t grinding and ex- n
hausting toil in raising of the raw | g
product. The reason for this un-!
reasonable state of affairs is obvious.: ?
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(The farmers of the South have never,
been sufficiently organized to work ir
in farming for mutual benefit. Since '
the war between the States they
have never had sufficient capital
available to enable them to store
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their cotton ana noia n ior a iau;
price. Multitudes of poorer farmers r
have been forced to sell their cotton 3
for whatever price it might bring as (soon
as it could be gathered from P
the field and ginned. The low price ?
for which the poorer farmers were ^
forced to sell their cotton set the *
price for the Entire crop then being &
offered on the market. Had it been
possible to finance the portion of the jr
crop for which immmediate cash was t
needed, a fair price for the entire C
crop could have been obtained. The P
object of the Cotton Associations is F
simply to see to it that henceforth
capital shall be available for the fi- s
flancing of this portion of the crop, i'
and thus to make the cotton market b
truly respond to the law of supply c
and demand instead of being controll t
ed by what is distress cotton thrown; h
on a bad market because the owner r
is compelled to sen immeuiaitriy. i e.
"The association by finanqjng this r
portion of the cotton crop will tend 11
to end one of the abuses of the cot-j
ton exchanges, the manipulation of j t
the market by those interested in ar- j t
tificially depressing the price of the r
hotton. When the producer who a
needs cash for his cotton, can get h
this cash on easy terms while hold- ii
Sng his cotton in fire proof, insured, v
and weather proof warehouses, he o
Will simply refrain from selling when t
the cotton exchange is artificially c
manipulated so as to drop the price v
of cotton below what the staple
should naturally bring as governed C
by the demand and by the price of h
manufactured goods. The legitimate r
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interests vj. me tumn oi/umvio ?,
New England will in no way suf- o
fer through this interferences with n
the activities of the manipulator on v
the cotton exchange. On the con- ii
trary the legitimate interests of the o
New England spinners will be fur- a
thered by the stabilizing of the cotton
market, which will save the spin- o
ner from violent fluctuation and to o
enable Mm to calculate accurately c
fctnd purchase stocks with some de- tl
gree of certainty as to future prices b
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THE MEXICAN
MA Y LEAD
Gravity of Situation Full
ington?Grows Out
erican Sailors ]
Tampico?A
Correl I
Washington, July 20.?While the
tate and Navy departments today
waithed further information in reard
to the attack and robbery of a
oat load of American sailors from
tie U. S. S. Cheyenne in the Teanesi
iver near Tampico, Mexico, July 6,
be Mexican government through its
mbassy here, informed the State
epartment, that it would "omit no
fforts in the prosecution and punish
lent of those responsible" for the
lurder of John W. Correl, an Amerian
citizen, and the attack on his wife
1 the Tampico district late last
lonth.
The message from the Mexican
ovemment replying to representaions
by the United States immediateV
after the attack on the Correl famly
was reported, however, did little
o lessen the gravity of the situation
xisting since yesterday when news
f the attack on the American sailrs
reached the State department.
Situation Serious.
Officials made no attempt after the
message relating to the Correll atack
was received to minimize the
eriousness of the situation resultrom
the assault on the sailors who
rere aressea in American uniforms
nd were oil a motor launch, at the
lasthtead of which was an American
ag.
The message from the Mexican
overnment in the Correll case as
IANKS OF GENERAL FOR
PERSHING AND MARCH
ASKED BY PRESIDENT
Washington, July p.9.?Permalent
ranks of general in the regular
may for General Pershing and
Jeneral March, chief-of-staff, and
lermanent ranks for admiral in the
tavy for Rear Admiral Sims and
Ldmiral Benson, chief of opera;
ions, were aslcetl ot congress today
?y President Wilson. I
The President, in his message,
ecommended that the law giving
he permanent rank of general to
Jeneral Pershing and March be expressed
in such a way as to give
reoedent to General Pershing.
The ranks of General which Periling
and March now hold only exst
in the emergency army rapidly
>eing disbanded. While in supreme
ommand of the American .fleet in
he war zone Rear Admiral Sims
iad the rank of a full admiral, but
ecently went back to a lower.
Tade. Admiral Benson is soon toi
etire after taking the navy through)
he was as chief of operations.
No one in Washington would venure
if the president's recommendaions
bore any relations to the longeported
friction between Pershing
nd March. Friends of both men,
owever, anxiously have been wait
ng to see what permanent rank
fould be given them. There is no
fficial recognition of friction beween
the two generals, but army
ircles on the inside fairly teem
/ith it.
