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- . ' . m '"A * v'j? i 1 $9 Abbeville Press and Banner i ...? Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, January 26, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th YearT ? = . DIRT ROADS ONLY ] FOR THIS COUNTY fc'V; ' ' . j. Senator J. Howard Moore Will Introduce Bill in Senate This Week to | Hold Bond Election in April on Question of $600,000 Issue Good Roads in Abbeville County. | ' ; A bill to be introduced in the sen-i S-V ' i I . ate by Senator J. Howard Moore t proposes to prevent the building in i Abbeville County of any hard sur-| faced road, but provides that $600,-, 000 be spent for dirt roads. The measure provides for the, holding of an election in tins couiuy, April 3 to decide the question ofi r- whether the people of the coiintyi want roads of such character and j also urovides for ^Highway commission, named in the bill, to havej Srir 'I charge of the sale cf the bonds and; the expenditure of the funds. A j i sir.kir.g fund is provided for in the, measure. The members of this coru? ! mission as named in the bill fellow: Supervisor W. A. Stevenson exofficio member, J. Allen Smith, J. S. | Stark, Joseph Hicks, T. 0. Kirkpatrick, S. J. Wakefield, J. C. Ash-! ley, A. Seldon Kennedy,' J. R. Lomax, R. L. Barmore and J. A. Gil-' liam. The members of this commi.--! sion are to receive no compensation, except actual expenses, and are to be bonded in the sum of $10,000. The bonds to be issued are to ! known as Highway Improvement Bonds of Abbeville County; shall be in denominations of SI,000 oach. shall be serial coupon bonds, to run for such terms of years as the com- j ^mission shall deem advisable, but none iess than 80 years or exceeding 40 years; shall bear interest at the rate of not exceeding: five perccnt. f It is proposed in this bili to build the following dirt roads: 1. Abbeville to McCormiek County; line by way of J. A. Gilliam, R. W. j Knox, John McGaw, known as Cal-j houn Mill road. > 2. Gililanvs Gin House to Mc-j Cormick County line by way of ; Lebanon Church, Mrs. Gibert, Dr Sherard place, known as Island Ford Road. 4 3. Fork of road at Hill Place to McCormick County line by way of Dave Wardlaw, Norman Cason to ? , Clatworthy's Cross Heads, known as, * Snake Road. i 4; Abbeville to Greenwood County line at-Cedar Spring House, known; as. Dr. Fressly place, by way of L. A. i Jackson,' Mrs. R. L. Winn, J. F.\ Sutherland, known as Cedar Springs Road. 5. Abbeville to Greenwood County, line either by way of W. A. Steven-j son or Frank McCord. 6. Abbeville to Greenwood County j line by way of J. R. Lomax, George j Mundy, Buzzard Roost, known as I Hodges Road. 7. Abbeville to Grertwood Coun-j ty line by way of R. H. and J. A.; Stevenson, Richardson place, W. L. , Cason place, A. F. Calvert place, i known as Douglass Mill Road. S. Abbeville to Due West, by way of R. B. Ferguson, Long Cane Church, W. J. Milford, Buck Stand, I Ellis Brother.-, known as Dpe West, jr Road. 9. W. L. Dawson to Douglass Mill Road by way of Pierce Bowen, T. W. McCord and W. W. L. Kellar. 10. Due West to Donal'.b by wvy of James Todd niace. 11. Donalds to Anderson County line, parallel with Southern Railroad. 12. Donalds to Greenwood County line by way of John Dunn and William Singleton. 13. Donalds to Greenwood Coun ? txr n 1 l_ l ?? ty line near vvare onouis uy way ui R. L. Barmore. Razor place, James Vork place. 14. Maddox place to Anderson j County line at J. A. Black place by by way of Watt Johnson's place, James Williams and Rev. R. W. j Burts. 1">. Due West to Anderson County, line near Honea Path by way of Jan. j Pruitt, The Hook, Ashley Store. J. P.j| [ Pruitt and J. A. Brock and the Kay) Kiv.\-.-x ? IS OPPOSBD TO HIGH AWARDS OF MEN WHO LOST SHIPS Washington, Jan. 23.?Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, chairman of the Naval Decorations board, too!c sharp issue tpday with Secretary Daniels on the matter ox navai awards. Testifying before the senate investigating committee, Admiral Knight said the board could not agree that officers who lost their ship through enemy action were entitled to high decorations unless they had engaged the enemy. Admiral Knight said the cases of officers who lost their vessels through submarine attacks were not comparable with those of Lawrence and Perry as Mr. Daniel said in his recent letter to Chairman Page, of the senate naval committee. Lawrence's name was immortal, the witness declared, because of the spirit he showed during the engagement with the enemy, while Perry's name will ever live in history because of the skill and daring he showed i:n transferring hjs flag from his linking f:::gship to the Niagara and then leading ijis almost defeated fleet to victory. Admiral Knight declared that Secretary Daniels placed ^'much emphasis" on cases where commanders lost their ships in contact with thf> enemy. "The board is unable to accept the view that mere contact with the enemy constituted in itself a claim to recognition even when 'followed by meritorious sei-vice, unless such service is in some measure connected with operations, offensive or defensive, directed against the enemy." Admiral Knight stated. place. I lo. W. J. Milford to Anderson Ccuniy line by way of Cold Spring Sehcoi Koine, Ii. W. Crawford, Pratt place, Bryant's Cross Roads, Robinson Brothers, known is Fair r.vl'gc Herd. 17. Abbeville to Anderson County line at L. 0. Robinson place, by way of Martin's Mill, Crawford's Store, T? A LTnofnn A nfvmrillo 1 _T A xv. r\. i.vtatv/11, tiiinvwuvj w. **. Anderson, known as Antreville rnd Trail .Roads. 18. Crawford's Store to Lowndesville by way of J. H. Hill, J. W. Bradbery, Bel's Chapel, Midway Church, Campbell's School House, Foster Wright place and Frank's place. 18. Lowndesvile to McCaJla Ferry by way of W. H. Hardin, S. S. Boles, John McCalla. < 20. Frank's place to Calhoun Falls. 21. Abbevile to Calhoun Falls by way of County Farm, Wardlaw's Bridge, J. F. Clinkscales, Smith Cross Roads, Glowing Springs. 22. Calhoun Falls to McCormicl: County line by way of Hester's Store. 2?. From forks of road near J. F. Clinkscales to Martin's Store by way of J. M. Bell. Cunningham place. 24. Shaw place to Irwin's Mill, by way of R. A. Coleman. 25. From forks of road near Mrs. T. B. Eakin to Anderson /County line by way of F. K. Ashley's shop and Zarline Bridge. The roads to be built are to follow as near as possible the existing routes, but if necessary the commission will have power to condemn lands for the relocation of roads. The t ill provides that thr? roads rhall rot cost more thnn an average of So,000 nor mile: that ^o cement or like surfacing shall be used; that roads are to be properly graded, properly drained and properly topsoiled. , To build the roads the measure provides for the employment of a competent engineer and assistant?; that all of the road bo b'.iilt by extract, let to the lowest bidder and that the work shall proceed as far as possible simultaneously in the different portions of the county. Senator Moore was in town today, and says that he will introduce the roads bill in the senate this week and will seek to obtain its passage at the earliest possible date. CARRYING OUT OF TREATY E OF LONDON IN CASE OF ITALY MAY BE ASKED ! Paris, Jan. 22.?Italy will demand of France and England the carrying p - - ' - ' -L1-- i. i... --C T awJam 1. out oi uie i<ructi-y ui uunuvn vmy n | when all other means of settling the f I Adriatic question have been tried and c found futile, according to a state-,jment made by Premier Nitti to a rep- 1 resentative of the Echo de Paris. The t ! correspondent accompanied the Ital-'s J ian premier from this city to Nice t j and was told by Signor Nitti that his trip to Rome was brought about sole- t ly by the railroad strike in Italy. c "The reply of the Jugo-Slav gov- * , c ! ernment to the note of the supreme K council relative to #onflicting claims * ! on the eastern shores of the Adriatic b i does not satisfy us," the premier is ' quoted as saying, "but we have gone N . , . I \ ] 1>U fCUC CAlri tiilt 1JUUV 1*1 WW.. . j cessions. The world should realize | that f()r the sake of Fiume we re- ^ " j i , nounce Dalmatia, which was given j tc us by the pact^of London. We 1 hope that after a few days further re-( I flection the Jugo-Slavs will send an ( j acceptable answer. This new people 1 ! is in the course of formation and the j exaggerated impulsiveness, character: istic of youth, is naturally present, . | but we are anxious to consider the j I Jugo-Slavs friends. They and we . i'occupy the greater part of the Adria tic coast and