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Abbeville Press and Banner 1
/ Established
1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, Aug. 5, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year.
GRIER ELECTED '
. . HEAD OF. ERSKINE
COLUMBIA MINISTER ELECTED
ON FIRST BALLOT HAS LONG
BEEN IDENTIFIED ,WITH COL
LEGE THROUGH FATHER AND
OTHER RELATIVES.
, t Gastonia, N. C., Aug. 4.?At s
* meeting of the'board of trustees oi
Erskine college, held here yesterday,
the Rev. R. C. Grier, pastor of the
* Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church in Columbia, S. C.,. was elected
president of Erskine college at Due
West, S. C. Mr. Grier was elected
on the first ballot Previous to the
casting of any ballot the agreemenl
* had been reached that there should
be no election without a two-thirds
.majority vote. Mr. Grier received
more than the majority on the flrsl
, ballot.
, ... f Mr. Grier is a son of Prof. Pau
t Livingston Grier of Due West, lon|
the head of the mathematics depart
ment of Erskine college. He is i
gradutae of Erskine college in tht
class of 1910 and of the Erskine
Theological seminary. He has alsc
just completed a post-graduate yeai
of work in theology at Princetor
^ Theological seminary, together witl
his brother, th'e Rev. W. L. Grier
pastor of the Clover and: {JrowderCreek
churches. Mr. Grier was a stai
| ^ . athlete in his college days as .was- i
brother. They were famous for theii
prowess on the baseball diamond anc
the tennis court. The two playirif
' ~ tennis together " won the colleg<
^championship of South Carolina. Th<
i- baseball team on which they playec
was also a pennant winner.
Before coming to Columbia the
, ^ Hey. Mr. Grier was pastor of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian
church in Louisyille, Ky., for several
years. He is generally recognized a:
being one of the most brilliant youn^
men in the synod of the Associatt
Reformed Presbyterian church. Mucl
success has come to him in the pas
torates he has served. It is worthj
. of""note that a grandfather and ar
uncle were presidents : of Erskiju
college. V; ? S' ; v.V-'
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The Rev. Robert Calvin Grier, wh<
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yas Wednesday elected to the presi
f dency of Erskine college, is a .nativ<
South Carolinian, having been bort
and reared at Due West and come
of a line of educators who have per
'I ' formed val!ant service at Erskim
college. Mr.
Grier's father, P. LjPGrier, wa
for 30 years professor of mathe
matics fit the Presbyterian institu
tion, while the fate Dr. R. C. Gtier
for whom h* is named, was the firs
president of the institution. An un
cle of Mr. Grier, Dr. William Moffat
Grier, was alsq president as wel
as one of the leading educators o:
the Associate Reformed Presbyteriai
church, and served during the Con
federate war.
Mr. Grier is 31 years of age, onl;
two^ years older than was his uncle
Dr. W. M. Grier, upon attaining th<
presidency. He was graduated fron
* "Erskine in 1910 and from the Theo
logical seminary at Due West in 191his
first cafi being* to Louisville, Ky.
He came to Columbia in June, 1918
and has since been pastor of the As
- sociate Reformed Presbyteriai
church of this city.
Mr. Grier is not at present in th
' city &ut Mrs. Grier said yesterda;
she was sure he wou^d/seriously con
sider accepting the chair of presi
v dent at Erskine college.
Four Men Killed in Explosion.
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Uniontown, Pa., Aug. 4.?Th
press mill of the thipont Powde
company's plant at Oriental nea
^ here was wrecked by an explosioi
early this afternoon! Four men aa
known to have been killed. The ex
plosion was so violent that window:
in houses for miles around wer<
'broken. \
DISCUSS PELLAGRA!
. IN CLOSED SESSION.
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, HEALTH OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC \
< HEALTH SERVICE HOLD CONFERENCE
RELATIVE TO CON- ^
, DITION IN SOUTH?DR. HAYNE W(
ATTENDING CINFERENCE ? G.
