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fp Abbeville Press and Banner / Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Friday, October 15, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. LEAGUE OF NATIONS CHANGED 10 SUIl REPUBLICANS ARE FOR HARE AND LEAGUE?THIRTY-ON EXPLAIN HOW THEY AR! WILLING TO HAVE OHIO SEr^ ATOR SEEK AMENDMENTS.GIVE OUT STATEMENT. New York, Oct. 14.?A statemen explaining the position in the pres: dential campaign of 31 prominen men who have advocated some forr of international agreement was is sued over their signature here to night and announced they would sup port Senator Harding, the Republica: I nnminop J / Elihu Root, Herbert Hoover, Gee W. Wickersham, Henry L. Stimsor A. Lawrence Lowell, Henry W. Taf and Charles E. Hughes were amonj the signers of the statement whicl . says in part: "The question between the candi dates is whether we shall join unde an agreement containing the exac provision negotiated by Presiden Wilson at Paris or under an agree ment which omits or modifies some o these provisions which are very ob jectionable to great numbers of th< American people.* "A majority of the senate vote< to ratify the league agreement witl modifications which there is good evi dence to show would have been ac cepted by the other nations; but Mr Wilson refused to accept these modifi cations, and insisted upon the agree ment absolutely unchanged. _ _ _ "Mr. Harding said in his speech o: August 28 that: , "There are distinctly two types o international relationship. One is ai offensive and defensive alliance o great powers. _ _ the other type i a society of free nations or an asso ciation of free nations or a league o free nations animated by considera tions of right and justice instead o might and self-interest, and not mere ly proclaimed an agency in pursuit o peace, but so organized and so pax ticipated in as to make the actual ai * 4 O raQCAT>nhla TlrtSS' tainmeriL ux pca<_c a r bility. Such an association I favo with all my heart." "The question accordingly is nc between a league and no league, bu is whether certain provisions in th proposed league agreement shall d accepted unchanged or shall be chang ed. "Articlte 10 provides that the ns tions agreeing to the treaty shall: " 'Preserve as against external ag g^ession the territorial integrity an existing political independence of a' members of the league.' "This is an obligation of the mos vital importance and it certainly bind every nation entering into it to go t war whenever war may be necessar to prove the territorial integrity o political independence of any mem ber of the league against externa aggression. "We have reached the conclusioi that the true course to bring Americi into an effective league to preservi peace is not by insisting with Mr Co: upon the acceptance of such a pro vision as Article 10 but by frahklj calling upon the other nations ti ngree to changes in the propose* agreement which will obviate this vi tal obiection and other objections les the subject of dispute. _ _ _ ^ "The Republican party is bound b; every consideration of good faith t pursue such a course until the de clared object is attained. "That course Mr. Harding is wiil ing to follow, for he said in hi speech of August 28: " 'I would take and combine all tha is good and excise all that is bad fror both organizations (the court and th league.)." SEEING THE GAME. Miss Mary Quarles Link, Miss Mar Lawson Link, Messrs Frank E. Harr son, Jr. and H. H. Greene went up t Clemson today to see the Clemsor Auburn football game. L RACE FOR GOVERNOR IN 1922 DISCUSSED Said in Columbia That A. F. Lever, H. B. Springs, Thos. H. Peeples, A. J. Bethea and H. C. Tillman Will, all Run u Columbia, Oct. 14.?It is early to ^ be talking politics, but already there i ^ are hats being made ready for the i toss into the political ring, and the < office of governor, it seems, will have ] ? number of seekers. Already nearly 1 a half-dozen names have been men- ; ^ tioned alongside the word "governor 1 l" of people who will likely be in the 1 * running. < a Former Congressman Asbury F. ( ' Lever is freely mentioned as a candi- ' date for the chief executive officer. ! Mr. Lever has made speeches in the 1 state recently hi which he intimated * that he would offer for governor. J