Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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STOP IMMIGRATION FOR SIX MONTHS NEW BILL PROPOSES Seaator King of Utah Plane to In- ^ traduce Measure When Congress Convenes Monday Washington, Dec. 1.?Complete ' stoppage of immigration for a period f six months while congress is draft ing a general law to cover the whole nnmigration question is proposed in a bill which Senator King, of Utah, a Democratic member of the Senate im-' migration committee, is preparing for! introduction soon after congress eets next Monday. Senator King said today that the admission of aliens to this country j curst be made more difficult and that I it was necessary to prohibit any of) the people from foreign countries who! axe inoculated with "red" tendencies! from entering the United States. Immigrants to the number of 369,-1 S57 arrived in this country during the first four months of this fiscal year, which began last July 1, records at the Department of Labor show. Daring the same time 214,705 emi grants left the United States, leaving a net increase in aliens in this coun try pf 156,154 for that period. Host of the immigrants came from Europe and most of the emigrants re tained there. Despite the rapid in in the flo of immigrants, De paitment of Labor officials do not re fisre the excess of immigration from Europe over emigration will reach the pre-war figures for sometime to come. SPARTANBURG AGAINST PHONE RATE INCREASE Spartanburg, Dec. 2.?The board f directors of the Chamber of Com' taerce decided at the meeting held at ion yesterday not to indorse the reddest of the Southern Bell Tele phone company for an increase of SO per cent in their rates. Members fcf (he board stated that in their opin io* it was an inopportune time to consider granting such a raise in view f the deflation in almost all lines. SNUFF BOX PASSED AT SCOTS SOCIETY BANQUET Boston, Dec. 2.?The cup that cheers was replaced by the snuff that exhiliarates when the Scots Char Bable society revived an old custom at its annual banquet last night to take the place of ante-prohibition toasts. Scotch snuff from a silver moon ted ram's horn was passed about the tables. The first to take a cautious pinch was Governor Calvin Coolidge, vice president elect, who was the chief guest. *rom mm tne norn went aown the banquet board. Sneezes followed, and handkerchiefs were quite gener ally displayed. Soon afterward Professor Charl ton Black of Boston tJniversity relat ed an anecdote directed to despond-^ eat victims of the 18th amendment. It was the warning of an old Scotch man to his son against too liberal use of snuff, with the statement that uI**e been drunker on sneezum than I erer was on whiskey." The guests sneezed again and then the speakers lad their say. ' The ballot boxes of New York t>Uy on election day received 150 tons of ballots. BIGGER TO THI FOR every crop you plan to sc especially designed to incr soiL For prize crops of co Fertilizer. 90 to 95 bushels of c acre are records established throi Izer on Southern farms. They h success throughout the South fo: hoc iiciaH f-hpm anrl hp will ca\r* PLANTERSf DOUBLES V For many years Planters Fertili the South's most successful farm sible to produce bigger, better ci this year?GET RESULTS T1 Consult our Agent for Free Advii write us direct?TODAY. It mi Planters Fertilizer MANUFAC Charleston - - * AUSTRIA IS VOTED A LEAGUE MEMBER Commission for Admission of New States Unanimously Approves Application. Geneva, Dec. 2.?Austria was un animously voted a member of the League of Nations by the commission for the admission of.new states here today. It is expected the assembly of the League will ratify the action. Application by Bulgaria for admis sion to the League of Nations was ex pected to be brought up today at the session of the assembly of the League Serbia, Greece and Rumania had in dicated they were seriously opposed to the admission of Bulgaria, and it appeared nrobable they would make an issue of the matter. Another attempt was made to gain tVio inoiniDc KnHirpt fnr t.he oypj. forthcoming year. This matter came before the assembly yesterday but ob jections were voiced by several na tions, delegates from New Zealand, Australia and India pointing out that in their opinios 7,000,000 francs in gold was an excessive amount. WILLARD TO FIGHT THE WINNER QF BIG MATCH New York, Dec. 2.?Tex Richard announced today he had- received contracts signed by Jess Willard, for mer world's heavy weight boxing the margin from 12 to 10 cents in view of the market's decline in the past two weeks. Thousands of dol lars in loans were made at 12 cents per pound for a period of six months to farmers who said they were un able to borrow money from the banks on their cotton. The amount to be loaned is 50 per bale. ORDER HELPS SOON Washington, Dec. 2.?Delays in compensation payments to disabled service men of the late war, which have occurred when they aTe in course of transfer ibetween schools and hospitals will be at least re duced under an order just framed. By an arrangement between the war risk bueau, the public health ser vice and the board for vocational education, telegraphic notice will be jent whenever a man fn the schools discontinues his courses, so that dis ability pay can 'be continued for him from the war risk bureau as soon as it stops from the school funds. At the recent elections, the ballot in Chicago was nearly a yard square. There were three deaths to two births in France last year. YIELDS ; ACRE dw, there's a Planters Fertilizer ease the productiveness of your tton, corn, truck?use Planters :orn?1 to 2 bales of cotton per jph use of this renutable ferti! ave been used with unvarying r years. Ask the farmer who ;ERTILIZER OUR YIELD zer has been the preference of ers, because it has made it pos *ops. Make every acre count HAT WILL PLEASE YOU. ce, Information and Prices?or eans dollars to you. & Phosphate Co. TURERS South Carolina NEGROES GET IN TROUBLE NORTH; CONDITION BAD Washington, Dec. 4.?A news des jatch from Buffalo, N. Y., says thai i thousand or more southern negros lad been run out of the city by the >olice. No official report has beer nade up on it to government officials lere. Newspaper men and congress nen arrivng here from the west par ticularly the states of Indiana, Ohio Illinois and Michigan, report