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Abbeville Press and Banner ^ 9 Established 1844. $2.00Yeaiy Tri-Weekly ' AbBeville, S. C., Monday, April 10, 1922^ Single Copies, Five Cents. * 78th Year. STABLE PROSPERITY NOT YET IN SIGHT FORMER GOVERNOR COX TELLS NEW YORK DEMOCRATS "BUS INESS ADVERSITY" HAS RE SULTED FROM FAILURE TO JOIN LEAGUE OF NATIONS. \ New York, April 9.?Directly at tributing our present day "business +ViQ -foilnro of the Unit ed States to join the league of na tions, former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio, in an address here last night, urged a continuation of the campaign to have this country join the league. His address was made before the National Democratic club. Asserting that "as one surveys con ditions at Washington, he finds lit tle ground for hope of a staple pros perity," Mr. Cox declared that "the average person of the average com munity believes there is something radically wrong in Washington and that it consists chiefly of a lack of leadership. There is no 'captain of the ship." Governor Cox told his audience that "while there is much regret throughout the country over the aid less way in which things are drifting it is not fair to criticise the president of the United States. "He is simply keeping his contract with the people," Mr. Cox" said. "He was Open ana iranK in expressing nis opinion as to what the function of the executive is. The campaign wag" ed by his party was largely directed against the alleged autocratic poli cies of Mr. Wilson. In marking ther distinction which both he and his party made as between what had been and what war to be in this re gard, the Republican candidate spe cifically promised what he would do. he has kept his faith. He doubtless believes his performance is in precise harmony with what he accepted as a mandate adopted by 7,000,000 plu rality." Senator Hitchcock declared that under a Republican administration, "the richest nation in the world sits idle in the midst of world misery." He said that the war had given ^America her great opportunity but that the Republican congress has frit tered it away because "the house dis agrees with the senate, the senate disagrees with the house and the president disagrees with them both." "The chattering statesmen in con gress can agree on no policy worthy the name," he continued. "The Re publican party instead of showing it self to be the party of prosperity has become the party of adversity." The Nebraska senator maintained that the administration after 13 months had not been able to enact a protective tariff because it knew the country had several years' prosperity under the present tariff. "They are afraid to repeal it," he declared, "yet they must do so or lose the favor of those interests which demand a pound of flesh for campaign , support." He also reviewed the history of the Wilson administration, declaring the country then knew real prosper ity for eight years. Thomas E. Rush, former surveyor of the port of New York, wa3 chair man of the executive committee for the banquet while Mrs. Montgomery Hare received the committee of wo men. The following telegram from for mer President Wilson was read at the dinner: "Say to the Democrats of New York that I am to support any man who stands for the salvation of America, and the salvation of Amer ica's justice to all classes." AUGUSTA VISITORS. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas iyles Davis came over from Augusta Saturday afternoon and were over Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stark. GENOA CONFERENCE IN SESSION TODAY RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA OVER- 1 ? SHADOWS ALL OTHER PROB LEMS AS REPRESENTATIVES OF DIFFERENT POWERS GATHER t Genoa, April 9.?The preliminary moves on the European chess bo^rd 1 -to which the day before the opening ( ( of the economic conferences was largely devo.ted, plainly showed all nations, great and small, courting Russia, although they wished to ap pear not overeager in the courtship. Therefore, the Russians seemed to hold a position of distinct advantage, all depending on how they manipula ted their pawns on their project to be admitted to the council of na tions as the representatives of the Russian state. Genoa, April 9.?The recognition of Russia is a dominant question in the Genoa conference and will prob ably be the first subject taken under consideration.'All discussion will be gin and end with Soviet Russia, whose 150,000,000 inhabitants and territory comprising a large fraction of the earth's surface overshadow the smaller states which make up the mass of representation at Genoa. The supreme council's Cannes) resolution of January 6, from which the Genoa conference grew, an nounced that steps must foe taken toward the economic reconstruction of central and "eastern" Europe in order to restore internationl com merce and