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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1920
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BOLSHEVISMS)
Some days ago the papers carried
the news that certain storekeepers in!
Alabama had been served with notice1
to close their stores and keep them1
closed until cotton went up. The pa-:
pers yesterday stated that notice had
leen served on ginners in Anderson
county to close down their ginning!
plants until cotton went to 35 cents
per pound, the notice being given by,
a type-written paper, with a match
stuck into the paper indicating the
means to be employed in enforcing
the order. 1
We cannot bring ourselves to believe
that any band of people in this
section would undertake to enforce
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such an order. We prefer to think;
that all this work is the work of a
crank, or of a practical joker. We
hope it is.
But at the same time, it must be
remembered that there is a spirit of
anarchy in the land. Two weeks ago
an effort was made to blow up the
offices of J. P. Morgan & Co., in New
York. A man was arrested yesterday
in Pittsburg loaded with dynamite
under circumstances indicating that
he had the explosive for an unlawful
purpose. Men have been quitting the5r
employment in various sections of the
country these many years, as they
had a perfect right to do, and then
have undertaken to keep their employers
from obtaining other labor,
which the employers had a perfect
right to do, and in order to circumvent
the employment of others resort
has been had to assault, murder and
other crimes. It all spells anarchy..
And we need not fool ourselves into
thinking that there is no such thing
as anarchy in the land.
It behooves all of us to be on the
watch. Constitutional government
and the inalieriable rights of the people
may only be preserved by the
government being strong enough to
protect these rights, and by electing
men to office with nerve enough to
enforce the law. For crimes growing
cut of a spirit of this kind, the law
should be ruthlessly enforced, so as
to speak a warning to other evil-i
doers. We have been comparatively
free from the ills which have beset
other sections of the country, large-1
ly b^fause our people are for the'
. most part native Americans, but
"eternal vigilance is the price of lib- [
erty," whether of the nation or of
the individual, who has a right to
control his own.
Whether the notices-served in Anderson
County are the work of mischief
makers, practical jokers, or
what not, the officers ot the law
should apprehend those who have
given the notice, and the people
should know what kind of people they
are. They should be made to know
that they are tampering with dynamite
and not with cheap cotton.
On the other hand, if it shall appear
that some misguided persons
have decided that the proper thing to
do is to take the matter of regulating
the country into their own hands, the
sooner they are given proper instruction
at the hands of the law the better.
South Carolina is no more the
place fori the night rider and the
house-burner than it is 'for the-^yncher,
the n^urderer or^ny other crimi-'
nal. Arson is a crime against the law,'
as is the burning of a gin-house and
if property be destroyed in this state
as has been done in Alabama by an'
outlaw mob, the perpetrators of the'
deed should be hunted down and
punished to the extent of the law,
and no mercy be shown. To that end
let every law-abiding citizen lend his
enorts. 1
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The first consignment of grain received
at Naples from Odessa early
this month was reported to be in
such a condition of putrefaction that
a large portion of it had to be con-1
d?mned.
ROOSEVELT USES
"GOOD OLD WORD"
Applies Term "Trimmer" To Repubcans?Can
Not Be Placed.
St. Louis, Oct. 5.?Speaking before
a large audience in the First
regiment armory here tonight,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
vice presidential nominee, charged
the Republican party managers with
having "mapped out and conducted
a campaign of "trimming" the American
people."
"American voters," he said, "hate
aman who says one thing and does
another, but they hate something
worse than that?a man who says
one thing one day and does another
the next. There is a good old word
that has not yet been used in this
campaign?the wood "trimmer." Before
November 2 the voting public
is going to know who that word fits
and they will vote against all that it
implies."
Calling attention to a statement
hv Senator Hardinf in the morninc
papers approving1 "what Senator
Borah has said in his public address."
Mr. Roosevelt declared "if
the English language means anything
at all, it means that Senator
Harding is at last being driven into
a corner?it means that the American
public has received from him a
direct approval of Senator Borah's
opposition to our going into a league
of nations, not merely "the league,"
but 'a league.'/
"Governor Cox and I favor going
in," he added, "and we are wholly
willing that it be made clear to
every American that nothing of our
coins- in shall' take awav in the
slightest degree our existing rights
under the American constiution, including
the right of the congress to
declare war to send our troops overseas."
M. Roosevelt accompanied by
Breckinridge Long, Democratic candidate
for United States senator,
addressed a large open air gathering
at Cape Girardea* this afternoon.
"The difficulty which Will Hays
encountered more than a year," he
said in his address her? tonight,
"was that of reconciling irreconcilable
differences. He did this by
attempting to divert attention from
those differences and this could only
be done by creating false issued.
At Chicago, by use of 'trimming'
language, a platform was devised by
'trimmers' which a Hottentot on an
Eskimo could equally swallow. It
means everything and it meant
nothing.
"The straw that broke the back of
the patient public was the admission
in Baltimore by the Republican candidate
for the president that he had
no specific constructive program on
foreign affairs."
CONVERSE ALUMNAE CLUB
Dr. Snaveley, Dean of Converse
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vuni^t*, was litre ?*?uiiu<iy <txiu x uca-|
day in the interest of Converse College.
Tuesday afternoon he organized
a Converse Alumnae Club. The
meeting of the alumnae was at the
home of Mrs. D. H. Hill, and the officers
elected were: Mrs. David H.
