Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NEW TREATY TO BE NEGOTIATED WITH JAP GOVERNMENT Will Define Rights of Japs in Amer ica?Understood Japan Has With drawn Objections to Law / Passed in California on Land Holding. Washington, Dec. 28.?Prepara tions on the part of the United States government for the negotiations of a treaty with Japan defining the prop erty and other rights of Japanese I nationals in the United States have been broadened to include consulta tion with leaders in congress. The suggestion that congressional leaders be called into conference is under stood to have been made by state department officials with a view of securing approval by congress of va rious provisions of ' the proposed ? treaty. Roland S. Morris, the American ambassador to Japan, who has been conducting the treaty negotiations with Baron Shi4ehara, the Japanese ambassador here, conferred yester- i day with Representative Kahn, of California. Ambassador Morris had i consulted previously with Senator Johnson of California, the only mem- ( ber of the senate foreign relations committee from the Pacific coast | states, and with Representative John son, of Washington, chairman of the , house immigration committee and it ( is understood conferences with other , members of both the senate ana house are contemplated. I Representative Kahn, after his con- i fereac-e at the state department with Morris, said he had reason to believe that Japan had withdrawn opposition to the California law as ratified by the voters of that state in the Nov- 1 ^ ember election prohibiting Japanese 1 from acquiring title to real estate. 1 The California representative added that he had called a meeting of house ' members from his state for tomorrow | to discuss a proposal that the Cali- i fornia legislature be asked to enact ' a substitute statute which would pro- > hibit any alien from acquiring land J in California. He refused to say 1 wftetner tne reported wunarawaj 01 Japanese opposition to the present law had been made contingent on en actment of the substitute statute. The understanding here has been the negotiations between Ambassa dor Morris and Baron Shidehara have not reached the stage of actual drafting of the proposed treaty and this understanding was said by Mr. Kahn to have been borne out by the impressions he had received in his discussions with Mr. Morris. Satis factory progress, it is said, have been made in the negotiations, however, and a mass of material in the shape of reports is understood to be about ready for submission to the Tokio government and to the state depart ment. ASKS FOR RETURN n OF ARMY ABROAD ' i Dial Write* Baker at to Expense* ^ Of Troops Washington, Dec. 28.?A matter ' of importance both from the stand point of tax-saving and placing the ' country on a strictly peace basis, has just been initiated by Senator Dial of South Carolina. He has writ ten Secretary Baker asking for the return of American troops from Gemany, in the following letter: i "If you are prepared to give out! .the information kindly let me -know] how much longer it & Intended to keep our .troops in Germany. "As you know, my . constituents are very mu?h overKoa'ded on cotton " and we are exceedingly anxious to get a market for it, and it occurs i ^ to me we should aid ' Germany in j every reasonable way in our power, # to get on her feet financially, "I understand . that our army | over there is costing Germany about $500,000 a day. It occurs to me it; would be very beneficial to the; stability, of the world if we could br'ng this army home. I trust some' way will be found to eliminate this. expense at as early a date as possi-| . We. "In fact, I am strongly of the opiniu:i that it is time for the ex-! penses in every branch of our gov-: ernmen 'o be reduced as much as is consistent with good government arid safe business." , The first representative of our government to board a vessel arriv ing f"^m a foreign port is the health officer! LABOR COMMITTEE MEETS NEXT MONTH Charged With Continuing Ecort To Organize Steel Industry?To Make Survey. Washington, Dec. 28.?The new la bor committee charged with contin uing the ecort to organize the steel industry plans to hold its first form al meeting here next month. Some of the members already here express the opinion that the first meeting probably will be devoted largely to a survey of the developments of the year which has passed since the last attempt and the laying of grounds to continue the fight at a time which the leader may consider opportune. The chairman of the reorganized committee is M. F. Tighe and the secretary now is William Hannon. William H. J?hnson, president of the International Association of Machin ists, is a member1. Secretary Morri son of the American Federation of Labor's expected to participate in the coming meeting, as he is trustee of the $70,000 fund which remained in the hards of the old organization committee when it was dissolved. The new committee was formed at a meeting last month at which were represented the international unions having members in the steel industry.: rather than at a meeting of the ex-| ecutive council of the American Fed eration of Labor as was erroneously stated at that time. The represen tatives of the union, however, did meet at the call of the exfecutive :ouncil. BOLL WEEVIL POISONING ! Clemson College, Dec. 28.?An swering inquiries in regard to cot ton boll weevil poisoning in South Carolina in 1921, the division of en tomology gives the following infor-j mation. The dusting work of the govern ment, conducted over an extensive acreage in 1920, showed advantage in favor of the poisoning, and gives further encouragement for thfe I probable ultimate success of poison ing when the material is properly) applied under good farming condi tions and more favorable seasons than those of 1920. It must be re membered that this work was "con ducted with the most approved ma shinery, under the most skillful di rection of capable entomologists, and mainly in the Delta region, where farming conditions are mark edly uniform. 