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I a * Abbeville Press and Banner j ___ - - ' _ - ikfahiishe^l844 $2io^Year! Tri-Weekly 'Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, April 26,1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. | TO STANDARDIZE RURAL HIGHWAY HM/iMTA/>P AP UA1V\D TDlirif /w/Tniiin.vGi vr mviviv t?\wn TO THE FARMER IS EMPHA SIZED?MOTOR TRUCK IS PLAYING AN EVER-INCREAS ING PART Washington, April 25.?Large ex penditures wiil ibe necessary to 'bring the two and a half million miles of rural highways into the United States up to the standard of effici-j ency comparable to their extended use in motor transportation, in the opinion of the joint congressional. committee mquuy wuusc gcuciai conclusions on the subject were an nounced today by Chairman Ander son. In the second report on the Commission's studies, the first hav ing dealt with agricultural freight rates, Chairman Anderson also mad? l-nswn i+e /?rtnf?1iKiinn5 TfMrardinC! electric railway development as af fecting rural communities and ques tions relating to the postal service. The Commission, Chairman And erson said, will recommend that con gress continue to promote an ade quate program of highway construc tion and maintenance directed to the more effective correlation of highway transportation, and that the states and counties also continue tneir nigiiwaj lytugiauu mva jhum cular reference to farm-to-market roads. ; The necessity of co-operation among th? states to effect a uniform fcasis for taxing motor trucks and other motor vehicles, to fairly repre sent the proportion of highway ex pense chargeable to such vehicles, will be urged by the Commission, it' was said as well as the need for uni form regulation of motor traffic. "It is already dear," the Chair man said, "that there is a wide vari aiton in principle and application of ??n?iA?ia QT%A 1a/*o1 TOflflllft.! tUC fOUVUD UliU *vv?r> wD tions affecting intranstate traffic. Studies of local motor transporta tion should be expanded as rapidly as possible to afford a definite basis for uniform regulation of motor transportation in order that the in | convenience, expense and ineffici ency of operation occasioned by a lack of uniformity In state and fed eral legislation in the future may as far as possible be avoided." The importance of motor trans s portation to the farmer was found nnr nnlv fn havp had its effect in extending and broadening his mar kets, it was said, but in the sharply reduced cost of moving fiis produce to market. This was illustrated in tiic? commission's estimates that in 1918 the cost of wagon haulage from -farm to shipping point averag ed about 30 cents per ton mile for wheat, 33 cents for com and 48 A/v+fAn ixrtiila Kv mrvtnt* t'C'ilW 1VI UVUVVi*, UMiiV A/J Mtv-v* truck or tractor the averages were 15 cents for wheat und corn and IS cents for cotton. The Commission was said to view with optimism the future of inter urban electric lines serviag rural communities in view of th& tendency to recognize the necessity for an adequate return in rates for the ser vice demanded by the (public. Their value not only as freight earners but as a quick means of access to towns for rural residents was em phasized in the conclusions announc ed by Chairman Anderson. DEMONSTRATION CONCERTS Concerts are being held every evening from 7:30 to 9:30 at the Au3tinJ?errin Drug store to demon strate the Westinghouse wireless ma chin? for which Messrs. Gregory and Cason of the Abbeville tele phone exchange are the agents. The machine was installed by the Moorers of Greenwood and very good results have been obtained, concerts from Detroit, Pittsburg, Newark and various stations beint; enjoyed by those present. 'l he prices will be reasonable ranging from $35 up. DEMOCRATS DISCUSS ADMINI STRATION PLAN?KING, HAR RISON AND JONES JOIN IN SECOND DAY OF GENERAL DEBATE Washington, April 25.?Increased duties on drugs, dyes, inks and paints proposed in the administration tariff bill came under fire today from senate Democrats in the second day of general debate on the meas ure. Reviewing the rates in the first schedule of the bill Senator King (Democrat) of Utah said the in creases proposed ranged from 150 to nor /lont- nrftcpn+.pd t.n show that imports of the commodi ties under discussion were negligible and charged that the result of enact ment of the (proposed duties would he to increase the "already swollen fortunes of drug and chemical manyfacturers at the expense of the ( American people." Attacking what he characterized as the dye monopoly, Sen- , ator King declared that the propaganda which he charged that it had circulated was "false, deceit ful and designed to mislead the American people for the purpose of having enacted the embargo which it succeeded in obtaining." In this