Col. Holmes B. Springs, of Green- ^ '' ville, is also mentioned. The news- ( papers of Greenville have stated that ' he would be a candidate for governor. Thomas H. Peeples, of Columbia, 1 former attorney-general under Gov- ] ernor Blease, has announced that he r will be in the race, and another Co- J lumbia lawyer, A. J. Bethea, former * lieutenant-erovernor, has also an-| nounced. f '< Henry C. Tillman, of Greenwood, is another South Carolinian, who is , a ^ I " said to be getting his hat ready, j The office of governor has risen in public estimation of late. The salary has been increased, so that it now marks the office more attractive to J good men. t What Governor Cooper's plans are t for 1922 no one yet knows. He has j made an excellent record as executive t f but whether he will have further j I political aspirations or not, he has ( ? not indicated. ( x Governor Cooper has made many 1 f I admirers by his strong administra- 1 g tion. He is a man of deep insight < into the human heart and its needs, i f "I believe the most important ques- 1 i? tion before the American people to- S f day," he said to newspaper men in a ? i_ personal conversation today, "^s the i f proper education of the passes. Our | . goal must be human happiness rather j than material prosperity, fhe gov- , [. ernment must be so administered in j r all its departments that it convinces j . the average man that democracy is ,t not only a sentiment, but a fact, in 1 ?- rpATrornmonf a n H lifp nf t.Vll5 PAIITI- , XI ? j e'try. Bolshevism and anarchy cannot . e exist in a country where there is an >_ honest and effective effort to give the average man a larger life and ini_ creased happiness." f. LEAGUE OFFERS d LEADING ISSUE 11 McAdoo Speakes for Cox in Pennsy.'it vania?To Forget Politics. i ( s , 0 Connellsville, Pa., Oct. 14.?W. G. y McAdoo, campaigning for the Demor cratic party, entered the coke coun-j i. try of western Pennsylvania today 1 # t ,1 and made a number of addresses, in ; which he urged ratification of the lea- * 1 gue of nations covenant. Mr. McAdoo ' I ? _ i j i j??i _ j ? I f a in nis aaaress nere uesunueu wie uut-j s umSnt as "one of the greatest ever 1 k conceived by human minds," and de- * _ clared that "if James M. Cox were j against the league and ^arren G. 1 j Harding for it, I as a Democrat would * i support Harding,# be cause I know * . that the future rests more on a settle- * s ment of this basic question than any * other. I would break every party tie 1 y on earth and stand for the principle j * a of this league. ' * "There are tinfes," thg speaker ad- * ded, "when issues musttranscend poI litical parties. If evej^there was aj^ s time in history when the voice $f par-jc jisan politics should be stilled, this is j * t one of them. n 'Women hold the balance of power 1 e in this electiort. A grave responsihil- T ity rests upon them. They have got to * make a decision as to whether the United States is going to unite itself with the other nations of the world y to prevent war or whether it is going ] i- to throw aside the fruits of victory i o and return to the old order, which-led ] i- to war in the past and which will lead < to war in the future." 1 LIMITED CLOTHING SCHEME DISCARDE1 Russian Reds Will Not Limit Peopl To One Suit of Clothes and One Pair Shoes As At First Ordered. ' 1 Washington, Oct. 14.?Plans of th Bolshvik government for limiting th inhabitants of Russia to one suit o :lothVs and one pair of shoes for eac person have been given up "owing t Lhe adverse comment," according t i cablegram at the state departmen ;oday from Consul Quarton at Vi i)org, Finland. The collection o ;lothes for the army is being carriei ->ri hv nmncpmpnts marie volunfcari y, the consul added. Russian peas ints are to be compelled to work oi >vood cutting, harvesting crops an< :he loading of supplies under a pro iect being arranged by the Petnograi abor committees, the consul report ?d. According to the project peasant ire to receive certain fixed wages fo 25 days per month at least spent ii ;he work and those who own horse ,vill be allowed 10 days each montl n which to work on land of their owi VIen who desert or refuse to do thi abor will be sent to the special camp :or hard work, the consul concluded iypsy smith preaches here ^loted -Evangelist