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m Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, April 24, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. || FARM PRODUCTS BEAK BURDEN TRANSPORTATION SHOULD BE prvicpn nnwMWARH?JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE TELLS OF AGRICULTURAL IN QUIRY IT CONDUCTED. Washington, April 23.?Transpor tation rates on products of agricul ture as on many other commodities now "bear a disproportionate relation to the price of such commodities" and should immediately be reduced, ac cording to findings of the joint con gTeSSlOnai CUIUUUNMUIi uji agnvunuini inquiry announced today by Chair man Anderson. Not only should these freight charges come down, the re port declared, but in the. future rate mak;ng bodies and railroad traffic offi cers should give "greater considera tion to the relative value of commo dities in the making of rates" and let existing charges on high priced fin ished products stand, if necessary to i-amAtrs KnT-rlenc frnm ma terials. Exhaustive review of the transpor tation situation has convinced the commission, Chairman Anderson said, that "pyramided per cent, advances of freight rates during the war and following years" caused dislocation of long standing relationships be tween rates on agricultural and in dustrial products and between com petitive enterprises and competitive territories," which dislocation should now be removed. The object of rate making bodies should be, he said, in presenting the commission's views, "to readjust rates so far as practice Die . . .10 remuvusuip cAmuug prior to 1918." Effects of freight rates are empha sized, it was said, because on perish ables "they amount normally to one third of the selling price and fre quently two-thirds," and "purchasers and farmers are dependent in a marked degree upon transportation charges" in prices. The general re sult of increased railroad rates and depressed commodity prices was to bring railroad rates on farm products in October, 1921, to an index average nf 169. ?r rouehlv. 69 Der cent, a bove prewar levels, while farm prod ucts stood at 102, or barely 2 per cent, above prewar levels. Outside of its general conclusions the commission advanced three spe cific proposals to better transporta tion service for farmers, the first be ing the enlargement of "competitive avenues of distribution through which the largest number of consumers can reasonably be reached;" the second was the extension of through rates on. grain to points of consumption tkrough two or more competitive pri ir.ary markets," and the third, the extension of the principle that coarse grains, such as corn, should take low er charges than breadstuffs. Adequate car equipment should also be main tained, it was added. On dairy prod ucts and on cotton the commission concluded that freight charges had not had so serious an effect as upon some other farm stuffs. GOING TO PRESBYTERY At a meeting of the Associate Re formed Presbyterian congregation Sunday Dr. C. H. McMurray was elected a delegate to the Presbytery which meets in Greenville May 6th, and also a delegate to synod which meets this year at Rapine, Va. u a vrwc rniiBT The following cases were before the Mayor this morning: Mamie Walton, keeping disorderly house, fined $10.00 Dennis White, visiting disorderly house, fined $10.00. MISS HELEN THOMAS Mss Helen Thomas of Columbia is iii Abbeville with Supt. of Education Mann to organize parent-teacher as sociations in the country schools. MINE Ml ll/IKIO CIDOT Dl Ape vvimo nnoi rim J. C. RE1D, JR., TAKES INITIAL HONOR WITH "A NATION'S TEMPT ATION't? PRESBYTE RIAN AND NEWBERRY COL LEGES SECOND AND THIRD n ?a a?:i no t r> uiccuwuuu, n.?/l 11 uu* u. v. xvc;iU| Jr., of Charlotte representing1 Ers_ kine won first plac? tonight in the annual South Carolina intercollegi. ate oratorical contest. His subject was "A Nation's Temptation." Second place was won by Louis C. LaMotte of Clinton, representing +V10 iT>i?aQV?v+_or5nn Pftlloorp rtf SnutJl I Carolina. His subject was "Wasted Resources, Blighted Lives." Karl Kinard of Johnston, repre senting Newberry college won third place. His subject was "The Price of Permanent Peace." Nine colleges were represnted in! the contest this year, which was held in Lander college auditorium. In ad dition to the winners the following spoke: R. L. Herbert, Wofford col lege, "The Right9 of All and Desire of One;" A. C. Phelps, the Citadel, "The Place in the San;" C. J. Camp bell, Furman university, "Crowning the Uncrowned;" Isadore Givner, College of Charleston, "America's Need;" Fant Kelly, University of South Carolina, "The Sovereignty of Good Will;" R. W. Coursey, Clemson college, "An Ideal National Character." Mr. Reid, winner of first place, is 21 years of age. In 1920 he won SCCttuu pmuc iu iuc abate uiauunv<u contest. He is a member of the baseball squad of Erskine college and a member