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vr*." m \ , A . - "M Abbeville Press and Banner I - Jh _____ Established 1844. $2.00 the Year.. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, June 1, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cent* 77thYear ? ?~ .m GROWERS OF HON TALK OF CONDITIONS WAYS AND MEANS OF RESTORJNG INDUSTRY TO PRE-WAR BASIS DISCUSSED AT MEET. JNG IN NEW YORK OF PLANTERS, MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS. New York, May 31.?Ways and means of rehabilitating the cotton industry and putting it on a pre-war basis, were discussed today at the ope%jng of a natipnal consultation of American cotton growers, raanufacturers and affiliated fnterests. Leading cotton growers and j governmental officials warned that the the shortest cotton ? ? . , crop in the last 25 years, and that unless immediate steps were taken to create a market and restore the staple to a profitable price, a greater shortage would result in the next few years. Figures presented by the various ' * A it. ?- J speakers snowed tnat me reuucwun in cotton acreage this year ranged from 30 to 35 per cent, due to the acreage reduction campaign for the National Cotton association, the ravages of the b^ll weevil and unfavor. able weather conditions. The government recognizes that the industry faces a critical situation, President Harding declared in a telephone message to the conference, and he assured the cotton growers *that the administration desired in every possible way to cooperate with those seeking to improve conditions. Two three year old daughters of cotton men renlied to the president's message thanking him on behalf of the North and the South United Effort Neceaaarjr. United effort by government and business is necessary if the cotton ^ industry is to regain its feet, declared J. S. Wannamaker of St. Matr thews, S. C., president of the American Cotton association. Artificial inflation in values must be overcome, he said, and the channels of commerce opened and exports of raw cotton stimulated. He defended the acreage reduction campaign, declaring it would have been "nothing short of suicidal to produce . more than half a crop of cotton in 1921." Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana, a cotton* planter, estimated that cotton producers had lost approximately $2,000,000,000 in 1920, due to adverse market condi. iiona. Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina aside that with a group of senators from the agricultural states of the South and West, hp helievpd t.hpv had a solution of the situation in view. He explained that it was proposed to modify the federal reserve ?ct so that the farmer would have some fixed and dependable financial arrangements. He j?dded that it was proposed to make it mandatory upon the Home banks and the regional bank^ to accept the farmers' paper at fixed discount rates, and that this { paper should be good as long as the bank's assets permitted. Cotton at no time, he said, should sell below 30 , cents. The American cotton crop is the most wastefully handled staple farm nfftSiiAt in th? vnrlrf Hiipvio Jnmkin secretary of the association, declared. "Uneconomic losses due to waste and primitive practices in baling and handling the cotton crop," he said, "wipe out the full annual value s of a crop every ten years, accord, ing to figures prepared by the UnitedjjJBtates bureau of markets. mese losses aggregates nearly 000,000 per annum." Mr. Wannamaker, in his address, declared that until cotton was recognized as one of the nation's greatest assets and until it brought a ^ profitable price to the grower, every Southern industry would be retarded. Still Without Market. "We produced in 1920 only 13,(Continued on Page Pour) -> winthr6p closes SUCCESSFUL YEAR 1 Diplomas Awarded to a Large Class. ?Governor Cooper in Address Calls on Young Women to Render Service to Justify Training? Certificates Awarded to 250. / Rock Hill, May 31?With the presentation of diplomas to the graduates and certificates to the young women completing special courses, numbering 250 students, and the announcement of distinctions, scholarship awards, the Winthrop college commencement for 1921 came to an end tonight. The exercises began in the main auditorium at 8 o'clock and every available seat was taken long before ' the organ sounded for the entrance of the officials and graduates. Reversing the long followed custom, the entire faculty had seats on the stage, while the graduates were seated in the central section of the audi torium. From the auditorium the seniors and certificate students in ' turn later marched across the front of the stage to receive from the hands of President Johnson the scroll on which was emblaboned the -fact that they had completed the prescribed course of study at the South 1 Carolina college for young women. 