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Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, March 29,1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Y< MlfST HAVE HIGH WAGES NO RATTER WHO SUFFERS?RAIL ROAD LABOR LEADER DE MAND RAILROAD EMPLOYEES ENJOY ALL LUXURIES OF RICH Chieago, March 28.?Characteriz ing the present principles of wage ad incfmont ?s uniust. B. M. Jewell, president of the railway employes de partment of the American Federa tion of Labor told the railroad labor today that costs and wages should remain constant, even to the elimina tion of profits and that until the eco nomic basis was accomplished con flict between capital and labor would continue. Mr. Jewell opened his fight against general wage reductions sought by 205 railroads before today. He treat ments of lower living costs and low er wages in other industries; assert ed "the so-called industries; assert ed "the so-called law of supply and demand will never afford a living wage in a system organized according to modern business principles" and declared for a living wage for all < productive workers of the country. Interest and profits must - not continue while the working man suf Far-a inwr waand unemployment, Mr. Jewel! asserted in presenting his theory of the living wage. A guaran tee of steady earnings power to the wage earner, eyen at the expense of immediate profits, he added, "would go far toward eliminating these re current periods of depression." *'We have come here to challenge the justice of the "wage rates of all productive labor, to challenge the very principle upon which the rail roads proposed that rates of pay be adjusted," said Mr. Jewell. "We propose to show how the entire pur pose for which industry is-operated can and must be changed. "The existing wage scale is insuf ficient to enable the adult to main tain an ascertainable minimum of decent living. "The railroads are saying to their employes, 'we cannot afford to pay a living wage' while we-say that the railroad must pay at least that." "Out of the annual yield of any in dustry," Mr. Jewell continued "three things are being paid, costs, (including supplies, depreciation ex tensions, taxation, etc.,) wages and profits. Two of these, we say, ought to be constant, costs (reduced to an economical figure), and wages at a level which will allow full human life, inclusive of are, literature, music, recreation and sociability, such as are enjoyed by the well-to-do This leaves profits as the sole variable factor and frankly contem plates a situation in which tempor arily they may have to cease. Until that situation has been accepted, the conflict between capital and labor will continue. W. G. McGOWAN APPOINTED AGENT FOR THIS COUNTY The Press and Banner has received from Dr. W. W. Long of Clemson College a message announcing the appointment of Mr. W. G. McGowan, of Mississippi, as County Agent for tms county, aim: tucawi?c ia *cyiw duced as it gives the necessary in formation about Mr. McGowan. The message says: "W. P. Greene, "Abbeville, S. C. "Have secured appointment of W. G. McGowan from Mississippi who is a graduate of the, Agricultural College of Mississippi and who has a farm in Mississippi and has worked with the extension service of that state. He reports for duty in Abbe-, ville April 1st. "W. W. Long." COTTON MARKET Cotton on the Abbeville market brought from 17 3-4 to 18 cents to day. i DAUGHERTY SAYS MORE THAN ONE-THIRD COULD BE DIS PENSED WITH?TOO MANY EMPLOYEES?iPOSITJON TAK EN BY ATTORNEY GENERAL. Washington, March 28.?Belief that the civil service is a hindrance to government efficiency was ex pressed by Attorney General Daugh emty testifying recently 'before the house appropriations committee. "It is probably a gratuitous sug gestion, but I believe the civil ser vice is an interference to some ex tent in the discharge of public busi ness," said the attorney general as quoted in the printed record of the hearing. "About one-half of the employees in the department of jus tice are civil service. While I am at B in bt m vc ca fc lu to of ac m w; lil torney general bdo wshlq ujc mi pervice law is in the statutes I will enforce it and observe it as I ex pect to enforce and observe all laws. "I believe if it were not for the civil service we could get along with less than two-thirds of (the numlber of employes under civil service and probably get twice as much work out of them." Asked by a memiber to explain just how that might be done, Mr. Daugfaerty said: "I suppose the department of jus tice has as good employejes and as faithful who axe under civil service as those who are under civil ser vice in any other department, but they are not as anxious generally to be in places.to commence work on the dot as they are to quit work on the dot. I would rather take the recommendations of a political committee, either Democratic or Republican, a self respecting com mittee, for the appointment otf a man or wo-uan (than to .be compelled to go through the requirements