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7|S I'.. \ ' . ' - ' ' "v'-i Abbeville Press and Banner 1 . , . ^ 1 Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, February 6, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. {M - WILSON GIVEN CREDIT FOR PLAN Originated Plan For Bottling Up Submarines? Laid His Plan ^Before Naval Staff?Record of Congress Attacked By Daniels. New York, Feb. 5.?President Wilson was given credit here tonight by Secretary Daniels, speaking at the Democratic club dinner to Honier S. Cummings. national chairman, for having seen the necessity of shutting German submarines off the seas as the only effective method of combattling them before naval staffs "on either side of the water" moved to that end. "You must shut up the hornets in their nest/' the president was quoted i! i by Mr. Daniels as having said in a quarterdeck speech to officers of the * battleship Pennsylvania, early in the war, for you never can end the sub~ i-P faii+ onrl lilciiillC IX JVU VUVIt* VUV M?4M ! ' then have to devote yourselves to chasing them all over the ocean. "The barrage finally built across the North Sea," Mr. Daniels said, was the American navy's answer to the president's counsel. It was proposed by Admiral Earle (chief of ordnance) in April 1917, . approved by Admiral Benson and Admiral Mayo, by the general board, by the secretary of the navy and by the president. It was the greatest new constructive naval measure of effectiveness in the whole war. It was ft; a factor both in destroying the morale' of the German navy and in its deadly destruction of sub I Record of Congress. President Wilson had also pointed ut before' naval staffs had reached that conclusion, Mr. Daniels said, "that tho onl/ way to most surely ' ' safeguard merchant ships was to send in convoys protected by armed \V ships." The secretary attacked the record of congress since 1918 when "dishpnest appeal to hyphenated politics enabled the Republicans to elect a majority of this congress"- and declared r the people had "already found they ' a gold brick." That record, he characterized as certain to defeat the Republican, party next November -t ir ic flint tVio Howinpvfltc! wi'.l have the wisdom to go forward] : ' a : I nominate a groat leauoi" v. iij Is; himself a platform of constructive legislation." ?.Ir. Daniels said he believed that a . league of nations such as that pro-! posed in the treaty would enable the world to maintain peace without ccrtro'fMvc ?-rval building but that Without such a league, American duly was "as plain as pikestaff." He quoted President Wilson"s statement, in 1916 that the navy should be "incomparably the most adequate nary in th-? wr xid," and added that none ' ?f the present American building program would be delayed or abandoned. New County Demonstrator. $;>' Miss Ruth Crowther, Antreville, has been appointed County Demonstrator for Abbeville County, and will assume her duties at once. Miss Crowther has (been teaching school for a number of years in Anderson ? County. She succeeds Miss^Msry Lou Bowie, who recently resigned. / Miss Lois Watkins, district demonstrator, Anderson, is in Abbeville and is instructing Miss Crowther in her new work. * COTTON MARKET V V X V February 6. V V Spot Cotton 40.00 V V V V March 34.70 V V May 32.89 K V July 30.40 V V October 28.45 V V December 27.85 V (PRESIDENT WILSON NOT CONSULTED ON LORD GREY LETTER Washington, Feb. 5.?President ; Wilson resents British interference i in the domestic affairs of the United States and while in the interest of igood relations and the passage of the treaty no formal incident has as yet been made of Lord Grey's letter, j there is no question of the displeasiure of the incumbent of the White House. I In these columns on Tuesday it 'was pointed out that while the letter of Lord Grey had pleased the Republican leaders, it had offended the! [true friends of President Wilson and I 'strengthened the band of "irrecon-J cilables" in the senate who were thankful for the phrase, "a tamge1 into thg"unknown," contributed by! i , the distinguished Britisn envoy as a.