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i Washington, Aug. 4.?The pella.
gra situation was discussed in closed
session here today at a conference be'
tween health officials from southern
! states and Surgeon General Cumming U1
i of the public health service. Sonje 811
f of the state officials said as they en- *r
, tered the conference room that they m
I would dispute any claim that the disease
had reached serious proportions m
! in their territory. Information of ar
; the federal government as to the con- ^
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[ ditions, they contended, was mcom- ~
i plete and did not accurately picture
[ conditions. ' *?
k Dr. Cumming said he hoped to get ?
first-hand information from the state nc
[ officials and map out a concerted
; course of action. The conference ^
- was called after President Harding in
be
i had requested public health and Red
? Cross officials to take measures to
; meet threatened ravages of pellagra s0
> in southern states.
r State health offiers attending the us
i conference were W. S. Leathers, Mis- ta
i s'ssippi; Olin West, Tennessee; W. S =
, Rankin, North Carolina; C. W. Gar-|
s risonyArkansas; A. T. McGormick, {
r Kentucky; James A. Hayne, South Fi
> Carolina: ,S. W. Welch. Alabama;!
r Oscar Dowling, Louisiana and E. G
1 Williams, Virginia. J. P. Folan, as>
sistant health commissioner of Okla'
so
; homa; W. K. Keating, representing
> Florida; M. F. Haygood, representing
1 Georgia and W. F. Cogswell, health
officer of Montana, also attended.
> Representatives of the Red Cross,
. including George H. Jones, director P
t of the SQuthwestern division,' and ^
[ Harry L. Hopkins, manager of the ^
3 southern division, three experts from .,
r the Department of Agriculture arid a
; dozen public health service officials, ^
i among them Dr. Joseph Goldberger,, j
- pellagra expert, participated in the '
j discussions. p
1 In Opening the conference Sur;
geon General Gumming discussed the ^
t "pellagra situation, the possibility of ^
; anlnicrjease. in the disease next yeari, .
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) ?nd a prospective program to deal ^
- with existing conditions and those ^
2 threatened for 1922. Dr. Goldberger ^
i presented data which he said inji- ^
s cated a marked increase in the dis-.
Si
- ease. State officials summarized in
e writings reports as to conditions in ^
their states.' .
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- GREENVILLE FARMER SLAIN c(
'? Called Out of House and Shot
Through Head.
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j Greenville, Aug. 4.?Ned Metcalf,
f a fanmer living near River Falls, 22
1 miles north of here, was mysterious- st
ly salin last night about 9:45 o'clock, tc
4ia Kiv\n oVif qc
a^vvxuuig iv iiixv&ui?vivu ?Y
here to the sheriff's office today by fi
Magistrate J. 'Harvey Cleveland. ai
B He was called out of his home and tl
1 shot through the head and side, dying ai
almost instantly, the informant told tc
j the sheriff. His wife and five cliil- ai
dren were in the house, but they said pi
they do not know who killed him. No e:
(_ clues are reported left. oi
PRESIDENT GETS HOME
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College has purchased the home of
. Cecil Morgan opposite the college
for $22,500 and it is to be converted S
into a home for Dr. W. F. ' Quillian, li
president of the college. He will not c<
move in until next year as the build- A
e ing is being used as a home* for the d<
r teachers this year. .ci
r Crowded conditions at the college tl
i mfSe it necessary for the teachers pi
j to occupy the separate building and 6!
- as a home is needed for the college aj
3 president, the trustees last May au- yi
i thorized the purchase of the prop- cc
erty. / ai
F YOU CAN'l
TRADE lT-t
LOGAN FOR COOPERATIVE MA
TENTION AND BRINGS FAV
NUMBER 0
Although the day set for the Cooperative
Marketing effort is yet a
sek away, the move, begun Mr.
, T. Barnes, secretary of the Abbelle
County Chamber of Commerce,
is attracted considerable attention
a favorable character. Comments
tard on all sides are to the effect
at there is no reason why such an
idertaking should not succeed,
ice the plan is entirely feasible
om every point of view. The prootors
have in view a sort of fair
iy, a time when all the folks for
iles and miles will come to town
id br>ng along whatever they may
ive that is serving no purpose
out thfe farm or home.
