i . ' . ' ' ' / . "? .>jM ' x ^ * Abbeville Press and Banner 1 a : ' , Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Wednesday, July 21, 1920. Single Qopies, Five Cents. * 77th Year. : ? t. _ SIX HUNDRED 1 MILLION DOLLARS IS ADDED TO PAYROLLS OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES? IN-! . I CREASE IS RETROACTIVE TO' I MAY FIRST OF THIS YEAR; I TWO MILLION RAILROAD i WORKERS BENEFIT BY RAISE' I I Chicago, July 20.?Six hundred million dollars was added to the pay envelopes of the nation's 2,000,000 railroad workers today in the first award handed down by the United States Railway Labor Board. ^ , Rejecting the demands of the organized rail unions for increases' totalling approximately one billion dollars, the board decided approxi-. mately sixty per cent of that sum wouia De a just increase to meet present Jiving conditions. The award adds approximately 21 per cent to the present payj schedules. Railroad officials have j declared that any pay increase, awarded the men must be followed ' by a corresponding increase in 1 rates and they plan, it is said, to 1 file new tariffs with the Interstate [ Commerce Commission as soon as they can be prepared. Whether the award as givan will1 stave off the threat of a general | railroad strike remains to be seen.! The leaders of practically every!* one of the sixteen big railroad )1 unions were present this morning; when Judge R. M. Barson, chairman p of the board, handed down the de- Is cision. They left immediately to present the award to 1,000 general 1 chairman, who had gathered here to i pass on its acceptability. The union)' presidents refused to make any,* comment before the meeting. The ? approximate terms of the decision,v had been known to them yesterday r and they believed then their men would stay in line, at least until a ^ referendum vote can be taken. ,c >Tearlv a month will be needed for s the referendum. r The board's decision is retroactive ' to May 1. As the maximum increase 1 granted any class was 18 cents an ^ hour, or $36.72 per-month, the big- 1 gest back pay check when the settle- * rr.ent is made August will $110.16. ' The board provided that the back ray checks shall be made out sepa- v rately so that each man will know c the amount he received from that s >urce. Seven things were taken into con-! sideration in ariving at the award,1 the preamble of the boards an-j nouncement says. They were: The; scale paid for similar kinds of work in other industries; the relation between wages and the cost of living; the hazards of the employment;' training and skill required; degree ? of responsibility; character and i regularity of the employment, and 1 . inequnlities in increases and treatment resulting from previous wage j orders. "Those persons who consider the 1, rates determined on here too j, high should reflect on the abnormal j conditions resulting from the high! rates now being paid in other in-1, dustry," the board said. "The em-!( ployees who may believe these j rates too low should consider the! increased burden these rates will i place on their fellow countrymen, many of whom are less favorably , situated than themselves. "The board has endeavored to fix , such wages as will provide a decent living and secure for the children of j the wage earners' opportunity for1 education, and vet to remember 4 that no class of Americans should receive preferred treatment i and' that the great mass of the people ultimately pay a great part of the increased cost of operation entailed . by the increase in wages determined j herein." The decision, Chairman Barton j explained, was not a unanimous < one, some members dissenting on 1 nearly every section. The awards i PROPERTY DAMAGE AT ANDERSON LARGE Cotton Mills Flooded, New Roads And Bridges Suffer From Cloudburst?Traffic Blocked Anderson, July 20.?Thousands of dollars damages was done to new roads and bridges in Anderson County last night by a rainstorm which at times reached the proportions of a cloudburst. The engine and the tender* of a Blue Ridge passenger train was overturned at Watson's Crossinp near Anderson, killing the negro firemen and shaking up a number of passengers. The mishap is thought to have been due to the rails spreading on account of the water-soaked condition of the road bed. Traffic on the road will be blocked throughout the day. Piedmont and Northern Electric Railwavs line into^ this citv is out of commission on account of damage to trestles between Anderson and Belton. Several .cotton mills and other manufacturing