development of the re sources of "all" countries, which clearly includes Russia. The agenda, whih later developed from the resolution while superficial ly dealing with financial and com mercial questions, seems impossible of discusion without consideration of the basic political problems. Article 1 of the agenda makes reference to "exmination rof the beet methods fot the execution of the . principles contained in the resolution passed at Cannes by the supreme council on January 6." The Italian delegation to whom the direction of the conference has been entrusted, explains that this ar ticle is the pivot on which the con ference work must turn. Referring especially to relations with Russia and her recognition, a consortium was mentioned at Cannes. This plan was stoutly Resisted by Russia, which ha^ since been joined in this oppo sition by Poland, Esthonia and Lat via, which met with Russia at the recent Riga conference and signed a protocol pledging themselves to stand for Russian recognition and unite in opposition to a consortium. This attitude of the Baltic en tent against the proposed consortium was based on the belief that the great powers contemplated infring ing their sovereignty through finan cial control and hoped to place them in the position of colonies, much, it was argued, as has 'been done with hina. Article 2 of the agenda speaks of "the establishment of European peace on a solid basis." This action, according to the ii.e_ j:?,. pannes aiscustuon, aims nuunig , a means whereby controversies be tween nations can be solved without recourse to the .barbarous use of ^ arms." , FIRE ALARM. The quietude of Abbeville was dis- j turbed about dinner time Sunday by the fire alarm. The awning over the window of T). H. Hill's law office in , the City Hall was ablaze. The fire j company was out in full force and made quick work of the awning. No damage was done. ' AT THE HOSPITAL Mrs. H. E. Spence and baby are t at the hospital for treatment. c AGREEMENT MADE ON TARIFF PLAN VOTE OF REPUBLICANS" RE SULTS IN COUNT OF SEVEN TO THREE?FOREIGN VALUA TION FINALLY AGREED UPON. TEST IN COMMITTEE WooViinorfnn A nr Q ?.FnrpveTl ?fttw.....6vv.y ?r** ?" - o ? valuation as the underlying principle )f the socalled permanent tariff bill inally was agreed upon tonight 'by Republican members of the senate inance committee. The vote was 7 to 3, but how the committee anem >ers divided on tie ballo? was with leld. With the settlement of the valua ;ion question the majority practical y completed its many months of ivork on the tariff measure and it ivas stated that it would be present jd to the senate either on Tuesday )T Wednesday after the Democratic members of the committee have been jiven opportunity to cast their votes Jn the. bill. The majority report also has yet to je drawn up. The valuation plan as adopted in :ludes several 'bolstering provisions lesigned to take care of unusual sit uations growing out of present world :onditions and, more particularly ;he marked depreciation of curren cies in a number of for&ign coun ties. These ^ provisions are in line with recommendations made to con gress by President Harding in first mnual message last December. Where investigation established the fact that conditions existed in for jign countries that enabled those sountries to produce goods and sell ;hem in the United States at pMces ifter payment of duty below the cost >f producing And marketing similar foods in this country,, the, president vould he given authority to increase iny rate of duty by* 50 per cent of the figure fixed in the bill. - Should investigation develop that such percentage of increase on the foreign valuation principle was too small to protect American industry ;he^ president would have authority ;o transfer foreign valuation to the American wholesale selling price of the imported goods and then to in :rease or decrease 'by 50 per cent the rates fixed in the (bill. The president^&lso would have the right to change the classifications as fixed in the bill, that is, to remove items from the free list to the duti able list. Senator Smoot of Utah, ranking Republican on the commit tee, who drew ^h? original (bolstering provisions of the bill, said he did not think it ever would be necessary for that power to be exercised by the president. HODGES ROAD LET To Donalds Construction Company For Approximately $13,000 At a meeting of the Highway Com mission held in the Court House here Saturday the contract to build the Hodges road, of seven and one-tenth niles, was awarded to the Donalds Construction Company for approxi mately $13,000. Oit of town members of the com nission present were: J. A. Gilliam, Abbeville; J. R. Lomax, Abbeville; C 3. Leonard, Donalds; S. J. Wakefield \ntreville; R. L. Barmore, Donalds; Joseph Hicks, Calhoun Falls; J. Claude Ashley, Honea Path and rhomas R. Kirkpatrick of Lowndes fille. Abbeville members present ivere J. S. Stark, chairman; L. W. [teller, secretary and Dr. G. A. fteuf fer. The following bids were submitted: 1. Donalds Contsruction Company, F. H. Bowen and W. C. Hill, approxi nately $13,000. 