About every home there is always
be found tools, machinery or proicts
that have been discarded or
it needed due to change of methIs
or to oversuppily. It is felt that
ese things are serving no purpose
their present places but that some
?dy else could use them. If these
ir*rro /ion Ka frvOTA+lVlDT fit
4"5'a WW W* v
ime central place, they would
ange hands and have new days of
lefulness. In this way useless capL
1 can be put to work again, and
BASEBALL BREAKS BONE
Inley Youth Keeps Accident to Arm
Secret for Two Weeks.
Clifton Finley, the twelve year old
n of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Finleyj
id an arm broken about two weeks
jo in a most peculiar manner. He
id some other of the boys of his
;ighborhood were engaged in a
ime of baseball. Young Finley was
the field and in trying to return a
irdly hit ball he misjudged it and
ie ball struck him on the left arm
ist above the elbow.
He told no one at the house about
ie accident, but went about the
ace and his work complaining ocisionally
of a pain in hffe arm. Mr
inley said he thought it was s
mple pain that would go away
>on. The arm soon became inflamed
id Mr. Finley ibegan to question
m and learned of the accident. He
ok the boy to Dr. J. E. Pressley's
ftce where it was found that one oi
ie? small bones were broken anc
lat an operation would be neces^
iry to start the neglected fracturt
> mending. Dr. Rakestraw will per
irm the operation. The Spartan lac
still playing around his father'*
ore, though he does not find i1
>nvenient to use the "injured arm.
RATES UNREASONABLE
harges on Cotton Seed Reviewed
By Commission
Washington, Aug. 4.?The Interate
Commerce Commission helc
day that freight rates on cottor
jed meal and meals of like kind
om Knoxville to points in Virginia
id Carolina territories and north ol
ie Potomac river were unreasonable
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id prejudicial, xwtues uu tucoc uicaic
> KnoxviUe, the commission said
re not unreasonable but they are
rejudicial to the extent that the}
tceed on a distance basis the rates
i like traffic to Nashville.
COTTON IN ABBEVILLE
rop ia 66 Per Cent of Normal Sayi
" B. B. Hare.
According to B. B. Hare oi
aluda, statistician for South Carona,
the conditon of the growing
>tton crop is 66 per cent oi normal,
ccoTding to him there has been nc
*terioration or improvement in th?
op since July 25, the figures being
le same for both months. The resrt
for this county compares with
2 per cent for the state. This averse,
Mr. Hare says, indicates a total
eld in the state of 850-,000 bales,
>mptered with 1,640,000 last year
id 1,422,000 bales in 1919.
r use it,
jEt rid of n
RKETING DAY ATTRACTS ATORABLE
COMMENT FROM
>F, PEOPLE.
j many pepole could get the oppor
tunity to use things they had neve
owned before.
Every toWn in a hundred miles, i
seems, has tried the dollar day an
every one seems to have foutid i
successful, so successful, indeed tha
they are repeating the occasion. By
somebody had to work Out even th
dollar day idea, and if Abbeville di
ngt begin it, she certainly added
few new thrills to the idea. No<w Ab
beviHe is about to try an experimer
that is entirely novel in this sectio
and so far as known it Is new to th
entire state. Mr. Barnes believes i
is a good thing, the merchants be
lieve it will pnove a success. Now i
remains to hear the opinion of th
farmers. The Press and Banner wi
be glad to receive letters next wee
containing expressions aibout th
day. These letters will be printed j
there is no objection from the \vxit
er.
It is expected that the slogan, "1
you can't use it, trade it," will pro\
! popular and that everybody in Abbe
ville County will get the meanin
' and spirit of its message. That's th
way to make it go, boost it.
ADULT SCHOOL OPENS
i Mies Lide Teaches at Campbel
Thirteen Present Monday night.
[j At its opening session Monday tl
' J Adult ( School at Campbell scho<
' house, conducted by Miss Julia Lid
| of Darlington, had thirteen student
t Superintendent of Education Mar
11 and Senator J. Howard Moore wei
i present and made addresses encou
^ aging the ^beginners to their best e
1 forts. Miss Lide is not at all supe
. stitious about the number thirtec
. and says that she expects to have
great many more (before long. Mo
of the adult students are men, mar
1 of whom are qiute old. One old ms
^ whose hair is gray said on the ope:
t ing day: "I can't wri/te my name bi
? I am coming to school tomorrow."