enterprises located near Streams were flooded. Damage to crops was extensive. The storm was accompanied by a brililant electrical display and considerable damage was done to telephone and power lines in the city. BRYAN MAY ACCEPT DRY NOMINATION rKitixua 3AI Lincoln, Nebr., July 20.?JSarly arrivals among the delegates to the prohibition partys' national convenion today were discussing chiefly ;he attitude of William J. Bryan, shuold the convention offer him the eadership of the prohibition ticket lext fall. Frequent mention of Reverend iVilliam A. ("Billy") Sunday as lis running mate brought the itatement from Mr. Sunday that he vould be willing to accept the lomination if chosen. "Mr. Bryan's recent statement in rhe Commoner that a man must ac pnt such an honor if it is offered." laid W, G. Calderwood, vice-chairnan of the national committee, "ii ooked upon by us as tantamount to i declaration that he will accept. rVe are preparing to go to the mat n this campaign and we are. going o nominate a ticket that will draw lundreds of thousands of votes." The auditorium where the con ention will open tomorrow was reviving its final touches today. PICNIC AT RAPLEY SHOALS Mrs. Joe Warren, Mrs. G. T. ratp anr? Mrs. Ira Sm'ouse chaner >ned a crowd of the younger set on i most delightful all day picnic at ilapley Shoals yesterday. Miss Alice ^resscot was the guest of honor, rhe young people went in trucks :arly In the morning and returned ibout seven o'clock. They report a nost enjoyable time. ENJOYING LIFE. Mrs. Fred Cason is in Hendersonville for a summer vacation. She w shopping at the Marlboro House and is enjoying all the pleasures offered by a lively resort. Mrs. Ba*ley, a sister from Columbia, is with Mrs. Cason OFF? TO HENDERSONVILLE Miss Mamie Devlin and Miss Mildred Cochran left Tuesday for Hen dersonville- where they will spend some time. They were joined in Greenwood by Mrs. Walter Devlin and Miss Ruby Hill Devlin and they will spend their time at the "Kentucky Home." REV. BRISTOW AT MIDWAY Rev. L. J. Bristow v?ill preach a Midway Sunday afternoon, August 1st at 4 o'clock. *iven were by a majority vote on *ach section, with at least one member of the public tgroup voting for sach award. ./X ft ' 1 "ABBEVILLE < TOWN IN E. C. Seifert, Head of M Above Statement At B Yesterday and Adds Town To Get Star thing."?Two C Address La Yesterday was a big day for the farmers and business and profession- J al men of the county wno are interfcsted in the growing and marketing | of cotton. Some plain taiK was hand-j ed them about just how backward they were in the matter of marketing their cotton. T. M. Mills, county farm demon-' strator of Newberry County presided over the' meeting which opened yesterday morning at 11:30 in tlie court house and also made the first address of the morning outlining the purposes for which the meeting was being held and extolling the farmers to the skies for the golden heritage; handed them by the Almighty and censuring them .for burying their^ talent and letting the middle men' do the doubling of the talent. Mr. Mills is a forceful speaker and commanded the close attention ofi his audience. He stated that he was born'] on a farm, had lived on a i ' i farm up to the present v time andj< that he hoped when the hearse did j' call for his remains that it would i J have to drive up to the door of a ; I farm house to find them. He outlin-!1 ed the three purposes for which the(j meeting had been called and stated J them as, first, to discuss the question of whether it was beneficial for eve- ] ry county in the state to employ anj( impartial cotton classer as supplied j by the department of agriculture ? through the extension department of ( Clemson College. Mr. Mill's was in?^ J fdrmcd that so far as Abbeville t County was concerned mat this ] question had already been settled 4 and that sufficient guarantors had { been secured to make the employ- ? | ment and payment 01 a government j cotton classer certain. The second question to oe discusser | ed would be the erection of sufficient y j warehouses to store at least fifty per| c cent, of the cotton ^rown iri this t j county. Mr. Mills proceeded to show, j i his audience where this was abso-, ? I lutely necessary if the rarmer In-, f t'ended to get the true value that his t cotton is worth. He gave figures to j show that the erection of warehouses^ r costing $150,000 would save tne far-'t mers $2,850,000 on each crop of;}. cotton at the prevailing prices. j? j The last question to ?