1 Seated on the rostrum, in addition to : President Johnson, Governor Cooper 1 and members of the board of trus- ' tees, were u number of the minis- 1 ters of the city. Appealing that they go forth with the definite purpose to make this a _ greater state and that they seek to j impart the advantages accruing from completion of their course of study that others may be prepared to grasp the opportunity to serve, Governor Cooper tonight made an eloquent address before the graduates. Praises Work Being Don?. The address was designed to reveal some of the opportunities for service and to stress the responsibilities resting upon the young women. The , governor praised the work being ^ done by Winthrop college and de. ^ clared that the state is greatly indebted to the institution for the thousands of well trained teachers . who have gone forth and are now engaged in instructing the youth of < the land.. The support of t^iis institutution from the public treasury is justified only on. the single ground of th^ public welfare. The young worn- j 2n who are trained here will justify ; the state's expenditure in a contri- , bution to the commonwealth. It is t through the right kind of education { that may be realized the highest aim : of government, an enduring civiliza tion, a condition in society in which , every person may enjoy not only the ij equal protection of the law, but equal ] privilege as a citizen, said the gov-' ernor. He urged that on entering the college of life the students find s themselves, that they go unafraid to < learn, to know and proclaim the ; truth and that they so labor that ; their state shall be their debtor. < The address by Governor Cooper a was followed by the presentation of 5 the scholarship awards, the an. I nouncement of winners of scholar- 1 dhips and the reading of the list of 1 distinctions. 1 3 JUDGE BENET RETURNS. 1 After spending a few days in Ab- ; beville with his friends, Judge Benet 1 left us this morning. During his stay here he renewed many old ac- < quaintances, and visited many places < which he had not seen in a long time. Among other places visited was Cokesbury, where he was at one time J the head of the Cokesbury Classical School and of the college for, young ] women. He visited again the Sulphur j Springs, spending a pleasant half t hour talking over the old days with \ friends there. } Judge Benet promises that he, will not be so long in coming to us again, and his friends parted with him on condition that his parole is not to be more than a half-year. i < Miss Helen Wallker is in Atlanta 1 visiting relatives and friends. c V COUNTY TRE, COMMI J. E. JONES SHOOTS SELF THIS A BULLET IN LEFT TEMPLE CA DEATH.?PHYSICAL AFFLIC BE CAUSE .Or The people of Abbeville County i will be shocked, as were the people ] of this city,- by the announcement s that Joseph E. Jones, Treasurer of i Abbeville "County is dead as a reslilt i of a self-inflicted wound. Mr. j Jones was in his office this morning t and until the hour when he usually < goes to dinner. When that hour ar- c rived he went up to. dinner with Mr. c Roy Gilleland, as is his custom. Mr. t Gilleland expected Mr. Jones to return to the business section with ( him, but when he called on the re- j .1 turn, a member of Mr. Jones' family ] announced that Mr. Jones was not j feeling well and would not return to t the office this afternoon. ? a t Shortly afterwards, Mr. Jones t went to the residence of Mr. Gille- \ land, his next door neighbor, and j there borrowed a pistol. It was \ thought that he intended to use the t pistol for the purpose of killing a ? cat which had been giving trouble ? about his premises. There mas no t intimation, and nothing to 'suggest, f that he contemplated the taking of j fiis own life. v t Shortly afterwards Mr. Jones was j found in his barn. From what can be v learned he went into the biirn, took g x seat on a partition wall between r the hallway and one of the stalls, and there fired the shot into his lfcft tem_ ^ pie. This was about 1:30 o'clock. Immediately the alarm was given and c physicians were hurried (to his resU ience but death came in a little while. j Mr. Jones has been almost a phydeal wreck for several years. He suffered tortures from something in s the nature of inflammatory rheumatism. For many years he has been :rippled with the disease, and for 1 f* suuicwuie tnc uiaease naa ueeu progressive. Of late he has been un- * SOLDIERS B&DY 1 ARRIVE TOMORROW / The body of Private Claude Eugene Hughes, member of Battery B, i 317 Field Artillery, 81st. Division, 1 who died from broncho-pneumonia I in France October 11th., 1918, will j arrive in Abbeville Thursday after- j noon over the Southern Railway, j The 'body will be taken to the home ? of the young soldier's mother, where 3 it wall r*st until Friday when it will I be reinterred in Melrose cemetery, j (Private Hughes was a son of Mrs. ( E. V. Hughes, of Abbeville. He has several brothers and sisters in the: county. Among the sisters* is Mrs. Elbert White of Walnut street. Early in the war Mr. Hughes went c overseas, where he maintained the z reputation of his people as a soldier ] and man until death called him. \ Several weeks ago announcement I was made of the expected arrival of s his body, on this side of the ocean, \ but it was only today that definite c announcement of the tione of. its arrival was made. The friends and relatives of the t young man and of his mother; bro- j. tilers and aostecs are Invited to at- ( tend the funeral services at the , lemetery Friday morning at 11 j'clock. . \ SAM HILL GRADUATES. t h Sam Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. j. M. Hill, of Abbeville is one of the v graduates from Furman University n :his year. Mr. Hill has taken the full g 'our year's course at Furman, and ^ las made a creditable record. j \ NEGRO DIES SUDDENLY n E Albert Gillia-m, a negro residing n the Sharon section, was found lead this afternoon. Coroner Cox v vas gone to the scene to hold the in- c luest. ti ASURER TS SUICIDE FTERNOON WITH PISTOL.? \ USES ALMOST INSTANT :TIONS BELIEVED TO HIS ACT. , I ibde to dress himself, and unable to lift his feet so as to put on his own i shoes. Though always seemingly fre^ trom pain, always pleasant and agreeable to friends and strangers i ilike, even this morning greeting uid talking with his fellow county i >fficers as usual, he must have grown lespondent under his terrible physi:al sufferings, and this caused him no loubt to seek relief in death. . - ! Joseph E. Jones'was the youngest < )f the children of the late Robert fones and of his wife Mary, of Fort ' ?ickens, this city. He was about 52 ] rears of age. All his life had been J ;pem in Abbeville. He was an ex- 1 jert book-keeper and a capable busi- < less man. He gave his attention very argely to public matters, never seek, ng private * employment. At ~ one ;ime he was County Dispenser / for he county. Later he served a term is mayor of the city, and for severtl years he has filled the position of reasurer of the county, having been irst appointed to succeed the late fames Chalmers and later for a full erin. He was a member for many rears of the Methodist Church in Ab>eville. One of his last acts was to ubscribe to the educational move. * i nent in his church. , t Mr. Jones was married some tweny years ago to Miss Ida Johnson, of ' he Greenwood section of the county. ' >l^e survives him a&jio the following ' hildren: Wm. F. Jones, World War ( reteran, Miss Rebecca'Jones, George ! 'ones, now at the^University, Misses ( lary and Anna Jones aneh Joseph E. 'ones, Jr. A. W. Jones, of the s State Tax Commission is a brother. I Funeral services will be held 1 Thursday afternoon, a/t 5 o'clock and ( vill ibt" followed by the burial at 1 jong Cane. [ HE CALHOUN HIGHWAY ASSOCATION TO MEET 1 A mass meeting of the citizens of ' Abbeville is hereby called to be 1 leld ir. the city council chamber on 1 Honday June the 6th at six o'clock ! ).. m. The purpose is to organize the ' Abbeville section of this Highway ' Association. As the entire community s vitally interested every citizen ' ihould be present at this meeting, 'lease remember the time, Monday, Tune 6th, six o'clock p. m. at the ' Council Chamber, City Hall. I DEA1H OF W. M. BLANCHETT William M. Blanchett, 55 years >f age, died suddenly at has home it Calhoun Falls Monday afternoon, May 3C. Mr .Blanchett had been at vork drnrdng the day in the Calhoun Hills, where he was employed. After dx o'clock he went to his home and vas in his garden at work whenleath summoned him. 'Funeral services were conducted it Melrose cemetery yesterday afernoon by Rev. Mr. Mason assisted y Rev, Mr. Salomon, pastor of Calhoun Fails Methodist church of vhich the deceased was a member. Mr. Blanchett made his home in ^bbevilla for a number of years. He vas for a long time time-keeperVat he Abbeville Cotton Mills. He left lere several years ago to make his lome at Calhoun Falls. He is surived by his wife, who before the narriage was Miss Linder, of Geor- ? ;ia, and by the following children: Irs. Gecrge Beauford and Mr. Jesse ilanchefct, of Abbeville; Mrs. Felix Vaddell, fo Greenwood; Mrs. Veron Thornton, Misses Lois and Edna ( Hanchetfc, of Calboun Fall's and a v ist.Mv Mnmip flrant of AHHe-i file. In addition to these the de- ^ eased hts many other relatives'in p lis county. f SOCIALIST PRESS AGAIN IN FAVOR , Hay* Restores Privileges of Leader and Call?Postmaster General Informally Advises Newspapers Concerned of His Position. Washington, May 31.?Postol prohibitions against the Milwaukee Leader and the New York Call, two Socialist newspapers, were withdrawn today by Postmaster Hays, who restored them to second class mailing privileges. The action was in line with that recently taken in the case of the Liberator, a periodical published in New York city. Orders canceling the second class mailing privileges of the publication* were issued by Postmaster General Burleson late in 1917 after an inquiry which Mr. Burleson s?d had shown that through articles published each had violated provisions of the espionage act. The Liberator?a successor to "The Masses"?ceased publication soon afterward, the publishers announcing they were unable to bear the additional burden imposed by the third class rates. Both The Leader and The Call carried their fight to the courts. The Milwaukee naner. nnnn rpfnual /vf +.ho supreme court of the District of Columbia to issue a write of mandamus x> compel the postmaster general to restore the canceled privileges- appealed to the supreme court of the United States, where the lower court was upheld. The Call won in the 1 ower courts of the District of Coumbia, whereupon the postoffice de. jartment appealed and the case was idjudged to have been decided by hat involving The Leader. No formal order was issued by Mr iays today, the department's action >eing carried out by an informal no:ification to the newspapers interestid and instructions to the postmas-1 ;ers in the respective cities of