of the civil service to secure an em ployee. Thoy are hardly as ambi tious, hardly as energetic under the civil service as are those not under civil service. "I discovered tooth before I came here as attorney general and since, (that civil service employees spent too much time in trying to work out plans to make themselves secure in their position. While this situation can not be remedied at the present time still it is- worthy of careful study." DEATH OF MRS. O. B. ROGERS Mrs. Onie B. Rogers died at the old Clinkscales home near Monterey, March 28th, apd was buried (this af ternoon at 3 o'clock at Shiloh. Fun eral services were conducted by the Rev. D. W. Duckworth, and the in terment- was in thp old Shiloh bury ing ground. Mrs. Rogers was in her 61st year, and was the only daughter of Wil liam V. Clinkscales and Lou Baker Clink scales. She was the widow of Frank A. Rogers, who came to this county about 1860 and died some years ago. Mrs.'Rogers was a capable chris tian woman, and prominent in Ab beville county. She has reared a large family of children and has a circle of relatives and friends. The following sons and daughters survive hertMeasrs. William, John and Frank Rogers, and Misses Mat tie, Julia and Hattie Rogers and one married daughter, Mrs. Carl Myers, of Seneca, S. C. MAYOR'S COURT John Savage, Sam Collier and .Trtlin Ouarlas were ordered before the Mayor yesterday morning on a charge of disorderly conduct, but failed to appear and forfeited bonds of $5.00 each. George Baker and Squire Camp bell were up this morning on a charge of larceny, stealing cotton meal from the cotton mill, and fined $15 eacji. IG SUM ADDED TO ARMY BILL. < RECOMMENDATIONS OI; BUD GET BUREAU AND APPROPRI ATION COMMITTEE OF HOUSE DISREGARDED. Washington, March 28?Disregard g recommendations of the budget r ireau and of the appropriations com t ittee the house today by a 3 to H >te added $15,000,000 to the amount t rried in the army appropriation bill a r river and harbor improvetaent. t An amendment to increase the c mp sum allotted from $27,635,260 * $42,815,661 was adopted by a vote 1* IKS tn 54 aftpr tihrpp hours of I Timonious debate, during which 40 I embers aired their views. The vote <1 as more on sectional than party les. The Republicans split, while j ost of the Democrats favored it. I The measure probably will come to I final vote tomorrow. 1 The phrase "pork barrel legisla- i >n"' frequently was injected into s e debate which had all the earmarks s congressional wrangles of former t iars over rivers and harbors appfco- ? iations. The amount originally rec- t nmended in the bill was slightly in t :cess of the sum approved by the c idget bureau while the total propos [ was the amount requested by thfe s ief of army engineers, in charge 1, the improvements. Carried as a ? mp sum with the amount to- be ex- s inded on various projects not speci- j id, the appropriation would be ap- t ?rtioned by the army engineering t rps to continue work during the I ming fiscal year on projects al- 1 ady authorized. e Representative Mondell character ed the movement to increase the t (propriation as the first assault on t e budget system and as a "raid on t e treasury." ( Mr. .Burton contended action of the 8 >use in approving the increase show- s 1 the mistake of making lump sum "] >propriations. Such a system, he Ided, caused members to combine in a pport of large sums so that projects t their districts would ibe taken c re of. g Mr. Mann declared that opponents s : the bill made it appear that "a j ind of rascals" were attempting to j iid the treasury. A number of rep- ^ isentatives who approved the in- c eases advanced the arguments that t ie improvement of inland waterways j ould allow farmers and manufac- ? irers in the interior to move their roducts by water more cheaply than ? iey now can do so by railroad. t FEWER AUTOS IN COUNTY bbeville dhows decrease or Jioj( Cars This Year. There are 315 fewer cars in Abbe lle county than last year, according i figures just made public of 1,020 1 jainst 1,935 for 1921. However, it 1 lould be remembered that the fig- * res for 1921\include the whole year E hile those for 1922 include two onths. A number of cars are pro ibly being jacked up and have no 1 ;w numbers, while others are proba y operated without numbers. Figures for other Piedmont coun- k es include: County 1922 1921 1 nderson 4468 5363 ? reenwood 1724 2296 j aurens -- 1654 2487 * conee 1168 1510 1 ickens 1275 1573 partanburg 4860 5518 reenville 5776 6834 Total for state 63,249 in 1922 gainst 83,349 in 1921. CO-OPERATIVE SPEAKER^ Dr. D. W. Daniel of Clemson Col ge and Henry S. Johnson of iken, will make addresses in Ab eville Friday at 11:30 a. m., and !q>lain in detail the Cotton Grow ra Co-operative Association. A teeting will be held in Due West at p. m. of the same day. )VER TEN THOUSAND BALES F RECEIVED IN DAY?TEXAS FARMER COMING TO TELL OF OPERATION OF TEXAS COT TON ASSOCIATION. Columbia, March 28.?Contracts epresenting over-12,000 