\ j comment on the League of Nations, j But it was not evident until two | days more passed , that the suspicion of White House resentment against 'the Grey letter was well founded. The confimation came in one of I these subtle ways, which President | Wilson has of expressing his thoughts iby implication. The president's secretary permitted the correspondents to quote his answer to a question they had asked him concerning a rej # I .port that the president had been con-( suited by Lord tirey Detore puuusn-i |ing his famous letter in the London Times commenting on the conflict between executive and legislative branches of our government. Thei answer was an emphatic statement; that the president had not been con-! suited. Ways to Reach President j To the criticisi^ that President i Wilson was inaccessible and could. !not be seen by Lord Grey, it was! | moreover officially stated that mat-| ters of this kind could be put in writing and that it was customary for; diplomats to communicate by writ-1 ten rather than by oral correspond-i ence. In fact ambassadors or mini-! sters rarely see the president and do | most of their business by informal j note or memorandum. There were I plenty of ways by which Lord Greyj 'mify-t have reached the president, j and moreover the secretary of state i was ready at all times to talk with; the British envoy and did, in fact,! receive him and communicate in J writing to President Wilson exactly! what Lord Grey said on each occasion. But the point of the White House I pronouncement seems to be that a British ambassador to the United States, who still holds that rank soi far as the United States is officially i advised, but who is absent from his post, has expressed hirrself quite fully on American domestic affairs at a moment of intense feeling between rival political branches of the ! A I American government. Lord Grey is at home and prob-| ably has not intended to return to j j the United States anyway, so there i j is no question that he felt hir";r!f | 'about to be relieved of official! duties and free to speak. ; R. M. MIXON TO DISCUSS COTTON SITUATION! i I R. M. Mixon, president of the j I South Carolina Cotton Association, I mill 4-1, ? -C J 1 : I j w ixa ouuiom tuc laruicis anu uuaurrss. men of Abbeville County Tuesday' 1 morning at 11:30 o'clock in the Court I 1 House, the subject of his address be-! j ing the purposes and hopes of the j ' American Cotton Association. - Mr. j j Mixon is conducting a campaign of( 1 education throughout the state andj he has met with a cordial and inter-1 ' ested reception wherever he has spo-j | ken. The farmers and business men; j of the county are urged to attend the| 1 meeting Tuesday. ( Home Again. Mrs. J. F. Bradley and Mrs. J. C. ^Klugh returned Wednesday from aj I delightful stay of two weeks in Tarn-' pa, Fla., with Rev. and Mrs. Henry Pressly. They saw all the sights in {the land of flowers and Mrs. Bradley ( brought her young son, Willie, an alligator which is giving the young man jand his friends much pleasure. i RAIL BILL WITHOUT ANTI-STRIKE CLAUSE IS BELIEVED LIKELY Washington, Feb. 4.?Agreement jon railroad legislation will be reachled at an early date by house and senate conferees on the Esch and Cum|mins bills. : 1 ' Two points remained unsettled when the discussions were resumed today. One was whether; the law shall prescribe the rate deemed adequate to insure railroad , owners a certain definite financial return when the lines are handed back to them or whether the interstate comImerce commission shall be allowed [to fix the rate. The other was [whether the law shall set up a labor |tribunal to adjust strikes and other disputes between workers and management. Forecast of Measure In general, conferees said today, the measure that come from conconference will recognize long-established theories of railroad legislation, rather than new ideas. It will make the function of the ' interstate commerce commission ,more important than at present. Because of the added responsibility and work which the measure will give the commission, an increase in membership from nine to eleven is to be provided for. The commission is to have general supervision of the reorganization contemplated after the return of the roads. Under the Cummins bill's provisions for a transportation board there was a certain rigidity about the reorganization plan. Under the j conference agreement, the reorgani-j zation plan is elastic, and the ele-j ment of