of The Erskiman staff. Judges in the contest were Dr. William Way, Chester; Judge C. C. jFeatherstone, Greenwood; A. C. Todd, Laurent; J. B. Park, Green, wood; Dr. P. Sheppardson, Chester. Tbe annual oratorical contest is one of the most important events i in the college year among South Carolina colleges and annually at DEMOCRATIC CLUBS MEET Elect Committees and Delegate* To County Convention. Club No. 1 met in the City Council office Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock D. H. Hill was elected president; E. C. Horton, secretary and T. P. Thom son, executive committeeman. Delegates to the county convention which meets at the Court House salesday in May, being May the 1st, were elected as follows: Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Mrs. W. F Nickles, D. H. Hill, J. M. Nickles, J. F. Miller, E. C. Horton and T. P. Thomson. The enrollment committee is Mrs. M. T. Coleman, G. C. Douglass and | J. L. Perrin. Books of enrollment for No. 1 will be located in the office of the City Council. Proper announce ment will be made later when the books will be open for enrollment. Club No. 2 met Saturday at 4 p. m. in the Court House. J. Moore Mars was elected president; R. B. Cheatham, secretary and Dr. G. A. Neuffer, executive committeeman. Delegates to the county convention were elected and are as follows: J. H. Moore, G. A. Neuffer, P. A. Cheat ham, Wallace Harris, E. H. Hughes, W. P. Beard. J. H. Cheatham. Paul Mann, W. A. Stevenson, George Mann, J. Moore Mars, R. B. Cheat ham, F. B. Jones, J. L. Hill and W. A. Calvert. The enrollment committee is com posed of E. H. Hughes, Wallace Har ris and R. B. Cheatham. Books of enrollment will be opened later in the office of the County Treasurer, R. B. Cheatham. TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Rev. C. E. Peele leaves Wednes day for Whitmire where he will at tend the meeting of the Cokesbury i District Conference. Messrs. Fred 1 Cason and DeWitt Hall are dele nri/i iifill oldrt offoTl gabV/O UUU TT All aitJW WVVVUVH STAND B! BORAH ON BONUS ISSUE FOR HIM TO VOTE FOR BILL HE SAY S WOULD BE "MATTER OF BARTER."?LETTER TO IDAHO AMERICAN LEGION. REPLY TO TELEGRAM. Washington, April 22.?Senator Borah (Republican) of Idaho stated in a letter to the Pocatello (Idaho) Post, American Legion, that , if he voted for the soldiers' bonus bill "it would be a simple matter of barter in which I use the people's money to buy somebody's vote." The letter was in response to a telegTam re_ ceived by the senator from the Pocatello post and was made pub lic tonight by him. "I observe in your telegram," it says, "the threat which you implied ly make as to future political pun, ishment. It wis wholly unnecessary for you to make this threat. It re, fleeted no credit upon you and it has had no effect whatever upon me. TTM V* lien you tame 1/iia.o ugiiK mui.ii you propose to inflict punishment, any one else will be able to say, many things in the way of censure, upon my public record. "But one thing neither you nor any one else will be- able to say, say and that is, that I ever sought to purchase political power by draft upon th& public treasury, or that I chose to buy a continuation in office by putting $4,000,000,000,000 upon the bended -backs of American tax payers. "I haven't much respect for the man who buys office, even though he pays for it with his own money. But the most slimy creature which dis graces American politics is the man who buys office, by paying for it with appropriations out of the pub lic treasury and charges his venal political obligations to the taxpay ers. "If I thought this measure a proper one, I could and would vote for it. But believing with thousands of former service men who have written me that it is not a proper one if I should vote for it it would be a simple matter of barter in which I us? the people's money to buy somebody's vote, in which the account of my political expenses would be charged to the taxpayers. "Of course, you understand that I have at all times supported and stand ready to support any measure which will help the disabled veter ans." At the outset of his letter Sena tor Borafc said he had taken his position on the bonus "after great consideration and with much re lnctance." ?le added tnax ne under stood perfectly th? criticsim it would bring and "condemnation it would invite" but believing that his posi tion was a righteous one he could not change it. J. O. PRUITT HERE Mr. J. 0. Pruitt of Honea Path * * * * ? A.VT\ATn1lA was a Duisness viaiwr m auvc>?? Saturday. He says the season has been so wet that he has not been able to get his ground plowed. He is not worried over the outlook be cause he can make a crop of com if it is planted in June and he raises his meat at home. He reports his daughter, Mrs. O. C. Banister of Eonea Path as being very sick. MEETING IN COURT HOUSE Miss Frances Y. Kline, State Mar keting Agent