2. J. L. Carroll of Abbeville, ap proximately $18,000. 3. Beckham Brothers of Westmin >ter, approximately $18,000. The next road to be let will 'be ;he Douglas Mill road which will be m May 15, 1922. APPOINTMENT OF POSTMAS- F MASTERS MAY ,NOT BE ON BASIS NOW PREVAILING. DECLARE HE WILL NOT WRECK CIVIL SERVICE Washington, April 8.?Any inten tion by President Harding to impair c the operation of the civil service law ( was specifically disclaimed today af- t ter the president's recent bureau of g engraving dismissals had again been t the target of Democratic attacks in 1 t:Vip se.nate. . f The intention of the chief execu tive, it was said fey officials in his confidence, was not in any sense to break down the spirit or the letter of the civil service regulations, hut rather to improve the efficiency of governmental machinery under those regulations. The president was said to take the position that as rteaff of the gov ernment he is responsible for effici ent governmental administration. If there is anything in the civil service that tends to tie the hands of the executive, it was said, it will be look ed into but without'any effort to un dermine or attack the civil service system. It was asserted that there is no intention at present of changing the method of selecting postmasters under presidential appointment. The system under which the present ad ministration is working, that is of taking one of the three highest un der competitive examination, is re garded by the White House as giving on the whole fairly good satisfac tion. The administration recognizes that there is considerable criticism in some -quarters over the present method of selecting postmasters, however, and officials suggested that if there was too much irritation the president might be forced to with draw some postmasters from under the modified civil service plan. An alternative has been suggested it was added, for the president in case the irritation increased to withdraw the first, second and third class postmasters from the civil ser vice where they are placed by exe cutive order and to have those de siring apointment as postmaster talce civil service examination upon re commendation of their congressmen so that postmasters could ,be named from this list. It was made clear, however, that j the administration had no intention i of abandoning the present system. HON. M. J. ASHLEY Hon. M. J. Ashley of Honea Path was in town Saturday and says that farming in his section is greatly de layed by the rainy season. There will not he much cotton planted; the grain is in fine condition, and the prospect now is that every farmer in that section will make his bread at homo. Mr. Ashley says that the soil about Honea Path is fine for raising sweet potatoes, and he hopes to erect a potato house for storing pur poses before fall. He stored his sweet potatoes in Hodges last year. DR. HALE BRICE Dr. Hale Brice took up his duties with the McMurray Drug Store Sat urday. Dt. Brice has 'been living in Lake Wales, Fla., but has many friends in this county. He fills the position recently heJd by Dr. Doug las Mahon, who has opened a drug store at alhoun Falls. Dr. Brice is stopping for the present at the Eu reka Hotel. COTTON MARKET c; w Cotton on the local market re- ci mained at 17 3-4 today. ai IUM SMUGGLERS FACE CAMPAIGN EDERAL PROHIBITION DIREC TOR NOW MAKING PLANS IN NEW YORK STATE?ARMOR ED MOTOR CARS WILL BE USED New York. April 9.?A imilitarv ampaign against rum smugglers on Canadian border, in which armored notor cars equipped with machine runs would be used to combauviola ors of the law, is planned by Ralph L Day, federal prohibition director or the state, who made public to light a letter from J. Leslie Kincaid, tate adjutant pledging his coopera ion. The plan proposed -by the adju ant general provides for 37 obser ation posts, one on each, highway ntering New York from Canada. He ffered to supply a machine gun for ach post which he guaranteed would stop anything short of an armored notor car." The^state also would furnish, he aid armdred motor cars for use of he prohibition forces. Director Day declared "there had eveloped a force of organized mugglers protected by thugs, gun len and ex-convicts whos? fields of perations are New York harbor and he Canadian border." The campaign against harbor mugglers, Mr. Day said, would be raged with "a fleet of former sub larine chasers armed with war quipment. The first of them 110 eet long, arrived today. Each sub baser will have a crew of 14 form r navy men, recently discharged rom the service. Director Day said that the opera ions and bootleggers en the Cana ian border had become so bold that