' Miss ?Lide is experienced in* co
ducting adult schools and has be?
I very successful in organizing ar
working them up. It is very difficu
' in many communities, she finds, '
overcome the feeling of timidity th,
1 at first prevails when the subject <
> education is mentioned to peop
' who think they have grown too o
to attend school. She comes with tl
authorization of the-state superii
tendent of education and her se
vices ar$ paid for by the state.
'! Mr. Mann has been trying to o
ganize adult schools in several oth<
sections of the county but so far hi
I met with more or less indifferent si
i cess. He realizes the advantag<
I that would accrue to any commun
i ty through the elimination of illitei
' acy, and wishes to do all he can 1
i accomplish this end.
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BILL PROPOSES GOVERNMENT
'r MONOPOLY IF ADVERTISIN
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Sofia, Aug. 4.?The governmei
has just presented to parliament
bill establishing a monopoly for a
newspaper advertisements. Henc
1 forth every advertisement, announce
ment or puff will have to be pul
?? ?+ in +V?si nfflniol 3
. iiSllCU 111 Ob 111 blic V1IIV1W4 .
a very high price.
! Then only its reproduction in oth<
. papers will be allowed after payir
i another tax for the reproduction.'
! The big political papers and tho?
: for information supported chiefly I
advertisements'1 are in the hands (
i the intellectuals or of the middli
classes who are not on good tern
I with the peasant government. By th
, method the government would h
' able to injure the organs of its p<
litical adversaries.
, AUTHORITY GIVEN TOJILD
CANAL
COLUMBIANS AT HELM TO DEVELOP
WATER ROUTE TO
~ JOIN SANTEE AND COOPER
RIVERS ELECTRIC, LINE
it TO GREENWOOD LIKELY,
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Washington, Aug. 3.?The feder^
al power commission this afternoon
authorized its secretary to issue a
e for he construction of a
canal making navigable the Santee
a river to the Cooper river. .
^ Tbe permit nas not oeen isauea,
but it is presumed that there will be
g no hitch in pending negotiations,
j. Nothing regarding terms is made
public. ,
^ While the permit covers only navie
gation, the development as a result
jj of a drop of 30 feet in the river will
k result in the generation of conaidere
able waterpower. It is understood
U that the promoters have in mind also
the construction of an electric line
connecting Columbia and Greenwood.
I
G. A. Guignard and associates of
g Columbia are the men behind the
ie Santee canal project which they believe
will be of untold value in the
_ upbuilding of South Carolina. In ad~
dition to the freight facilities afforded
by the canal, the large amount of
power generated and the probable
hnking of Columbia and the upper
part of the state by electric line, the
canal will drain thousands of acres
le of land not'now usable.
ol j The canal will run from Ferguson
P i on the Santee to Monck's Cornor on
i
! the Gooper, these points being the
! approximate ends. Plans submitted
1 i to the government call for a canal
re | ten feet deep and 200 feet wide. It
r- j is to be 20 miles long.
f-j Mr. Guignard, president (>f the
r-1 Columbia, Railway & Navigation
!n j Co., which will build the canal, said
last night that tffe had received offi^
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! uiai nuLiue 111/111 yy aaiiiiigiA/ii ui tuc
st i 'board's action and is expecting the
>y permit in a few days, the latter bein
ing purely routine.
n_ Work on the propect will be start^
ed as soon as practicable, he.asid. It
will take considerable time to complete
the job.
n" Much electrical power will be dejn!
veloped as a result of the building
lc* I of the canal. Mr. Guignard, however,
llt had no announcement to make concerning
the distribution of this
power or the use to whioh it mght be
put. The project for an electrc raille
",way to Grenewood, he said, was en_
^ tirely a different matter and he had
ie no announcement to make relative
n" to it.
r* The canal, Mr. Guignard pointed
out, will place Columbia approxi_
r- mately 70 miles nearer tide water
21 than at present and will open up to
as the city the advantages of such a
1C port as Charleston with its regular
es sailings and its larger volume of
i- buisness. ^The Columbia Railway. &
Navigation Co., will operate a boat
to line, Mr. Guignard said. No effort,
however, 'wrill be made to maintain a
monopoly of the river traffic by this
company, and it is expected, Mr.
