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Abbeville v *39h| r "i ~ Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, December 21,1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year, . ~ 'mP . AGRICULTURE IS AI 5 VER? LOWEST EBB THIS COUNTRY IS PASSING THROUGH SAME EXPERIENCE OF ENGLAND FOLLOWING NA POLEONIC WARS SAYS SECRE i TARY WALLACE Boston, ass., Dec. 20.?The United * States is passing through the most ] severe agricultural depression of its 1 history Secretary Wallace of the ag- i ricultural department, declared in an ] address today before tne cosion Chamber of Commerce. Asserting that prices of major farm crops were lower than at any time in the na tion's experience. Secretary Wallace predicted that decreased production would result in prices "so high that city consumers will complain bitter ly, for the farmer cannot continue to produce at'a loss." This condition is undermining ag riculture the base of the "pyramid which represents our national life" Mr. Wallace said, adding that the first taslc of the country was to "bring agriculture out of this critical period with the least possible dam age." The industrial east, Secretary Wal lace declared, may feel the need of a sympathetic and thoroughly effici ent agriculture sooner than is realiz ed since the billions 01 dollars wmcn 11 were loaned to Europe must be paid, I not in gold but in goods which com- ( pete'witb our own manufacturers and which are produced at a cost far be- c low our own and to meet such com- a petition our own people must have x the cheapest possible food. i Outstanding requirements or the { relief of agriculture, the secretary > said, are better credit conditions for a the farmer reduction of freight rates a on agricultural products to the low- s est possible level and federal super vision of such institutions as public < stock yards, market agencies and ^ grain exchanges. j, .This! country now, Mr. Wallace said, is "passing through very much the same experience that England ^ had following the Napoleonic wars," jUthough the transit on in England -from ap agricultural to a manufac-- . turing country had set in at the be ginning of these wars, the secretary recalled, it was the severe depression in agricultural products that follow 1 ed and continued for many years that finally brought the change to an in- t dustrial nation, he said. "We are approaching that period which comes in the life of every na tion," Mr. Wallace said, "when we must determine whether 'we shall strive for a well-rounded, self-sus taining natural life in which there shall be a fair balance between in dustry and agriculture, or "whether as have so many nations in the past, we shall sacrifice our agricul ture for the building of cities and expect our food to be produced not by independent farmers, but by men and women of the peasant type." WINTER SOLSTICE Today, Wednesday, is Shortest Day Of Year. Today is the shortest day of the year, according to the astronomers,, an almanac. Today the sun is far-'* thest south of the equator, and 1 therefore shines the fewest hours here. June 21 is the longest day of 1 the year when the sun is farthest * north of the equator. ROYAL ARCH MASONS ELECT j Officers for Ensuing Year Chosen Monday Night. j At a stated convocation Monday 1 night of Hesperian Chapter No. 17, > Royal Arch Masons, the following of ficers were elected to serve the lodge i for the ensuing year: 1 F. E. Harrison, Jr., high priest; W. t * E. Hill, king; J. L. Schroeder, scribe; Otto Bristow, treasurer and H. S. Howie, secretary. \ 1 LEGION SUPPER NEXT THURSDA 1' LUMPKIN CAN NOT BE PRESEN ERNEST V ROSENBERG C GREENWOOD TO BE HER] MUCH INTEREST IN THE BI EVENT. G. A. Neuffer, Jr., has received letter from Morris Lumpkin of Co umbia, commander of the South Ca alina American iLegion, expressir regret that he' will not be abble 1 je pesent due to previous plan flint Mr T.nmi TT illlC IV lO X^iVkwvt v?mv ? ?? i kin can ndt come, his absence wi not decrease the fun the - ex-soldie: ;xpect to have. Plans are beir worked out that insures the thoroug jnjoyment of air who come. Ernest Rosenberg of Greenwoc :ommander of his post, has indicate lis intention to be present and it possible that other speakers from oi >f town will be present. Committe* aave been appointed from amor ;he women of the city, interested i ;he forming of an auxiliary, to mall all arrangement $ot the supper. A )ther committee will look after tt lecorations for the dancing hal arhile still others are already bus jreparing/'programs and sending ov }ersonal invitations to all men who: ;hey know to be ?x-service men. Th nvitations are mfeant to be generj >ut it is possible names were omitte< lue to the incomplete lists. The reorganization of the Amer :an Legion is the main object of,th neeting. It is said that there are lumber of men in the