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ruua ESTABLISHED 1844 . The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE. S. C. Hi G. CLARK, Editor. mm \ The Press and Banner Co. Pabttshed Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail mattor at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: ' One year $2.00 8ix months 1.00 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919 IF THE TREATY IS REJECTED. Have the Senators who are bent upon rejecting the Covenant of the League of Nations and bringing to naught the work of the Peace Conference counted the cost of this policy, its cost to America in lost friendships and to the world in shattered hopes? It is easy to say that we / ' shall live unto ourselves alone, indierent to the troubles of other lands. (And just this in effect is the counsel of the League opponents.) But when we come to put the doctrine of smug selfishness into practice, we shall find difficulties be ua tlliinci tiioil JLigjryi plagues. We cannot hold aloof from the world's problems, however tight we may shut our eyes and our heart. In one role or another we are going to be an actor on the eventful stage, not a cold on-looker. We tried the by-stander's part and tried it to the last inch of grievances patiently endured, in the late war; but the very necessities of conscience and of national interest forced us into the arena. The practical quVstion now is not whether we shall live apart from the rest of the world bit in what character we shall move amidst its busy scenes?as a co-worker in the cause of peace and justice and progress, or as an embodiment of selfishness and suspicion, unfriendly and unbefriended? Senators who urge rejection of the Peace Treaty and the League Coverunt are for the latter caurse. They argue in substance, though not in form, that inasmuch as we are in a suffering and restless world we should cut connections therewith and pass the time prosperously in what they are pleased to call ''splendid isolation.' We should take no responsibilities share no labors, have no forceful convictions or vital sympa imes in rne common me 01 nations save at points where our own purses and policies may be immediately concerned. A practical people well may ask, how would such . a policy pay? How would it pay in commerce, i.i good-will, in national prestige and in national character? For* the present, and probably for some years to come, we are assured of brisk foreign trade simply because a war-drained world must have our products. But how will it be with us in this matter when others have got well on their feet again and competition waxes keen? Sentiment, we may grant, has no place in business, but as certain as human nature is human nature, a nation that does nothing to help solve humanity's common problems and bear its common burdens will lose the good will which is so essential to all good business. Or if we continued unwaningly prosperous whilst our late associates in war were left to truggle on alone, buying our goods at high prices and borrowing our money at snug interest rates, would not such prosperity beget the very opposite of friendship in the hearts fV>r?co fnrpoH fn HdqI \uitVi lie^ Atlanta Journal. THE PRICE OF COTTON. We have said it before and say it again; In order to pay the labor that produces it and the capital invested in it anything like the same returns that labor and capital elsewhere get, this year's disastrously short crop of cotton should bring 40 cents a pound. We wish we could say it will * I* bring 40 cents, but we can at least say that there are just four reason* 1 why prices are not now mounting toward that figure:? First, the reduced consumption ol American mills, owing, it is said, tc labor troubles. Second, the delay in ratifying th? Peace Treaty and putting work baci on a peace basis. Third, the unsettled conditions ix ' the financial world, resulting in th< 4.80 2-3 in America, now being worth only $4.85. This means thai any purchase in America now costs an Endish buver 10 1-2 ner cent premium for exchange on money, The Peace Treaty matter, however, will soon be settled; labor troubles ! seem in process of adjustment; and J we must beJieve that the abnormal i with regard to English money will 1 soon adjust itself. The fourth reason why cotton prij ces are not climbing toward 40 ! cents, however, is most important of | all. This reason is simply the belief | that the farmers will let the crop of j for less. No well organized union of ! town laborers would submit to any ' less remunerative prices for their i labor, however; and why should the j farmer? If he goes on a strike, he I can hold out longer than the city wage earner, and why should he not in a peaceful and legal way re' fuse to take less than a fair price for ' the product of his toil? ! In view of the educed acreage ' this year, a good