bales of cot- s on were received Monday at head- v [uarters of the South Carolina Cot* s on Growers' Cooperative association, r iccording to officials of that associa- ii ion. These contracts, it was spid, h ame from Calhoun, Chester, Abbe ille, Lancaster, Greenville and Ai- a :en counties. Reports of heavy sign- d ips were received by wire and tele- r >hone from other counties during the ( lay. a Calhoun county yesterday went be * rond the 14,000 bale mark while t Darlington has now passed 20,000 t ?ales and is headed for 25,000 bales. * ["he campaign was formally launched ' n Orangeburg yesterday with a peech iby Dr. D. W. Daniel of Clem- ? on college and the canvass for con- u racts begins in that county this t yeek. Officials of the association say " hey expect Orangeburg to shortly s ake its place as one 'of the leading t ounties. s Announcement was made by the as- v ociation yesterday that J. D. Cogh- c an, a Texas farmer, was coming to South Carolina next week to make ' ome speeches in behalf of the piove- * nent. Mr. Coghlan is a member of 1 he Texas association, having signed he contract last year for 100 bales. 1 le grew approximately that number * ast year and they are being market- 1 d through the Texas association. 1 Mr. Coghlan is so enthusiastic over ^ he operation of the Texas associa iftn And thp benefits beinor obtained ? ------ ? hrough it that he is coming to South Carolina to tell the farmers of this * "V tate just what it has meant for his j tate, hoping that they may follow Texas' lead. r "While the farmers of Texas have ilready benefited very greatly hrough the sale of their 1921 cotton ooperatively, getting an average of 115 a bale more than farmers who ^ ire not members have gotten, the ; >enefit derived thus far will be small n comparison with the benefits that vill be received by all members of looperative associations when all of he states are organized as they will j >e by next fall," says Mr. Coghlan. 'I already wonder that we did not :ome to cooperative marketing years ^ igo. It is surprising that it took ^ is so long to see its possibilities." PREACHER AT STILL Orphanage Superintendent It Ar retted and Put in Jail. Walhalla, March 28.?This morn ng between 3 and 4 o'clock, Sheriff J Alexander, Deputy Sheriff Sullivan ind Federal Agent Baskin, captured i forty-gallon still in operation and j rwo gallons of whiskey near Old j Sickens in Oconee County. There ( vere three men at the still, of which \ lumber two escaped, and the "man" t :aptured, turned out to be the Rev. < J. 0. Whitman, superintendent of ? he Oconee Orphanage. Whitman is j low in Walhalla jail. A distillery ^ light waa located very near the or- r jhanage. The officers have been wag- ? ng a war against ''moonshiners," t ind they have averaged capturing a f (till a day for the past two weeks, } )ne still, the largest ever captured in c ;he county, was a 800-gallon capacity Railway U*es Wireleu. Chicago, March 28.?The first rail oad in the United States to equip a rain with a wireless for the use of )asscngers is the Chicago, Milwaukee md St. Paul which today announced ;he installation of radio sots on its jioneer limited trains between Chi :ago and St. Paul and Minneapolis, rhe news received en route will be >osted for the benefit of travelers as :ast as it is received. :IVE KILLED IN SEIUHLASHES RADICALS ATTACK CATHOLICS S IN STATE OF JALISCO?CARS STOPPED AND OCCUPANTS WERE FORCED TO ALIGHT AND SALUTE RADICAL FLAGS Mexico City, March 28.?Five per ona were killed and 11 seriously e (rounded in clashes at Guadalajara, i tate of Jalisco yesterday, between \ adicals and Catholic groups, accord* t ng to the best available information i lere. ' ' 1 The radicals are reported to have g ttacicea pedestrians ana motorists m- i liscriminately, the climax being t eached when they met a group of 1 Catholic workmen who had attended | i labor meeting. The workmen were ] nsulted and attacked, and when hey took refuge in a nearby building < he structure was fired upon by the , adicals. The body of one victim ( pas found in the church. * ^ The radicals began their demon- , tration shortly after noon, when the j isual Sunday procession of automo- . liles was in progress around the j nain plaza of the city. All traffic was , topped while numerous occupants of ( he cars were forced to alight and , alute red and black flags, most of rhichvwere carried by female radi- , als. > The demonstrators then went to he office of the newspaper El In- , ormador, where threats were made 9 J gainst the life of the editor if he ^ persisted in his attack on Bolehe- 1 sm. The radicals then marched last the cathedral. Invectives and nsuHa were hurled at the priests and 1 he clergy in general, after which a , ;oisy demonstration was staged in ront of the office of the Catholic pa- : ler Restrafraction. Later the crowd ^ >egan tee indiscriminate nuwjijj vhic'h ended in the sanguinary clash j nth the Catholic workmen. The po ice were unable to cope with the 1 ituation