connection he warned corporations an d/business men generally that un less they treated the consuming pub lie fairly the people would "rise up in their wrath and puH down the temsple of business." Senator Jones (Democrat) of New Mexico served notice on the son ft te that there would be votes on each of the hundreds of rates in the bill. Senator Harrison (Democrat) of Mississippi offered a resolution call ing on the tariff commission for in formation as to the result of the operation of the emergency tariff bill. He asked for immediate consid eration, but Senator Smoot objected, saying it could be acted upon tomor row without displacing the tariff bill. "We were told," said Senator Harrison, "that the emergency tar iff was to be the panacea for all ag ricultural ills. "We knew that was largely buncombe. The tariff com mission has gathered the facts and congress and the country are entitl ed to know what they are. The facts will help in a wise consideration of this Ibill." MEETING MONDAY NIGHT Mrs. .Alma C. Gibbons conducted a most interesting meeting at the court house Monday evening in the interest of the club market for Ab beville County. A small but enthusi astic crowd was present and listen ed to a program of selected speak ers. Every phase of the suJbject was discussed and the pten presented was approved by the entire audience. This was Mrs. Gibbons' first ap pearance before the Abbeville public and those present are unanimous in the opinion that the success of demonstration work in the county is assured. Miss Janie Roberts, Greenwood County Demonstrator and Miss Christine South, State Agent for Winthrop College and W. G. Mc_ Gowan, County Farm Agent, made interesting talks. Mrs. Foster Mc I Lane, representing the uvic uiud and Mrs. M. T. Coleman, the League of Women Voters, pledged co-oper ation in behalf of their organiza tions. Hatch's Band led tby Mr. Patter son rendered a concert program of music. CONFINED ON LUNACY WRIT Celina Smith, colored, from near Lowndesville is in jail on a lunacy writ and will be taken to Columbia as soon as the papers of commitment are received by Probate Judge Mil ler. MORGAN MAY JOIN IN GERMANY LOAN, NEW YORK BANKER WILL AC CEPT MEMBERSHIP TENDER ED BY ALLIED REPARATIONS .COMMISSIONS? TO EUROPE IN MAY New York, April 25.?J. P. Mor gan today announced his acceptance of the allied reparations commis_ sion's invitation to become a mem ber of the committee which will con sider flotation of an international loan for Germany. He will sail for Europe about the middle of May. Mr. Morgan indicated that the proposal loan to Germany would be a popular loan to which the people of the United States and other al lied countries would be asked to subscribe. With good terms and on good security, he said, he believed such a loan could be placed. "America, of cdbrse, is very im_ portant to this foreign loan situa tion," he said. "Th? question I am going over afbout the middle of May, personal matters preventing me from sailing before thar time." 'Mr. Morgan said he would cable his forma] acceptance of the invita tion tonight. V j Mr. Morgan declined to estimate what amount of German bond could be sold in the American market. He expressed the hope that, if the terms were satisfactory, conditions for such a loan were excellent at this time. Asked whether he thought the loan would clear away the chief ob stacles to Europe's rehabilitation, ne said: "Now you are getting into poli tics." "My interest in the situation/' he explained, "is merely to advise what the United States can do to help out the loan plan." GRAND OPERA SPECIAL J. A. Wilson and Whit Khigh car ried the Grand Opera Special to At lanta Monday morning. It consisted of six Pullman and two baggage cars. SPECIAL MEETING I OF PARENT-TI There will be a special meeting of the Abbeville Parent-Teacher asso ciation at the graded school building Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock when Miss Mattie Thomas of Colum bia, state organizer of Parent-Teach er associations and School Improve ment Clubs will address the Abbe ville association. A representative number of members of the associa tion and others interested in the welfare of the schools is expected to be present at this meeting. Committees Appointed. The o-onoral p.nmmittee of the Par ent-Teacher association has met and appointed the following committees to circulate the petition among the electors and freeholders of the Ab beville School District to call an election to vote two mills special school tax: On the Square?J. Allen Smith, Jr. W. M. Barnwell. North Main Street?Mrs. Will Per rin and Mrs. C. H. McMurray. South Main and Magazine Streets ?Mrs. J. L. McMillan and Mrs. H. B. Wilson. Greenville, Chestnut, Lane, Park er, E. Pinckney, and Spring Streets? Mrs. W. H. White, Mrs. J. A. Hill, Qnrl