crop of cotton ! should have brought 33 to 35 cents I ?. pound. With a disastrously poor j crop such as we have, a 40-cent price i means only a living wage for the ! producer; and he, like the city la! borer, owes it to his family and those I !ependent on him to demand this 1 living wage.?Progressive Farmer, i Report of Work of County Agent. ! Traveled 220 miles, visited 54 farmers, and two club members, wrote 1 25 letters, held one meeting, organ1 ized one bull association of one bull, ordered cooperatively for the farmj ers 1775 crimson clover seed, 700 I alfalfa seed and 99 tons of lime of at least $86.88. There will be about j 40 men who will put in crimson clover and 15 men who will put in 1 alfalfa this fall that never have ^grown either heretofore. Practically ! all t the week was devoted to a "Clover-Alfalfa'' campaign. PEOPLE OF AUSTRIA >ineT ni?tn nimnru muoi DLAIV. OU|U/Lll I ??? Paris, Sept. 2.?Chancellor Karl Ranner, head of the Austrian peace delegation, left tonight for Vienna with the peace treaty, which was handed to the Austrians today. He Indicated that he would probably ask for an extension of time, as the Austrian general assembly would meet on Saturday and Sunday to discuss the terms. The supreme council, it is announced, will extend the time, if \ Austria so requests. The note transmitting the allied i reply to the observations of the Aus! trian delegation on the conditions of peace, addressed to Karl Renner and t signed by M. Clemenceau, as presi' dent of the council, follows: i "Draft of the covering:" ! "1. The allied and associated powj ers have given most careful consider1 ation to the' observations of the Ausi trian delegation on the draft treaty of peace. The reply of the Austrian delegation objects to the draft treaty on the grounds that in view of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Austria ought not to be treated as an enemy state at all and | that, in consequence, she ought not | to be made in any special way in| heritor of responsibilities in regard ! to reparation, to which the Austro* Hungarian monarchy would undoubtI cdly be liable, did it still erist. People Held Responsible. "As these observations point to a | fundamental misconception of the rei sensibilities of the people of Aus1 tria the allied and associated powers feel it necessary to state as briefly * - * V ! ...Li.L iL I as may oe tne principles which tuey consider must be applied to the set' tkment of the late war so far as Aus| tria is concerned. The people of Aus! tria, together with their neighbors, i the people of Hungary, bear in a pe! culiar degree responsibility for the j calamities which have befallen Eu; rope during the last five years. ' "The war was precipitated by an uiiifnatum presented to Serbia by the government at Vienna and requiring acceptance within 48 hours or a se t. /ies of demands which amounted t< j( the destruction of the independenc< j of a neighboring sovereign state. Thi j royal government of Serbia accepter with the prescribed time all the de ? mands except those which involve< the virtual surrender of its inde i pendence." HOW PERSHING WAS CHOSEN ! (The Chattanooga Times) > When Secretary of War Baker wai ' in Chattanooga last Saturday he tol< i for perhaps the first time the circum stances ^attending the selection ol General Pershing to command th< ) American forces in Europe. It wai 1 while en route to Chickamauga pari L that the secretary told the story. I "When we got into the war," sai( I the secretary, 'it became necessarj to select the commander of the armj ' the United States was to send t< 1 France, and upon me developed the selection. I had the department fur nish me with all the records of th< general officers of the army. I sal up all night going over those records and long after day dawned had, by i process of elimination, made my se ! lection. That morning I sent foi General Scott, who was then chiei "J of staff; the general promptly cam* to my office and I announced to hilt that I had made my selection of com I mander of the American expeditior i to France. " 'Who is it?' asked General Scotl j with a note of anticipation in hi 1, voice. 'I U tn 1 ? T uciinai x 11 There was a moment's silence, anc 'J with sort of gulping in the throat the general congratulated me on the !j choice and said, good old soldiei ; that he was, that a better one coulc ! not have been made. ' General Scott may have thoughl : that he would be selected, but as h< ; vts within four months of the retir r.je thr.t v.