publi:ation. Pncfmoa+qy* fiatta**al Uottc in nn/lrtH stood to have proceeded on the theory :hat the previous administration of ;he department had erred in withirawing low rates and yet permit. ;ing the papers to be distributed. If Darred at all, they should have been sarred entirely^he is said to have iecided. ? tt Whether the postoffice department will voluntarily refund the excess charges occasioned by the Burleson jrder'was not stated today, Jn the :ase of The Liberator, Mr. Hays said i refund would be ordered, the amount due that publication being estimated at more than $11,000. CALL IS ACCEPTED BY DR. KIRKPATRICK Pastor of Atlanta Presbyterian Church Will Assume Pastorate at Anderson in June Anderson, May 31.?Dr. J. W. Kirkpatrick, pastor of West End Presbyterian church, has accepted ;he call to the First Presbytemn :hurch of this city, and will be here luring the month of July. Dr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick spent several days lere last week. When a committee went to Atonfo qaw a mnnflio ,Q CTC\ nflpor T)r lirkpatrick this charge they went ;o hear him preach. The first thing le did was to tell his congregation ;hat he had decided to refuse a call ;o a Presbyterian church in Charleson. The demonstration was so great J imong the people that the commit, j ee decided that it would not be an I tuspicious time to present their call) ind came away without telling Dr. J Cirkpatrick their intention. Later i mother man was called who could lot accept and then they decided to j >resent their call to Dr. Kirkpatrick , iven if he did not accept. : GOING HOME. Dt... .>*>/! Mm W TT Prpcclv and ! ittle Mary leave Friday for a short . isit to Winnsboro before returning 1 o their home in Florida. The baby 1 las recovered its health which is ' feasant news to the friends of the i amily. DECREASE ORDERED IN RAILWAY WAGES j DECREE TO BE HANDED DOWN WILL CUT $400,000,000 FROM BILL?AVERAGE OF TWELVE PER CENT. AFFECTS MANY ORGANIZATIONS? * COMMON LABOR'PAYS ? ' ;H -Chicago, May 31.?An efdtmated ; $400,000,000 mil be slashed froo the nation's railway wage "bill when v t an order cuttane waees an average of 12 per cent to be handed down ^ tomorrow by the United States raai- , '% road labor board, becomes effective July 1. The order affects members ot 31 labor organizations, employed on 104 railroads. While the decrease is specfically nppllci only to the roads whose p .v*j cases have been heard by the board, , f|| the decision says it may later be ap- ' 3 plied to any other road asking a hearing under the provisions of the ? Esch- ummlns transoortation act. Percentage of reductions computed by members of the board gave the average of 12 per cent., and the same source estimated the annual reduction in wages at approximately $400,000,000. II The decision grants reductions ranging from 5 to 18 per cent., and in the case of section laborers, completely wipes out the increase granted that class of employees by the ' $600,000,000 wage award of July 20, 1920. For section men the reduc toin was approximately 18 per cent. Switchmen and shop crafts were - -I given a 9 per cent reduction while the train service men were cut ap- , proximately 7 per cent. Car repairers were cut about 10 per cent. :5 Common Labor Pay < Common labor pay, over which the railroads made their hardest .* fight, is to be reduced 6 to 8 1-2 cents an hour, cutting freight truckers average monthly wages to $97.10 and track laborers to $77.11. This n^jv schedule gives section men an average daily wage of $3.02 for an. eight hour day, although consider- ' able testimony offered by the.roads, particularly in the* South showed 0 common labor wages as low as $1.50 f!nr a +f?n Vi/viii* dav * ' ,:i Shop crafts employees and train and engine service men, except <\Jj those in passenger service, are re- 1 :'v '-JH duced eight cents an hopr. Construction and section foremen are reduced 10 cents an hour. Passenger and freight engineers who were given increases of 10 and 13 cents an hour by the 1920 award, , |j are to be cut six and eight cents an hour respectively. Passenger and vvj freight conductors who received increases of 12 1-2 and 13 cents in 1920 are cut 7 1-2 and 8 cents, respectively, by the new schedule. Train dispatchers and yar dm asters whose monthly earnings at present average $260 to $270 are cut 'eight cents an hour. '} The smallest' reduction will apply to office boys and other employees under 18 years of age, who will receive five cents an hour less after July 1. Clerks are reclassified so that entering clerks, usually young men and women of 18 to 20 years of age will receive a monthly salary of ?67.50 for the first six months and 577.50 for the second six months of service. Clerks with less than, one * year's experience now receives $120. A new monthly schedule for floating equipment employees on femes, tugs and steam lighter* rives captains $200, engineers $190, ivemen and oilers, $140. On lighters and barges, captains will receive S120 ao $150; engineers $140 bo *160, and mates $100. ,i Effective Next Month The attitude of the railway unions ;oward the decreases ordered renains to be determined. The big n-otherhoods are expected to meet lere July 1, to consider the board'a lecision which is effective on that late. ( Continued on page 8)