Guignard said, that the completion
G of the canal will see the beginning
of several boat lines from Columbia
it to Charleston with the consequent
a reduction of transportation costs on
ill freight into the city.
e- If the present conditions prevail
e- when the canal is completed, Mr.
1)- Guignard said, the boats would make
it their stops at Granby landing as did
he boats operated between Colum;r
bia and Georgetown. The comple_
ig tion of the Columbia canal as origi_
nnllv nlnnned would, however, make,
>e it possible for the ships to be load.
y ed and unloaded at every street in
>f Columbia, he said.
2- The operation of boats to and
is from Charleston will be undertaken
is under considerably better conditions
?e than those under which the Colum.
)- )ia-Georgetown boat line was operated,
Mr. Guignard said. The larger
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M LASTj TRIBUTE \
TO ENRICO CARUSO i
NAPLES MOURNS AS GREAT
TENOR LIES DEAD?SCENES
OF PATHOS ENACTED ALL
DAY?LEFT FORTUNE OF SIX
MILLION DOLLARS.
Naples Aug. 3.?Sorrowing Naplee
and Italy today paid tribute to the
memory of Enrico Caruso, the great
tenor who died here early yesterday
morning.
Thousands gathered in solemn requiem
mass celebrated at the church
of Madonna Delia Gracia, or stood
uncovered along the streets leading
to that edifice while the final cortege
passed. In the choir which assisted
in the impressive ceremonies we?
many men and women who have
played stellar roles on the operatic
stage. 1
Scenes of extreme pathos were
enacted all day yesterday at the hotel
Vesuvius following the death of
the man popularly acknowledged to
be the premier tenor of his generation.
Neapolitans of every class
stood in line for many hours to file
past the bier of Caruso which was . f'$l
placed in the room' wheire he had
died. From time to time the silent
nr/v?occiiATl watiM . nonco tjtVirl^a orvmn
WVVUk7*VA? TT V/U1U |/M fT UUV kjvmv
man or woman would kneel for a
moment beside the Iboty and offer
prayer. V * ?'||
The body was clad in evening
clothes and over it was shed the mellow'
light of four candles two at the
head and two at the feet.
At the dead tenor's side were garlands
anranged personally by Mrs.
Caruso. Just before Caruso sank into
the coma which was the prelude
to the end he said to his son RodOlfo:
"I feel very ill. This time it will
be difficult to escape."
Newspapers of this city in teJling
of the death of Caruso quote one of
the attending physicians as saying:
, "I and my colleagues believe
Caruso never fully recovered from
his illness in New York last winter.
His long sickness from pleurisy,
weakened his resistance."
aruso, according to 'estimates in
the newspapers, left a fortune of - ^
about 30,000,000 lire. (At the normal
value of the lire this would represent
about the sum of $6,000,<*>? )
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U. S. Government Sends Condolence.
Rome, Aug. 3.?Richard Washburn
Child, American ambassador
to Italy, has sent to Mrs. Caruso and
other relative of the dead tenor, the
condolence of the United States gov
eminent.
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CHECKING CITY BOOKS
.
Mr. W. Anderson Clarkson, accountancy
-expert of Columbia, has
been in the city this week checking
the accounts of the city clerk, pre^
paring <to turn the books over to a
successor of the late Mr. Perrin. He
has not yet finished the survey, buit
far has found everything in good
condition. Council will elect a city
clerk tonight.
FINED $65 FOR SMOKING PIPE
Zion, Ills., Aug 4.?Smoking a
pipe in Zion cost Frederick Stockstill
$65 today. The city which has ordi- . ^
nances regulating women's dress and
how its residents.shall spend Sunday
also has a ban against smoking.
"This thing must stop," a judge remarked
when he fined Stockstill.
"Stop," Stockstill replied, "I'm aas
stopped as my name would indicate."
volume of business handled through
I Charleston, he pointed out, will per.
mit the operation of a larger number
of boats while the shorter distance
will reduce the running time ?
by from six to eight hours.
Mr. Guignard is president of the
Columbia Railway and Navigation
Co., while T. C. Williams is vice
president.?The State.
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