*a3 impossible, as I wai i! determined that the man who wen1 i over first in command was to con , tinue, provided he proved capable. | "That afternoon I went over to th< i ( White House to make the presideni : acquainted with my action. I told th< ; president that I had selected the gen I'eral to command our forces in Eu I i rope. i1 " 'Who is it?' asked the president rl " 'General Pershing,' I replied. " 'Do you know him?' queried th( I president. I 44 'T nevAr mpt. and to the best ol J my knowledge never saw him in mj |. life,' was my answer. "The president then asked how ] came to make the selection, and- ] told him my process. " 'Very well,' said the president 'if you are satisfied you have made the best possible selection, appoinl him and I will back you up.'" And that is how General Pershing happened to be selected as commander in chief of the American expeditionary forces in the European war. / LABOR COMMITTEE CALLS FOR TRUCE j VT IT 1. O * 1 J 1NCW X UJTA.J k>cpi. 1| uaoytiiCivi/ ! of all strikes throughout the United States and the declaration of a laboi truce on the basis of the status que for six months or more to enable President Wilson to bring about a reduction in the cost of living is recommended in a report of a committee of the New York State Federation of Labor made public here today. The recommendations urged American organized labor to cease wage and hour controversies in order tc I increase production and restore normal conditions. They express the | hope that no new strikes will be or j dered except to relieve workers from 1 "intolerable oppression." The committee was appointed bj lames P. Holland, president of the J federation, on July 29 and made its ! report after conferring with reprei sentatives of industrial, commercial ' manufacturers, financial, transportajtion and other intertsts with a vie-w ' to devising plans to lower the cost oi j living. Business men, it explained, ; were in a state of apprehension due | to rapidly changing conditions since | the signing of the armistice and in dustry had been disturbed and dislocated to a degree never before experienced." Would Avoid Disaster. v "Your committee is convinced", says the report, "that this condition ' %vrc.jg and can not be permitted to continue unless we?and by, 'we' jour committee means not labor a'o::s Lut the people of the whole ) United States?wish to invite a dis- j 2 aster unparalleled in history. The < 3 people must be given a breathing 1 1 spell. There must be a suspension of t - struggling for class and party advan- 1 1 tage. All Americans must bend their { - backs to the oars and pull steadily i against the storm-tossed waters until ( I our boat again rides safely on the 11 placid sea 01 prosperity." r Continuing, the report says: i As a result of President Wilson's i 3 appeal, backed by the attitude of t 1 Samuel Gompers, president of the; i . American Federation of Labor, and| t I leaders of the railway brothers, thej 1 ? threatened railroad strike was avert-j J j ed and the country spared a terrible i { c tragedy. ( j "On every hand there are strikes 1 1 and threats of strikes. Most of these r disturbances have been provoked by < j radical agitators who have not the ) interests of the toilers at heart, but , who seek to promote industrial war. fare for the purpose of destroying i > our present economic system and 1 ^substituting 'industrial ownership by t the proletariat.' Fortunately the \ t sane leaders of organized labor r . have, after a short period, succeed- i r ed in regaining control of their c I temporarily rebellious unions and re-j \ , storing orderly procedure unaer ine , law3 and rules pf the American Fed- ] . eration of Labor. 1 i ! FRIENDS OF PALMER t REPLY TO CHARGES 1 3 t | Washington, Sept. 2.?Sharp criti- * cism in the senate today by Senator 1 Frelinghuysen, Republican, of New 1 ? Jersey, Attorney General Palmer J drew a vigorous defense of Mr. Palf mer from Senators Underwood of * I Alabama and Williams of Mississippi, I Democrats. t The New Jersey senator, replying ' to accusations made against him by f I M. Palmer on a recent statement, as3 sailed Mr. Palmer's administration of i t the alien property custodian's office! *( and flatly charging him with having j ) pro-German sympathies before the'A 5 entrance of this country into the war,! j ^declared he had "received German' i agents in is own house." Mr. Frelinghuysen also asserted1 that Mr. Palmer was the "intennedi-jC i\ i \ ary" with President Wilson for Ger-! man interests seeking to condone the; * Lusitania inrident. 1 r - In defense of Mr. Palmer, Senator : Underwood declared Senator Fre-| q E linghuysen had "assaulted and mis- ~ r represented" the attorriey general and had deceived the senate and the t public. There is no question of Mr. ? Palmer's loyalty, Senator Underwood ^ 1 declared, adding that charges against > him had emanated fom German inter- ^ ' ests opposing disposition of German B ' property seized. ^ ^ Senator Williams asserted charges . > against Mr. Palmer were "outrage ous" and "ridiculous." He also as- j serted the charges originated with German interests seeking to discredit him. | Senator Williams' retorts were so ^ i caustic that Senator Frelinghuysen . mxerrupveu to invuw: wic senate iiuu . i against the senator impugning an- ? 