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NOTE OF HUGHES BEING STUDIED Four Government*' Carefully Ex* amine Text?May Reopen Subject. Washington, April 9.?Secretary Hughes' notes to Japanese, British French atid Italian governments on mandates are being interpreted abroad, according to information in diplomatic circles here as stating an advanced position of the American government. Some diplomats who have studied the text of the com munication to Great Britain, as made public by the state depart ment are apprehensive that it may - ~ J~.?J vannoninir the oe cuuaiuci cu aa * VVJ.V?D whole subject of mandates. Pull exchanges between the four governments are expected before /. /enyone of them replies to Mr. HUghes. In the opinion of some dip-* lotaats here Japan's attitude will de termine the position to be taken by Great Britain and France and pos a sibly Italy. This is based upon the ' agreement entered, into by Great Britain and France with' Japan in 1916 before the United States en tered the war whereby Japan was tor receive the -German 'islands in the Pacific north of the equator. ' This agreement it is'< explained was made when the activites of the ? German submarines demanded a re inforcement 'of the entente' naval fores beyond their own resources to meet, and too the opinion is ad vanced that since Japan fulfilled her ' part of the^ contract Great Britain and France feel bound to carry out the agreement if Japan ' insists. If Japan is willing to modify its posi tion with regard to these is^nds, * and particularly the island of Yap,, "however, the view of diplomatic ob servers here is that the European ' - iMvmmni'fi will o>1a/llv AA , eept that Bolution. In a way the present situation is regarded as somewhat similar to t that obtained when Italy insisted upon invoking* the treaty of London in justification of her claims in the Adriatic section. Both Great Britain' and France sought to induce Italy to abrogate her claims in the matter of Fiume but let it be known that ift Italy* insisted they would execute provisions of the treaty of-London obnoxious & were those of to the United States. The Adriatic situation was settled . through direct negotiations and Jugo Slavia and it was thus found unnecessary to invoke the pro visions of the secret treaty made by the European allies before the Uni ted States became a belligerent. In the case of the treaty of London it wis asserted that President Wilson waa ignorant of its existence before his arrival in Paris for the p.jace jconference but the entente conten tion is understood to be that the Ma ture and extent of the agreement with Japan was known in Japan. WHEREABOUTS OF1 CONFEDERATE SEAL CAN NEVER BE KNOWN Washington April 8.?The where-' abbuts of the official seal of v the confederacy, an unsolved mystery i fon? more than half' a century, prob ably will ever remain unknown James Jones, aged negrox employee in the Senate office building, who is reputed to be the only person with a knowledge of the place where the seal was buried, died tpday without disclosing his secret; - . Jones was serving as a servant of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, when the Confederate > J A iL. -1. icauui was taptuicu. n.3 buo SWViry goes, Jones buried the seal before the federal authorities could obtain possession of the Confederate lead er's effcts, and to his death revealed the spot to no one. GETS TWO YEARS FOR KIL1NG NEGRO Young ' Fanner in Anderson Will Appeal Case to Supreme ' > - ' Court. Anderson, April 9.?Frank Todd, the young -white man found guilty of the killing of Uti Earl, a negro, was sentenced this morning by Judge Foster to serve two years in the penitentiary after a motion for a new rial had been overruled. Judge Foster stated that a recommendation of mercy from the foreman of the jury gave him the minimum sen tence. Todd was released on a bail of $3,000 pending an appeal to the supreme court. / ??? ? USE ANY TIME 1 PRESIDENT HARDING'S HOBBY INTERESTS ' EXTENSION WORKERS Scarcely anything in the every day run of human affairs is much, more interesting than a hobby parti cularly if.it chance to have in it something of advantage to those whose lives, it may be, are filled with stern duties, ine irnuuenw vi the United States has a hobby. "If I can do anything to change disap pointment into new hope," said Mr. I Harding, speaking one afternoon to the Washington correspondents. "I J shall have satisfied the best hobby a man can have, in this world." Men and women employed in the extentson work of the United States department of agriculture, some for the children of the farms, some for the grownups, are doing just this kind x>? thing without, per haps, realizing that it has become a hobby- Very McCrea president of the New York State federation of home bureau managers, cites a case to illustrate the point. Miss McCrea showt this letter from a farm wo man:, . As you know, I know, I should have left the, farm and country life, perhaps, and gone with thousands of others to the city if I could have done so. 1 have t iowcea iorwara w the time when I.might-go. ; .But now the home bureau wo?k among us has changed things, I am so absorbed in the work I am learn ing to do that I wouldn't leave the country for all the ~ allurements of the city* . You know we all lu^ve visions, but now mine are the'same as yours. : "Some figures attempt a financial measure