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'X VfliaB \ Abbeville Press and Banner j Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, January 16, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. J , MESSAGE IS BRIEF 10 LEGISLATURE Recommends Extension of State Budget, More Liberal Appropriations t* Public Schools, Abolishing of County Chaingangs and Better Apportionment of State Taxes. I i I ' Extension of the state budget) system to the counties, so as to re-' quire county officers and deparc-ij ments to submit annual budgets in( accordance with the classications I ' promulgated by the state. ; c gpr ~ i A change of the fiscal year so as: to begin July 1 ami enu June 30, !n- j ftead of January 1 to December 31, j Under the present plan the state; governmer* to operate j two or three months without funds.! \1 " State officials also are compelled | to submit their annual reports to' the general assembly, which allows! but a few weeks in which to do this ! work. Many-of the reports can not be printed and submitted before the legislature adjourns. The comptroller general and other officials also re-j commend the change. fo. i Submission to the people of the I question of calling a constitutional Wv" # j convention. & . ! Creation of a board for penal and: charitable institutions instead of the i several boards and boards of direct- i v , . ,i, ors now extent. mKewise tne creation; I |' of a state education board to pro- i mulgate and direct comprehensive educational program. This would not mean the abolishing of boards of, trustees of the various state col-J leges. > . j t - ,r I More liberal appropriations for; the public schools and more adequate salaries for teachers. Governor; Cooper took occ&sion in his message! to say that appropriation of ap-: proximately $1,000,000 had been re-' commended by the budget commis-'; sion for the public schools, but this! does not provide for increased pay j for teachers. Abolishing of scholarships at state institutions and the creation instead of a student loan fund. The fund! would be available for all worthy' Y-r . . . , .. . ; young men and women, and Denelici- j aries would be allowed to attend j any institution of their choice, pro-! vided the institution had been sanc-| tioned by the state educational | board. ' J Abolishing the county chaingangsi and the merging of the county units; into a state road building force. ' j- V Apportionment of all state taxes! among the various counties, prorated i according to the wealth of the coun-l ties. Survey of all the lands of the state j under the direction of the state sink-1 ing fund commission. Erection of a state administration building to house the various depart ' ments of the state government now occupying rented quarters. A purchasing agent for all state institutions, who would buy all supplies in bulk. * . Providing a fund of $75,000 to $100,000 for a state constabulary, which constabulary would not only enforce laws relative to prohibition, but also fish and game laws. Boards of censors for moving pic-1 tures. PREACHING AT LONG CANE ? Rev. Y. P. Scruggs will preach ati Upper Long Cane next Sunday { morning at the usual hour. > Mrs. Ellen Norwood is visiting j friend? in Greenville thi? week. SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING OF MEXICO;! i' ; . i San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 14.?: I I Stories of cruelty, murder an de-j vastation of properties were given the senate subcommittee investigating the Mexican situation today by T. M. McBec, a cattle man from a' T n wsnc T RviH f? 1H W. ' 1 UUIUCI IUWJI , uauico v. v ?.. .? yor from Tampico, and George E.11 Blalock. a grocerymen, here. j < Britt, who reminded the commit- ? tee that he is not employed by any 1 oil company, asserted that American ! 