1 other's motives, but Senator Wilc * liams replied that he thought the ? > New Jersey senator had been involv- ^ ' ed in the attack upon Mr. Pabner "quite unwittingly," after it had been begun by German interests. i 1 . LAND VALUES IN jfc McCORMICK. COUNTY 1 U McCormick, Sept. 2.?In spite of c i the fatt that real estate in many in- c i stances has increased in value more . than 100 per cent during the past two c ? years every day finds people from . other sections of the state here look-j l ing for homes, farms, town property,! c stores and garages. This unusual ac-,' r tivity in real estate can be attributed i * > to the fact that real estate compan- 3 j ies doing business in this section ^ . have induced numbers of people to j fc [ come here from other sections in: . search of the cheaper lands to be j - 1 1 ?? J 0*?A Anilfil I ( r louna nere una yct nmt.u uc ; in productiveness to any to be found ^ , in the State. * <s Although the people of McCormick ^ > County worked hard for the estab- ^ . lishment of the county for a numberj c . of years before it was finally secured! . in 1917, they realize that they have| e one of the best counties in the State a both for the production of crops of , all kinds and for stockraiaing which 0 i latter industry is quite extensive and ^ I profitable in the county. The soil of 0 ' McCormick County seems well adapt- c ed to the growth of almost any kind * ! of crop although cotton remains the v I >rinripal money crop raised. HunIreds of acres have been planted in Bermuda grass and large herds of ;horoughbred cattle thrive upon this. tfcCormick County can boast the largest peach orchard in the State, havng in one orchard over 35,000 fine jeach trees. Peaches are shipped by he carload every year to Northern narkets. All of these vast rich teres seem to have been absolutely mdeveloped before the formation of ;he county and no one seemed to -ealize the value of the land lying between the forks of Savannah and kittle River and between Stephens, rurkey and Cuffytown creeks cutting >ortions of Edgefield, Abbeville and Greenwood counties out of which HcCortnick was formed. CONFERENCE CALL GOES OUT TODAY Washington Sept. 2?Before leavng Washington tomorrow night on :is speech making tour of the counry, President Wilson will issue invitations to labor leaders, financiers, nanufacturers and famers to attend i conference early in October for :onsiderat:o:i of the problems of la>or and of those who direct labor. The Preident, it also was learned, dans to complete all arrangements [or the conference before his depar;ure so that the meeting may be held mmediately upon his return the last >f this month. The first sesison of he conference probably will be at he White House. The entire labor situation and also imniuMimm+o fivr frVio conference vere understood to have discussed at .oday's cabinet meeting, the only one >ossible for the President to attend his ,month. It was presumed that the >lan to- invite farmers representa;ives, which has been urged by sev:ral members of the Senate, was igreed upon at the cabinet meeting. Arrangements Complete. Final arrangements for the Presiient's "swing around the circle" vere about completed today. Accomjanying, President Wilson will be tfrs. Wilson, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, personal physician to the ^resident, Secretary Tumulty, a :orps of (stenographers, secret service men and some thirty correspondin ts representing the press associaions and leading metropolitan news>apera. The President has scheduled thirty et speeches in the principal cities of he West and South, and it is presum:d he will be compelled to deliver ihort platform speeches at smaller owns along the route, although it is :nown he is opposed to the practice. The first speech will be at Colum>us Thursday morning, and the last it Louisville, Ky., September 29. The President will return to Washngton the next day. I UG CITY ARRANGES TO GREET PERSHING New York, Sept 2?Arrangements or the reception of General Pershng and the parade of the First Divison of the regular army with the American commander in chief at its head; >n next Tuesday, were completed to-i lay at a coference between Major ?eneral Shanks, commander of the tort of embarkation, and the mayor's eception committee. General Pershng*s ship, the Leviathan, is expected o reach New York next Sunday or ifonday, and from the time he lands ihtil he leaves for Washington a few lays later he will be the guest of die I ity of New York. A patrol boat carrying the recption .ojnmittee and a number of high oficials who are expected to include Secretary Baker and General March, hief of staff, will meet the Leviahnn at the entrance to New York Jay and will escort tihe liner to the ame