compulsion is absent. Con-j solidation of railroads, for instance,, is to be worked out by the commission, which may decide "on a larre j number of systems or a very small ' number, according to its view of the conditions. In large measure the# conference j agreement, as it stands, is a Victory for the house. The Cummins bill,! / containing many radical departures I from tradition with regard. to rr.il-! road legislations, prevailed in only a; few instances. One of these was the j provision for a division of excess returns. THE FLU SITUATION ' SHOWS IMPROVEMENT IN LATEST REPORT The latest reports on the flu situa-j tlon in Abbeville shows improvement., There were only sixteen new cases Thursday and mopt of these were very mild. Many whoohave been in bed for the past ten days are up and those who are still confined with the 'isease are getting better. The physicians say that there are very few serious cases. A total of 140 cases have been reported to City Clerk Perrin, who in turn has reported the cases to the State Board of Health. It is possible that the quarantine will be lifted Monday, thus allowing: the schools to open, the theatre to resume business and services to be held in the churches. I j Playground Equipment Arrives. | A large portion of the playground equipment ordered by the ParentTeacher association for the city senooi grounas nas arnvea ana is Deirg hauled from the depots. Just so soon as the ground dries up sufficient-1 ly this equipment will be set up. j In Greenwood. j The political pot is beginning to .boil in Greenwood and candidates are coming to the front along with the | ground hog, the spring flowers and the birds. Sam Hodges Sherard has U i ?M R ^ C% CI Q AO T%/I 1/) Q fA uiiiiuuuucu mmocii ao a vauuiuaw ava the State Senate from that county, j Mr. Ralph Syfan Home. Ralph Syfan, who has been at-i tanding business college in Greenville hus returned to Abbeville because the flu situation in Greenville has forced the closing of>the school. I .. > ..Vv . ^ williams makes a new ruling on 4 liberty bonds | Washington, Feb. 6.?National banks will be permitted to carry Liberty bonds in their lists of assets at the price at which they purchased them and not at the prevailing market quotations, under a ruling today by John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency. Mr. Williams j explained, however, that the ruling! , I J was "for the present", and might notj J be permanent. Mr. William*.' ruling was contained in ins: iKtu'ns to Natiora' A'inki Ev.am.ntvs. It was explained thaf if a bank had purchased a $100 bond at 97 and subsequently the market quotation for that issue was $95 the bank would not have to absorb the less in listing its assets. No Cause for Anxiety Says Williams. "There is no cause for anxiety b?-| cause of the recent decline in the market of Liberty Bonds," Mr. Wil-' liams said. "The fall in price is no' rcflectiofi upon their intrinsic value and desirability, but the lower quo-; tations offer investors an extraordi^ nary opportunity to obtain the best security in the world at very attrac-'( tive prices." , The comptroller added that the! income of the American people was J in excess of ordinary living expenses and that as a result a surplus in-| come had been accumulated. He said j that with an estimated annual in-' /iavmA cin nnn aaa nnn 4-v?? Am_ I LU111C UX ?piU,VUVjVVV,VUV bllC rtiHCii" J ' can people soon would absorb all i available national securities with the i result that higher prices for them * f j would prevail. ;! | ' . ; : ; ROCK HILL CASES !l OVERESTIMATED r.ock Hill, Feb. 5.?J. R. Miller, i chairman of the city board of health, i said today that there were not more 1 than 150 cases of influenza in Rock 1 Hill at the present time and that the total of cases since the epidemic- began would not exceed 600. : < The city was very much disturbed t over the report from Asheville, N. ,C. > that Rock Hill was calling for "nurses ( fVftXA nrflVA 1 /i HH flOPnc V? orfl j 4 tcvauoc biicic ncic Xjivv uuovo - i There was a request for Asheville to < let Rock Hill haVe some nurses, but i ti e communication did not say that Rock I.'ill had 1,400 cases of the malady. The request was made on Asheville because there was a scarcity of j nurses here, outside the hospital, and i it was