county badl n need of the services of the Legio >r some other organized body. Th vork in other communities is usi illy looked after through the legio ind it is felt that such a coura hould be followed here. From reports coming to D. 1 Smith, Jr., it seems that there wi >e a large attendance in the coui louse Thursday afternoon at "clock. ro IMPOSE FINES ON CUNARD LIN Violation of Immigration Law A leged?Secretary of Labor Da vis Takes Action. Washington, Dec. 20.?Secretar >f Labor Davis has ordered fines t he statute assessed against the Bril sh Cunard steamship line, and hs isked the state department to mak iiplomatic representations to the Ei flish government against what he oJ icially classed ' as bold and, I believ . l'?A?ri?inp offomnf r?n tKo narf n*F tVl I f ? :ompany to violate the immigratio aw either because of the paltry pr< its to be gained thereby or to di: :redit our immigration policy." The circumstances complained c irises out of the arrival on Decen >er 10 at New York of the line \quitania with 300 Hungarian in nigrants, despite that on Decembe L, the immigration bureau had ai lounced to all steamship lines thz ;he quota of immigrants from Hut *ary legally entitled to enter th Jnited States up to January, 192! vas exhausted. Mr. Davis has lik< vise addressed a letter to Attorne jeneral Daugherty for a legal opir on on what action can be taken i 'an appalling situation which h? trisen by the reckless disregard c he law by the steamship companies. Since the enforcement of the ne mmigration act which limits th lumber of aliens entitled to enter th Jnited States, in any one year to lefinite percentage of the number c tlien nationals already resident i he United States, the departmer las been in almost constant contr< rersy with steamship lines. ' "The chief offender in this instanc s the Cunard liner Aqqitania," M: Davis said in his letteT of protest t he secretary of state. 'First income tax vap passed by th Jnited States Congress, in 1862. * * y IN CONFERENCE LLOYD GEORGE AND BRIAND DISCUSS REPARATIOfJS?LONG SESSION HELD AT RESIDENCE OF BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN LONDON. a London, Dec. 20.?David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, and Aristide Briand, the French pre mier, today had a conference lasting several hours in the official residence of Lloyd George. The conversation was concerned almost exclusively with German reparations and Ger many's plea that she will be "unable to pay in full the January and Feb ruary instalments. No official information is obtaina ble as yet as to the attitude of France and Great Britain toward Germany's plea. An official communique issued after the conference asserted the con versation was on general economic questions. These questions were giv en over to French and British ex perts who will submit a report on them tomorrow. As far as can be seen at nresent there is no prospect that a meeting of the supreme council will follow the informal conversations between the premiers but possibly one outcome will be an economic conference on the stabilization of European ex changes to which ^German and Rus sian representatives presumably would be invited. The belief is ex pressed that Dr. Walter Rathenau, the German financial expert, may be called in at the clo?e of the present :onversations. M. Briand declared today his con versation with Lloyd George had been extremely cordial. The conversations will continue in full detail tomorrow between the two premiers. THREE NEGROES TAKEN Theft of $70.05 Get* Men in Trouble Money Recovered Three negroes were arrested this w?ek, and two of them remain in iail. in cnnnpetinn with the Vfcheft Sunday night of a purse containing $70 from R. R. ToTbert, Jr. Sam Walker was arrested Monday and he told of seeing Henry Proffit burning a pocketbook Sunday night. Henry was arrested and led the sheriff to his house where he rolled over a rock in the yard and produced $50 of the stolen money. Tuesday Walker told Sheriff Mc Lane that he watched while Phil Campbell went in and took the mon ey from Mr. Tolbert's pocket while he slept. After Phil's arrest Walker repudiated this confession saying that Phil had nothing to do with the theft. He then told where the bal ance of the money, $20, was hidden, under the eaves of the shed of Mr. Tolbert's well. Only five cents, which was taken along with the purse and its contents has not been recovered. CHRISTMAS WEATHER Abnormally Cold Weatker Predicted For Sunday. Washington, Dec. 20.?Christmas throughout the eastern half- of the country will be preceded by abnor mally cold weather, the weather bu reau declared today in its forecast. The area of extremely low temper atures which has overspread the northwest, the bureau said, was con tinuing to advance slowly southeast ward. Decidedly colder .weather was 4-a* ^ | iuictaau