have mutual interests.; jT wish to facilitate these relations.' i We will find an agreement. It must ! ho fminrl Wp will rlemand execution i of the London pact only at the last 1 i extremity." '! ! MRS. LOUISE REIb WILKES. i 1 i I Mrs. Louise Reirl Wilkes, wife of IR. C. Wilkes, died this (Monday) j morning, at 4 o'clock, at the family { residence, Wardlaw Street, after an ! illness of onlv a few days. Mrs. I > Wilkes had been in bad health for , some time and recently contracted in- . ! f.uenza, which was the immediate ;^ause of her death. ' f ! Mrs. Wilkes is a native of Abbe- t c i ville county and is the daughter of : I T. H. Reid. She was married to R.' J C. Wilkes in 1914 and is survived by j her husband, her father, T H. Reid; J one brother, Hoyt Reid, and one sis; ter, Miss Maggie Reid. j Both Mr. Wilkes and Miss Maggie arp c.ir*inn?:lv ill with influenza ! ar the Wilkes home. j< The funei'al will be held at the i , J Baptist Church Tuesday morning at j } 11 o'clock, the Rev. Louis J. Bristow . 'officiating. Interment will follow in'] Long Cane cemetery. 1 : . H Winning the Fight Again. :] Lieut. Bailey was in Abbeville last Friday and spent the night with' his ; friend, W. D. Wilkinson. Lieut'. Bailey < was one of the lighters rn the Thirtieth Division, being Acting Captain ( of 118th Machine Gun Company ,< wh^n the Hindenburg Liife was bro- ? ken. Friday night Licuts. Bailey, i Wilkinson and Neuffer talked over the old times, broke the line again, < i cleaned up the Germans generally i I and won the war in spite of congress, '3 i after which they were still fresh 1 j enough to call one some of our pretty 1 i girls. Lieut. Bailey is a traveling 5 i man now and since Friday night he is < i seriously considering making Abbe- 1 ! ville his headquarters. 1 Going to Florida. 1 I t Mrs. Fred Cason and Mrs. J. M. Wilkinson will leave Friday for Jack sonville, Fla., where thev will spend ! t ; some time with Mrs. Boyd, a sister of : TUv ,,,511 err, Vn St lUld. *f i/MIiaua, X IICJ ***** ^vr vvr ^V. Augustine on a sight-seeing trip and though they do not hope to find the Fountain of perpetual youth, they i ! expect to renew theii youth in many t j ways while on their trip. j i c To See His Friend. ' (\ Dr. James Austin received the a news Sunday of the serious illness of f his friend, Dr. Crossland of Bennetts- t ville, at a Columbia Hospital and left v 'at onae for his:bedside. t >RASTiC CLAUSES IN SEDITION BILLS TO BE MODIFIED j Washington, Jan. 25.?Return of j lending anti-sedition bills to the 11 louse judiciary committee for modi-; ication of orovisions attacked as too:' Irastic was indicated tonight as the j >robable action of the rules com-1 nittee, which closed its hearinej onight i;: the application for a pecial rule to expedite pa:sage of! his legislation. The rules committee is expected j o make its decision next week, but lommittce members said the protest! ;hat had arisen against both the! sterling senate bill anu the Graham; louse measure made it appear neceslary that they should be modified iither by the judiciary committee vhich framed the house measure or* ipon the floor of the house. Three witnesses were heard today, fackson II. Ralston, counsel for the! American Federation of Labor anuj ,iic iSational Popular Government' nnnnsiiKr iVif> hills nilfl I | :harging Attorney General Palmer; md the department of justice agents i ,vith violations of constitutional ; ights in connection with some! )hases of the campaign against rad-j cals; while Representatives Bir.n-j ;on, Democrat, Texas, and Davey, Democrat, Ohio, uiged cnactm:.'.:. | Gorv.pevs Attacked. Mr. Blanton declared congress: nu? ' .iciuelch anarchy" and at-i ;acked Samuel Gompers president oi i he A. F. of L., and the labor t-c-} )artment, which ho said was "honey-j :ombed with anarchy." If the se.!:-| lion law failed, ho sai l, co.ij;rj. j .vould "bear the mark of having j jowed to Gompers." r Ir. Ralston sought to dis-joss f;c-' ivities of the departni'.