'In Alabama the work was con iucted under the direction of the Alabama state entomologist and showed in general favorable re sults. Similar results were obtained by the Sea Island Station, Valdbs ta, Ga. j The work in South Carolina show ed variable result with no material jains, but it must be remembered the weather conditions for poison ing in South Carolina in 1920 were ibout as adverse as possible; and it must be further remembered that the machine situation was handi :apped and *that we had everything to learn. Poisoning is a serious and com plicated problem, and our attitude must be conservative. The danger " I Df over doing it in iyzi is luuy asi ?reat as in 1920, because the wee-| fil has reached the injurious stage I jver a larger area. A number of de-.J tails must yet 'be worked out befor6 j poisoning can be generally recom-| mended without limitations to the( average farmer, If there is one thing that we have learned more decidedly than anything else, it is the great neces sity for the planter to study the problem with much greater serious ness and personal attention than heretofdre/ The planter who intends to learn something about poisoning is urged to secure a moderate priced approved machine and be prepared to apply the material thoroughly and strictly according to directions with a view of learning fundamen tals involved. The machine situation is not yet settled, and farmers are advised to study this phase of the question with great care so as to avoid seri ous mistakes. The plans for 1921 in progress include experimental and education al^wojrk, and unless weather condi tions are entirely unfavorable, it would appear possible to develop the poisoning system to where it could be employed more generally by the average farmer with reason able assurance of success. PLAN TO PROTECT PANAMA CANAL; Bill Soon To Be Drafted By Com mittee Should Have Best Washington, Dec. 27.?Adequate ' protection for the Panama canal from attacks from the air, the land, or sea is to be provided for in a j bill soon to be drafted by the house committee on appropriations and for fortifications and seacoast de fenses. Members of the committee now are virtually agreed upon a plan to make the canal impreg nable. It has been suggested unofficially to those members of the house in I charge of appropriations that the canal must be given the best modem defenses. These suggestions were said today to have resulted directly from the recent inspection of the canal's fortifications by' President elect Harding and his party. Plans to meet these suggestions! and at the same time adhere strict ly to the rules of economy laid down iby the house leaders have been ten tatively agreed to. They involve the sending of necessary ordnance, in cluding th largest caliberrd artillery pieces, to the canal as soon as they are produced. This ordnance in cludes those guns which were autho-' rized in 1918 for coast defense pur poses, the first of which are to be delivered next spring. In addition to the canal's main land defense, the war department has produced the placing of several of the longest range rifles on an is land located about 15 miles off the Pacific entrance. The committee members are said to have agreed to this proposal and will authorize the placement of guns there as soon as the state department can conclude diplomatic negotiations to that end. The Atlantic entrance ^will be provided wih an elaborate sytem of * - * a- ii. tracks designed to carry wie Heavi est railroad artillery. ' House members believe that the canal thus can be made impreg nable by the use of material now under construction and with only little additional expense to the gov ernment. FAITH OF GERMANS PINNED TO HARDING Berlin, Dec. 28.?Complaint that Germany's foreign position is contin ually becoming worse as the Ver sailles treaty is carried increasingly into effect is made by Dr. Walter Simons, the German foreign minis ter, in a signed article appearing in he Frankfort Zeitung today. "Not a week passes," he says, "with out our former opponents address ing demands we can only fulfill by sacrificing important German inter ests. "With America we still live in a state of war and that this is not simply a manner of speech has been (shewn by the American ambassadors | n Paris." Dr. Simons then refers "as a gleam of hope to the possibility of the Brussels conference making pos sible the fixing at Geneva of the German war debt with tolerable lim | it." He concludes his article by saying: I l | "We may be sure the new president I of the United States will not hesitate I to restore a state of peace with Ger | many." PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN .. . ( Newspaper that Died and left Several J Hundred Pounds of Print Paper and ! ho is Dashing to the Depot with a i Telegram to Ship it, regardless of Cost I Editors always Did have Great Gobs j of Oriof in the Daw-gone Newspaper Business hut Thcat Duys have everj ; thing Heat. THOUSANDS VIOLATE NATIONS' DRY LAWS Attorney General Palmer Report* Arrests of Over Seventeen Thou sand Persons Since Dry Law Went into Effect. Washington, Dec. 30?Need of ad-, ditional funds for enforcement of, I prohibition laws, with wholesale vio lations reported from many sections, was emphasized by Attorney General Palmer in testimony before the ( house appropriations- committee^ made public today for the first time. | Mr. Palmer's