>e taken up i ! was the affiliation of a sufficient ma-; i i ioritv o'i the farmers of the South' j the American Cotton association,' j to enable it to become a potential i power in the economic life of the1 | farmer. j Mr. Mills then introduced Mr. E.j C. Seifert, a native of Georgia and| until recently in the emproy of the, farmers of Orangeburg County as^ | their official cotton grader. Mr. Sei-( ! fert is now at the head of tne bureau j of markets in this state and it is one j of his duties to assign cotton class-' ers to counties which wish them. Whether Mr. Seifert was cognizant of a sleepy attitude on the part of his audience or whether he had beenj 1 hearing things about the City of | Abbeville from possibly the jealous ' citizens of some Sleepy Hollow some-' i where in the state-is not known, but; [without any reservation on his part 1 at all the speaker stated that "you * ! have the sleepiest-town in the State ^ r tAn.il in i*r*\1n"ln trt lT0f h , uuu iiuiu^oit tun 11 Ail miivu vv I anything started." We don't know,a J what the gentleman has ever before^ 1 tried to start in the City of Abbeville * i 1 and we are doubtful if he ever has a been in the city more than once be- s {fore in his life. At any rate his au-i dience evidently didn't consider his statement regarding the apathy of C I the town, as he called our city, I | worthy even of receiving an exre?- I j sion either one war ?r another on v W SLEEPIEST THE STATE" arketing Bureau Made tig Farmers' Meeting "It's The Hardest ted Doing Any)ther Speakers rge Crowd their part for it was received passively except for a snicker from several sections of the court house. It must have been a surprise to Mr. Seil'ert that by one speech rrom him the business men and farmers of the county were induced to raise almost1 immediately sufficient funds to pro-; vide for the employment of the cot-' ton grader. Mr. Seifert proceeded to show the farmers where they were losing millions of dollars by not knowing what their cotton was worth He stated that if his conscience would permit him he could enter almost any one of the numerous cotton markets in the state and become a buyer of cotton for one season at the' end of which he would have suffici^ ent money to,support him the rest of his life. He stated that life Itad known; I of one buyer of cotton who matie $300 profit on one bale of cotton bopght from a farmer who didn't know what grade it was. Mr. Seifert defined the difference between a cotton buyer and a buyer of cotton.' The buyer of cotton worked from 9 a. m. till 3 p. m. and at tnat time sold out his day's purchases to a cot:on buyer making a good profit on , i few bales of cotton which some ; farmers had bid off to him. Mr. Mills next introduced Mr. G. ] Honeycutt of the state warehouse j :ommission who spoke on the work- i ngs of the warehouse system and the, idvantages which the farmers would )btain by having sufficient warehousing facilities in t*ie country. At ;he conclusion of his address Mr. 1 honeycutt called for any uestions j ind a number of the farmers asked 1 questions regarding the warehouse " system and evidenced considerable < nterest in this phase of the meeting, l The third and last speaker of the 1 neeting was Miss Lois Ervin, who " las been working throughout tl>? 1 :ounty for the past ten days holding I ownship meetings and urging the 1 )eople to join the American Cotton 1 tssociation. Miss Ervin is the efficient 1 ield secretary of the South Carolina ; livision of the association and a 1 roung lady of splendid ability. She nade a timely address to me farm- < !vs and it was really surprising to ;now just how much inrorma;;on the secretary has regarding tfle marketng of cotton and which she gives in ' i forceful way to her audience.. j< At the conclusion of this speaker's 1 iddress the meeting entered into a ' jusiness session and proceeded to or- 1 canize. Capt. G. N. Nickles was elct-1 ;d president of the Abbeville Coun- 1 ;v branch of the American cotton aa- J iociation; R. S. Link, vice-president,' md E. C. Horton, secretary and ' reasurer. Membership fees of about 5400 have already been received by; ;he treasurer. The membership fee a 25c per bale for every toaie of coton you raise on an average yield, j* The compilation of township com- * nittees had not been completedJ vhen this paper went to press but ^ vill be announced in the issue of 1 rriday. j ^ * AFTER THE VOTES 11 !l Senator Howard Moore, candidate | or election as solicitor of this dis-1 rict left today with an empty | and bag to