-n' of justice I irid asserted rfour men had been ar-j ">^teti and detained r> w??ek without! warrant in connection with the j jomb explosion at Attorney General j Palmer's home last May. i "The attorney general has violated j he constitution," Mr. Ralston sa'hi idding, when questioned, that "his! uibordinates have done, so and the j lttorncy general has had every op- j lortunity to know they did it." Death cf Mrs. Sarah Hercphil'. j The VVn'a Journal of Thursday! ! varied the news cf t*-? death Thurs-! iay morning: at her home in Athens j Df Mrs. Sarah Ann lempHill., Mrs. i MemphiH w^s a woman distinguished! n many ways. She had reached the!' ige of one hundred and two and a half years, her birthday beinp celo-? brated in August. She was thoj mother of ten children, six of whom: have preceded her to the grave, h:*r husband died over forty years ago. She is survived by one son, Col. Robert A. Hemphill, of Atlanta, now' seventy-two years old. Mrs. Hemphill is the last mother! 3f a confederate soldier in Georgia *nd on January 12th she was pre-' sented with a handsome gold pin by i :he Southern Memorial Cociety. She /lftvnnf mr?mVinv of tVlP Mctho "-1 n ?- -- ? ? '.ist Church for eighty year?, anr1 ibout seven years ago, during v a neeting of the North Georgia Conference in Athens she was invited by Bishops Wilson and kilgore to preside over their deliberations during )ne session, which she did with ease ind composure. Mrs. Hemphill was of Virginia oarentage, though she was born and ived all her life in Georgia, with ler passing a link between tne oiu md the new South is broken. She* vas a woman of fine intellect and ook a keen interest in the affairs of . he world to the day of her death. At the Baptist Church Something is always happenin.'r ut 1 he Baptist Church, if nolhir.;: elso-( han a collection. Lost Sunday it wa.1 t male quprte-tc-. in which Mr. 1 Sanders, Sheriff Burts, Chick Gallo-'^ vav and Mr. Williamson did some ' i, rery fine sinking-. They too!: as their,election, "I have wandered far] rom the fold of God" which made 1 he bati men ir. the congregation.1 vonder if the sin.ere rs 'intended to alk about themselves. i WE MUST PRODUCE MORE OR COi'iJuiviL. LESS TO PROSPER Washington, Jan. 23.?American capital will be employed in aiding Europe to' "get back to productive work." not: hprsnsp r>f "nt.t.rncfivp rates of interest," but to restore normal conditions and to open markets for American export, Governor W. P.: G. Harding, of the federal reserve board, said today, spea"king before the second Pan-American financial rongress. "We cannot, however, export things which we do not have," Governor Harding said, "and in order to provide an exportable surplus we must produce more, or, failing that, consume less. During the past year we havje witnessed an unprecedented era of extravagance in this country; there has been a continuous rise in prices, and while the value of oujr products expressed in dollars has been greater than ever before in history, the physical volume of goods produced was less than the production of any year since 191G. Our domestic demand has been comnetine' with exnort. He mands and the result has been that prices have been bid upon both by the foreign and domestic consumers. "Our people must be aroused to consciousness that we have been living since the close of the war in a fools paradise and that more\ work, economy and liberal investment in foreign securities are necessary if we rvc to make our present apparent prosperity real and permanent. It is important that the world should get br.ck to work, and in order to provide steady employment for the people of our own country, even, it is necessary that there slipuld be a sustained der.i. n.i for products and in order to maintain* this steady demand, it is ne lv suyyijr maineis nuroau from our surplus production." American bankers were studying the situation from a new angle toward world finance he said, and undertaking engagements they would not have embarked on a few years :.go. American manufacturers were expending long credits, he added, but could not do so indefinitely with unpressure on the credit with American banks and to assure this essential long credit to European buy "appeal must be made to American investors." Governor Harding called attention to the new "Edge act" providing machinery for financing these undertakings, which, he said, gave exporters, producers, manufacturers and American investors the means of co-operaition to solve the problem before *:hem. "The basis of world commerce is an exchange of goods," Governor cnirl nninfinff nnf fViof A*v>_ .0 w~.