1 life was "worth more in the Argonne 1 than it i > today in the country about, Tampico.'' He entered the United t States only two days ago. He is one; ] of the men who assisted in caring i j for the bodies of F. J. Roney and i ? Earl Boles, who were killed Decern-Jr ber 30. it Britt told the committee that he < had stood guard over th6 bodies un- j j til the autopsy could be held. "We! had one experience of neglecting J j that phase of such a case," he said, j s "when James Wallace was shot, I (j know for a fact that he was not'a:s drinking man, and yet the claim set | up by the Mexicans was that he was. r drunk. And this is what had happen-, ed. They had poured teuquila into! his mouth and over his face after he1' was dead in order that the odor!' might support their claim." [c Britt said that it was his opinion ! * that foreigners who own oil inter-!" ests in Mexico should get out if they'1 were unable to obtain protection. McBce told of the killing of Lee j^ Sharp and Clarence Sellers, saying it;r was the belief among people on the | c border that both had been dragged is by mounted men' until dead. He said i * / I r no one had been arrested. The story!1 of the disappearance of the "Bla-|c lock colony" was told by G. E. Bla-1 ! y lock, its founder. He told the com-11 mittee it once comprised about 100 |s families, all Oklahoma farmers, who jc left Mexico in 1914 after living je there since 1903. . ,s Telling of five murders of Ameri- c cans he said no one had ever been s put to death for the crimes. * ' a , 1 Washingon Jan. 14.?"Friendly intervention" to restore stable government in Mexico would receive , x the support of many of the best C class of Mexicans, the numb-er' of ; whom would increase with time Enw&rd Field Harvey, vice . president; J Q and manager of the Laguna company i of Mexico, testified today before an! s examiner for the senate foreign re- js lations subcommittee. Mr. Harvey, i who is a British subject said he * spent five years in Mexico as a re- 1 presentative of this company which ' he said owned 650,000 acres of tim- \ ber and rubber lands. Harvey advo- 1 cated blockade of all ports and occu- { pation of Mexico City. The first duty ^ of the United States after inter- * vening, he said, would be to call a constitutional convention and take ^ steps to reorganize the government.!! Harvey replying to a question as s to how many troops would be needed I i for the form of intervention whif^i . t he suggested said: 11 A well equipped column 01 zo,- 1 000 would be sufficient to reach and I occupy the capital with little loss,- 1 provided it was supported by rail- t road troops and railroad guards to ] maintain communication with Vera h Cruz."' c I Galveston, Jan. 14.?The bodies of A F. J. Rontey of Houston and Earl A Boles of Thorndale, Texas, who were ? killed December 30, supposedly by d Mexican bandits at Mata Redonda, * Vera Cruz, reached Galveston today. ^ Patrick K. Heeney, representing the 5 International Oil company of which 1 Roney and Boles were employees ac- ;1 companied the bodies. According to |5 Mr. Heeney the men were returning j1 in an automobile to their camp; * when they were attacked. Roney. i was shot through the heart while j i Boles' death was caused from knife1 I wounds in the back after he had 1 been shot down. i i Miss Mary Quarles Link and Miss j' Mary Lawson Link will leave today < to visit friends in Spartanburg. CIVIC CLUB AD BY MA. The Civic Club held one of its Tiost interesting meetings in recent months at the home of Mrs. W. P. 3reene Thursday afternoon. Major J. D. Fulp, superintendent of the AbDfcville schools, addressed the club, lis subject being reminiscences of London. It was a thoroughly personal touch ;hat Major Fulp gave to his address. :Ie told of his experiences in the Britsh Capital during his five months stay there, the customs he found, the leople he met, the places he saw and he spirit in which he and other Americans were received by the English jeople. After Major Fulp's address the proper English atmosphere was preserved by tea and sandwiches. Alogether it was a very pleasant occa,ion. Some extracts from Major Fulp's iddress follow: "The habits and manners of edu ated people are now so cosmopolitan n pliarncfpT' t/hnf little jippH Vio cuirl ?n English usages. ' The English orms of politeness are, on the whole, omewhat less ceremonious than those >revalent on the Continent of Eu ope, and probably a shade less so han those of America. Men do not aise their hats to other men, as they lo in France, do not uncover in hops, picture-galleries, nor always in he restaurants and cafes. The afterloon is the proper time for formal alls. The usual dinner hour is beween 7:30 and 8:30. At fashionable louses precedence is more or less oberved in the order of