from Winthrop College, will be in Abbeville tonight and will of fVia P.nnrt auuies-5 uue uiccwig au miv House. A good attendance is ex pected. She will go out over the county with Mrs. Gibbons Tuesday and Wednesday. COTTON MARKET Cotton on the local market today brought 17 1-2 cents. FIGHT ON TARIFF 10 BEUNDAY DEMOCRATS INSIST THAT DIS CUSSION WAJT FOR TIME AND REPUBLICANS FINALLY AGREE?MINORITY WILL BE READY FOR ACTION , Washington, April 22.?Officially the tariff bill was before the senate today, but it received such scant at tention that Republican leaders finally acquiesced in a request of the Democrats that further consid j erauon 01 it De aeierrea unui jnun i day. By that tim? the minority ex pects to be ready to proceed with general discussion of the measure. Whe>n the <bill was called up to day by Chairman McCumber of the finance committee, Senator King (Democrat) of Utah took the floor, and after a reference to the tariff launched into a nearly four hour discussion of the Mexican situation. Alter fiis aaaress, isenawr namsun (Democrat) of'Mississippi had the senate clerk read a lengthy news paper account of a speech by Sen ator Moses (Republican) of New Hampshire in which the agricultural bloc and many other thing were dis cussed. This<over, Senator Curtis of Kan sas, the Republican wriip, demanded th& regular order, which was consid eration of committee amendments to the tariff bill. Senator King an nounced that if the regular order were insisted upon he would "have to make a speech on another sub ject." Senator Harrison interposed to re quest that the tariff 'bill go over un til Monday, saying the Democrats had not had time despite "diligent work" to prepare themselves for the tariff fight. He added there -was no disposition on the minority side un necessarily to delay the bill and that time would be saved and con sideration of the measure expedited if it went over. Senator McCumber said he was glad to hear this declaratin as he had been unable to "connect up" the speech of Senator King with the tariff. Senator King insisted that he had discussed tne dux ior an uuur and remrked if Senator MoCum ber had been present he would have known it. The North Dakota senator replied that he had been present for two hours and in that time heard little about the tariff. Before getting to his Mexican speech Senator King told the senate that he supposed the Republicans planned to put through the tariff by a "combination of blocs, the agri cultural and manufacturing," with out undertaking to explain it in de tail. e added they had become so ac customed to "using the big stick or having it used" that they intended to employ it in this case. ABBEVILLE TO SPARTANBURG. Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Brown Marion Brown, Miss Mary Williams and Buster Brown went to Spartanburg through the country Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Gary Evans. Mr. Brown says the road from here to Hodges is rough but from there on it is fine. Mrs. Gary Evans returned from Spartanburg with them and will spend the week in Abbeville. I VISITING THE OLD HOME Miss Orene Mcllwalne has been in Abbeville for several days with her sister, Mrs. OIHe Muller. Miss Mcll waine is doing Sunday School worfc in Wilmington and came to Abbe ville to be with her sister, Mrs. Richardson who has spent the past week in the city. HERE FROM YORK Mrs. L. W. Perrin and Mrs. Belle ? a Tc.4-r.Ti QT-citror' Safrnrdav mcuaw mouvu .r ? from York and will make an ex_j tended visit to Mrs. T. G. Whit?. CUT THROUGH LEVEE MILLION DOLLARS' DAMAGE RESULTS FIRST DAY?THOU SAND OF ACRES OF SUGAR CANE RUINED BY THE FLOOD New Orleans, April 23.?Hope of closing the break in the Mississippi Ieve? which occurred at Myrtle Grove, 30 miles south of this city, was abandoned today after it had widened to approximately 125 feet despite the efforts of the levee en gineers to close the gap and confine the river to its regular channel. Engineers hop? to 'be able to "tie" the ends of the levee with tarpaulins and let the water run through over the already inundated land. While it is impossible to estimate the damage done (by the break at Myrtle <5rove, plantation merf today expressed the opinion that at least $100,000 damage had already been done. The Deer Range Plantation company is the heaviest loser. This company owns about 6,000 acres of land in the inundated area, planted mostly in sugar. Owners of the I plantation say it will require at least three years of hairvesting be fore enough seed can be raised to proceed with the conduct of the plantation on the scale maintained before the flood. Oyster and shrimp beds and trap ping are other industries which will suffer largely as a result of the break. As a protection to plantation set tlements, back levees were cut in several places but the flood waters continue to spread over large areas of land with no appreciable let