Comes -to Abbe ville and Preaches In Episcopal Church to Large Congre gation. Yesterday afternoon, before ar ippreciative and attentive audience ;he Rev. "Gypsy" (Rodnjay) Smitl jreached a splendid sermon on th( ;ext "Ye must be born again" (St rohn 3:7). Before three o'clock, th< :hurch began to fill, and those wh< lelayed until afjer 3:30 had difficul ;y in finding sekts. Some asked tha ;he sermon be preached in the open >n the steps of the Court House, fo: nstance, but wiser judgment cause< ihe talk to be held inside the fou: svalls in order that the evangelist b saved his voice for the evening ii Greenwood, where he is under con tract. Be it known here, that Mi Smith came here on his invitatioi and in order to help Mr. Derbyshir in his new work?and NOT afte persuasion. One thing that pleased us wa the beautiful English which Mi Smith used, the felicity of his ex pression gratified the incredulous and gripped his audience from th start. The image of^the angels weep ing over the fallen earth, in th rainbow, was one of the beautifu images, and the idea that it is bette to build a fence around a precipic< rather than a hospital at the bottom was another. Pathos, vigor, beaut; of imagery and mastery of the ar jf preaching, were among the othe things which we liked. Some of u were surprised to see such a younj nan in Mr. Smith, but other ones o: as realize that age does not maki jenius. Mr. Smith was splendidl: grounded on his Bible illustrations lad a wealth of vocabulary, an< jave such a talk as his able fathe: vould have given, if he had beei ;here. Many were grieved to see Mr Smith leave so abruptly after hi: ;alk, for the people_wished to speal ;o him?but on closer reaction ;hey realized that, he did the wisesi hing. He would have been unavoid ibly and irretrievably hampered iJ lh ad waited to shake hands with al he people who wished to speak tc lim. Everybody is g7ad he came t( Abbeville and the possibility tha' VIr. Derbysh/e could be able to pro :ure Mr. Smith for such a series oi ;vangelistic sevices as are beinf leld at Greenwood, is not in th< ealm of utter impossibility, pro fided it is the will of the peopl< ;hat he make the necesary advances A BROKEN ARM. Miss Mary Stallings, daughter o \lr. and Mrs. T. A. Stallings, had th misfortune to fracture her right am yesterday on the school grounds. Sh slipped on a rock and the fall froc this caused the injury. NEGROES RETURNING [> FROM NORTH AND EAST e Many Families Flocking Back to Central and South Georgia, And Appeals Come From Others. e Macon, Ga., Oct. 14.?Thousands e of Georgia negroes who migrated to f the north and east soon after the outh break of the war, lured by high wago es offered in industrial plants are reo turning to Georgia and hundreds of t others unable to make the homeward i- trip because of lack of funds, are f sending appeals to their former emd ployers for tickets on which to travel I. back to Dixie. i- Stories appearing in the Macon ti News, of this city, from a number of d counties in central and south Georgia - chronicle the return of many families; d and appeals from even larger num; bers for funds with which to return s to their native homes. r Virtually all of those who return n and those who are writing for funds 3 state that they have been thrown ^ out of employment and now find a themselves faced with the prospect S nf Vinrr] winter in n ttrancn InnH s Returning negroes all tell the ' same story. The high wages received counted for little with them as they I ' were more than offset by the high cost of living in the industrial cen* ters to which they went. Practically all of them return to their old home3 penniless, glad to have saved enough from their high wages to purchase the precious pasteboard which mean 1 transportation back to the land of i cotton, sweet potatoes, free quarters' ^ and free firewood. > . I ' MO rrvDvicu nrAn % > The people of this community will - regret to hear that Rev. Mr. Cornish t who a few years ago was pastor of > he had waited to shake hand with all r the-Episcopal church at this place, is 1 dead. The end came Wednesday r night at Charleston where he had e been ill in an infirmary for several 1 days. Mr. Cornish was in his fifty ninth year. In late years Mr. Cornish has been chaplain of the Seaman's Home e in