As talk in army circles has it,
ieneral Pershing felt that many of
is recommendations from France
an a tortuous course after reachtig
the chief of staff, and the chief
f staff had some feeling on retaining
in Washington during the
rar, as to whether the commanaig
general of the army or the chief
f staff bore the credit for its opertions.
f commodity. The prices quoted
n the cotton exchange wHI then beome
real indicators of the state of
be actual cotton market as governed
y supply and demand."
<1 OUTRAGE
TO TROUBLE
ly Understood in Washof
Treatment AmEleceived
Near
Lpology For
Murder.
made public tonight by Acting Secretary
of State Phillips, said:
"The Mexican government will omit
no efforts in the prosecution and
punishment of those responsible for
a crime so odious, in the clearing up
of which it will exhaust all means at
its disposal."
In regard to the attack on the
American sailors?an incident which
eclipsed all other matters in interest
in the capital today?it is expected
the State department after receipt
of further details will ask the Carranza
government to apprehend and
punish the assailants. If unable to
carry out this request according to
diplomatic practice, the Carranza
government will be asked to disavow
the attack.
Additional information is expected
by both departments within a very
few days, probably tomorrow. At
the navy department it was said that
there had been nothing received to
indicate whether the note of inquiry
addressed by Secretary Daniels late
yesterday to Commander Earl Peck
Finney of the cruiser Topeka, at
TampicO) who reported the attack,
had been received by the office
Some delay in the receipt of the
answer to the secretary's message of
inquiry was anticipated, because of
uie maDWiy ui communicuu; uirwt
by wireless with the Topeka, due to
the existence in the Gulf of Mexico
of what is known by radio experts
as a "static."
Mart Cheatham at Grenoble.
Mrs. P. A. Cheatham has received
a copy of the Alpine American, a
paper published in Grenoble, France,
in the interest of the American students
at the University of Grenoble.
The paper is a splendidly gotten
up affair/and the issue of June 25th
has much1 news that is interesting to
Abbeville people. Among the names
of the South Carolina boys attending
the University are Sergt. Mart Cheatham,
Lieut. Louis F. Parker, of
Charleston, and Lieut. James C. Fair
of St. Matthews, the last two well
known names in Abbeville.
Among the news notes is a notice
that Miss Lucia Parker is spending
the week-end with her nephew, Lieut.
Louis Parker. Miss Parker has been
in France for many months doing
canteen work. Old friends in Abbeville
are always glad to hear of her
welfare and happiness.
In one of the many cuts in the
paper showing the American soldiers,
Sergt. Chatham* shows up as large asj
life among the "wild cats." His I
wai* experience does not seem to |
have changed him.
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SCHOOL BUILDING TO BE
EQUIPPED WITH FURNACE
The contract was given to the Moncrief
Furnace Company, of Atlanta,
last week by the Abbeville School
board to equip the two school build- j
ings with fan blast hot air furnaces j
and ventilating systems at a cost of j
$8,086. The work is to be completed
before school opens this fall. In each
room is to be installed an automatic
control, which will tend to keep uniform
the heat throughout the buildings.
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COTTON MARKET. V
Cotton sold on local mar- ^
ket yesterday for 34 cents. V
October futures closed in V
^ New York at 34.91. - v
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THE COUNTY SAVINGS
BANK ORGANIZED;
WILL OPEN IN FALL
Abbeville is to have a^ new bank
some time during the Fall.
The organization of the bank was
completed last week and the institution
is to be known as the County
Savings Blank. The officers are: Dr.
G. A. Neuffer, president; Allen
Smith, vice-president; R. E. Cox,
Cashier.
The bank is to be capitalized at
$25,000 and is to occupy the building
now occupied by Bill Qason. The
<3+<-irprrvrwm ia +,n hp rpmnHpllfvl
and out, $15,000 to be spent in making
the building in every way suitable
for a bank.
Plans for the bank are now being
drawn and will be ready in the next
few days. The Muller Bank Fixture
Construction Company, of Atlanta,
is in charge of the remodelling.
Mr. Cason will move his store next
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door into the building being put up
D. H. Hill, Albert Henxy and others.
SOLDIERS FAIL TO
KEEP UP PAYMENT
ON THEIR POLICIES
Washington, July 19.?Approximately
three-fourths of the four
million officers and enlisted men in
the military forces who secured
government insurance policies thru
[the war risk insurance bureau during
the war have failed to continue
liicu iw vrao uvwvdvu
during the meetings of the bureau's
advisory committee of thirteen,
headed by Charles Evans Hughes,
which closed last night.
Recommendation that the organization
of the insurance bureau be
decentralized in order to permit
more direct and effective transaction
of business was made by the
advisory committee following its
series of conferences with Director
Cholmeiey-Jones and other officials
of the bureau.