going in to linner. The tall hat has to a large ixtent gone out of use, except for : -El : ui.ivwjr xuxiuai u^^a^JUlls. Hi veiling Iress is usual, but / optional, in the talis and dress circles of the better heatres and in dining at the fashionable restaurants, like the Criterion, rrocadero, or Regent Palace. Highecked dresses are quite in order at tny public dining or theatre. In all lotels, when you take a room, you ret a bath, breakfast and shoe shine ncluded in the price you pay. Just eave your shoes outside your room loor and you will find them elegantly hined the next morning. (Only they ire not shoes, they are boots.) You ire expected to tip everybody you see in leaving your hotel. The first floor r England always means the second loor in America. Of course every :ody takes tea between four and five n the afternoon. You may get an ixcellent cup of tea and toast in hunreds of tea rooms all over the city or tuppence ha'penny. (5c.) "The best known shops are on Bond St., Oxfrod St., Regent St., and Piccadilly. The largest department tore in London is Selfridges, on Ox'ord Street. This store carries everyhing from bologna sausage to air)lanes and is owned by Americans. A :ormer DOOKKeeper tor Marsnan fields in Chicago, was the instigator. !n Selfridge's may be found one of ;he three soda fountains in London. Sven at this one they do not know tow to mix soft drinks properly. Ice :ream is seldom seen and is a "bob" i dish when you do find it. The shop vindows of London are marvelous vorks of art. Even the rather conservative shops have elaborate winlow dressings and especially just :>efore Easter are the displays of feminine apparel in the West End shop windows sufficient to break even x Rockefeller?if his wife and daugh;ers like to dress up. Business is suspended at one o'clock on Saturday afternoons in West End; on Thursday afternoons in the suburbs. The law requires every shopkeeper to display in a conspicuous place a roster of his lerks and the afternoon each week they are permitted to be off, with no vap-ps rlprlnpfced. "Sunday is the gala day for the working classes. The stores are all closed, but the pubs, saloons, are open as usual. During the war they fAn i n riiif n IUK J. U. ruur I were restricted to four hours business a day, from twelve to two, and from ; six till eight. Later the open hours ,'were increased and recently the bar1 rooms have been permitted to observe ! pre-war hours. There is however, still a controlled price on spirits. { Practically every commodity was un- j; I control during the war. The price i for butter was 98c per pound, with a j ration allowance of only two ounces 1 per day per person. Eggs were 98c. | per dozen. j< "If you care to go with me, I shall : attempt to take you to a rceepficr ^t 'Mrs. Waldorf^ Astor's, nee Nancy j Lar.ghorne, of Virginia, and now Lady ! Nancy Astor, Member of Parliament, : she being the first and only woman as 1 yet to be elected to a seat in that ; high legislative body. Suffrage in I Vn /wlnwrl Uno Kaaw i-A oil TifA j jjii^iauu uao uccu j;iam,cu IU an wy Jimen over 30. It is summer time and ; I you go to the reception about nine | s'clock. A maid, white, meets you at ' , the door, takes your,hat and wraps? i you don't dare go farther than a j . block from home without your rain, coat or umbrella?gives you a check for them, and directs you to the re-| , ception room. Lady Astor is one of the finest of hostesses and never i i , does a guest get far in the front hall , but that she spies him and always , 1 ' , gives him a cordial handshake, be i he Englishman or American. She al-|| ! ways has some witty pleasantry to j hand you, never is bested in rep:irtce,[j , and is always good to look upon. She , 1 ' I . did not at any of the half dozen times j T ?TOP 1*1 .ll AY* V? ATV1 A V? T AW/lAm x naa in 'iici uumc, uuui ill uuiiuuii ? , in her summer home on the Thames, ( . appear over-dressed. The only jew- ] , els I ever saw her wear was a string! ( of pearls and one time a fancy comb \ ( with diamonds in it. She generally ( .wore a semi-evening dress of black < | lacy stuff. Her husband is quite as j unpretentious. I have seen them both at a reception with the Duke of Con-j I naught, the present^king's uncle and | a son of Queen Victoria, with Gener-1 (al Pershing, with R(idyard Kipling, I ( who, himself, by the way is as plain ^ as an old shoe, and with practically every nerson of national note in Lon-;' !