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Abbeville Press and Banner itablished 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, March 6, 1922, Single Copies, ffve Cents. 78th Year. E :noe market reports to be broadcasted? president of chicago board of trade tells of MOVE of wide IMPORTANCE Chicago, Mar. 4.? The farmer be no more than 30 minutes id his city brother in receiving of the factors which deter prices of agricultural pro Robert McDouglas, president Chicago board of trade, said it in a statement outlining the l's plan to broadcast crop mar reports by radio telephone be Monday. The radio system, will cover a territory within bs of 500 miles of Chicago, he rized as "the greatest for step in 2,000 years" in bring the fanner in contact with the >rs that make the price of his iuct. ltve statement said: ' "The telephone and the autcxmo lile moved the farms closer to the zityea They will be brought still closer by our radio telephone ser It is our belief that our half bulletins giving not only quo but fundamental news of crop and maricet situation |thn?out the world will enable the grower to buy or sell as con fidently and almost as quickly as if |b? were in Chicago. The .radio syslem will cover the l^&ritory within a radius of 500 of this city. In this area there [are, I am informed, thousands of! rjdio sets in villages and on farms, j Even on farms where there is no| apparatus there are telephones and I th? nearby village will have the 1 radio reports. *\ "In the great war we read that bed springs and even coat hangers were made to serve the wireless,; aad it may not be far fetched to vision the day when the farmer fol lowing his furrow may be in in stantaneous touch not only with the factors which affect the price of his , product but with the news of the werld," "In its present stage, however, I believe that country gram ?levators j which are scattered everywhere will j sarve as stations for our reports, being distributed by them still fur ther by telephone to such farms as have not their own radios. "A day may mean much to the farmer in marketing hi3 grain. Prices in an open competitive mar ket adjust themselves at high speed to changing conditions. It is impor tant that the farmer and the coun try grain dealer should learn of these changes without delay. '^he price of grain is not deter mined by factors in any one coun try, but by crop and marketing con ditions of the world. The effect of ram in Kansas for instance may be offl&et by drought in Indiana or Australia. In our radio report, therefore, we hope more nearly to equalize the news opportunities be tween the farmer at tils plow and the city man at his ticker." HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT Calls Meeting of Officers Wednesday at 3 O'clock in Office. Mrs. R. T. Gibbons, County Home Demonstration agent invites all the officers of the home demonstration clubs to meet in her office at the Ceurt House on Wednesday after no#n at 3 o'clock, to discuss co-opera mo?VoHnff A full nt+PTiHArtPA is desired. HONORS EVEN Sheriff McLane and Clerk of Court J. L. Perrin divided the noaors this morning and each emp tied a barrel of pure corn whiskey i?f4 tile seir?t grating on the side veranda at the court house. .* V . ' . v'f 1 f DR. J. W. BAB COCK DIES IN COLUM Was For Twenty-Three Year* H Of the State Insane Asylum. Burial in Chester. ?I Columbia, March 4.?Dr. J. Babcock, who for 23 years superintendent of the State Hosj for the Insane here, died at 5 o'cl Friday morning. The end came > suddenly. He had been suffering \ an ailment for several weeks, but condition was not thought seri and hfe'death was a shock to friends and family. He is survived his wife and three daughters. 1 funeral will be held in; Chester ? day, Dr. Babcock being a native Chester. Dr. Babcock was one of nation's leading experts on pells and was one of the first experts the country tp recognize this dise For several years he has been h of a private sanitorium here. James Woods Babcock, aliei was born at Chester, August 11, 1 He was' the son of Sidney E. Margaret (Woods) Babock. He a graduate of Harvard Univen receiving the degree of A. B., 1882 and M. D. in 1886. The Sc Carolina College conferred the 1 orary degree LL. D. upon him at centennial celebration in 1905. He married Katherine Guion Lincolnton, N. C., in 1892. LAND SALES Several tracts of land were i today, all of it being sold thro VnnlrMtnf stsviiW* WiC WW* n In the matter of 3. H. Hill two tracts containing1 23 acres i 19.9 acres were sold together fc price of $1315. The gin house and attached machinery was i for <|500. J. Allen Smith was purchaser in each ease. In the matter of H. M. Hill Planters Bank bought /the tracts advertised, the 60 acre t setting for $1740 and vthe 44 a< for $1,000. The W. B. Hill tract of h which last salesday brought $3,< was resold bringing $2,600. E. Williams was the purchaser. Three small lots were sold in matter of W. T. Broadwell were purcnaaea t>y mm ior There were no sales by the 1 ter nor by the Probate Judge. FERTILIZER SALES 70 P. C. C South Carolina the Heaviest I For Pa?t Two Year? New Orleans, March 5?Figure! sales of fertilizers in nine states the cotton region were issued just fore the opening of the cotton r ket today by H. G. Hester, secrel of the New Orleans Cotton Exchai They showed a decrease during seven months ended with Februar; X \J Jj/ti v;cnw tv/uipflicu TT1WU VUV a during the same period a year j and a decrease of 70 per cent, c pared with the sales of two years i According to the statement, the tal quantity of fertilizers sold Georgia, South Carolina, Alaba Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisii Texas, Tennessee, and Oklah amounted to 652,326 tons aga 465,722 tons a year ago, and 1,8 777 two years. Heaviest sales v in South Carolina, where the t was 185,991 tons against 185, last year. MRS. ROBERT DUNLAP Mrs. Robert Dunlap of Starr < last Friday night and was bu Sunday at the Starr' bur: ground. She is survived by her 1 band and one brother, J. S. Fis of Talulah, S. C. Mrs. Dunlap about seventy years of age and a cousin of Mrs. Sam Eakin of -beville. American Firm Fails. San Salvador R. S., March 4.? American firm of Belanger's in porated, at Bluefields Nicaragua, failed, says a dispatch received h The liabilities were placed at 000,000. f X *. y PRESIDENT HARDING TAKES HAND IN DISCUSSION?CHIEF OF STATE AT WHITE HOUSE TO TALK OVER PROPOSED DECREASE. Washington, March 4.?President Harding took a hand in the army strength discussion today, summoning members of the house army appropri ation subcommittee into conference, after a talk with General Pershing The subcommittee yesterday a greed tentatively to cut the army en listed strength for next year from the authorized 150,000 to 115,000. After the White House conference it was disclosed that an administration policy for a force of not less than 130,000 had been formulated and ex pressed. The present actual strength is about 137,000. General Pershing would not discuss the nature of his talk with the presi dent but when the summons to Chair man Anthony and his associates fol lowed there was no effort to eonceal that General Pershing had felt it necessary to appeal to the president against the cut in the army the com mittee had in mind. At the war department Acting Sec retary Wainwright said the military policy of 1920 was passed as an abid ? ? *?kj mmh a ttlati *'ertVK_ 1J1|? JIVUtJ OUU WOO UVV m |/rau OH?r ject to the whim or caprice of every economist." > "If that policy wis needed in 1920 it also is needed in 1922," he added. With relation to General Pershing's call at the White House Mr. Wain wright said that "no man is better fitted to speak with authority on this question than he." He pointed out that General Pershing alone of the commanders of the great army that fought in the World war was still in active service for his country "and content to command now an army of 150,000 men." "We feel," Mr. Wainwright said, "that he is doing this because he feels it his natriotic duty to give his experience and knowledge to the task of establishing a sound, peace time, military policy such as the act of 1920 provides." Full confidence was expressed in administration circles after the sub committee's Conference with the president that a conservative course would be followed in army reduction when congress completes its work on the appropriation bills. TO ORGANIZE WOMEN'S AND GIRLS' CLUBS Mrs. R. T. Gibbons, who came to this county on March 1st as Home Demonstration Agent, is planning an active campaign for the organi zation of girls ' and women's clubs throughout the county. She is plan ning to visit schools in every sec tion of the county as fast as pos sible in the interest of her work. If she doesn't get to your school in a very few days it will "be because the roads were too bad for her to get there. She will be glad to hear from the teachers or pupils In any school and women of any community who would like to have her come to them to organize clulbs. Mrs. Gibbons has opened her office in the court house with the Superintendent of Educa tion. She can be found there every morning from 9 to 10 o'clock and all day Saturday unless other notice an fo on pa ph in ha in; in wl ex be is given. At other times she will be in the county doing field wo When you want help, call on her. She is here for service. WRECK ON SOUTHERN The Southern had a wreck be tween Abbeville and Hodges Satur cor-jday night and the last train did not has ere. reach here until ten o'clock at night. A wheel on the