Failure of many policy-holders to
continue payments and convert
their term policies was attributed
largely to the fact that the bureau
is unable to communicate with
them as 30 per cent of the addresses
of discharged service men
are incorrect.
In order to reduce the necessity
of relying upon correspondence to
carry out this "vast undertaking,"
the committee recommended that
qualified representatives of the bureau
be sent to the capital of each
state to confer with the governor,
in order to enlist the aid of state,
county and municipal officers in obtaining
the correct addresses of discharged
service men and keeping in
touch with them. National organization,
such as the Red Cross and
the American Federation of Labor,
also should be asked to assist in
this work, the committee said.
To secure constant personal contact
with policy-holders the committee
recommended that the bureau
establish local representatives in
each state, or in such districts as it
may seem advisable to divide the
country. As a further means of in-i
forming policy-holders as to their]
privileges and obligations, an adequate
advertising and publicity campaign
should be inaugurated, it was
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suggesieu.
The committee ,in concluding its'
report, stressed the importance of|
legislative provision for placing the J
organization of the bureau upon a{
permanent business basis .
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John McDorman Home.
John McDorman, formerly of the)
Seaboard Air Line Railway, but who
gave up his position and entered the
sevice at the outbreak of the war,
was in Abbeville Monday shaking
nrifli Vio an A a Mr
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man was in the overseas service for
nearly a year. He made a record
trip home, having received his honoable
discharge and reached home
within fifteen days after sailing from
Brest.
'Mr. McDorman plans to return to
his old position as soon as he has
had time to find himself and to feel
at home again.
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Small Volunteer Army is Allowed
Once Mighty Empire?- Many of
thf> Tunni Arm Htim!likfinv__ '
Bond Muii Be Ghren for
Payment of Damage*.
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Paris, July 20.?The full peace . /
conditions of the allied and associat- . V
ed power are now in the hands of the
Austrians. Hie first section of the
terms were presented to the Austrian
delegates at St. Gentfain on Jane 2.
The final sections were delivered to ; / '
them at the same place today without
ceremony, M. Dutasta, secretary - . ' !
general of the peace conference. The
terms comprise the whole treaty .
which Austria is asked to sign, including
the reparation, financial, military
and certain other minor clauses f
which were, not ready for presentation
when the official ceremony took
place. In an accompanying memorandum,
the Austrians are granted 15
days in which to make their final observations,
although they have already
submitted a large number , of ,
notes on the twins previously submitted
to them. '
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J.U saauivu w uib yuuuauou auut*
mary of the terms of Jane 2, the new
clauses pro ride for reparation arrangements
very similar to those in
the treaty with Germany, including
the establishment of an Austrian
t ' . . sub-section
of the reparations com
mission, the payment of ^reasonable
snm in cash, the issuing of bonds
and the delivery of live stock and
certain historical and art documents.
The fiancial terms provide that the .
A ntr+fion nrfl.wflr dlllll he AS*
(portioned among the various fonner
parts of Austria and that the Auatrain
coinage and war bonds circulating
in the separated territory shall ^
be taken up by the new government
and redeemed as they see fit.
Under the military terms the Austrian
army is henceforth' reduced to
30,000 men on a purely voluntary
basis, including officers and . depot
troops. Within three months the
Austrian military forces shall be reduced
to this number, universal military
training abolished and voluntary
enlistment substituted, as part of the
plan "to render possible the initiation
of a general limitation of armaments
of all nations". .
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The army shall be used exclusively
for the maintenance of internal order
and control of frontiers. All officers
must be regulars, those of the present
army to be retained, being under the
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j those newly appointed agreeing to at
least 20 consecutive years of active
service. Non-commissioned officers
and privates must enlist for not less
than 12 consecutive years, including
at least 6 years with the colors.
Within three months the armament
j of the Austrian army must be reduced
according to detailed schedules and
all surplus surrendered. The manufacture
of all war material shall be
confined to one single factory under
control of the state. Importation
and exportation of arms, munitions
onri war materials of all kinds is for
bidden.
Paragraph 8.?Reparation: The allied
and associated governments affirm,
and Austria accepts, the responsibilities
of Austria and her allies for
causing loss and damage to which the
and the nationals have been subjected
as a consequence of the war imposed
on them by the aggression of Austria
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Parading in Paris.
Lieut. Alex Dick, who is well
known in Abbeville, has had special
honors conferred on him in that he
was one of the young soldiers selected
to take part in the Bastile Day
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raraae in x~aris *uiu m mc
Parade in Paris. The Americana were
the special feature of both parades
kind Lieut. Dick had a place in the
picture.