Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, *"v J v" : :V'"' ' r- : ' i - A ' ^ . f }... E - 'Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., -Wednesday, January 4, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Ye< V; L ^^GRADUAL UPWARD MOVEMENT I NOW INDICATED?COMPARI H|^r SON OF MONTH WITH PRECED H^KNG YEAR CAUSE OF OPTI ^m^lISM?BETTER TREND SEEN. ihington, Jan. 3. d movement of business and41 dual restoration of normaj, are indicated in the cora f reports for last month of the corresponding 920, according to the Dec of the economic situa tonight by the federal re Net improvement was found by the board despite the recession of business activity in December as com pared with the same month last yeffr. "The holiday trade," the board said, "is a test of the soundness of - preceding business activity. 'Reports -Pvaxo uoriniie rMflTVP <?1R. 1 tricts covering over half of / the < month show that -this year's demand - in the Eastern districts has register- * . ed an increase running as high fcs 10 J per cent of that of 1920, while in oth- ? 3er districts the situation is pronounc- * ed satisfactory." . 1 - - v. , ; t Manufacturing conditions, however 1 the board reported as far from imi- * form, there being a decrease of ac- t tivity in the iron and steel industry * while textiles showed little change 1 from previous months and uncer- * ta:nty exists as to the future of the a clothing industry, due to labot^/ dis- c turbancesfnd the continued demand c of consumers for lower prices. 'Trefeht^tes," the board said,11 "coiifcibbe asFa^disturbing factor due B to-the:J>eUe^ that reductions already r annclan^ed as affecting some commo- * ditiwway^be much more widely ex- * tended in the near future." -e a Relatively lower prices for cereals and cotton, the board continued, had discouraged trade in the agricultural t districts and also had resulted in re- c '"tkrdfng the process of liquidating frozen loans. Hardware and related lines'also were'&id'to be in an un sat'sfafl^ry condition, but wholesale -prices "are showing increased sta bility." Unemployment , conditions il . i were repotted by the board as but little changed. * * '*A decided improvement in Eurt>-1 pean exchanges," the board said, "has tended to some extent to help the foreign trade situation during the month of December but the ex treme caut:on in the extension of bank credits which was previously so 'noticeable a ^hase of our foreign trade still continued. Export figures indicate a still further decline of ac tivity in staples, while imports show an advance. a/1 AAw/lifiAnc! m trori Alio l/.iMUi UCU VV/llUtbiVJIO ill * Ui. *uv*o - countries of Europe still render a i maintenance of business relations 1 with them uncertain and hazardous." t Reviewing the year in the shipping t industry the board declared that the "* "industry has been through a most i difficult period, in which many of 1 the weaker operators have been fore- t ed out of business, and in which t greatly reduced freight rates have re sulted in smaller available cargoes and continued high costs of opera tions. This condition has been world wide, although American companies have felt in special degree the handi cap of a h:gher scale of wages than their foreign competitors have been obliged to pay." BACK TO CLEMSON. The following Abbeville boys left < Tuesday to resume their studies at \ Clemson after spending the Yuletide season with their home people: Jim Coleman, Truman Reames, Andrew Hill, Weber Wilson, Maxcy Johnson, 1 Geddinga Roche, Bill -Hughes, Hal < Moore, Harold Tate, Frank Thornton, 1 Richard Swetenburg, George Cann ' J. C. Cheatham and Sam Williams, t INCOME TAX BLANK GOES TO PRINTER :OR INCOMES NOT ABOVE FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.?THIR ' TY-FIVE FREIGHT CARS WILL BE REQUIRED TO TRANSPORT TO HEADQUARTERS. , Washington, Jfcns 3.?Drafting of the new 1921 income tax return form for incomes of $5,000 or less has ibv th^ tax simpli acation board, of which J. H. Beal if Pittsburgh is chairman, it was ?id tonight at the treasury. The new forms, which are regard ed as mucji more simple ' $nd leas :onfusing than those in use last year, iave gone to the printers and proba cy will ibe ready for distribution ibout January 15. From 15,000,000 , ;o 20,000,000 copies. of the new foxms are being printed and it is es timated that 35 freight cars will be required* to send them to internal revenue collectors throughout the < jountry. Efforts-^to simplify Form [040?which is the form used by, the iverage taxpayer?has resulted -, in i educing he number of pageB from < dx to four and in eliminating the < >lock system of return utilized in ' 1920 which was said to be confusing ;o the great majority of taxpayers 1 vho had income from only one or ] wo sources. The internal revenue 1 rareau estimated *70 per centjof the < >ersons using the $5,000 form have i ncome from only salaries and wages 1 md possibly interest and have few (eductions to (make from ' that