Mvc Pniil Link. Wardlaw, Lemon Orange; Nick les, Haifflcr, McGowan?Mrs. J. Al ien Smith, Jr., and Mrs. G. A. Neuf fer. Ellis, W. Pinekney and Ferry <;tatf spi ptts to r.O TO ? TRIAL ON INDICTMENT TO WHICH DEFENSE DEMURS. WEST VIRGINIA JUDGE MUST MOVE Charleston, W. Va., April 25.? Whether 23 men, including officers -1 and members of the United Mine 1 Worker of America, would be tried 1 here on a charge of treason, depend- J ed on the decision o 1 Judge J. M. Woods, who today heard arguments 1 on a demurrer of the defendants '< and a motion to quash the indict- < ment. Two grounds were alleged by ' defense counsel for calling the in- < dicrtment on the treason charge 1 j faulty and much of today's proceed- 1 I ings in the oases of the men against 1 whom this and other charges have < 'been brought because of the march <1 and fighting in Boone and Logan 1 counties last August was taken up 1 with arguments on these points. s Judge Woods took the demurrer un- ] ! der advisement when he adjourned < | court. % s j The prosecution wlien asked ' ! which of the 15 indictments it i elected to try first, announced i choice of the treason charge. The < defense immediately gave notice of i its demurrer. i T. C. Townsend of defense coun- i] I sel, advanced the argument that the < | treason indictment would have con. jtained the word "feloniously" and j [that its language was too general. \ Tne answering argument ior wie < state was made by A. M. Belcher, of j Charleston,, associated with the i prosecution counsel. Treason, he 1 said was a distinct erlmft, and was "more than a felony." He read from indictments and opinions in other cases, including the Friends tax rebellion case in Pennsylvania in \ 1799 as bearing on this ipoint and ] also cited provisions for confiscation < of property as removing treason i from the felony class on the basis of punishment inflicted. , 1 Four small islands in the south seas were recently offered for sale in t London. ] Streets?Mrs. E. C. Corfey, Mrs. Frank Andrews, and Mrs. Claude J Jones. Church, Trinity, Bowie, Pickens, Walnut and Vienna Streets?Mrs. j Oscar Jackson Mrs. Sam McCuen and Mrs. Lamar Gilliam. Ft. Pickens, Cambridge, Washing ton, Secession and Cherry Streets? l/VTrc T? R MfT.nne. Mrs. Tom Kluerh and Mrs. H. M. Bauknight. Out of City limits?Mrs. W. F. Nickles, Mrs. G. M. Telford and oth ers to be selected by these two as I needed. Every member appointed is urged to accept the assignment if at all < possible. In case of death or sick- < ness the nearest of kin will kindly ] notify Mrs. Henry Gilliam, phone 34 i and some one else will be appointed, i The districts covered by the named 1 streets are small enough to be work- 1 ed in one day by the various com mittees, and the men's committee will cover most of the freeholders when working the Square. A list of the ones on the Square who have already 1 signed will be furnished the ladies' i committees before they start to work. Mrs. Gilliam will supply the blank petitions which are to be cir- i culated and also will inform the committees when it is desired that ; they circulate the petitions. Three hundred and forty-six (346) names of freeholdei's and electors are nec- : essary before the County Board of Education can call the election. : % SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE DECLARES ISSUE OF WAGES FLAYS IMPORTANT PART. WALLACE AND CAPPER SPEAK TO WOMEN VOTERS. Baltimore, April 25.?The ques :ion of reducing the cost of living was presented from the viewpoint of :he nation's farmers In addresses to light before the National League of SVomen Voters by Secretary Wal lace of the agriculture department ind Senator Capper of Kansas, lead er of the senate agricultural bloc. 'If we accept our present system of distribution of meats and other food products as being a satisfac " poiM Ro^rotaru Wnl 1/Ui jr Sjraucui) oatu .. ? ace, "then an> marked reduction in :ost must come first through reduc tion in wages because wages are ihe largest item in marketing or re tailing. I am not arguing that there should be large reduction in wages. [ simply point out that the large in :reases in wages are mainly re sponsible for the large increase in :ost to the consumer." Formation of cooperative market ng associations, now permitted and jncouraged under the Capper-Vol stead cooperative marketing law, ivas recommended by Senator Cap oer as a remedy for cost of living conditions. A resolution in favor of "outlaw ing wars" 'by creating an internat ional law which would make war a crime was adopted today at the neeting of the National League of Women Voters committee on reduc :ion of 'armaments. GOOD ROAD NEWS. Surveys have been completed from - ? i L ;he fTanKs piace oy vaiuvuu Tails and Hester station to the Mc cormick County line and work