of home bureau work,' says a member'of the extension staff "em ployed in the north and west. "Even if accurate figures could be gather ed about the most important crop? the children?the crop with which the home bureaus are primarily concerned, would they tell one-half the story? Children, well and happy are worth whaiever they cost. Nor mal, interesting rural communities are the hope of creating and pre serving p. satisfied rural population Community enterprises help to make the farming regions what they should be if that life is, to compete successfully with the attractions of the cities." \' j . . WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT Passenger fares on the railroads are higher right now?the highest they have been since we had rail rnar^e i-n fViic (>niiTitrr on/1 /roiffkf rates are also at the high mark. It has to be a matter of great impor tnce before an ordinary man thinks he can afford to take a trip on the railroad. But all over the land we see heavy freight trains go up and down the tracks with the cars load ed to their capacity, hauling freight for somebody. The railroads are go ing to collect charges of somebody for every car of this, or they would never move it a mile. Bid you ever stop to think what is in those cars, and just why they are moving night and day, in long trails in every direction? Did you every stop to think out of whose purse the money must come to pay these freight charges?-" f, .Let's take a single item and con sider it for a moment. Nearly every body who has been near a freight station in this section will admit that hay is one of these items. A great many big truck loads were hauled through the streets of Mari eta last week, and it was western hay, too, coming from Nebraska perhaps. The freight on a single car is more than a hundred dollars, and the brokers and middlemen must have gotten another hundred out of the car. Add to this the price the Nebraska fanner got- for the hay in his own market, and you have the price some Cobb county folks are now paying for hay. Now hay is just grass?good cul tivated grass?and it grows in Cobb county without the least interfer ence of the boll weevil. ' The Journal does not propose to answer its own question, if the an swer is not seen in the above re flections. This much !s clear how ever: The Nebraska farmer gets pay for the hay, the middleman gets his hundred dollars commission, the railroad gets its hundred dollars freight, and the Georgia farmer gets in debt.?Marietta Journal. FIRST TARIFF WAS ENACTED IN 1798 Old File# Reveal Many Interesting Facts Concerning Tariff Measure* Washington, April 9.?'Many a musty oddity of forgotten tariff statutes has been turned up by a search of the capital achieves. This has disclosed that the first congress assembled under the Constitution faced the same problem as will the Sixty-Seventh when it meets a week hence?that of enacting a tariff law. The first tariff act was passed on July 4, 1789. Its formal title state ment of purpose?"for laying a duty on goods, waTes, and merchan dise imported into the United States ?oarripd a bluntness which states* ben for the next hundred years were to avoid. > "It is necessary for the support of the government,'* this first con gress said, "fox; the discharge of debts of the United States and for the encouragement and protection j of manufacurers that a duty be laid i upon goods, wares and merchandise! imported." . ' : It was just 100 years the compila-j tion shows, before such a straight forward statement of purpose about "encouraging and protecting manu* facturers" would be made again in an import tax statute, through the purpose was most evidently behind most of the scores of /following acts. So simple was the first bill that it required only two pages of the com mittee print against more than 100 for the Payne-Aldrich act of 1900. Too simple, it probably was, for a year later?August 10, 1790?Con gress passed "An Act making fur ther provision for the payment; of ueuib ux uic uxiiucu ow?^ More deftly the purpose of the tariff bill as it passed on March 2, 1792, ' was stated to be "for the raising of a farther sum of money for .the protection of frontiers," evading any remarks about protec tion of frontiers," evading any ^re marks about protection of indus tries. Its duties were increases, and one duty imposed was "on coal, per bifthel, four and one half cents." Two yeaTs later the famous Tripoli troubles arose and congress, on March 26,1794 "An Act, to pro tect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Bar bery powers." This act slapped on a general increase of 2 1-2 and 10 per cent ad valorem duties. The sta tute stated itself to be temporary, for one year, but the title proved to be too good to be wasted. Year by year, after, clear up to 1813, con* gress reiterated its laudable purpose re-enacted its increased schedule^, and announced) it was going after the Barbary pirates with a continu tion of the tariff for another twelve month. In 1813, however, the nation went to war with Great Britain, and in a hasty and brief paragraph of statute, congress announced "an ad ditional duty to be collected for the duraion of hostilities. The tax on imported salt, incidfenally, got up to 20 cents a pound. This was about the end of the early tariff v era, according to the compilation. For. the next forty years, most of the acts were labelled "to