< don, and I have never seen either ( Lord or Lady Astor put on any more . I airs than our hostess this afternoon , assumes even when entertaining so I distinguished a body as the Abbeville I Civic League. There will be a hun! dred or so persons present at the reception. Everybody stands, you are i ;1 , kept moving by some sort of invisi-. ble force and the first thing you know' .you have talked a few moments to : everybody there. When you feel like ! o cmnVo fVia "holr?nr?t7 ic nnon */% itah ! V..W vyw.1 vv/ jrvu, If you are lucky you may -nave the Duchess of most anything to go out with you?being already knighted by ' ; St. Benedict, of course I usually, asked a gentleman, the Duke of( Connaught or Mr. Kipling to join me. Then about ten thirty, you may begin to lose the sustaining qualities of; your boarding house dinner. Grab somebody and stroll leisurely or has-, 1 tily, as your appetite so demands, 1 down the big stairs to the refresh- j ment room and you will find a tablet . inef nr* 1 av*/? nn +1**% ??? j I juob C40 lung tlic 1UU111) aiiu aiuiusi/ as wide, creaking under a multitude' | of plates of sandwiches, cake of all ' kinds, pastries, olives, cheese straws, fruit, ice cream, and a tremendous j bowl of real punch, generally a little more wet than grapejuice or lemon-' ade. There is a bevy of white-capped buxom maids from a West End ca-| terer to hand you the plates you cannot reach. After you have done what you could although you don't notice any decrease in the quantity i of refreshments?those accomodating lassies having replenished each plate as it became empty?you stroll back to the reception room or the balcony and spend another pleasant half orj three quarters of an hour. Pretty soon, some old be-laced, gouty Lady , Somebody will begin to feel the call. nf Morpheus and the reception breaks FRUIT JUICES COME UNDER BAN Washington, Jan. 14.?Prohibition Commissioner Kramer has ruled that fruit juices and ciders come within the dry ban if they contain more than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol. The commissioner's interpretation of the law was set forth today in a memorandum charging prohibition directors and inspectors with the added duty of examining the alcoholic content of such beverages. Officials, in discussing the ruling,' asserted that such a step could not; be taken under war ti/ne prohibition nor was it enforceable under the pro-j hibition laws of. most of the states, i Hitherto, the bureau of internal rev-j cnue was held fast to the policy jfj assessing taxes against fermented j liquors containing more than one-j half of 1 per cent alcohol, but, ac-j tually, the regulations could not be I applied to ciders and fruit juices be-, cause of the technical language of! the law, it was said. Strict enforcement of the regula-j Lion will hold liable dealers in fruit j juices and ciders in which th? alco-j iiolic contents increases eve;: while j in storage. The department J riot intend, however, to guagj all be^or-l :ige< thus produced, officials said,, but a "watchful eye" wo.^tl 11 kept I sn these manufacturers an-1 dealers. Natural fermentation will offer no excuse for evasion of the regulation it was declared. Employment of a force cf 2,500 watchmen to guard 69,00?,0^0 ;;al-| Ions of liquor held in government' bonded warehouses is planned by the internal revenue bureau to no-: iect the liquor against theft, which; is occurring daily, Prohibition Com-j rnissioner Kramer today told the louse appropriations committee. He isked that congress make $2,000,-! 