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Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, February 27, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. fl rails EQUIP I HOSPITAL ROOM Order For Equipment Placed 1 Donors to Abbeville County Me mo rial Hospital?Building Nearing Completion?Names of ^" rAfitmknfinff The Abbeville County Memori Hospital is nearing completion. T1 rough work of remodeling the buil ing to adapt it to hospital purpos !; is practically complete. Only tl plastering, the laying of floors, ai ri >*t?. pother finishing wflc is necessary make the hospital ready for use. A visit to the building some brig v > afternoon will be well worth tl trouble. Such a visit will repay tho who are already interested?materij ly and otherwise?and will give oi sense of almost astonished gratific tion. You will exclaim, "why I had i idea that Abbeville was going to ha' such a fine hospital. It is going to 1 W . . no nnmrnniont an/3 llTV-t"llfO ?S HI CftO WVUWAMVUV UMU vw -1"wv ? city hospital. And, you kno\y, I nev liked this location before, but now don't believe a better location cou be found."You'll say just that ai 7 . more. The period of building a hospit in Abbeville can be matched by tl experience of ' nearly every oth town. First, there is enthusiasm ft] a general concurrence in the fact need. Then there is a dampening ardor when realization is arrived that hospitals take money and th L -+Wa mAnAtr fVino nvnon^rl nrnmio r? . ; ,WUb AAavAJVrjr vuuu WA^/viiuvu I'iviittu no immediate material returns; ai the hope is thaf; a hospital will nev "be necessary for the individual. | * . ' Things rock along against incipie and actual opposition and only a fe give support, gaining recruits he and there until finally the hospital an assured thing. That is the situation in Abbevil now and it is a time when all tl people should rally to its supportmake it a success. And that is tl ' only way it will ever be a success Many things are needed to coi pl^te and equip a hospital. There the operating room, the kitchen, tl individual rooms, the various ware -x the offices, the nurses' rooms, etc. A the various departments have to 1 . equipped The way that the Abbeville M morial Hospital is being equipped through individual contributions f - memorial rooms. The operating roo equipment will be purchased out regular hospital funds, but most the other necessary equipment w be bought through individual ai and if some person wants to equ the operating room no objection w v be made. The following Abbeville peop I will furnish equipment: Mrs. Rebecca Rosenberg, priva room, in honor of her parents, N 6?. and Mrs. G. A. Visanski. Mrs. G. E. Calvert, child's room, L'. honor of Natalie Calvert. I Miss Maggie Brooks, priva I room. ! Mrs. Paul Link, private room, t honor of her father, J. W. Nichols. I Mrs. Eugene B. Gary, priva room, in honor of her son, Eugene Gary, Jr., who died in France. E. H. Longshore, private room, honor of Lt. F. B. Longshore, di in France. S. H. Rosenberg, children's ward There will be a colored ward and is hoped that the colored people Abbeville will name a committee raise funds to equip this departmei The Civic Club will furnish t equipment for a maternity ward. T Civic Club will also furnish oth jjj&jfl equipment. 89 * The laboratory equipment, the ! Km Ray equipment ,the kitchen equi jjj^H ^ne*it will be secured largely throus individual contributions. Most of the equipment has alrea< jjggl been bought for the private roon ggjU Mr. Albert Graham, represents Max Wocher and Co., Cinicinnati, h I I been ^n town for the past three da; interviewing1 the donors and orde [NEW YORK ATTORNEY, ONCE PROGRESSIVE SUCCEEDS LANSIN< S ? y Washington, Feb. 25.?Bainbridg Colby, of New York, who was one o , the leaders in the Progressive part under Theodore Roosevelt, will su< ceed Robert Lsnsing as secretary o state. Announcement of his selectio: by President Wilson was made toda at the White House. Wis nomination was sent to th *e enate late this afternoon. ^ Mr. Colby's appointment came a eg ven more a surprise than the res ignation of Mr. Lansing at the re ^ quest of President Wilson. . The first hint of Mr. Colby's ap to . pomtment came in a few minutes be ^ fore the formal