in- ^ :ome. . - < The new form will require tax payers to list on the first page the imounts of income received from a lumber of sources and then form he total of tiese^ amounts to deduct he amounts to whcih they are legally mtitled, tiie balance being the tax :ble net income. The? second page will require cer ain information" from persons re eiving incomes from specified source uch as a .business carried on by the axpayer, and thfc third and fourt^ ages are devoted to instructions. By reducing the form to four rages the board has eliminated the luplicate or "work .sheet" of the 1920 form but /t was explained if axpayers wish to keep a copy of heir returns, sufficient forms will be ivailable for duplicates to be ob ained. COLLECTING DOG TAX P???nn? P*v r.harces to Keen - ? - - ? I Animals. To date R. .B. Cheatham, county 1 reasurer, has sold about 600 dog icense tags at $1.25 each, which neans an additional revenue to 1 school districts of $600. Since the ntfoey goes to the schools direct, the k xustees in many communities are in eresting themselves in handing the reasurer lists of dog' owners, as veil as actually collecting the money n a few* instances. If the tax ie not : >aid when the time limit comes the ;reasurer will call on the magistrates ;o make collections, the law requir ng that they impose a penalty of .'rom $5 to $20, one-half ,of which vill go to the person reporting the log. Sniping Returned. Belfast, Jan. 3.?After a lull caus ed by intervention of the crown fore 's, the sniping was resumed at mid_ lay with further serious cofisequenc. | 5S. Other bullets went through ^he lead of a 14 year old youth and struck a child in it's mother's arms. Dne of the children were mortally .vounded. Turks Form War Committee A nf?nro Acio Mitinr .Ton. 3. formation of an extraordinary war :ommittee which will jiontrol the ac ;iyities of various ministers of the rurkish nationalist government hae >een decided upon. : >. . ' il: TO BE SENATOR PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVE IS CONSIDERING URGE TO SUC . CEED BOIES PENROSE?RE PORTED THAT HE HAS NOT ? MADE UP MIND. Washington, Jan. 3.?Prediction that Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania would within 43 hours announce his intention of resigning to accept ap pointment as United States Senator to succeed the late Boies Pearose was 1 made today by Senator Wqtson, of Indiana, one of the Republican lead- 1 ers of the Senate, after a call at the White House. 1 Senator Watson said he had been in conversation with the Pennsylvania governor several times over the tele phone during the last two days and that in his opinion the matter was pr&ctically decided. . ^ The .particular reason which in duced the Senate Republican organiz ation to uTge speec^ in ~ filling, the vacancy left by Sdhator Penrose's death is understood to be the appro aching vote in .the Ford-Newberry . election contest. Senator Watson would be close. Governor Sproul would succeed to " the seat of Senator Penrose by the process of resigning as governor and baking an appuntraent to the Senate ; at the hands rothe present lidbten- 1 ant governor, ^no would succeed to* ; ;he governorship. ' Harrisborg, Pa., Jan. 3.?Fifteen inmates before the Watson prediction 1 :ame from Washington that Govern- i Sproul would succeed Botes Penrose ' is United States Senator, tfce Gov- < :rnor told newspaper inen 'he^hadjpt ' nade up his mind as to what he would 1 * i _ - . ' lo regarding the Penrose succession, i [t is known that strong pressure has * jeen brought to "bear on the governor < :o take Senator Penrose's place im- 1 nediately and equally strong repre sentations have been made to him by ^ )ther friends to make a temporary ?:_j. ?j i;i ippumwuciib auu uc a uauuiuaic lat^i n the year. 1 VOLUNTARY FREIGHT 1 RATE REDUCTION Railroad Commission Secures Lower '' * Tariff Effective January' 1st, to Try it "Six Months Columbia, Jan. 3.?Additional re ductions in freight rates on cotton are announced by the South Carolina railroad commission today. The- new rates^re effective from'January 1st, and are a cent or two per hundred .1 1 Xl 4.1.- 1 ~ ? A I pounas lower uian me iww iolc mu ered by the railroad commission last fall. The' new rates were >volun-v tarily submitted by the ra;lroads op erating in the state^and are put in for a period of six months as a trial. The new rate for- example ship ments five miles or less is eighteen cents per hundred pounds fis com pared with the December rate of nineteen cents per hundred which it self was a reduction of several cents under the rate effective several months ago. From this the new schedule graduates up to sixty-nine and a half cents per hurylred fox shipments of three hundred miles as 1 aL. n T comparea wren me utscemuer rate ui seventy-one and a half cents for ship ments over three hundred miles. The new rates are the same as the rail road commission low rate of the past few months. These* new rates are ef fective for