request fop $300,000 for this purpose was turned down by the cojnmittee, in reporting out the sundry civil bill. Declaring the law ought to be strictly enforced, Mr. Palmer con 4-<an A ex A +Kof i v\ miKlirt imin/1 V* n bVUUWU btiab All Vliw |/UU11V MilJiU wJIV burden of responsibility was on the! Department of Justice. "Just to give you an idea of the! size to which this business has run," J said the attorney general, referring! to violations, "the arrests which had been made under the national prohi bition act from the time it became ef fective until eptember 30, 1920 num bered 17,428 were recommended for prosecution, and those became, cases which the Department of Justice must handle. Of that number about ten thousand arose during the IaBt three months of that period, and I am ad vised by the bureau of internal rev enue that the ratio will increase. If it does not increase, there will be forty thousand of those prosecutions to be handled by district Attorneys 1 during the next year." Mr. Palmer insisted that $300,000 in addition to other funds for prose nf primos nncrht. tr? ho oof aside to the appropriations for assist ant district attorneys, charged with handling liquor violation ca&es pre sented by the bureau of' internal revenue. There vrtS a decrease of 60,000 in the number of men and boys work ing on Ohio farms dtfring the year ending June 30, 1920. A world's industrial exhibition will be held in London, May to Oc tober 1922. Cheese, as old as 100 years, can b? found in many Swiss homes. SF That is whc a wagor D u that is what yo as a Farm \ for yoti a best bir in it c out The S COTTON EXPORTS FALL FOR MONTH Well Below Total For November Year Ago?figure* Are Given Washington, Dec. 27.?Cotton ex ports dropped $90,125,900 on No vember as compared with the cor responding month last year, accord ing to figures made public today by the department of commerce. Dur ing November cotton valued at $91 183,372 w^s exported, while a year ago the total was $181,309,272. The figures 9how that in November 357,718,716 pounds of cotton were exported, while for the same period a year ago exports totalled 458, 545,328 pounds. During the 11 months ending with November cotton exports from the United States amounted 'to 2, 765,380,8.0 pounds valued at $1, 044,083,523 while during the 11 corresponding months of 1919 the total was 2,916,747,676 pounds valued at $956,722,974. * While cotton exports for Novem ber of this year show a decided drop over the same month of last year, the total for the 11 months was -287,350,549 more than in the 11 months of 1919. Exports of food products during November amounted to $138,898, 081, as compared with >133,457166 in November, 1919. Breadstuffs of food products dur ing November were valued at $99, 777,081, as compared with $71,711 968 in the corresponding month of a year ago. Exports of meat products last yeaT amounted to $39,211,997, while in November :L919, they were valued at $61,745,198. Cotton seed oil exports for November were valued at $3,028,42!), nearly $1,-. 000,000 more than In November a year ago while for the 11 months' period this year the total value was $29,771,389. Mineral oils exported last month were valued at $47,332, 738 or about $1,500,000 more than in November 1919. Jirt Vion fnvna/} Q Ollvflr f A jLiiuia uao bumcu ?iviu u oui a gold standard. Attracted by the high rate of ex change, counterfeiters are circulat ing bogus American money in Ger many. RVI it you want wht i?and when yoi I u get. Iri 'such an : Vagon the best is no xid that is why the Ba y. The quality you md you will get the se : of it. So, when y ire in the market for .i i . tne Dest wagon mony can buy, call on tark Vehic MANY AUTOMOBILES IN SOUTH CAROLINA South Carolina's automobile popu lation for 1920 reached a total of 93 848 cars and trucks, according to figures from the state highway com mission. This is the grand total for the year as no more 1920 licenses will be issued. In addition to the 93,334 automo biles and trucks registered during the year and trucks registered dun ing the year were 908 motorcycles licensed, 1,541 dealers' licenses is sued and 1,933 transfers made. From the sale of these licenses the total revepue reached $527,868.13 as com pared with $539,733.80 for 1919 when a total of 94,511 cars were registered. ui tne total amount collected 80 per cent, is returned to the counties and 20 per cent goes to the state. New licenses for 1921 are already being issued and under the new law a big increase is expected next year I although the number of licenses is. not expected to show any ' material, advance. Under the new law owners have only the month of January to pro cure the metal plates that will allow ' them to pass a policeman in safety. After February 1 all cars not bearing the regulation plate will be taxed by the authorities. Car owners cat ob tain application blanks from Che ^ clerks of court or any .reputable au tomobile dealer and forward these to the highway commission for his li cense. Machines will be licensed by weight next year and not by horse power as was the case in 1920. The total population of South Car olina as given by the census bureau for 1920 is 1,683,724 and dividing this figure by the total registration of cars and trucks it is seen that there is one automobile or truck for every 19 persons and fraction over. German residents in Milwaukee have sent 80,000,000 marks to Ber lin +n nllpvintA thp rfistress in ficr many and Austria. A gaiii of 37 per cent over the crop of 1919 is estimated for the world's rice crop of 1920. 5 Japan has appropriated $200,000, 000 for the construction of new rail road lines. m you buy u buy a important item" he top good ; in is your need is irvice ou : le Co. I