Charleston and there did a great r work. He was . also rector of the Episcopal church on James Island. s His home was in Summerville. Rev. Mr. Cornish was born in Aiken, and was a graduate of the !? Porter Military Academy. He pre-j e pared for the ministry at the UniK vesity of the South (Sewanee). e He is survived by-his widow, for1 merly Miss Kate Simmons, of Sumr merville; three daughters , Mrs. e Harry Bull, Misses Sarah and Faith l> Cornish; one son, Capt. G. R. F. y Cornish, U. S. A.; a brother, Rev. J. t|J. Cornish, Valdosta, Ga., and three rj sisters, Mrs. Jenkins, of Asheville, siMrs. John Wilkinson of James Is* J land and Miss Katie Cornish of f! Charleston. I IT j THE COfTON MARKET ? j 1 Today was another off day with r cotton. December futures in New i York went down from yesterday's close of 20.55 to 20.00. New York . spots closed to 22.00, a loss of 50 3 points over yesterday. c The best offered on the local mar? ket today was 22 cents. Prices t ranged from this figure down to - 20 cents. F 1 WOMEN TAKE JURY > DUTY SERIOUSLY ) ; Newark, N. J., Oct. 14.?Women " newly enfranchised in this state, f | take their duties as jurors more J seriously than do men, John E. Gal; lagher, sergenat-at-arms of the Oratifrp diet. declared todav after ; serving subpoenas on the state's first panel of taleswomen. Out of 12 women summoned, only one objected to serving and she | f consented when assured that she e was not too young. n The women will sit tomorrow in a e suit involving a dispute between a a dressmaker and a pattern manufacturing company. BRITISH FACE AN \ INDUSTRIAL CRISIS J it Coal Miners Have Ordered A Strike Saturday Night, Throwing Over 800,000 Worker* Out Of Employment. . London, Oct. 14.?The United TI Kingdom today was faced with perhaps the most ominous industrial crisis in its history, due to the decision of the coal miners to allow the strike notices to become effective Saturday night following their rejection of the compromise offered to their demand for a two shilling per shift increase in wages. c CO It seemed certain that unless the government or the mine owners con- ^ ceded the demands of the men or made fresh attractive offers, more , I ly than 800,000 miners would not return j # j to the pits Monday, thereby throwing! hundreds of thousands of workers inr ri other industries * out of work and t01 causing a critical situation in the economic life of the country. ^?' Official returns from the national!m{ miners ballot concerning the datum! line proposal of the owners showed an overwhelming majority in favor of fn rejection. At this morning^ crucial conference of the miners delegates, 0cj Who met to consider the deadlock, a small minority held out for suibmis- na sion of t*he claims of the men to ar-i'e bitration, but this was brushed aside. jwc It was stated that the miners execu-i or tives expected to be summoned to the! ^r' board of trade this afternoon. but!VV whether this would occur, or if so, m' what it presaged, was a matter of speculation. ^ No sooner had news of the decision of the miners been received in the; giant steel district of Cleveland,!sai Yorkshire, that the iron and steel n0 Kg manufacturers there began preparations for closing the works. It is ex-,^1 i ! tj|. pected that if the strike materializes1 most of the blast and steel furnaces will become idle immediately. The government, while saying little for weeks, has been actively preparing to handle the situation in the in event of the strike being called. tie THE PRESBYTERIAN DRIVE. j *? I f o Last year the Baptists and the Se- ^ eeders showed them how to do it, and ? m; now the Presbyterians are about to mi begin the big million dollar drive for ^ funds to help the educational institu- ^ tions of the church. Dr. M. E. Milvin, ui the chairman of the committee in _ mi charge of the drive is to be here to! ro Dreach for the Presbyterians Sunday,! an and will remain over to discuss the ca matter with the officers of the local mi church. Rev. L. Ross Lynn is to come to 1 Abbeville a little later to take ac. co tive charge of the work here. It is ex- . r,ected that the Presbyterians of this city will make quite a liberal contribution to the fund. The congregation here represents most of the wealth of 101 the city. w< Pr ou GENEROUS DONATION THIS ta1 