up. DR. RICHARDSON AT UNION SERVICE The Union Service at the Presby terian church Sunday night was of more than usual interest, the con gregation having the pleasure of hearing a sermon by the Rev. D. W. Richardson. Mr. Richardson is pro fessor of the chair of New Testa ment Exegesis, of Union Theologi cal Seminary, at Nanking, China, which seminary is supported by the Presbyterian churches of the North and South and by the Synod of the Christian church. Mr. Richardson graduated from Davidson with high honors. He preached at Greers before going to China. His sermon Sunday night was a ?1 ~~-J ''-J on/4 V?o1/^ +Via. saf+PTl i apieuuiu cnuiK uiiu v..w ? J tion of the large congregation pres I ent. i j Mr. Richardson is home- for the first time in ten years and is accom i panied by his wife who Is well j known to our people as Miss Vir_ i ginia Mcllwaine. Jack Dempsey in Pari* (Paris, April 22.?Jack Dempsey with Jack Kearns, his manager, ar rived here from London today for a short visit. The heavy weight cham pion managed to dodge a crowd of several thousand enthusiasts reach ing his hotel without encountering demonstrators. Widow Get* Twenty Yeiri Cape Charles, Va., April 22.?A verdict of 20 years each against Mrs. Mollie Belote, widow of Leon ard W. Belote, whose lifeless body was found in his backyard on the night of January 7, and Peyton R. Tillman, a" nephew jointly tried with her, was reached by a jury today. ILL WITH PNEUMONIA Unmav W/?T.-jno 1fi vear nlH son iiviuyt j ??- - ? of Mr. and Mrs. Sam McLane of near Hone-a Path, is very sick at the home of his parents with pneu i monia. Allen Xickles ?pont the week-end in Columbia with his parents, Mr. 'and Mrs. J. A. Nickles. CRISIS FOLLOWS SIGNING OF7 > RLT&SO-GERMAN PACT CLOS- 5 ED AS ALLIED POWERS RE- 3 SERVE RIGHTS TO PASS ON | OBJECTIONABLE SECTIONS Genoa, AoriL 23.?Another, con- % ference was passed tonight When 'M the German delegation announced after a long session of its delegates and frequent communications with' the Russians and Italians, that the Germans would not reply to the note. p, of the ten powers toaay stipulating that the signatories "expressly re,, serve for their governments the right to declare null and void any clause in the Russo-German treaty -j which may be recognized as con-t trary to existing treaties." The Germans also decided to set tie fby negotiations the differences, between M. Barthou, head oi' the French delegation, and the German chancellor, Dr. Wirth, which prose through M. Barthou's written charge that the Germans had nude untruthful statements. Premier Facta and Foreign Minis ter Schanzer of the Italian delega tion are believed to have been re sponsible for his peaceful settlement of that threatened to be a hopeless barrier to real progress in the con ference on economic and financial work. '"r;: A member of the German dele gation said the allies had their "fnn-foix*" in 1Ukf? *A sufiofv the French and that the Germans had decided they would not en courage a battle of notes bat would :t\ remain silent and let tta confer- ) ence proceed with its useful work In the hope that the economic situation in Europe might be bettered. Sunday has been a rather ibad day for the Genoa conference. Easter Sunday brought the signing of the Russo-German treaty which created much disruption, and today came the note from the Big and Little En tentes and Portugal to Germany, which for the moment reopened the old wound that had partly healed. This not? was written to satisfy the (French demands for the more definite exclusion of Germany from all discussion relating to Russian problems. It also asserts specifically that it had never been suggested that the London proposals afforded no basis for discussion in the confer ence or that the German delegation was about to conclude a separate treaty with Russia. After making the reservation with respect to the Russo-German treaty, it declares: "The incident may now be re garded as closed." RUSSIA PAYING DEBTS WITH PRECIOUS STONES Warsaw, April 22.?Gold bars, diamonds and other precious stones .j valued at 10,000,000 gold rubles, or approximately $5,000,000 have beett H received by the Polish government from Soviet Russia in lieu of rolling stock due Poland by virtue of the Riga peace treaty of 1921. This is the second installment, the first pay ment of gold and precious stones having been made last December. The shipment came in special cars conveyed by armed guards and upon its arrival in Warsaw the gold and stones were placed in vaults of the Polish government back. DR. ABELL HERE Dr. R. E. Abell of Chester was | in Abbeville Friday to see Mrs. B. D. Carter and be present at an op eration performed at the County Hospital. Mrs. Carter stood the op eration well. UNION VISITORS 1 Mrs. Thomas Estes of Union 3 spent Sunday and Monday in Ihe city with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kerr on Greenville, street.