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I Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, March 21, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. MOVE 10 SOLVE R. R. PROBLEMS COORDINATION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICE RECOMMENDED ?SECURITY OWNERS MAKE PROPOSITON?DRASTIC MEAS URES NECESSARY TO SAVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM Washington, March 20.?Coordina tion of the facilities and service of the *railroads of the country tinder strict government supervision is proposed by the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities as a way out of the present transporta tion crisis. The plan will be submitted tomor row to Chairman Cummins of the senate interstate commerce commit tee and S. Davie Warfield, president of the association, announced today that representatives of his organiza tion would appear later before that committee to urge its adoption. Warfield says the plan will in sure annual savings of millions of dollars, increase facilities and service and lower railroad fares and rates. He adds that American transporta tion has outgrown the system under which it now operates and warns tnat the railroads must recognize that only drastic measures on their part "will save them from being swal lowed up in the demoralization that government operations and after war readjustment has brought upon them. "Unless intensive economical methods in - railroad administration are adopted," he continues, "there is no alternative but government opera tion followed by government owner, ship, although the country has given overwhelming evidence of being op posed to it." The proposed plan is supplemental to provisions' of the transportation act permitting regional consolida tion of physical properties by the in terstate commerce commission. Cer tain consolidations of railroads are necessary, Mr. Warfield says, "bui. *n emergency now exists and the public is entitled to more immediate and AAM Ua /I a_ >uubu*uu<u UCI1CJ1LS uiau ^an uu uc rived from the great physical con solidations of railroad properties." The proposed coordination would be brought about through a national i*ailway service to be organized by an act of cox^ress and which also would be an agency to purchase cars and other equipment to be fur nished to the ^railroad Without profit. The interstate commerce commission would select five of its members who would constitute the service division of the national organization. This division would have supervision and initiatory and regulatory powers to be exercised through the board of the national railway service. The uuu.ru wuuiu ue uuxiipuaeu ui tv mcuij bers, subdivided into two divisions, finance and administrative and rail road officials of 20 members each. Subordinate to the board would be four group railway boards, one in t-ach of the four rate territories into which the commission has divided the "country?Eastern, Southern Wes tern and mountain Pacific. Each board would consist of seven members five to be selected by the railroads of each group and two from the shippers located in each group serv ing on these four boards would serve as the railway officials' division of the national board. THE FIRE AT WILLINGTON / There was a big fire at Willington ^last week which came near wiping out the town. The fire. started in Cowan's cotton seed house and burn ed the two Covin stores. The three buildings were a total loss and heroic work was necessary to save the dwelling of W. H. Andrews. It is thought that the fire was of incendiary origin and started in the Cowan's cotton house which contain ed twenty-five thousand bushels of long staple cotton seed, all of which was a total loss. PERSHING SPEAKS BEFORE BIG CROWD Great Patriotic Demonstration in New York at Mass Meeting Where he Denounces Persons of For eign Birth Who Seek Trouble in U. S. New York, March 19.*?Gen. John J. Pershing, speaking before a crowd iwhich packed Madison Square Gar den tonight at one of the greatest patriotic demonstrations here since the signing of the armistice, bit terly denounced persons of foreign birth who seek the freedom of this country to spread "political and war like propaganda" to weaken the ties of friendship between the United States and her allies in the late war. The meeting was held under the au spice^ of the American Legion and other patriotic societies as a protest against the recent mass meeting ar ranged to voice objection to the pres ence of French colonial troops in oc cupied Germany described as "the horror on the Rhine." Fifteen minutes before the meet-l ing was called to order by Col. Frank Galbraith, national commander of the j American Legion, the fire department officials ordered the doors of the1 Garden closed to bar further admis sions. More than 14,000 persons were then packed into the historic struc ture, while thousands of less fortu nate ones were swarming around the building in a frantic endeavor to enter. Tribute to Soldiers. General Pershing, paying tribute to foreign born citizens who served under him in the Philippines, Mexico and France, declared it was eitfirely proper that foreigners should cling 1 to the folklore, literature and music }f the native land, but he assailed those who seek to dictate American questions and