announcement b he Secretary Tumulty. The early re sg! ports that he vfould get the plac j were not generally credited. ne Following the announcement of th appointment Mr. Colby appeared a the White House and was taken t .10 see President Wilson. ^ With Shipping Board | His latest connection with the Wi] iy J son administration, was when he wa er j a member of the United States ship ^ ping board. He resigned from tha position a few months ago. Mr. Colby is a lawyer. His home i in New York. He was born in St f Louis in 1869. ne During the Republican nations ?r ^convention of 1912 he was in charg . of the contest to seat Roosevelt dele of ^ gates. He was one of the founders o at the progressive party and delegate t , its first convention. at eg During the war he was a commis ^ sioner of the federal shipping boar* and a member of the emergency flee er corporation. He was a member of th . American Mission to the inter-allie( nt conference at Paris in 1917. Mr. Colby was a life-long Republi . ican until the famous Bull Moose bol is at the Chicago convention in 1912 je|He had been actively identified wit] i the candidacy of Theodore Roosevel _jfor the Republican nomination fo J president that year and was ii jcharge of contests to seat the Roose n Ivelt delegates in the Chicago conven . jtion. is1 j When Colonel Roosevelt bolted th lg j convention, Mr. Colby helped t Lj|j found the Progressive party and wa , | a delegate to its Chicago conventioi jin 1912. He continued an activ j leader in that party and in 1914 am .gj again in 1916 he was a Progressiv ? : candidate for senator from New Yorl or l ! state. m! of i of BIJOU THEATRE BURNS ill d, ip Anderson, Feb. 26.?The Bijoi ill theatre was again burned at an earl; hour this morning. This theatre ha ile the misfortune to be burned the lat ter part of the year, and it has onl; te been open ten days. The entire hous [r. being done over- and put into bette shape than it has ever been, in The organist,. Mr. Whilden, wa sleeping in the building and escape te with difficulty. He said that the fir seemed to have originated in th in basement, and when he awoke the en tire building was filled with smoke ite He turned in the alarm, and the fir B. company responded at once, but th time they got there the flames wer in coming from the roof. This fire i ed even more distastrous than the foi mer one, as only the walls are lef [. standing. The building is owned b it William W. Sullivan, who carrie of j full insurance. to , >* i I have been placed with him by th (l6 I j above named persons with the excel ^e|tion of S. H. Rosenberg, who ha erjbeen confined to his bed with fk J Mr. Rosenberg will select the equif ment for the children's ward as soo as he recovers. p There remains only one room i =^|the hospital to be equipped and ther | have been offers from several pei dy;sons to equip this room. Howevei 'there is the laboratory, the X-Raj the kitchen, the office, and the re ng i jception room equipment for whic as I funds must be raised. There seems t ra?'be plenty of opportunity for person I . . . .. , , , [fraternity bill 'ste CREATES STORM IN STATE SENATE ? Columbia, S. C, Feb. 26.?The sen- W e ate adjourned at 12:30 o'clock this lowii f morning and the wildest scenes of para y confusion seen in that body in many or d years. A very heated debate was pre- who! f cipitated last night at 11:30 o'clock as r( n by Senator Clifton, of Sumter, who ican y proposed to fix an hour today to vote Burt on the bill to allow Greek letter fra- Stat e ternities to state institutions. Tbe "j \te was participated in by Sena- the s to. . Clifton, Bonham and Widemkn Unit i- in f; vor of the measure, and Sena- fron j. tors Friday and Laney in opposition the to it. The debate became very bjtt&r food i- and times it appeared as if there Janv !