lilitary measures were required to ope with the situation. "The gunmen's slogan is "shoot on ight," and we have "oad examples of his in the last few weeks," he de lared, and added there had been "general hegira" of gunmen to ward the 'border. The mesures proposed by the ad utant general have been recom mended to Washington by Director >ay. , MR. GARRISON RETURNS Mr. John A. Garrison of the Sea oard Air Line Railway, has return ed from the Robertson sanitarium in itlanta greatly improved in health, [e was accompanied back to Abbe ille by his daughter, Miss Beatrice iarrison. , MAYOR'S COURT Charlie Wells, Jim Devore, West Isher and Charlton Fisher were be ore the Mayor this morning on a harge of gambling and fined $10 ach. Gus Searles was up for violating he .automobile ordinance and fined 1.00. IN LUMBER BUSINESS J. Reid Martin of the Flatwoods ection has bought a Fordson Trac er and a saw mill and is going into le lumber business. Mr. Martin ran a three horse arm last year and made one bale of Dtton. FIRST VISIT IN TEN YEARS Miss Mary McMahan from the Na on was in town Saturday visiting [rs. John McMahan. It was the first me in ten years that Miss Mary ad been here, and her friends were lad to see her. She saw ^ many langes in the old town. DR. GAMBRELL ILL Dr. C. C. Gambrell has be-n criti ally ill at his home in Abbeville. It as necessary to have three physi tans with him Saturday night, but t this time he is decidedly better. EFFORT TO SIGN 100,000 BALES OF COTTON TO BE MADE IN SPECIAL CAMPAIGN RUNNING TOMORROW UNTIL SATUR DAY NIGHT Columbia, April 9.?An effort to sign 100,000 bales of cotton to the cooperative marketing contract will toe made in the observance of "Vic tory Week." which beerins Mondav morning and closes next Saturday night. Over 4,000 farmers who have already signed the contract are ex pected to take the field this week and * urge uP?n their brother farmers who have not signed ' the necessity of affiliating with the movement.^ Although it had been expected that "Friday and Saturday would largely be spent by the workers in the various parts of the state in plan ning for the intensive drive this week, reports received at the head quarters of the South Carolina Co operative association last night indi cated that over 10,000 bales were signed on those two days. In some places it was impossible to hold thes workers (back until Mont^y. t "Sixty-five men have signed con tracts for 2,235 bales in the last two days in York county and enthu siasm is growing by leaps and bofinds," read a telegraim received last night from A. A. McKeown of the district extension forces of Clem son college, with headquarters at Rock Hill. Telegrams telling of won derful enthusiasm came from many other counties during-' the day and an CAjii ckjcu vvunu^uvc vu??i> wuo quota would be signed up and, per perhaps passed. . * The first meeting of the campaign in Saluda county was held yesterday and contracts representing 645 "bales signed. The meeting (was addressed by D. J. MacMillan and George T. Barnes. Committees were appointed .t and agreed to make a thorough can vas? of the county this week, so that Saluda, although the last county in the state to get started will par ticipate in "Victory Week." Reports to the association head quarters Saturday indicated that all preparations had been completed for "Victory Week" in every section of 2 the state. In many of the counties the business men have agreed to go out with the farmers and assist in the canvass. The banking interests of the S&te i have lined up almost solidly behind ^ the movement. In Columbia three of i the large banks have agreed to ^o- ^ nate advertising space to the cam paign during the next two weeks and the same is being done in other cities and counties all over the state. "We feel that we are on the verge l: of the greatest victory that has ever been won in the state of South Caro lina," said Harry G. Kaminer, presi dent of the association, in a message sent Saturday night to the campaign workers all over the state. "Hard, consistent enort on xne pair 01 tae faithful workers in this great move ment during the next thre^^ceks will put us well over the top and will put farming in ^outh Carolina on a business basis for at lteast a con siderable portion of our growers. No finer body of men ever went to bat- *\ tie for any cause than the body that goes out Monday to battle for a bet ter marketing system for our cotton , in South Carolina." VISIT DR. NEUFFER Gen. M. L.~Bonham of Anderson and Mr. William Goldsmith of ^ Greenville came down yesterday af- . ternoon and visited their friend, Dr. G. A. Neuffer. They had a pleas i O T"l 4" nf/ilf O M ** I am owc?y ouu i. cr^ux atu vw<xy, IN COLUMBIA vrl ?? Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary and k Judge Frank B. Gary went to Col umbia today to /be present at a sit ting of the .court en banc.