and- federal troops were ushed to the scene to restore order. MRS. KNOX DIES. Mrs. Sarah 'Rosalee Knox died at ihe home of her son Jesse Harkness n Antreville Monday the 27th at 10 1'clock in the morning, and was bur ed at Shiloh at 3 o'clock Tuesday ifternoon. Funeral services were con lucted by the pastor Rev. D. W. )uckworth. Mrs. Knox was about 65 years old md was survived by an only son with vhom she made her home. She was irst married to Mr. Harkness who lied at the age of 23 years. She after wards married John Knox who pre leded her to the grave about ten rears ago. COURT ADJOURNS Vfter Being in Session Little More Than One Day. The Court of Common Pleas ad ourned Tuesday afternoon after be ng in session little more than a day. Dnly one case was tried. This was he case of Mariah Dawson against he county for damages growing out >f an accident at Wardlaw's Bridge, klleged to be the result of the negli gence o>f the county. The plaintiff vas riding in a buggy drawn by a nule. The mule became frightened at i hole m the bridge and backed off, :hrowing the plaintiff about fifteen feet to the ground breaking one of ler legs. She was under the care of loetors for several months. The jury trying the case returned i verdict for |650L At the conclusion >f thiB case the equity business was opposed of and the court then ad ourned. More Advances For Agriculture. Washington, March 28.?Approval >f 121 advances for agricultural and ivestock purposes aggregating $3, i24,000 was announced today by the var finance corporation. The loans ncluded $113,000 in Georgia and 5464,000 in South Carolina. <*i fEXTILE OPERATORS QUIT AT LA ?EVENTY-FIVE HUNDRED LEAVE COTTON MILLS AS PROTES9V AGAINST WAGE REDUCTION^ * WALKOUT IS AcdoMPLISHED' WITHOUT DISORDER. - :M Lawrence, Masi, March 28.?flex-, snty-five hundred textile n seven cotton mills h^ere left, the vork without disorder today in pj est against a wage! reduction approxV ; mating 20 per cent. An T AAA 1 !?- ?1?.-'JiSC i,uvu workers were iaie as tult of a shut down of the Arlington nills. The strike marked the eyrtQjg;? ;o this textile center of the coHb-v^ troversies that have tied' up the eo&. ?n industry in Rhode Island and New " Hampshire for several weeks. Organizers of the United Textile Workers of America, who took charge' jf the situation today, said 80 ] lent, of the workers were out that the results had been far fce^'J pond their expectations in vlew t^f;| the fact that a week ago the ope*fc tives were only loosely organized ' Leaders of the One Big union, which" also is interested in the strike, ed that their organization had gai rtrength. Ben Legerca, a member of union's ^executive board, at a confer- ; ence late today with Francis and John J. Dean, organizers of United Textile Workers, made suggestion that the two unions cc bine for the purpose of condt the strike here. Gorman and jaid they thought favorably of1 proposition and would submit %> >nce to President McMahon of v th* rextile Workers' anion. V %) The mill owners also expressed Mir. sfaction with the situation andsaid ;hey had expected the walkout to as- ^ rome larger proportions. Officially :he Pacific mills, the largest of the plants affected, said the mills would . V? reopen tomorrow. The Everett lnSfe ( will also open it was announced.- ^ Only one. plant was forced to 4lose - :oday. The Methuen company ai - Methuen, just over from Lawrence* suspended operations whenno work- ^ ?rs reported. At the other six plants 1 the looms were run with reduced $ forces. ' Union leaders announced tfhat>;;-^a..-.is program of active picketing would fte; % put into effect tomorrow. The Pacific mills lost larg^uumbers,-..'i of operatives after the last whistle 4 had blown this morning. Minor walk outs were numerous in all the mills throughout the day. \ ; Four hundred employees of the Acadia mills met this afternoon iflti - organized the Cotton Workers' onion. Their leaders said they would apply " for a charter in the United Textile Workers. * PLAN NOT FEASABLE Position to Be Taken By?the German ^ Government. Berlin, March 28?Chancellor Wjrtf % told the premiers of the federated - 7 states and reichstag leaders repre~ renting the majority Socialists, Dem ocrats, Clericals and the German peo ple's party today that the German government would inform the allied reparations commission that the 60, 500,000,000 marks tax levy wae not feasible and that financial control of Germany as stipulated in its note of last week also must be declined. ^ COLLEGE GIRLS COMING ' Miss Mary H. Greene will arrive from Agnes Scott College fcomorow afternoon to spend the spring holi days at horao>. She will be accom panied by her friend, Miss Elefc&oi Hyde, of Dallas, Texas, who cotnes to spend die holidays with her. Miss Victoria Howie will arrive Friday having with her Miss Frances Harper of Germantown, oIoa aatmap +a 4Iia LcXty W iiu aiou uv/iutvj w a^vuu mmv spring holidays in Abbeville. Miss Mary Nickles will also l>e a* liome for the holiday season.