_ might be personal encounters on the 15, : y floor of the senate. While feeling 2. p< s- was running at its highest and Sena- any pltor Clifton was sneaking. Senator I sho^ Padgett, of Colleton, made a motion since e to adjourn. The motion was put and of 1 t carried. The senate adjourned with- The o out fixing an hour to vote on the bill, i aver Following the debate considerable artic excitement was created by a near- cons [. personal encounter between Senators Sirlo s Laney and Edward P. Hodges, a stu- plate i- dent of the university, who has been lard, t actively supporting the fraternity butt* measure. It required several sena- chee: s tors to hold them apart. Si: The senate last night passed the tail ] bill prohibiting free range of cattle for i i'l after adopting an amendment which'the i e permits the citizens of Horry, Berke- to Jt ley, Colleton and Jasper counties to the : f vote on the measure before it be- whic o comes effective in those counties, creas The fight for the bill was led by Sen- three i_ ators Christepsen, of Beaufort? per i j opposed the amendment allowing the'three t four counties to vote on the bill. cent: e cent, a PERSHING "APES" BRITISH plate FASHION. CHARGE IN HOUSE per c , Jchuc t Washington, Feb. 24.?The cut of rice, General Pershing's coat and trousers orate ti was debated today in the House. He tea, t and other American army officers each, r were charged by Representative Con- and a nally, Democrat, of Texas, with hav- five. _ ing "aped" European fashions in _ their uniforms and in carrying canes. COX "General Pershing's coat is split up e the back and his trousers bagged like! 0 the English uniform," said Mr. Con- Cc s nally. I Gov. n "He kept his American head," Rep- jsurei e resentative Wingo, Democrat, of Ar- jsupp j kansas, interjected, "but I, too^Dem fViof Vnc foil woe xror\r i Unit, 0 llVKtVVU t/UHU lliJ VVUV tUll HMJ T VI J k Snglish." Hare Deploring the adoption of foreign will ashions, Representative Connally ard moved to abolish the title of Under delej Secretary of State and substitute the tion former title of counsellor, in the exe- Ai cutive appropriation bill, but the cuti\ 11 motion was defated, 39 to 21. larat ^ During the discussion Representa- imori ^ tive Green, Republican, of Massachu- sued setts, referred to former Secretary \ Cini< ^ Lansing's retirement from the Cabi-:that e net. soug r "What's? in a namp?" Mr. flrppnp t.wn j asked. "A Secretary of State by anyjpolit s I other name would have a row with' d the Administration." BUS e When the Republicans cheered^ e I Representative Connally brought a[ l"i reply salvo from the Democrats by 1 retorting that the Republicans ape plauded internal difficulties of the gj e Administration. brok 1 nitui 8 A SAPPHIRE WEIGHING dow] " 5 POUNDS, FOUND IN INDIA Flan :t Iflooi Vi OC A 1 " | xj \j 11 lucxy f iiiuia, ?*\j. oc* p- j ^RCl sjphire eight inches long and weighing |fann ! more than five pounds, is reported Uhat .Jto have been found at Mogok by a'^ajia i Burmez. Its value it estimated at be- 'was } |tween 35,000 pounds and 50,000 i 'pounds. s:F j 140, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH I i n The Rev. E. B. Kennedy, Due J ^ West, will preach at the Presbyterian n i ?u a o 1? ?-?:? -a 11 , uie* tllUIt.I II^Al OUIlUdV IIIUI 11IIIK at 11 e I , i i tion ! o clock. I , > I I day r,| LEBANON CHURCH I Quit r> I j The i-' The rain having prevented the i pub h meeting at Lebanon church last Sab- ty-e o bath, there will be preaching next secr s Sabbath, ADY INCREASES -SHOWN IN PRICE OF FOOD AND CLOTHING ashington, Feb. 26.?The foltig statement, presenting comtive statistics showing the rise ecline in prices of retail and 1 . ^ 1 1 _ J_1 1 ;esiue iooa ana oiner cumrnuuiues jported by fifty leading Amercities, has been issued by the >au of Labor Statistics, United es Department of Labor. According to reports received by Bureau of Labor Staistics of the ed States Department of Labor 1 the retail dealers in fifty cities average family expenditure for was two percent higher on tary 15, 1920, than on December L919. The cost in December was ;r cent higher than it had been in previous month. These figures r an increase o^ nine per cent ? January, 1919, and an increase 04 per cent since January, 1919. comparisons are based on the age retail prices of the following les, weighed according to the umption of the average family: an steak, round steak , lb. roast, s beef, pork chops, bacon, ham, hens, flour, corn, meal, eggs, jr, milk, bread, potatoes, sugar, 3e, rice, coffee, and tea. nee January, 1919, monthly reprices of food have been secured forty-four food articles. During nonth from December 15, 1919, innary 16, 1920, twenty-nine