Hoboken pier on which Presi lent Wilson disembarked on nis reurn from Europe. After exchanging greetings with1 he reception committee on the pier,j Jeneral Pershing will be taken oni oard the patrol boat and brought to J he Battery, where he will be met by j letachments of police mounted oni torses and motorcycles, who will es-j ort him to his hotel. I In the First Division parade, Gen-j ral Pershing will have for his staff; .11 the generals who have commanded j he famous unit since the declaration! f war. They will include Maj. GenVilliam Sibert, who took the division verseas and later returned to take harge of the chemical wrafare serv-: ce. Lieut. Gen. Robert L Bullard, rho left the division on July 12, 1918 to take command of the Second Army; Maj. Gen. Charles P. Sununerall, who succeeded General Bollard; Brig. Gen. Frank, Parker, who relieved Gen. Summerall in October, and liaj. Gen. E. F. McGlacklin, the present commander. fi One of the most interesting features of the. parade will be the presence of the first American i^pldgnn fired in the great war and. the first American colors borne on the front. : These historic relics will be brought i ! from Washington, where they are be| ing preserved as national souvenirs j of the tremendous struggle. Another | novel feature will be the presence of ! the welfare workers who were Attacked to the division. h\ \\ j WILL NOT FURNISH 1 v COMMITTEE PACTS Washington, Sept. 1.?Request' of the foreign relation^ committee for latest drafts of the poposed treaties with Germany's allies has beeh refused by President Wilson on the ground that compliance would set a precedent encouraging senatorial-encroachment on the presidential pow! ev of treaty negotiation. h'. In an exchange of letters > made 1 public today, Mr. Wilson wrote that j it was "out of the question" to ac-r cede to the committee's suggestion, . and Chairman Lodge replied' that, although the treaties were closely conj nected with the treaty with Germany the president undoubtedly had authority to keep information about I them from the senate if he chese. The correspondence apparently brought another impasse between the I president and the committee o* the | much debated subject of what information the senators should hare> in their consideration of the treaty with | Germany. Mr. Lodge and others have declared the committee could not act intelligently until all of the Versailles treaties were before it, but at I the White House conference Mr. | Wilson told the committee that the j form to be taken by the four treaties under negotiation depended large | ly on the senate's action. regarding . the instrument now before it A copy of the agreement of June 116 relative to the Rhine district also | was denied the committee, the presi, dent writing that it would only become pertinent after the treaty was ratified and that its publication now might be embarrassing to other govj eraments. To this Senator Lodge I j replied that it already had been pub! lished ip a British white book and | from that source had been circulated in this country through The Corigres'sionsl Record. PLEDGES ARE DUE SALVATION AH MY All of the Salvation Anfty pledges I made in the campaign in May were idue yesterday. The large majority | of the people paid their pledg&B in cash and about $11,000 was collected i at the time of the drive. The pledges to be paid June, July, August and | September 1 amounted to something I more than $4,000. A number of j these pledges were not paid &a they I came due, but doubtless there will be ! a cleanup now. Appeal for Payment. Brigadier Crawford in Atlanta, commander of the Southeastern division of the Salvation Army, has issued the following urgent appeal for the payment of pledges made to the j Salvation Army: i '"The Salvation Army kept faithI fully its trust in the world qrar and I stooci the acid test. i "And I believe the people who H subscribed to our home service cam- H paign fund last spring will keep faith H with the Salvation Army," he added. H "The work :his fall and winter will H be four-fold. The full quota of sol- I die: s who went to war will be back. H Thousands will need jobs and the H helping of the Salvation Army. H "The Salvation Army stood by H them to the last on .the battle line? Hj | it will not desert them now." H Throughout the country the activi- H ties of the Salvation Army in recon- H struction fairly whiz. Industrial H homes, rescue homes, the Salvation H Army stores where the poor may sup- H ply their needs for a mere pittance H ?or for nothing?and all of its other creditable institutions practically are being rebuilt. The Salvation Army drained its^J every resource in rushing to the aid H of the country and the success of its^H soldier boys, when the war broke Mn if mile* am hnr>k And weld^l together the links it dropped in its^H chain of endeavor at home. J