engine was out of fix. '.Si ACK10 NORMALCY, SAYS PRESIDENT :hievement of year, de clares harding?anniver sary OF inauguration as chief executive celbrat ed saturday. Washington, March 5.?A return normal ways of government, Pres ent Harding declared in an address fore members of the National ess club Saturday night, he consid 9 an achievement of his first year the White House. If nothing else had been accom ished, the president said, "the long rp toward getting back to normal lys of government would seem to ? to have been the achievement of e year." The address was delivered at an en rtainment given in honor of his first fficial" birthday and to mark the casion a birthday cake surmounted one candle was presented to him. "I am not unmindful of the fact," esident Harding said, ''that my pre cessor was ill and that the govern ;nt was in the drift of the reaction )m the war." "But," he continued, J roblems of readjustment are in itely more difficult than any of pu n imagine. Mr. Harding said he likes to throw ide the eares of official life and ngle with gatherings like his audi ce. "If there is one trouble with is White House job," he said, "it is being a human being." A president, he said, can not hold mself aloof and can not find time get.all the things done be weald e to do. "I never find myself done," he said never find myself with my work mpleted. I don't believe there is human being who can do all the >rk there is to be done in the presi nt's office." "It seems as though I. had been esident for 20 years," he continued, ding that "life has been so full" in e past year "that there's scarcely y impression of life outstanding he re I came to Washington except e, my viewpoint of the senate com red with what it is today." He en rasized that he did not mean this any unkind spirit. There have been some plans which ,ve not been worked out, Mr. Hard fj said, in discussing his first year the White House, and some dreams lich have not come true. "Maybe some fault lies with the ecutive," he added, "but it can't all for its a divided authority." MERICAN LEGION'S ATTRACTIVE WINDOW Last Saturday morning John Lo ax ana nis squaa ox .mmej tvau ?gion barrage men fired the open g gun in their spring offensive fox ?w members for the local post. A ow window in the old Cash Bar iin Store building was borrowed om the bo 11-w?evil-killer and, by o use of flags, posters, and white lint, was turned into a very neat Ivertisement for the Legion and ia Jones' show. A soldier in uni rm, with his tin hat and his gas ask, stands rigidly at attention, lere is the never-to-be-forgotten ^d Cross nurse, who stands in her tiite uniform just behind the sol er. An autographed picture of arshal Foch, hung in the back ound, reminds us tiiat once there is a war over in France and that ese Legionaires helped to put a r>n to it. VISITORS FROM NEW YORK Or. and Mrs. Joseph Flick of New ork stopped off in Abbeville foi veral days last week to visit Mr. id Mrs. J. D. Kerr. Dr. Flick is in iai^e of a hospital in New York >r cripples, and Mr&. (Flick is re embered by her many friends here ; Miss Mary Wo?d. \ . 14 YEAR OLD YOUTH TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Resented Hi? Father's Orders That He Must Continue School Boy Shoot* Himself. Detroit, Mich., March 4.?Resent ing and brooding over his father's peremptory orders that he must con tinue to attend school, Arthur Cole man, 14 years old, shot and killed himself in his home here this morn ing. A bitter quarrel is said to have resulted from the father's order. In a note the boy left he bade his fa ther and stepmother farewell and added: "I want to see mother." Youne Coleman joined in family prayers before retiring last night, and according to his father, tossed about in bed until ! o'clock this morning. He then arose obtained a rifle, lay back on the bed and shot himself through the abdomen. Coleman was a pupil in Case high school and was noted among his fel low pupils for his fistic prowess. CLINKSCALES WILL FILED. The will of the Late James F. Clinkscales, one of the largest land owners in the county, was filed for probate Saturday, and admitted to probate in common form. The will disposes of the entire estate of the deceased, making division in kind of the whole estate between the widow and children, the widow taking one third of the estate and the other two-thirds being for division amongst the children. The children <of the de ceased son, J. Frank Clinkscales, are provided for, they receiving the share their father would have taken in the estate if living. Mrs. Clinkacales , is named as sole execatrix. The division of the estate is to be made by* three appraisers to be ap pointed by the executrix and ap proved by the eourt. LITTLE GJRL SAVES TRAIN FROM WRECK Asheville, N. C., March 