of forty-four articles of food for h prices were secured in 1919 injed as follows: Cabbage, thirty> per centpotatoes, twenty-six cent,' granulated sugar, twenty? per cent; onions, eleven per ; lamb and rolled oats, eight per each; hens, seven per cent; i beef, six per cent; flour, five ;ent; sirloin steak, rib roast, k roast, bread and cream and two per cent, each; ham, evep;d milk, macaroni, baked beans, coffee and bananas, one per cent . Bacon, nut maragrine, cheese crisco each increased less than tenths of one per cent. WILL GET OHIO; UiDIMVP iWl PAMTrOT nnxvuinu 111 i I >lumbus, Ohio, Feb. 26.?While James M. Cox practically is asi of Ohio's solid delegation in ort of his candidacy for the ocratic nomination for president, ed States Senator Warren G. ling, Ohio's other favorite son, have to contest with Gen. Leon.Wood for the Buckeye state's jates at the Republican convenat Chicago. inouncement tonight at the exe'e office that Governor Cox's dec;ion of candidacy will be filed to ow and a formal statement isby William Cooper Procter of :innati, General Wood's manager a full set of delegates will be ht by General Wood were the outstanding features in today's ical developments in Ohio. INESS DISTRICT OF BIRMINGHAM SCENE OF BAD FIRE THURSDAY rmingham, Ala., Feb. 26.?Fire e out in the Rhodes-Carroll Furre company, in the heart of muwii x>iruiiiigiiam, <11 y. m. ies which originated on the third quickly spread to the fourth fifth floors. A strong wind ed the fire. It was estimated $75,000 damage has been end fifteen minutes after the fire discovered. 000 TEACHERS RESIGNED LAST YEAR leveland, Ohio, Feb. 25.?Figi presented at the national educaassociation convention here toshowed that 140,000 teachers the schools during the last year, compilation was made by 1,792 lie school superintendents in foright states. Hugh S. Magill, field THIRD RESERVATION ADOPTED BY SENATE BY WIDE MARGIN Washington, Feb. 26.?Reservation number three, controlling acceptance of mandates by the United States under the peace treaty was adopted today by the senate, in the form agreed to last session. The vote was 68 to 4, Senators Jones, of New Mexico; Kendrick, of Wyoming; Walsh, of Montana ,and Williams of Mississippi, all Democrats, voting against the reservation. Another broadside of denunciation waa luuacu vy iiicv;uiii;iiiauic uppunents of the pace treaty today when the senate took up the subject under I an agreement to keep it constantly under consideration until disposed of. Senators France, Republican, Maryland, and Reed, Democrat, Missouri, led off for the irreconcilables, the former characterizing the treaty as an instrument of "hate and destruction" and the latter calling it a "serpent of treason." The debate began after the senate had voted with only a few scattering "noes" to pass over the article ten until action had been taken on all the other proposed reservations. Thei motion was made by Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, and although Senator Knox, Republican, Pennsylvania, was one of the irreconcilable : group, said he could not see the wisIdom of delaying a decision, no rollcall was demanded. Senator France, presenting formally the resolution he offered several j I days ago for a declaration of peace! |declared the reservations discussion j ! Vto/4 fn ^CAT?V? ielmr" I iiMu u^^v^iiuaiig bu ovyiwoiii. jr ouu "mere quibbling over language." , Neither the Republican or Demo- . cratic reservation proposed, he said, would materially modify the League! of Nations. ] SIR OLIVER SNUBS OUIJA j AS SPIRIT INTERMEDIARY , Chicago, Feb. 24.?"I am not a 1 spiritualist; I am an investigator," said Sir Oliver Lodge, the English . scientist, today. "It took more than twenty-years!