thought that aid might be se- < cured from the government hospital J in Asheville. < i: Schools and theatres are closed and public meetings are not allowed. It is believed that the epidemic has < eached its crest here. ' i NEWBERRY FORCES HAD MUCH MONEY > J Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 5.?Dol-i, lars formed the main topic of the; Newberry election conspiracy trial j today. Beginnig with the testimony f of Allan K. Moore, a defendant who . pleaded "no contest" and continuing right up to adjournment, the test:- , mony related to money said to have been expended, received or deposited; and checked against and to cash' i kept in deposit vaults in Detroit, or . nanaea out in tne urana napias 01-j fices from which the western Michi-!. gan campaign was directed. Bank officials were on the stand toj identify deposit slips, ledger entries! ( and voucher checks and guardians of j, * the master key of Detroit safety de-' y posit vault told of visits to that in- j ^ stitution by certain defendants. it Appointed Delegate. ! : ! i Governor Cooper has appointed R. , L. Barmore of Donalds, a delegate to the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Association which meets in* Asheville Feby. 26th and 27th. ' li; I New Barber Shop. jl W. H. Rivers arrived here this:v week from Honea Path to open up barber shop in the Eureka Hotel. At v present he is the only one in charge i: of the shop, but he expects an as- I sistant in the next few days. b ' .. ... . . r - GERMANS REFUSE DEMANDS OF ALLIES TO SURRENDER MEf Berlin, Feb. 5.?Surrender of the men demanded by the allies is impos sible, the Associated Press was in rnrmo/l Kv o toawKa* n-f LViwi^u WJ u iUtUiUCi VI l/UC gvvciu ment^at the conclusion of tonight'i cabinet session. The cabinet meeting which laste< several hours, was attended by Math ias Erzberger, the vice premier am minister of finance, ?whose appear ance was his first at a meeting of th< ministry since he was shot in th< Moulder in an attempt to assassinat* him. Rumors that a crisis was impending in the government are declared bj the L?kal Anzieger to be groundless The cabinet members are in completi agreement on Germany's policy, th< newspaper avers. It is learned that in addition t< the names previously given the extra dition list includes the names o: Frederick von Ongonohl, Djema Pasha, former Turkish minister o: war, Ruppert von Gipper and Admir al von Schroeder, former commanded of the naval corps. These men wer< lemanded unanimously. The list as reaching Berlin contains about 90( names. Fully 80 per cent, of th< men are unknown even to the genera public of Germany. Faulty transmission resulted ir gross misspellings and the omission oJ initials and other marks of identifiea tion to indicate the respective* per sons meant, while names like Muellei and Schmidt recur a score of times. France and Belgium each demanc surrender of 334 men. Poland 57, Rumania 41, Serbia 4, Italy 25 and Eng. land 96. The appearance of the name oi .ounc von Bernstorff, -former German ambassador to the United States I is accounted for here by his connection with Bold Pasha, executed in Tr'ance in 1918 as a traitor. Berlin, Feb. 5. (Havas).?The German government disapproves ol ;he attitude of Baron Kurt von Lersier in his. refusal to transmit the .list >f Germans demanded for extradition :o his government, it was declared tolay by Foreign Minister Mueller to VI. de Marcilly, the French charge I'alTaires here. Paris, Feb. 5 (Havas.?The official :st of the Germans demanded for ex;radition was sent to Berlin by a . curier of the ministry of foreign afLirs, who left yesterday for the Ger.nn capital. London, Feb. 5.?The German chancellor, Gustav Bauer, in a statement to the press, said, according tc a Berlin wireless message here: "Our standpoint was explained ir ihe note of January 25, and we :gain emphasize it. Thus we shall slrictly avoid any provocation. "For this reason tfce government regrets that Baron von Lersner reused to forward the entente note. In \ny such action the interests of the .vhole nation must be decisive, and lot the honor of a single individual." TUo nomnan nnt.p nf .Tanuarv 2F. jogged the allies to renounce execu;ion of Aritcle 228 of the peace treatj equiring the surrender of persons lccused of acts