4.?Anna Bellet Dunn, ten years of age, pre vented what might have been a seri ous railway accident on the Toxaway branch of the Southern "railway to day when she ran for a mile to reach , the station and advise the conductor of a landslide. The little girl was en route from her home, a mile distant from her' home, a mile distant from Quebec, Haywood county, and noticed huge piles of rock and dirt had covered the track in a cut, in which the track curved. She hastened to the station and arrived just before time for the train's departure. Runnine up to thei conductor, whom she knew, the little girl said: "Mr. Conductor, there's big rock on the track, down that way, bigger than I could move." PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE AT CLINTON GETS $125,000 New York, March 5.?Gifts of $1,811,666 to schools and colleges of the nation, made possible by John D. Rockefeller's decision to permit distribution of principal as well as income from its funds, were made today by the general education board of the Rockefeller Foundation. The gifts included: Hampden Sydney College, Hamp den Sydney, Va., $100,000; Univer i sity of Chattanooga, Tenn., $166,000; Presbyterian College of South Caro lina, Clinton, S. C., $125,000. THIEVES ENTER HOME 1 I win. a.? ? r?.?,t f\OD DCry TT line nnaj aw wmm Brother's Home Greenville, March 4?While he was r at the home of his brother, W. L. ' Mauldin, who died this morning, the res'dence of Oscar K. Mauldin, law i yev of this city, was tonight broken ;nto and robbed of about $1,000 worth of jewelry. Robberies of two ; other residences in other parts of the city were also reported last night. PUBLIC TREATY TAKEN UP TODAY > VV NEW AND KELLOGG SLATED TO FIRE OPENING GUN WITH LODGE HELD IN RESERVE. SPEECHES ..TO BE MADE EVERY DAY Washington, March 5.?The four power Pacific treaty will be 'taken up Monday by the senate and dis cussed virtually every day thereaf ter until a vote on ratification is Ob tained under a program said to ' have been agreed to in conference today between President Harding and Senator Lodge of Massachu setts, Republican leader. ( f ' - Administration spokesmen, it was announced, will open the fight for artificataon of the treaty, with Sena tor New of Indiana, a close person al friend of the president and a Re publican member of the foreign re lations committee, speaking Mon day and Senator Ketiogg of Minne sota, another Republican commit teeman and confident of the preei dent, on Tuesday. Senator' Lodgt, it was stated, also will speak soon \ and present some of the azgumente of the administration in support Of ratification. President Harding was said to fee > v in complete accord with. Senator Lodge's plans for proceedings with the arms conference treaties. Their conference at the White House to day was said to have 'been for the purpose of discussing procedure' and to keep the president informed as to the situation, including the ef fect of legislative matters also be fore the senate. Administration leaders plan to give immediate, technical rights of way to the de partment of justice bill to create a number of additional federal iudees but subject to debate on the four power treaty. It is not Senator Lodge's intention to force the treaties for the next few days but soon it was announced the admini- \ stration will push them to the fore front qnd hold them before the v. senate to the exclusion of all other < busineBs. ('. \i%$. .] ' r. SUSPENDED SENTENCE f FOR BETTY ANDREWS * Georgia Giri Placed in Custody of Her Father After Entering Plea of Guilty. Atlanta, March 4?Betty Anderson for whom Frank DuPre said he stole the diamond that resulted in his kill ing one man and wounding another here last December, entered a plea of statutory offense today and was put on urobation after beine sentenced to serve 11 months at the state farm. The indictment charging the young woman with being an accessory after the fact of the murder was nolle prossed. Dupre is under death sen tence, which has been deferred pend ing an appeal, i*he young woman who represented herself as Betty Andrews, a chorus girl, turned out to be the wife of a local barber nam ed Anderson. He has entered suit for divorce and Judge John D. Hum phries in suspending sentence today placed the girl in the custody of her father, J. E. Guest, of Gaines ville, Ga. EVANGELINE BOOTH ILL Salvation Army Head Sick With Influenza. Long Beach, Calif., March 4.? Evangeline Booth, national comman der of the Salvation Army, was taken ill with influenza and is confined to her bed here. It was announced that the oom mander's condition was not serious but she would be confined to . her room for several days. 5 Chester will build a sweet potato storage house of 7,500 bushel capac ity. Shares of stock ar^ $50 each. : ... .*&<