will >egin soon. Contracts are practically complete >n the Greenwood and Donalds to Ware Shoals road. Construction has been underway ibout a month on the road from Ab beville by the Jim Clinkscales place :o Calhoun Falls. Work will begin on the road from Due West via the Hook, Ashley's store to the Kay place near Honea Path, and is expected to be complet ad by the first of July. Work on the Mt. Carmel road and on the Hodges road will begin soon. JAYWALKERS BEWARE The city of Abbeville is becoming a regular "chalk talker." Chief Johnson and a squad of assistants have been busy for the last day or two marking off the square with chalk lines, and plain folks will have to watch their step, because they are supposed to walk between these lines and park their cars between the lines, and there is no more liber ty in the land. CLUB MARKET OPENS FRIDAY. The Abbeville Club Market will apen Friday morning from 9 to 11 j'clock in the grove back of the Court House. This is a cool and shady place ind within easy reach of the house wives of the city. In case of rain the ,obby of the Court House will be ised. SCHOOLS TO RUN Announcement is made today that the teachers of the city schools have decided to teach the ninth month | for the amount pledged 'by about 60 per cent of the patrons. The amount) cach teacher will receive for the, nonth's work will be between $45 D. G. Smith and H. B. Edmonds of j :he Public Utilities Company, ofi Ynderson, were business visitors in .own Tuesday, LABELS MUSI GIVE TRUE DESCRIPTION SUPREME COURT HOLDS SUCH IS CASE WHEN OPEN TO CON STRUCTION IN MIND OF PUR CHASING PUBLIC THAT THEY DESCRIBE MATERIALS USED Washington, April 25.?Labels or brands under which articles are sold, when open to construction in the mind of the purchasing public that they describe the component in gredients or materials used in the manufacture of the articles, musk clearly and definitely describe then, the supreme court today held, in an opinion delivered by Justice Bran deis in a case brought T>y the federal trade commission against the Win sted Hosiery company of Connecti cut. Justice. McReynolds dissented. The opinion of the court, while confined to the particular issues pre sented, will, it is stated, have ma_ terial effect in broadening the jurisdiction of the federal trad# commission in such trade practices. Chairman Gaskill of the commission described the decision as great vic tory. Explaining that the Winsted com pany for many years had manufac tured underwear for the retail trade bearing the brands "natural meri no," "gray wool," "natural wool," "natural worsted," or "Australian wool," Justice Brandeis declared "none of this underwear is all orrtrtl " iknf mn/?Vi nf it. rrtnfc&ins onlv a small percentage of wool; some as light as 10 per cent." In this connection, he said that while the Wins ted company labels, particularly that bearing the word "merino/' have long ibeeir used in I the trade, "the court could not ac- 4 cept the contention that, they are generally understood as indicating goods partly of cotton. Be declare it "unsound" asserting that the labels in question "are lit. erally false" and except those which bear the word "merino" are "pal pably so." All are calculated to "de ceive," Justice Brandels added, "and do in fact deceive a substantial por tion of the purchasing public." Defining the words used upon the . labels of the company, Justice Bran deis said "a substantial part of the purchasing public, and also some buyers for retailers and sales people understand the words as applied to underwear to mean that the under wear is all wool." By means of the labels and brands "part of the pub lic is misled into selling or into buy ing as all wool underwear which in fact is in large part cotton," he add ed, "declaring tnat me piwun tended to aid and encourage the representations of unscrupulous re tailers, and their salesmen, who I knowingly sell to their customers as | all wool underwear vroich is largely composed of cotton." j "When misbrandcd goods attract -a -H- - customers oy means or uuc uaw which they perpetuate, trade is di verted from the producer of truth fully marked goods," the justice said, and the fact that "honest man ufacturers might proiect their trade by also resorting to deceptive labels," is no defense for such practices. DRAWN AS FEDERAL JURORS The following Abbeville County "VvQ/^-n oc IIITYWA to lliUU WVV14 UAMfTAt w - serve at the May term of the Feder al Court which convenes at Anderson May 23rd and will continue for three weeks: Bayard Swetenburg, Abbeville; Greer Sherard, Abbeville, R. F. p.; Ernest Hagen, Due West; J. M. Bradberry, Lowndesville; S. S. Boles, Lowndesville; W. P. Wham, Abbeville; and James A. Hill, Abbe ville. COTTON MARKET Cotton on the local market today brought 17 1-2 cents.