the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama and are both interstate and :ntrkstate. NATIONAL, PAYS DIVIDEND Four Per Cent Semi Annual^ Pay ment Made. The National Bank of Abbeville Monday paid out $3,000 to its stock holders, a dividend of 4 per cent on its capital stock of $75,000. The di rectors were well pleased with the showing the bamk's officials have made. . - - . . j_/-' . * FRANCE'S STUBBORN ATTITUDE PROVOKED DRAFTING OF THE RESOLUTION BY REPRESEN TATIVE REAVIS?U. S. NEEDS - HER MONEY. Washington, Jan. 3.?The admin istration would be directed, under a resolution introduced today, by Rej* wAwiitklinon X COCU ua li.VC- xvcavi^ A?yuik/uv(?u| VTA J J Nebraska, to demand re^payment by a Franc? of money loaned to her by <> the United States daring the war. jT Mr. Re avis, in a statement, said q puompt payment of the debt should ? be insisted upon because France has p indicated her intention of expending .t] "large sums of money on ipcresed j( naval armament!." . a Washington, Jan. 3.?The text of the resolution follows :x ? "Whereas thg proceedings of the n conference on the limitation bf arma- ' menis disclose a determination on " the part of certain debtor nations of ? the United States -to expend large Bums'"of money on increased naval c. armament. ' . t . .tl "Resolved by the house- of repre sentatives (the senate concurring) . that it is the desire of congress that 81 the government of the United States advise such nation or nations through the proper channels that the pay- . memt of obligations now due to" the c< United States will be "acceptable." ' x Mr. Reavis in his statement says . that "the Unjted ^tates feels vpry ^ grest sympatHy^r- the distress of ^ Europe, aside froi^nany seJfish. inter rat we may have in the matter. But svith France standing unmoved be^ ^ fore the prayers and pleadings of ^ mankind for a tranquil world and as serting the intention of vastly in- " ireasing the most baifoarous and in humane mplement^ of; war, viz., the submarine, I think it'is time to wipe the tears of sympathy from our eyes and try to see with clearer vision Ovhat tHS present situation pre tends." /' UNUSUAL INTEREST IN FOREIGN DEBT Freaaury Receiving ^dvice Frjam All Parts of the .Country On the Subject. Washington, Jan. 2.?lUnusual in terest in the ultimate disposition of the $10,000,000,000, debt owed the United States by th$ allied I govern ments has been evidenced through out the country during the past few. weeks, treasury officials said today. Many letters hacome into the treasury asking for information on the subject and offering advice while debating societies in different parts of the country hare been writing in for data o which to build arguments both on behalf of and against the government ft quiring payment of the principal and interest of the debt uiftler various plans. What were described as "nu* let- k ters are also coming to the treasury, it was said, submitting plans for ob taining payment of the debt under schemes of varying complexity and over, diversified periods of years, the proceeds to be used by the govern ment for as many different projects. Meanwhile, officials declared, the solution of the allied debt problem awaits the action of congress upon . the legislation now pending to au thorized negotiations with the for eign debtor government for winding up their war time financial trans actions with this country. . , AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Preparatory to communion ser vices, the Rev. George M. Telford will preach in the Presbyterian church Friday evening it 7:30: The Rev. Melton Clark of the Columbia Theological Seminary will preach Sunday morning, at which time com munion will b observed. MILni l IJULOIIUIl ' ?' ail eireann loses no time i After convening in tak ing up pact with england. o'connor thinks it step backward. _ \ ? : Dublin, Jan. 3.?The Gail Eireann rat. no time after reconvening today i allowng its holiday recess in plung- ' lg again into sharp debate on the i .nglo-Jrish treaty. It had (before it ] nee more an order of th^day;-call, i lg for consideration of both Arthur < Griffith's ratification motion and < lamon de Valera's alternative pro osals. It was qot generally thought , ie debate would, jyn many days ; mger, many memfoers anticipating vote .by Thursday night or Friday/ . An opponent of the treaty, Art ( ''Connor, of South Kildare, Dail linister of agriculture, opened to- j ay's debate with'an argument that , - - ? ? afiinfc ^KaaWoivI k If bl^av/ VT.OO a MM.V* 1 declaration of belief tHat the real : eart of the Irish people had not , iianged, despite the numerous resolu , pns by varoW bodtes in favor of le pact _ . , O'Connor asserted the campaign j nee the Dail's adjournment, bad in , ?lity hurt the treaty, declaring it ] Eid been waged by'people who hacLj ever dona any good work for the j >untry and were now "howling at ] XI.0 ttlUH/HCU <U1C 9VUM1QK14 vmvma^v tying the people of Ireland would iv? none of them in the Irish free ate. \ " O'Connor was,interrupted several mes durirfk his address, notably by [ichael Collins, who resented his ;tack on resolutions favoring the 'eaty passed by meetings of farmers id other public bodies. Collins call 1 attention to the suffering -of Ahe iral population, ftoso houses had sen burned on all sides. Michael Collins opened the debate t the aftemotfn session with a de unciation of a joking reference of ountess Markiewiez, during the lofning session to the possibility of. cancellation of the engagament of rincess Mary and Viscount Lascel ?, in order that the Princess might tarry Collins and make him eligible J > the governor-generaisnup 01 ire ind. Collins termed the suggestion n insult to the lady in question, and eclared it was calculated^ to cause ain not only to her tout to his own nancee. BABY FUND CROWS . [ore Money Received For Hospital Assistance. Miss Blanche Reep announces the >11 Owing contributions to the hospi il baby fund, making a total of 116: Previously reported, $94.00 'Mrs. Eugene Gary ' 1.00 Mr. G. M. Telford 1 2.uu Dr. HT'C. Fennel- 1.00 Mr. Joe Little . 1.00 Mr. Thos. P. Thomson 2.00 Mr. Dave Thomas 7.00~~~ Mr. Arthus S. Thomas 5.00 Mr. F. C.JDupre 1.00 Miss Mae Robertson 1.00 Graver Wilson 1.00 Dr. S. G. Thomson 1.00 . Mrs. S. G. Thomson 1.00 Mrs. D< A. Rogers 2.00 Dt. R. E. Abell, Chester, S. C., 10.00 Dr. J. E. Pressley 5.00 Maria Neuffer ' l.OU J Dr. G. A. Neuffer 1.00 Mrs. Addie McMurray - 1.00 J. C. Thomson 1.00 Total ; 139.00 50 Injured By Bomb Berlin, Jan. 3.?A bomb wa9 &x loded among the crowd listening to band in the market place of Diitkel. eiihl, Bavaria, on New Year's eve, < jjuring 50 persona, 20 of them seri- 1 usly. The thrower of the bomb, a 1 onth and several other persona were rrested. 1 OPINION EXPRESSED BY 00*iP. TROLLER GENERAL?OPT1MIS Tl<k FORECAST FOR POLITIC; AL STATUS OF NATJO^S ALSO MADE PUBLIC. ' I ' Washington, Jan. 3.?Indications that the turn of the year ia being 'marked by a striking iMprovement in the business and economic oat look" of the country , and/the world generally were discussed tonight ,by Comptroller of the Currency Cria singer in a forecast, for 1922. v There can be no (ionbt, Mr. Cris 3inger said, that -''both -the political and economic index figures" are reg isle ring improvement at this time, "when political and; economic con ations so intimately interest" - ^Taking , this wider , Ji* added, "I feel that vrejmaj be fcified in/ regarding the efottook; altogether reassuring, and that new^ear is cQkning to os.witfc guar antees that justify the'more uc iorecasu.- - . In the political domain, Mr. Cro jinger described as predominating favorable factors the irms conference and "the apparent? y insured settlement of *be? age-) long controversy invohrthg the lig ations of Ireland to. the United Kingdom." Already, he declared, a jfetterment in. the condition^ of inter optional exchange has taken place, *" idding that no better index of wide ipread business conditions exist. "In view of thesev aecoaaplttliv nents," he continued, "we nay antici pate confidently that the year 1922 will take:its place ht history as. >f the landmarks in nan progress* Me^ hate t - one atca uciiiiim(| "in 141c wu ;hey have set their feet ia the paths ;o restore security and prosperity; ;hey: have fixed their minde on the ligher and better things. . \ "Already we beginto find evidence )f the far-reaching importance of :hese accomplishments. Every indi cation of .favorable outcome.in these' jreat underlying considerations has ; Deen practically simultaneous with *a iistinct turn for the better in^the af fairs of -business and industry. The irery promptness with which the com mercial community has thus respond-' ^ ed is the most emphatic testimony bo the readiness and the eagerness of the business world to shape its course ; toward restored prosperity and n?:;' 3umption of the great peaceful acttrr ; itie? of civilization/f COMMITTEE MEETS Executive Body of Legion Conyene*^ Fri<*ay. _ 1 ^In order complete tho organi zation of the American Legion Post, R. B. Cheatham, Commander, has called a meeting of the executi committee foij Friday of this week, at which time an adjutant wttl be de cided upon. Since ?h<f meeting, last week there has been much'discussion. f on all sides of the organization aud - its possibilities and the executiva committee will takes uromot action to keep the interest up. The commit tee wiN draw up a constitution decide what the membership fees will be. ' Here's Your Real Winter. Ithaca, N. Y., Jan. tures ranging from 15 to 17 below zero were reported from cen tral and northern sections of the state as a result of a cold wave last night. In this city it was 15 ibelow during the night and the mercury had risen only a few degrees today. Two More Deaths from Wood Alcohol,, New York, Jan. 3.?Two moi ieaths from poisonous sricohc vere reported today bringing tijj ?1 since Christmas eve to More than 100 patlentahqj :aken to Bellevue hoaprUJ j '--H . t." -i "