< of thought to make me give credit to j 'spirit communications," he continued,] "reluctant, stubborn years of weigh-J, ling evidence and probabilities. And) 'even today I do not attend seances;] I do not believe in the ouija boards and other commonly accepted means jof alleged communications. Ouija is merely tapping one's strata of dreams and no more importance should be attached to messages on the board than one should give to dreams, which is nothing at all." Sir Oliver lectured at Orchestra Hall and dealt as much with the physical phenomenon of the world as he did with the psychic. "America apparently does not have any great or sound body of thinkers upon problems of the occult," he said "but for that matter England has not i either. England is not nearly soj swept by spiritualism as you are told. It is only .the thoughtful person (on either side whose interest in spiritual communications is of any value, and to these it will appear as a foe to religion, but the reverse. My (studies of it have brought me back to ja religious belief after a lifetime of j negation." ;geddis selected as ambassador to u. s. ' ! London, Feb. 26.?It was definitely stated in the lobby of the house of icommons tonight that Sir Auckland ,Geddis, minister of national service :and reconstruction, has been selected as British ambassador to Washington. : Official announcement of his appointment, it was said, was only waiting I notification from Washington that iSir Auckland is person agrata. BAII.F.Y WII.T. RF.OPF.N ! ' _____ I Greenwood, Feb. 25.?Announcement has been made that Bailey Military institute will reopen on March (8. The young men of the institute (were allowed to go home on account WILSON'S PREVIOUS I DECISION HOLDS ; London Sends Another ReplyPresident Considers Treaty Withdrawal?Full Discussion of Adriatic Question?Allies Note On Way. Washington, Feb. 26.?President Wilson, in his reply to the British and French premiers on the Adriatic quesion adheres to his previous decision that unless the terms of settlement are returned to the provisions of the agreement of December 9, he "must take under serious consideratioh" the withdrawal of the treaty of Versailles and French alliance from the enate. The response of the premiers, was dispatched from London today, but had not been received tonight in Washington. With the exception of this note , the exchanges on the subject, including the December 9 agreement, and the subsequent agreement communicated to Jugo-Slavia last month by the British and French premiers, were made public today by the state department. Holding that the provisions of the agreement sent as an ultimatum to Jugo-Slavia would- merely continue the "old order of things which brought so many evils on the world". President Wilson in his first communication to the entente premiers declared that if such were made efeffective the time had not come "when this government can entertain a concert of powers the very existence of which must depend upon a new spirit and a new order." The note then added: "The president desires to say that ne must take under serious consideration the withdrawal of the treaty with Germany and the agreement between the United States and France (the Franco-American treaty) which are now before the senate. In his last note the president reiterated in an emphatic manner his tand from which he asserted there "could be no departure as the course decided upon by the premiers would be short-sighted and not in accordance with the terrible sacrifices of the entire world which can be justified and ennobled only by leading finally to settlements in keeping with the prinicples for which the war was fought." E. T. MEREDITH ATTACKS CONGRESS AS "PENNY WISE" ; Chicago, Feb. 25.?"Penny wise" policies seriously handicap the Department of Agriculture in its work oi neipmg tne larmer, E. T. Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture, told the Association of Commerce here today. "We want to tell the farmers how to kill the boll weevil," he'said, "and then we can't afford to print the necessary bulletin. Four-fifths of the bulletins printed go to the Congre>'?men, and when farmers ask us for them we haven't got them. "Not all is graft and politics down in Washington," he said, and told about men who could command dou ble their present salaries in commercial life who stay with the department because of loyalty. "They have cut down our appropriations to $31,000,000 a year," he declared, "and after the Bureau of Weather and Forestry and others have their portions there is only $10,-. 000,000 left with which to conduct the business of protecting agriculture. WVVVVVVVVVVV wv < COTTON MARKET. Vl "k. 'V ^ V February 27. V V Spot Cotton 40.00 V. Nk V V March 37.68 V S. May 34.89 V V July ? 32.21' V