in violation of the aw's and customs of war. The note affirmed that the execu;ion of Article 228 would infallibly ?ause political and economic troubles, -vhich would have a'serious effect on ;he production of the nation. T,he German government proposed ;hat the trial of such persons be held n Germany with the participation of illied representatives. To Report Flu Cuei in County. Sheriff R. M. Burts has received nefninfiAno +Vio Cfofn Rftor/1 nf HO 1/1. Uvllvilo it VIII bliv UUCtV/^ A-rVM&VA V* lealth to report all case of influenza vliich occur in this county. This data irill be obtained from the physicians vho practice in the county, compiled n the sheriff's office and sent to the Joard of Health's offices in Columlia. s.'u". ? , DEMOCRATS MAY j :i INJECT PROHIBITION -i . . . I Dinner Given in Honor of Chairman 3 i . tfi i of National Committee?Governor i \ ' Edwards Injects Wet and Dry Is- \ t sue in Speech. '3j I New York, Feb. 5.?Prohibition - and the Sims-Daiiiei controversy > were injected tonight into the testi2 monial dinner jjiven here to Homer 2 S. Cummings, chairman of the Demo- ^ cratic national committee, at which , Secretary Danieis was the principal j speaker. One thousand invitations had been issued to the banquet which s was atended by prominent Demo'crats from all parts of the country. The prohibition issue was brought jinto the proceedings by Governor ' Edwards, of New Jersey and Got- ^ ' "'ernor Smith of New York and was i greeted" with obviously mingled feellings by the diners. Governor Edi wards was not on the official list of "[speakers and was called upon unexpectedly after Secretary Daniels had concluded his address. Earlier in JI the evening the New Jersey executive had been given a striking ova5; tion when he entered the dining * hall and there was an even greater 'demonstration when he arose to speak. . i Governor Edwards declared that ft ' great issue had emerged from the " past "the issue of state rights a?d " r personal liberty." He asserted that this issue must be decided by the I people next November. \ "If the federal government," he continued, "may avert the doctrines of state rights and, without a coraf mission or mandate from the peo pie, enter upon oui firesides and in ' to our homes with the bureaucratic system of officeholders end evert lordship, the theory of our constitutional government and all the rights incident to home rule and local state i government are destroyed. Under ! such a system the ir.Jcs'ructible union of destructible states become ; a myth and we have the necessary . alternative of a. great^ super-power at Washington, imposing its will upi cn us'in the direction of our habits, s our manners, our tastes and our ocal customs, until" nothing is left of the independent state of/ our 1 fathers but the name. Means to Fight. "To me this situation is a political sacrilege and I purpose to carry the ' ight to San Francisco, regardless of "what any man or set of men may personally think so as to bring 1 about a popular restatement of the "idoctrine of state rights and popular local home rule upon which our fathers founded this government." 1 Governor Smith's contribution to the prohibition issue was contained ' in a telegram expressing his regret that illness prevented his being pre' sent. In his telegram Governor ( Smith said: ' "Do not forget the time honored Democratic doctrine that the govern' merit is most effective which governs t ' the least. This precept of Democratic faith in the recent past has be?n i rr-riovrtucl'u nnH urilfiillv p.inned 6*1V?VUU.J ? against when, in the name of demo' cracy, there was imposed upon 10?,? 000,000 free people, without asking their direct consent, a restriction to their personal liberty which Prussia in her palmiest days ever dreamed 'of." DEPUTY COLLECTORS HERE TO ASSIST ANY FIGURE OUT TAXES I; Jos. H. Hunter and T. N. Parks, Newberry, deputy United States collectors arrived in Abbeville today and have opened up offices upstairs 'in the Court House to assist any who | desire help to make out their in jcome taxes. They will be here until Tuesday afternoon. j Messrs. Hunter and Parks hare received instructions to assist only in making out of personal incomes. They will return at a later date to assist in making out corporation taxes.