AVi iunivnu*v in uic central states, including Kentucky, and the statement was made by the bureau that much lower temperatures would be experienced along the At lantic coast by Thursday. Temperatures below zero were re ported from the northwest this morn ing as far east as Duluth, Minn., and as far south as Northwestern Ne braska. It was more than twenty de grees below zero in the north portions of North Dakota and Montana and over much of the Canadian northwest TO ANSI ENGINEERS SUBMIT ESTIMATE SHOWING DIFFERENCE OF BETWEkN FIFTEEN MILLION [DOLLARS (IN FIGURES?NO PROGRESS MADE. Washington/. Dec. 19.?An ans wer to Henry Ford's letter deliver jd today to Secretary Weeks by en gineers representing the Detroit oanufaoturer in his negotiations 'or the purchase and lease of the government's nitrate and water xxwer projects at Muscle 'Shoals, Ua? will be written toy the war sec etary tomorrow. nc The meeting between the govern- lir nent officials and those represent- Lai ng Mr. Ford today was said to ;o La.ve accomplished little toward po (ringing the negotiations to a ic lose: Mr. Ford's letter was describ- m< id as being merely an opinion as to it vhat the cost of construction of w< lams No. 1 and No. 2 would be. pa [*he figure fixed by Mt. Ford at 1^0,000,000 exclusive of cost of ev m,provements necessary to naviga ion in the upper Tennessee river, j0 pas saad to be $15,000,000 under d( hat estimated by army engineers no s the minimum required for the m, irork. "" w Neither J. W. Worthington nor ov V. B. Mayo, acting for Mr. Ford, oday were authorized to speak for 1Vi im, it was said, further than to ex ilain the purport of his letter. They t-c acked authority, it was added to ^ ontrnue the negotiations in an ef- . ? 11.- ? ' ' 1. on to rem we mm vinvrucuvus iu he way to a final agreement with he government officers. It was for his reason that Secretary Weeks ecided to reply personally to Mr. 'ord. COTTON GINNED imount Three Million Short of Lut Year. Washington, Dec. 20.?Cotton gin ed to December 13, amounted to 7, 99,458 running bales, counting 122 49 round bales as half bales of Sea sland, the census bureau announced )day. To the same date lasteyarl0,876, 63 running bales were ginned, count lg 197,635 round bales as half blaes nd including 54,587 bales of Amer :an-Egypt:an and 1,316 bales of ea Island. Ginnings by s^tes this year were: Alabama, 5&1,080; Arizona, 30,218 .rkansas 774,567; California 19,924; lorida, 12,037; Georgia, 913,623; ouisiana 279,501; Mississippi 806, 57; Missouri 67,415; North Caro na. 767,072; Oklahoma 474,678; outh Carolina 758,566; Tennessee 91,965; Texas 2,097,836, Virginia 5,982; all other states 8,303. * NAVY MAN HERE. Lieutenant Commander R. E. Bell, rho went from Abbeville county to .nnapolis some years ago, is on a isit to relatives and old friends here, or nearly four years Lieut. Com lander Bell has been on duty in ranee, part of the time at seaports i connection with the transport ser ice, and more recently as naval at iche in Paris. He left Paris Novem er 30, coming to New York. He is ow waiting for reassignment, hop ig that he will be sent to the west sast. ( FORFEITS BOND. F. H. Simpson, arrested yesterday ar having liquor in his possession nd carrying concealed weapons, for jited. his bond of $75 when he fail d to appear in city court this l'oming for a trial. MOVING ON The bridge builders who have een working near town and board tg with Mrs. Tate, have moved on nd are now stationed at Due West: EN SOLID HOURS OF DEBATE BEGUN TODAY AND THEN IT WILL BE UP FOR ACTUAL CON SIDERATION WITH CHANCE OF PASSAGE Washington, Dec. 20.?A hot fight 11 begin in the house, probably to orrow, on the Dyer anti-lynching 11,' which will be brought ur under rulfcv calling for ten solid hours of neral debate before the measure is ken up, line by line, for actual con leration. Almost the entire Democratic mi irity was reported today to have ted up squarely against the bill, rgely on the ground that it was un ngtitutional and an invasion of the lice rights of states. Some Repub ans also were reported against the sasure, although leaders predicted would be passed by a vote which >uld adhere closely in-the main to rty lines. Some doubt was expressed, how er, as to whether the house would able to vote on final passage prior the contemplated, recess set for scember 22. A number of members w are absent from the city and my others are planning to leave ashington before the recess. More er, a party of about 40 are on a p to Panama and expect to be ray two yreeks. Some Democrats have eerved no e on Representative Mondell, the spublican leader, that if an attempt made to rush the bill through dur ; the week they will demand the nstant attendance of a quorum. Proposed by Representative Dyer, ipublican member of the judiciary ^m St. Louis, the bill would seek to t down