300 available immediately for esta unc guaiu. No plan for the final disposition of :he liquor has been determined on by j ;he bureau, Mr. Kramer told the1 committee. I | AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURC^ \ The Rev. George Andrew Nic!:!es, j assistant pastor to' Dr. W. T. Slonn.j Greenville, S C., will preach in ithe i Presbyterian Church Jan. 18, Sunday! morinig and evening. evening. Mr. Nickles is a cousin of Dr. J. R. \ Nickles and the Hon. J. M. Nickles.; Mrs. Nickles will accompany her| husband. She was, before her mar-' riage, Miss Julia Neville, Clinton, S. j 0., and is a niece of Mr. Wyatt Aiken and a cousin of the J. Allen; Smith family and Amos B. Morse; family. SHERMAN SMIITH DEAD Sherman Smith, the negro who, was shot by Os Rilla near Little | Mountain Church last Sunday, died j Thurday at the Anderson Hospital, j Rilla has not been captured yet. up. In the numerous functions 1 at-j tended in London, I went to only two^ formal ones, one, an Investiture by, the King at Buckingham Palace and, the other the funeral of Nurse Cavell at Westminster Albbey. The English are reserved and hard tc get next to in public places and away from their homes, but truly an TT* ? n?lrv> o vi 'c ItAiioA ic Viic rtoi?+l a nn/1 jiaiiiiiciii o jiuuoc 10 ino taouc9 aiiu once you are his guest in his house all reserve is cast aside and he be-; comes a prince of good fellows. We, Americans, who have been so fortun-( ate as to have fought on the battlefields of France and Belgium along, with the British Tommie, and especi-^ ally those of us who spent months the past spring and summer in England can never forget the whole-' souled hospitality which was given us everywhere bv evervbodv from the royalty to the navy. Our misconception of the Englishman as a monocled, chesty, idiotic-looking, being has been completely destroyed and instead we see only the finest of Anglo-Saxon, democratic almost to an extreme, apreciative, patriotic and honorable comrade, whose friendship we should value above that of any other people.' UNDERWOOD AND J HITCHCOCK TIE I V'i : / -- - cacn xveceive nineteen votes?Moke Smith, of Georgia, Refuses to Vote. Fight is Over Vote of Carter Glass, Who is Not Allowed to Vote?The Caucus Lasted Two Hours. Washington, Jan. 15.?Senate Democrats today deadlocked over the choice of a floor leader to succeed the late Senator Martin. With the vote between Senators Hitchcock and Underwood a tie, the Democratic caucus broke up shortly after noon with no date set for another attempt to elect a leader. The : caucus adjourned subject to call by Senators Hitchcock and Underwood, who, in the meantime, will try to break the deadlock. Refusal of Senator Hoke Smith, Georgia, to vote for either candidate caused the deadlock. ( ^ There were forty-three senators present. With Sentaor Smith refus- 1 ft ing to vote, the Hitchcock and Underwood factions each has twentyone votes. Senators Swanson, JohnCAM Q Anf ll ol.'A+n ow/l C? w? I+-U A jv/ii? uvui/ii is unu LU } ciiiU /111" zona, \yfere absent. The caucus at first voted to permit Carter Glass, the new senator /:|?| from Virginia, to vote but later this action was reversed. ^ Had Mr. Glass been permitted to vote, Senator Underwood would have won by one vote. Senator Glass has ' J not yet taken his seat in tfie senate although his credentials have been presented. The Underwood forces cited precedents for letting Mr. Glass vote, but in the end the caucus refused to allow this. j The caucus lasted two hours and from the first developed into a bit- ( ter fight with Mr. Glass and his r?te & the storm center. TV) pro woro monxr ator Reed described it as one of tke ' bitterest fights he ever saw. How They Voted The roll call: . For Senator Underwood: Ba?khead Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Gerry, Gore, Harris, Harrison, Jone? (New Mexico), McKellar, Pittman, Ransdell, Reed, Shields, Smith (Mary land), Smith (South Carolina), Stanley Walsh (Massachusetts), Williams?9. "Ji For Senator Hitchcock: Ashhurst, Chamberlain, Culberson, Henderson, Kendrick, King, Kirby, Myers, Nugent, Overman, Phelan, Pomerene, Robinson, Sheppard, Simmons, Thomas, Trammel, Walsh (Montana) Walcott?19. Paired: Beckham for Underwood with Swanson for Hitchcock and <Smith (Arizona) for Underwood with Owen for Hitchcock, Underwood and Hitchcok, neither of whom voted. Not voting: Glass, Johnson (South Dakota). f ' Present and not voting: Smith (Georgia). - Ma Away in Florida. Mr. Roy Gilleland was called to Atlanta Monday by the news of the serious illness of his father, whom later in the week he accompanied to Florida in search of health. Mr. Truman Stevens is workincr in the Co-operative store while Mr. Gilleland is away. WVVVVVVWVVVVVV v COTTON MARKET. V V V January 16. V Spot Cotton 40.00 V ... \ V V January 38.03 V V March 36.07 V V Mav 34.34 V v July 32.73 V V October 30.30 V XVVS.VVSVVVVVVV'VV