~y VW*U VUWK ail! orican loans must be on terms to permit the borrowers to repay in products. "European nations can produce many things which we either do not nroduce at all or cannot produce as cheaply as they can," he continued, or it may be they can produce things needed in South American countries or in the far east. As American importers h^e constant dealings with South American and oriental countries, it follows that European credits available in China and Japan, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and other Latin American nations will be just as effective in liquidating European j'oligations in the United States as irect European credits in New York would be.'' ;n'AVPAY INCREASE B.LL PASSED BY HOUSE! Washington, Jan. 'J-'!.?7h<> hou v oday passed the bill pfrantincc ii'-j ureases of 30 to *>0 per cent to en-: istcd men of the navy. No offer .vas made to include in.-rease pay. For officers in the bill, although J .he naval committee will consider i his feature later. The enlisted men's increases are, nade retroactive to January 1 and n lrlrHHnn ;i r>f frim* >'' 'I 'pay is "riven for vo-rniistmcnts." i rhe vote was 311 to 10. L^IIS C S ' Washington, D. C^, Expected to Be First City Ready?Weathe1" Conditions Have Delayed Censuj in Many Places?Enumeration Reported Fiiii^Vied in * Mr.ny Cities. V.'.t vvasiungton, Jan. 26.?Announcement of the population of practically all cities of the country by May or June and the total population ef the entire country in September or > f\ October is the expectation of the / :"3 director of the census, Sam. L. % Rogers. Population statistics of some ?f the cities probably will be completed by March or earlier. Washington, 1"). C., is expected to be the first, as it was in the thirteenth census, in 1910. In that year it was taken April 1$. and announced June 24," Rhode Island's nonulation in 1910 was announced first of the states on July 21. New York City's population was announced September 2, Boston's. September 14, and Chicago's, September 18. >? V . 7 The center of population, Bloomington, Ind., was announced July 17, and the country's total popuia"tion was made public Dcctr.tb v 10. "The enumeration is in pro^-oss tmoughou't the entire country," said Mr. Rogers today. "Advices from 'J the supervisors indicate that during the first week of the work at least 70,000 enumerators were started. m "We find that in some districts it will be necessary to postpone the t enumeration because of weather conditions. There has been no onposition to furnishing the informa -a tton requested by the enumerators. "The supervisors report the completion of the enumeration in many districts, and as rapidly as the enumerators turn in their portfolios they are being examined in the office of supervisor and are bein^ >u". in -happ to come to \7ashington. The supervisors have been instructed to send the schedules as rapidly a? consignments can be made ready. We therefore natural- v, ly expect a large amount of the work Vi to reach the office in Washington during the latter part of this month or the first of February, but ax a general rule the enumeration will be completed throughout the entire country by the first of February. It will be some time, however, before it will be finished in the districts '-5; whore it. has been nostnonpd on account of climatic conditions. Abbeville Men. Spartanburg is putting up a lire campaign for members for their Chamber of Commerce. Everybody taking part in the drive is a "Genern Major or a Captain. General Frank McGee is assisted by Captain L. W. Peavin, wkile \ Mai or 0. B. Fretwell did a pood 'share. ^ Captain Perrin was born in Abbeville, Gen. McGee pot his training here, while Major.* Fretwell has nr.*:oi' '!*roug:h rcm^icr.ally and learned a lot in passing1 and lie has a sister living here which entitles him to tlHinction. The Weather oundav tool: fro nri?c as a disa* , greeable day. There was a steady rain most of the day, v.liic'j rras blown about by a strong cn' ' wind. The streets are in a bad fix on account of the street paving and this with the rain is causing many a good man to lose his religion and indulge in a fine line of profanity. WVVVVVVVWVV.VVNA v. COTTON MARKET. V V January 26. V V March .'>(3.18 V V Snot Cotton .. .. 10.00 V k.. May 34.26 V S. July 32.30 V October *29.87 V ? ' &