had ronditions in cities where many sou ;hern negroes wet during the war tc vork in industrial plants. From a ipirited rivalry for work between ;he negroes and alien laborers has >prung a bitter feeling that may re lult in serious race riots soon. Labor department agents have not eported any considerable move champion, Jack Dempsey, present ti tle holder, and Bill Brennan, for a championship bout on March 17, 1921 between Willard arid the winner of the Dempsey-Brennan fight here on December 14. Rickard said the fight will be stag ed in Madison Square Garden unless the state boxing commission should prevent it. The size of the purse was not made public. REDUCE MARGIN OF LOANS ON COTTON IN GREENVILLE flroonvillp S. f!.. Den. 2.?To Dro tect loans made from the poql of $300,000 raised by local merchants as . a relief measure for the cotton far mers. the management today reduced . nent or negroes irozn tne norm ana vest to the south. They asesrt thai ubout 10 per cent of those who left ;h^ south during the last four years lave gone back. Negro leaders here claim that nost of the better class of colored >epole who migrated to the north ind west have worked hard, saved noney and bought homes. A bad ele nent has made trouble, and thej irill be driven out this winter. The Buffalo incident is the first of he kind that has been reported to he federal authorites, but sur ace indications point to a bad win er for North Carolina negroes in he north and the west. The Buffalo story reads: "Within he past 48 hours more than 1,100 legroes, discharged during the re ent business depression, have been breed out of Buffalo by the police, (aids have (been conducted in the legro districts and those who are memployed are arrested. "Many negroes, becoming fright ned, have left on their own accord, ome of these withdraw liberal anounts from savings banks and de parted for the south. Pawnbrokers eport that many pawned clothing ind jewelry to enable them to get way. Employers are not disturbed is there has been a surplus of labor n Buffalo for several months. The south will have to winter nany negroes who will return to heir homes in the spring. READY FOR SHRINERS Greenville, Nov., 30.?Everything s in readiness fotr (the spring cere nonial on Thursday of the Hejaz Jhrine temple, and Shriners from all >arts of upper South Carolina are jxpected to come to Greenville tc ittend. Potentate George T. Bryan, >f this city, expects the occasion tc >e one of the largest and most sue :essful ever held in this state or lection. Visiting Shriners, including a lumber with high rank in the order tre expected from other states. Military experts believe Russia has nough munitions to continue her vars for five years. , There are more than 2,000 pure >red milk goats in the United States oday. shp FMI/vys i ad m a in? From the New York Evening World.)) ' How would you like to run a home f from three thousand to five thou and rooms, manage one hundred md fifty chambermaids, thirteen arlor maids, twenty-one bath naids and fourteen seamstresses, ee that the mattresses on every bed yere turned every day, the curtains larned and family satisfied and hap >y? How would you like to keep louse for one million people a year? The housekeepers of New York's lotel promised to show women of he city just how it's done. "When the average housewife has o much trouble with one servant? ind most of them can keep them lone at all?how do you oversee the naking the two thousand ibeds and he work of two hundred, maids and till make the hotel a well ordered lome?" Miss -S. M. Flanagan, house ;eeper for one of the largest hotels vas asked. "It's all system and efficiency," he answered "and co-operation, fou see, whenever a woman alone egisters in our office her name is ent to me immediately. There is a lousekeeper on each floor, and she s instructed to visit these ladies, welcome them to our hotel and ask f they may be of any assistance. It s quite surprising how many women rho come to New Yorfc for a few lays or weeks from small towns are timid about being in a large hotel alone and these little friendly visits i from our housekeepers are a great [ comfort and much appreciated. " | "The help question has changed ' geatly within the last six months. I ' believe it is because the girls realize 11 the war is really over that the enor 1 mous salaries earned in munition ' ( plants and factories are dreams of '. the past and that we must all get to work in earnest and steadily and "WE'Rr It's the sole < For we are doc We serve th With the best 1 We can sew We can do ^ m We can give y nnlxT" C0UN7 Next C ? You Will Need I V? Join Qui Come, j neighbo c ft* and assi for next All you amount prised h NO RE NOE Count Sound G. A. NEUFFER, Pre ALBERT HENRY, Vi lelp aley the unrest in the country. 1 "I havt> found the American born ? -iris the Ibest," saffi this wise house- c eeper. " I always try to employ A- * lerican born girls when possible, 'hey are more appreciative for what * ver is done for their welfare, they < nderstand unavoidable conditions "* sd are willing to make the best of < hings when it is necessary." Miss Flanagan gives these hints t or keeping servants happy: Fair i thf <nn We do not use But cure the L R 1 "Go. Trinity Street 1 K' 'J ' M UUUU'? Money to Buy Christmas r Christmas Gut oin in with your friends rs in this splendid plan >ave During the Year, ire yourself of ample fi year's holiday shopping have to do is to pay a si each week; you will be ow fast it will accumulal ;d tape iXPENSE TO JOIN EVERYBODY WELCO v Savings ] J - Safe sident. ce-President. R. E. G( P. E. BE of man we keep :tors f boots ant e liv 2 and not I eatnv wax, nail you a ^ole or m pou r- iob and m; ou c ft also m li i, bi our famil' por piaster or sic) oes, no n CLiJKsa odyear Shoe Repairin A "Y SAVINGS hristmas.... ;reatment, clean living quarters, a special physician, absolute freedom, ind liberty and proper interest in ;he welfare of the workers. "There is one thing I should like ;o ask the housewives,'* she con :luded. "How can beds be made vithout maids and tubs scrubbed by ;lectricity?" So there are some problems for he hotel housekeeper to solve, after ill. CTOR"' m view 1 shoes; :he dead, s and thread, lil it fast; alcp if last: and i to mds nail sur ;e. \ ME Bank > >pnnrp fe, y and wife, pill, latter how ill. SLES g bbeville. S. C. I