garner the promises j bout Clinton and Whitmire. Sena- < or Moore says it's mighty hard on ^ he candidates, this political pathy prevalent throughout their tate. iviiss Margaret staisworcn 011 Jreenjv-ood and Mr. and Mrs. Henry j lester and children, of Calhoun jl ^alls, psent Tuesday in the city nth Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McCombs. JAS. M. COX BUYS BUSINESS IN TROT 'Young Business Man of City Pur chases Stock of J. S. Horn Co. Take Possession Aug. 1st. James M. Cox, our fellow townsman, not the presidential nominee ol I the democratic party, made his'first big business deal by buying yesterday the stock and goodwill of the J, S. Horn Co. at Troy. ' _ Mr. Cox who was recently marriec to Miss Carolyn Bradley of Troy will take charge of the business the first of next' month and srares that he will add sufficient stock to the business to be able to satisfy tht wants of his customers Tor everything carried in a first class genera! merchandise store. Mr. and Mrs. Cox will make theii hon^e with .the parents of the latter. Rev. and Foster Bradley.. The numerous friends of the young couple in Abbeville regret that they have decided to leave the city but wish foi "Jim" unlimited success in his new enterprise. WRONG BODY FOUND ON OPENING COFFIN Remains of South Caroling Soldi&r Sent To Family of ^Same Name in Ohio Columbus, Ohio, July 20.?When M.' L. Walker opened a coffin sent him by the war department -today he found the body not that of his son, J. Walker, but instead that of James Walker, consigned to Mrs. Margaret Walker, Sandy Springs, S. C. The death certificates had s been transposed from one box to other, causing the mistake, both being on the same ship coming from Brest, France. The body of the Columbus boy is being tracked. It probably has been sent to South Carolina instead of Columbus. / NO COAT FOR THIS JUROR York, July 20.?For the first :ime in a quarter of a century a ln?n? wqc allrrurorl tn vear a coat. COUNTY TO GET ADDITIONAL FEE More than $80,000 will bj paid to :he various county treasuers on account of the additional license fees >n prenliums collected by insurance :ompanies for the semiannual period ending December 31, 1911', according to an announcement nade yesterday at th.i ofi\ce of the state insurance commissioner. Abbeville County will get $1,11T,30 of the additional license fees. RETURN FROM AUTO TRIP Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Barnwell re-( ;urned Saturday from an automojile trip to Hartsville, where they spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Caldwell. Mrs. Caldwell J returned with them and will visit! Mrs. Barnwell for a month at v the j ;nd of which she will be joined by' VIr. Caldwell on his return from -the ! Northern markets. > -- ! SELLS FLATWOODS LAND .T R Stark- sold his Glowine! Springs tract of land in the Flat;voods to R. S. Link Tuesday, the price paid being $110.00 per acre. The tract contains about 30 acres. ! * HOME AGAIN 3VIr. and "Mrs. W. L. Peebles are at iome again after a three week's / isit to their home people in Greens)o:v.\ N. C.. and Richmond, Va. ? G. 0. P. RAISING 1 IMMENSE FIDS i iS . ^"SUFFICIENT TO SHOCK SENSI:j BrLIIJIES," DECLARES GOV| ERNOR COX IN ADDRESS TO * ^ | NATIONAL COMMITTEE AT COLUMBUS?,WHITE OF OHIO I ",! SUCCEEDS CUMMINGS . ;i ? ..' ,! Columbus, Ohio, July 20?Charges . that the Republicans were raising a campaign fund "sufficient to shock I the sensibilities" were macss tonight | by Governor C.ox, Democratic presi- ^ " dential candidate in an address to ( the national committee which perfected organization for the' camI i paign. . .. i| The Democrats, Governor Cox de clared, will insist upon continuance i r of the senatorial investigation o?< ! camDai^n exDenditures and also will ! make frequent and detailed accountI ing of their finances. The democratic | platform he declared is '"a promisj sory note" which will be paid in full, I closing his address with a prediction j for a November victory. ? i Governor Cox's address together j J with brief supporting remarks by | Franklin D. Roosevelt, his running mate, followed election of George H. White, former congressman of Marietta, Ohio, as chairman of the Democratic national committee ana manager of the party campaign. He sue- , j ; ceeded Homer S. Cummings of Conj necticut, who has served for 18 ^ ' . months, and who desired to be re- . '.I | lieved of further campaign duties. Much of the campaign details were [left to Chairman White. He was au- * I thorized to appoint a special ;