pn John B. Cleveland Buys Home For wc Aged Women and Makes Gift Of It. sei fits CO! Spartanburg, Oct. 14.?John B. ^ Cleveland of this city has purchased ien the building known as the Spartan-j^ burg City hospital, together with the | nurses' home adjoining, and has pre-J sented both pieces of property, valued at about $65,000,\ to the Georgia Cleveland Home for Aged Women 1 here. The property purchased by Mr. au' Cleveland is situated on North Dean soi Street in one of the most attrac- res tive residential sections of the city, in The Geogia Cleveland Home for Aged Jai Women is at present located on South of Dean Street in a building that has dri proven inadequate to accommodate wh the aged women applying for admis- me sion. The present of Mr. Cleveland the will provide an ideal home for the ap; ladies now dependent upon the home the and will also enable the authorities of a t the Georgia Cleveland home to ad- th( mit a large number of other appli- coi cants who have recently been turned Th away because of lack of space. j $2 EFUSES AID TO ~ FARMERS' INTEREST IEASURY WON'T BE A PARTY ~ TO HOLDING ANY COMMODITY FOR ARTIFICALLY HIGH PRICE ?SECRETARY HOUSTON AND SENATOR SMITH HAVE HEATED COLLOQUY. % Washington, Oct. 14.?Secretary >ustdn reiterated today to repreitatives of agricultural interests in nference here that the treasury >uld not be a party to the withlding of any commodity from the irket in order to maintain artificialhigh prices. Spokesmen for the delegation were ink in their criticism of Mr. Housn's recent statement that prices d begun to recede, but the secretaryid them as frankly that his state:nt properly represented conditions The delegation sought mainly to ve the treasury revive the war fince corporation, arguing that thru they would be able to obtain funds finance exports which they claimwere falling off, creating a stagnt market. Secretary Houston ask, if any member of the delegation luld loan directly on German bonds other securities, explaining that evious appeals of cotton producers Q + + Vl O cfATrovnmisnf a^nnl/l -*v v?MW ,vi*v 5Vf Vlliiuwilb OllVUIU ike available to them the German irket. A heated colloquy between ? secretary and Senator Smith of uth Carolina, followed. "Germany must live," the senator id, "you know she must live. I see reason why her bonds should not accepted. I would ^eply to your t rect questions: Yes,s a thousand aes yes; for, as I said before, Ger- _ uiy must live or the world pays 2 price." Senator Smith told the secretary at he was "the one and only one" the government who could direct sumption of governmental activiis which would relieve the situation mplained of by the agricultural inrests. Secretary Houston explained that e treasury was constantly in the arket to borrow money for the payent of current bills. He told them at the war finance corporation could itain money only from the treasy, and that if it were to loan it Bant only that the treasury's borwings would have to be increased id the government would have to 11 on the people continuously for are money. Senator Smith declared that if such ;re necessary, it was the proper urse to pursue. He said he had no jection to another popular loan, if e exigency required. Secretary Houston said the decis- / i of the treasury not to revive the ir finance corporation had been ap oved by the president and "numers prominent senators and representees" All were familiar with the oblems with which the corporation >uld deal if it were revived, the :retary said, adding that the conisus of opinion was that the bene5 derived from restoration of the rporation would not counterbalance ; evil effects it would have on genii money*market and credit condins. AUTOMOBILE WRECK There was a collision between the tomobiles driven by Russell Thomi and R. E. Cox in front of the iidence of Mr. T. C. Seal last night, which both cars were considerably maged. Mr. Thomson with a party young ladies and gentlemen was ving North along Main street, 1 _ 7i f... n i i lie lur. anu several yuung^ n in his car were coming towards ; public square. As the two cars proached each other, each driver >ught thfc other was about to make urn, and each undertaking to avoid ; other turned his car out of his arse. The result was the collision, e damages to the cars were about 50.00 each.