reduce duties." This they plain ly did, for the salt tax was placed at 10 cents a bushel. Congress was -fruitful of enactments "to release from duty iron prepared for rail ways," and the like. DEATH CLAIMS / JUDGE PRITCHARD ' _ . Asheville, N. C., April 10.?Thej body of Federal Judge Jeter Conley Pritchard, senior judge of the United State9 circuit court of appeals for the Fourth district,!who died here of pneumonia, in his 64th year, will lie in state at the First Baptist church Tuesday between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock. Fellow jurists of the fed eral bench, other prominent national j figures and leading citizens of the, commonwealth and civic and fra.. | ternal organizations of this city will! in body attend the funeral services, to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3; o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Dr. W. F. Powell; his pastor at which, time ex-Congressman James J. Britt will deliver the memorial address. i Mayor Gallatin Roberts ton;ght is-; suea a proclamation requesting xne period of ten minutes, beginning on suspenson of all business for a the funeral hour. COAL PERIL IS NOW THREATENING U. S. Washington, April 8.?The next; big problem, to be tackled by the Harding administration following the railroads, is that of coal. In the opinion of many of Hard* ing's advisers, including Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, the coal problem is second only^to that [ olf the railtoads - and is as direct a barrier to a healthful condition of industry. Necessity for tsarly action with re spect to coal is emphasized by the strike of British miners. "A strike in ?be British coal in dustry," one member of the cabinet declared today, "means pn immedi ate incerase in the demand for .Am erican coal for.export. "The reaction from an, increased export demand is an immediately stimulated market in this country, due fo pancky buyers, who fear both higher prices and shortage .in sup ply. "These two jhfluences are certain to send prices up and open the door to a resumption of profiteering and of shortages, either real or manipu lated, unless proper precaution are; taken. ? One proposal to.be xtrged energeti - cally in the administration from within th^ officii 1 family will b? the allowance ot differentials, either in mine prices or in railroad rates; to large users of coal who arrange to accept and store coal during the nartnrin wh*n tho demand on mines is lowest. . A. . "One of the chief difficulties of the coal problem," this official says, ""is the seasonal character of produc tion. The average miner works, nor mally, only about 200 days a year. The mines produce only as they have orders or can get cars. - . "If production could be spread out equally throughout the year, by the iitorage of coal in season's of slack demand, both the coal production apd the transportation difficulties would be immensely relieved. "Bituminous coal deteriorates rapidly above ground but may be kept in perfect condition if stored und^r water. ' "It would not be an expensive proposition for man^ of the largest users of coal, particularly the metall urgical industries,, to provide water iitorage for large amount of coal. That?or some similar 1 solution? must be adopted to stabilize produc tion througout the year and equalize the load on the railroads. ^ ''Some provision must be made of course to equalize the cost* of coal to the industry that stores iit with the one that receives it only as it can be used. That, I believe; might properly be taken * care of by a dif ferential in the freight rate-?coal going into storage moving at a rate sufficiently lower than shipments for current use to offset the the ex pense involved 'by storage. "Our coal problem' today is second only to that of transportation with which it is complicated arid virtually a part. , "If this country is to get firmly on its feet again economically, if in dustry is not to be strangled, we have got to find our way out of the wdods with both of them?and that quickly." 9 I 11 ffi Ju 1 :i? /j' OU will also fir niftiest lines c wear for men,'in E straws: to be found ' . i iv'\'ug&; " t.iv - < See Our Line of I sh i-iti We invite you to a always welco r; ?'d / you buy RAMEY & Hat Provei saves more than nine, when ii batteries. , Don't wait 'til your battery gets full of pep all the time. We' "V comes to repairs, we're wizards Our charges are moderate and w present storage battery, we've a year and a half guarantee. CITY GARAG Look for this sign Aithorizrd SOURCE STATION eVEREAI STORAGE BKTTI MAKE U< BOOKKf v Men and women wl in keeping track of1 ' ey goes are invitee their cash account f< Open a checking acc pay every bill by ch You will always k] where you stand money went. Planter: "The Friend] The Home of Over IOC Every pattern Material and Design 7 * - ? . '/ J ' -7 - ' ? id here'one of the "" 4 summer hea& 'anamas* and! stiff i *?.:j !.-*' <}$! /ft*.*' ?. I. anywhere..... ^ew Furnishings Mrie often-You're \ me whether or not. GILLIAM . k - " 'V' bia! Stitch \ t comes to testing storage 4 i \ i weak. Insist on its being re the doctors and when it i. rhen it's time to replace your the reliable Eveready?with Abbeville, S. C. 5 your | :epers ' ? lio have difficulty .. i. where their mon- \ I i to let us keep jj or them :ount with us and eck < now just exactly and where the s Bank ly Bank" 10 Bank Accounts.