Hill (Miss lone Smith) President;
Mrs. Lewis Perrin (Miss Ethel
Mills) Vice-President; Miss Mary
Quarles Link, Secretary; Miss Max-'"
Smith, Treasurer. The other mem:
bers of the Club are Mrs. A. M.
Smith (Miss Lucy White), Mrs.
Paul Kennedy (Miss Leila Link),
Mrs. J. C. Hill (Miss Sara Henry),
Mrs. James Guyton (Miss Jean
Griffin), Miss Helen Porter Smith
and Mrs. Bradley Morrah, of Mt.
Carmel (Miss Hessie Thompson,
Lancaster.)
Converse is about to put on a
drive for a million dollar endowment.
The alumnae are asked to give
one tenth of this amount. The mills
about Spartimburg, and the trustees,
rfc-itf *frated, tfiH- taisfe ?he* rt%t of the
atnionntrt?;'.supplement a proposed
gift frorh the Carnegie Fund, the
whole to total a million dollars.
DR. B. F. JONES WOUNDED
Edgefield, Oct. 5.?Mr. M. Whar-j
t?.n Hudgens shot and it is thought
mortally wounded Dr. B. F. Jones, at
this place, yesterday afternoon, the
shooting taking place in factory
town. Five shots were fired by Hudgens,
one taking effect in the breast
another in the left side the other below
the left shoulder. There were no
eye witnesses to the affair, but it is
aid that they had some words over
rent, which Dr. Jones claims Mr.
Hudgens was due him.
AMERICAN TRADE
BALANCE SMALLER
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Imports Continue To Gain Especially
From Europe While Exports
Dwindled In The Month Of
August Xispjrt Shows.
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Washington, Oct. C?The flow of!
ods to the U ut-;1 tSatas from f\u- ]
rope continued to increase in Au-!
gust, while shipments from this'
country across the Atlantic de-!
creased.
A department of commerce trade
summary today showed that imports
from European countries during I
August totalled $114,000,000. com-J
pared with $66,000,000 in August aj
year ago, while exports to Europe 1
aggregated $293,000,000 as against!
$417,000,000 in August, 1919. j
Thus the trade balance for the:
month in favor of this country was
only $179,000,000.
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Imports from Europe for the
eight months ended with August
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pared with $362,000,000 during the ]
first eight months of last year, j
.while exports in the eight months i
were valued at $2,985,000,000,
compared with $3,496,000,000 during
the first eight months of the
year before.
Imports from Asia during the
month were $126,000,000 against
$75,000,000 in August 1919. Exports
aggregated $47,000,000 compared
with $53,000,000 in August of
last year.
FRENCH TRY TO HALT
PIRATING OF DRESS MODELS j
Paris, Oct. 5.?On the ground ;
that unfair ndvnn+afro ic hoinrr tal-pn
of tthem to copy priceless models and
designs, the Dressmakers' Syndicate}
of Paris is trying to enforce an in-j
junction against news and fashion j
photographers.
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"We spend thousands upon the,
creation of a model," says the dress-;
makers'. "We pay high salaries to ;
designers, mcrt of whom are trained
! artists; we carry on costly experiments
to obtain the right colors and
effects.
"The price we sell a gown at is
only an infinite part of what en- j
volving the model cost us, and we
get returns only if the model is re- ,
peated by us a sufficient number of
times. - |
"What happens under the present.
system? One of our fashionable cli-.{
ents appears at ^the races, for in-j
stance, in a new gown. Immediately ^ i
File is pnotograpnea, ana rne picture
falls into the ha^ds of se2ond-rate ;
houses, who make a profession of
copying pood models. The result is ;.
sheer loss for us."
FOR COTTON POOLS j]
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Corpus Christi, Texas, pet. 5. ? j
Fred Roberts, president of the Uni- j,
ted Cotton Growers' association of ,
America, said here today that he J;
would offer a resolution at a cotton i
conference in Washington October i
12-13, adoption of which would in-:<
sure financing of the cotton crop by <
the growers and furnish adi to for-; 1
eigr mills. It would call for the for-!i
mation of pools, he said, which j <
would be consolidated on a national <
basis. 1
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SHIP CONTRACT
MEETS OBJECTION
Washington, Oct. 5.?Not only has
the shipping board held up the proposed
contract between the United
States Mail Steamship Company and
the North German Lloyd Line but
France, it was learned today, has
made presentations to both the shipping
board and the state department
against the Harriman- contract with
the Hamburg-American Line.
The latter protest is based upon the
allegation that the Hamburg-American
contract gives Germany an unfair
advantage, in that she is permitted
to use American ships for the establishment
of her commerce until
*he is able to provide ships of her
3\vn. Such a contract. France maintains,
is unfair disci'imination and
adds that if the United States proposes
to discriminate against anybody it
3ught not be against her former alies.
The French charge d'affairs is unier
stood to have called upon Admiral
Benson in this connection last week
[t is also understood that Great Britain
made objection to the North Gorman
Lloyd as well as to the Hamburg-American
contrast.
In answer to their presentations it
s maintained by the United States
irst, that the Hamburg-American
contract is not discriminatory. Sec>nd,
that any help this country is able
;o give Germany will be for the.benefit
of all Europe for the reason that
jntil Germany recovers she will not
be able to pay her indemnity for
which France, of all nations is clamDring
the loudest.
Objections by the shipping '.^oard
to the North German Lloyd contract
are understood to be based upon
points of international law wiich
have been referred to Secretary Colby.
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