political policies by j the standards of their own coun-j tries. * "We have no quarrel with the American of foreign birth," he said "We want them to know that Amer ica is an inspiration, that is some thing spiritual, a goal toward which we aim. But we do object to the foreign born citizen who attempts to decide an American question for for eign reason whether he be of Ger man lineage, and proposes to deter mine an American policy because of German prejudice or whether he be Irish, Italian, Hungarian or Russian who seeks for similar reasons to de cide American questions. I bitterly resent the abuse of American citi zenship or residence for the purpose of political or warlike propaganda in foreign countries." "In America tfcere can be no place for those who, while claiming equal citizenship with us and enjoying the privileges under our flag, yet con tinue their allegiance to another country. There can be no such thing as dual citizenship inVA.merica. Un .ler no guise can this country be made the breeding place of intrigue. We welcome all those who honestly de ,ire to become American citizens and adopt America as their own, but we abhor the intriguer who at the same time would secretly plot against our interests. Spirit of Americanism. "There were with me in the Philip pines, in Mexico and in France," he added, "thousands of foreign born men hardly able to speak our tongue who had in their hearu> the spirit of Americanism and the devotion to make the supreme sacrifice. Indeed, there was often a zeal for all that Americanism means that would put to blush many older Americans who have fallen below the obligations of their birthright. For all of those we have a very warm feeling of com radeship. "Two years have passed, and what of today? Are we to forget the vows of yesterday? Is the wanton destruc tion in France and Belgium and on the seas to be condoned? Shall sub tle propaganda again raise its pois onous head to weaken our friend ships? Are those who made the su preme sacrifice no longer to be re I membered among us? SAYS ACREAGE CUT NECESSARY MOVE Governor Urges Little Cotton This Year, Plant More Food?CalU Attention of Farmers to Need of Diversi fied Crops. Columbia, March, 20.?"It some times seems to me that Mary Twain's comment on the weather is applicable to cotton?everybody talks about it, but nothing is done,"said Governor , cooper in an interview uii tnc wnuii situation just before leaving for Tex as. He spoke with especial reference to the necessity for acreage reduc tion. "I am convinced that a drastic cut in acreage is necessary for our prosperity," he continued. "And this reduction must not be a mere matter of propaganda, but an actual curtail ment, and a very large one, of the amount of cotton produced during the year 1921. It will not suflice to talk about it, something must be done. I know there are many whci will not agree to this, but it seems co m? that we are face to face with tha power ful law of supply and demand, and that law is operating. That's just our trouble; it is operating, and the sup ply of cotton is greatly in excess of the present demand. "The world's consumption of cot ton can be calculated with fair ac curacy. Many such calculations, and unbiased ones, have been made. The only conclusion to be reached is that should the farmers of the South pile up another large Cotton Crop on topj of the cotton now on hand, the re sult would be another year of meagre prices for this, our most important agricultural product. There is no reason to look for any sudden full revival of industry in Europe, hence the European demand can scarcely become sufficiently great to offset the effect of the tremendous supply of cotton now existing. "I know that many farmers Are compelled to plant cotton. Some do not know much about diversification. Unhappily, cotton is with us an in heritance, a tradition, a necessity and all that. But notwithstandng the manner in which this crop is inter woven with our lives, we can effect <a reducton in acreage so impressive that buyers of cotton will foresee a i return nor normalcy, and begin to of fer more attractive prices for the now bedraggled 'King Cotton.' "A merchant who has an unusuallv i large supply of certain goods on_hand and little demand for these goods, would certainly not set about to pro cure more of the wares that already clutter his shelves. The farmer's sit uation is analogous to this. "The wise course for us to pur sue is io raise as much food as pos sible, and as little cotton as we can get along with." ABBEVILLE WINS FIRST GAME The high school baseball season opened Friday afternoon on Rosen berg field when the local high boys xL _ * _ it ? won me game irom tne proiessiun j als" from Due West. For four innings the game was a prototype of a real big league game, neither ^ide scoring until the fourth when Abbeville got in two scores. This fired the visitors and they du plicated the score in the sixth which was immediately copied by the Abbe ville boys. Due West came in strong again in the eighth and added otie run in the ninth making the final score 6 to 5 in favor of the locals. Dawson on the Southpaw for Due West was the star/ pitching a good game and in addition getting four hits, two of them for two bases, out of five times at the bat. Davis J. for tne