the crime of lynching by rning over the trial of mob law cas to the federal court and by impos ? heavy penalties on those partici ting and fines on the county in lich lynchings occur. The county es when collected would be paid to 2 family of the victim. In recent discussion before the les committee opponents of, the bill serted that if congress should step to deal with lynchings it might st as well undertake to handle oth jcrimes, which properly belong in 2 sphere of the state courts. -IILDREN PERISH IN COTTON FIRE even Year Old Girl Burns in Ef / * fort to Rescue Little Boy. Mother in Hospital. ? u Florence, Dec. 20.?Locked in Lj - j-i _ . en omers arms aim vuantu u^ nd recognition, the (bodies of >uise Oliver, aged 11 years and cese Oliver, aged three, were re jved from the embers after a lbborn cotton fire had 'burned it If out on the farm of Ed Sellers st Wednesday. The details of the igedy became known here today lere the mother of the 11 year old rl, Louise Oliver, is confined to a hospital, following an opera >n. News of the tragedy was convey to her by Dr. McLeod in the esence of Dr. F. H. Martin, pastor the First Baptist church. From what could be learned here! number of children were playing the shelter of a packhouse. Sud nly the cotton blazed up, ignited, is said, from the (butt of a cigar ;e dropped by a farm hand. The ildren ran but little Alcese Oliver usin of Louise Oliver, was block by tjie flames and the little girl int back through the fire to res e him. Neither of them was able escape so quickly did the flames, read and the little boy and girl k! with their arms intertwined, ley were buried at Marietta, N. , Thursday. Madrid is planning to get a supply fresh fish daily by airplane. i :UBAN RAW PRODUCT TOPIC OF DAY?SPOKESMEN BOTH SIDES GIVE VIEWS TO COMMITTEE OF SENATE. PROS AND CONS HEARD. ? Washington, Dec. 20.?Extended rguments for and against f the presenftemporary ents a pound on Cuban raw rere presented today to senate tariff ramers. Spokesmen for Ameriean ntmnanifw oneratint? in fhiha d the existing rate would prevent ehabilitation of the industry ia the. (land republic, while representatives f the beet sugar industry ia this v ountry Asserted that a return to th -ij fnderwood law rate of one cent a ound would prevent the develop lent of that industry, if it did not estroy it. - \ >' The senators were told by those ?. ^presenting American companies in ^ uba that more than a mere tariff uestion was involved; that the re abilitation of Suba depended upon le sugar industry, and that the Uni ;d States was morally bound to aid ' g lat country. They also argued that lere was $1,000,000,000 of Ameri- rr-; an capital invested in the Cuban in ustry as against $200,000,000 _ in le industry in this country. It also was argued that the duty roposed to be made "permanent" y the Fordney bill was the highest nposed in 30 years and that it rep* jsented a direct tax of $162,000,000 nnually on-the American people, ; - 81 nnn nnn nf toViijy)! vnnM on tn L/X JW V|V V v VJ. TT lltvu *VV?MVt QV merican sugar producers. Attention [so was called by witnesses. uba imported last year 00 worth of American products lat since the economic life of land depended upon its sugar crop, tuch of this trade would be lost iss the United States helped to re abilitate the island sugar industry. Finally it was argued -that the ause in the Fordney bill permitting merican refineries to import at lree-fourths of the jiormal duty two ounds of sugar for each pound of Dmestic sugar refined from beets or ine was a violation of the spirit if ot the letter of the reciprocity tiea r with Cuba giving a preferential -i- -J nn ? 4 U _1 .*.,11 lie ui ?t\j per uenu uciviw tuc xifu i'te on imports from that country. It also was contended that this was discrimination in favor of certain merican interests and injurious to thers. Senator Smoot (Republican) of tah took exception to mayn of the ;atements of the witnesses present ig the case for the American com mies. He declared that conditions i the sugar industry in Cuba were o worse than those in the sugar in ustry in this country and announced lat he favored the protection of merican capital invested in- this >untry as against American capital ivested in other countries because helped to build up the United tates. m SCHOOLS QUALIFY tate Aid for Abbeville and Due ' g, Weit. According to informatibn given it by the office of the State super tendent of education the high hools of Abbeville and Due West ive qualified for state aid. Abbe Ile will get $2,320 and Due West L,220. The same schools received ibstantial aid from this source last * * iar. NEGROES IN JAIL Ed Miller, negro, was lodged ift til Saturday on a charge of lar ;ny of cotton seed from Norris Wakefield. Gussie Lanier, a negroes, is is lil on a charge of obtaining goods nder false pretense. *