visitors also got tnree ciean nits one for two bags out of four times at the bat. Allen Long and Bruce Galloway got two hits each for Abbeville while every other Abbeville player except Smith and Swentenburg got a hit a piece. The locals will go to Elberton Wed nesday afternoon to try their luck in Georgia. BEER QUESTION BRINGS FOOD FOR MUCH THOUGHT Next Congress Will Probably Be call ed on to Solve Problem Recently Brought to Front with Rul ing of Retiring Attorney General Washington, March 20.?The sign displayed in the dining room of a North Carolina hotel announcing that to prevent guests taking fruit from the table there would be no fruit, about expresses the view of Hrv 1partar<? in pnnc-rpss with resnect to the new ruling as to medicinal beer. * "If beer is prescribed in any quantity for everybody who is ail ing there will be no beer," was the upshot of opinions by house pro hibitionists. Several members, including some who worked for enactment of the Volstead law, and who believe now that it ought to be tightened up, de clared today that former Attorney General Palmer rightly construed the act in holding that beer, like liquor, should be prescribed for a sick man, but they added that they were awaiting with deep concern in prohibition departments a regulation prescribing the manner and amount of beer dispensation. While the Volstead act limits the amount of -l 1 11..1 u? j wnisitey umi nitty ut: there is no provision dealing with beer. Prohibition leaders think it may be necessary to fix that by statute. Predictions are made by several i prohibtion members that the future! policy of congress will depend upon department regulations of a beer tryout. They see no likelihood of any early change in the law by which a physician may prescribe not more than a pint of whiskey in any | ten day period. But going back to prohibition days, dry leaders recalled that the sick man's beer supply was rather liberal, certainly as com_ pared with modem possibilities. It used to be prescribed by the case, and three bottles a day often was regarded by physicians as a moder ate dose. Prohibition enforcement officials declare they are not responsible for the idea that somehow has spread AiF/ii. fliAwtAiinfmr +Ko^ nnir I v T CI -VV/UAAUXJ bivab lliv lit n lations will permit the sales and drinking of a glass of beer at a drug store fountain. There is not a chance. Druggists alone will be permitted to handle it on bona fide prescriptions. A HERO COMES HOME Mrs. Deason, of McCormick, has been notified that the body of her son, Eugene Woodward, would arrive in New York last Friday and would j be shipped to Abbeville county forj burial as soon as possible. Eugene Woodward was a member of the 30th Division and was one of the first men.| in the county to lose his life in the great conflct. He was killed in action and his Bible which he held in his hand after death was sent to his mother by an English physician. He was a young man of fine character and after many days he will sleep with h's fathers. On the arrival of the body inter ment will be made at Sharon and a monument giving the history of his heroic death is ready to be erected. TO TEACH AT UNIVERSITY Supt. J. D. Fulp of the City Schools has accepted a position as English teacher in the Summer Session of the University of South Carolina. The session lasts six weeks beginning June 15 and the course offered con forms to the regulations of the South Carolina board of education's re quirements for renewal of teachers' certificates. AN ATLANTA VISITOR 9 Mr. W. H. Rhett came over from Atlanta this week and was the over Sunday visitor of friends in the city. Mr. Rhett is a South Carolina man but has strayed away from home as far as Atlanta. PEACE FINALLY MADE AFTER MANY MONTHS Representatives of Russia, Ukraine and Poland Successfully End Negotiations at Riga?Po land to Establish Good Relations Riga, March 19.?After months of negotiations peace finally was signed tonight by the representatives of Rus sia, Ukraine and Poland. After the signatures had been af fixed to the treaty, M. Dombsky, head of the Polish mission, declared it was the desire of Poland to be the bridge between Europe and Russia, He added, however, that future re lations between poland and Russia would depend on the execution of the peace treaty. The conviction that good relations would be established between Rus sia and her neighbors because Rus sia was first to recognize the fighl to self-determination of small na tionalities was expressed by Adolpl; Joffe, chief of the Russian delega tion. "Soviet Russia's enemies" he said, ".have endeavored to represent hei as an aggressive state, but the sign ing of this treaty shows'her peace luiness. M. Meirmitch, the Lettish foreigr minister, said he hoped, on behaU of his country, for the economic col laboration of Russia and her neigh bors. i Twenty-six paragraphs and five appendices made up the document The first four paragraphs establish the Russian-Ukrainian-Polish fron tier, covering the present demarca tion lin? and allowing for altera tions under which 3,000 square kilo meters are ceded' to Poland neai Minsk and the district of Polesia on the Ukranian frontier. All parties under paragraph five agree to abstain from propaganda against each other and prohibit on their respective territories organiza tions acting against the interests ol the other parties, and to abstain from any attempt to interfere with the government of territory belonging1 to the other parties. Farther paragraphs concern mat ters of citizenship and reparation. No. 10 provides for amnesty foi all political crimes, 11 stipulates the turning over to Poland by Russia and Ukraine of all war trophies, libraries archives, collections and other art icles of national, historic and cul tural value baken from Poland since 1772. Paragraph 13 contains provision foi the payment by Russia and Ukraine to Poland of 30,0000,000 gold ruble* during the year following-ratificatior of the treaty. Matters concerning railway ma' terial and machinery, the settlemenl of accounts, deposits and funds are dealt with in Paragraph 14 to 18 wh'le 19 releases Poland from the payment of debts of the former Rus sian empire. The contracting parties, under Par agraph 21, are to start negotiating without delay or within six weeks after ratification for concluding com .nercial treaties and postal and tele graph conventions. Paraghaph 25 allows the free transit of goods unti conclusion of the conventions. The usual formalities regarding the obligations to observe the treaty which is to be ratified in 30 days make up the final paragraphs. MAXCY JOHNSON HURT. Marcy Johnson, one of our brighl cadets at Clemson, is at home for a few days rest. Maxcy suffered a se vere accident some days ago which has put him on crutches. One of his college mates dropped a letter out of the window for M&xcy, who was on the ground below, and in trying to get the letter before it struck the ground, he fell over the embankment of Riggs Field, severely lacerating one hip. Several stitches were taken in order to close up the wound. He is improving, however, and hopes to be himself again soon. Mrs. C. C. Gambrell and Mrs. Joe Little spent last Friday in Atlanta. DAVIS 10 TRY i TO ARBITRATE s , a . CONFERS TODAY WITH PACK ERS j\ND EMPLOYEES?AM ERICAN FEDERATION OF LA BOR PLEDGES EMPLOYEES MORAL SUPPORT?MUCH IN TEREST IN RESULT WashingWfifMarfch $0.?Represen tatives of the five big packers and of their union employees tonight concluded preparations for tomor row's conference with Secretary Davis, who, at (the direction of Presi ident Harding and with the assistance of Secretaries Hoover and Wallace, will attempt to mediate in the con troversy arising from the decision of the packers to reduce wages and alter working conditions. Dennis Lane, secretary of the Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters and'Butcher's Workers of North America and R. S. Brennan, attorney for the order, who will represent the employees in the conference, arrived in Washington during the day and tonight conferred with Samuel Gomp I ers and Frank Morrison, president and secretary, respectively, of the American Federation of Labor. President Gompers, on entering into conference with Messrs Lane and Brennan announced that the em ployees would have the moral support of the American Federation of La bor in their attempt, as labor lead ers said, to compel the packers to observe the working agreement con cluded during the war. The representatives of the packers Carl Meyer and James L. Condon, have been in Washington the past week and have presented their side of Jie case to Secretary Davis. The employees' delegates will be accorded a similar hearing by Secretary Davis tomorrow priot to the meeting in joint session. May Set Precedent. The exact procedure to be followed tomorrow had not been worked out, so far as could be learned tonight. Secretary Davis, it was learned, had pledgetkthe assistance of Secretaries Wallace and Hoover, but whether the latter would sit in the confer ence was in doubt. Labor officials generally attached considerable importance to the out come 01 the conference for the result it was said, might set a precedent for settlement of all of the many con troversies involvjpg discontinuance or abrogation of war time agreements as to wages and working conditions. Proceedings of the conference and the result' obtained by Secretary Davis in his,and the administration's first attempt at mediation in a labor dispute will be watched closely in official cirles. TWO ARRESTED Sol Glenn, a negro residing on Cot ton Mill hill, was arrested this morn !ng by Sheriff McLane and lodged in jail on two charges of selling and one of storing contraband liquors. John Reynolds was arrested early this morning by the Sheriff charged with stealing a heifer from Janie An derson. John and Janie have been liv :ng together and lately separated. Both claimed the heifer. Janie was in possession until John came along in her absence and took possession of the heifer. EDGEFIELD VISITORS i Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Evans, of Edge ; field", spent Saturday and Sunday in ; Abbeville the guests of Judge and : Mrs. Frank B. Gary. Their handsome 1 young son, George, Jr., came with ; them. Judge Gary has been holding ' court at Edgefield and returned with the visitors. Mr. Evans is an old time pupil of Judge Benet. He is much interested in the Judge's visit to Abbeville, and - iUni- I*? ftvnartle ?/\ Ua +A v? tuat uc ca^cvto vv/ uc aviw w hear the address. He has made hii reservation, he says. / /