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LEADING FAILURES
FOR FIFTY YEARS
RESULT OF ARMS CONFERENCE
AT WASHINGTON IS "REGION
AL ALLIANCE" LEADING TO
OTHERS?SAYS COX OF HARD
ING ADMINISTRATION
Harrisburg, Pa. April 29.?Speak
ing before a statewide gathering of
Democrats here tonight, former Gov.
Jjfcies M. Cox of Ohdo, who was the
Democratic candidate for president
* 4 ArtA -1?4.J ? o-Ai?knl /\ncloiwy}it.
Ill Sl<&Tb U <\ Y ci wai
on the Harding administration with
the statement that "it may go down
in history as the outstanding failure
of the last 50 years."
Mr Cox. devoted the major part of
his address to an attack on the na
tional administration and delivered a
few shafts at the present interna
tional policy of the country.
"The very thing that has threat
ened to disrupt the conference at
Geioa is. outgrowth of our interna
tioal processes of circumlocution,"
the former presidential candidate
declared.
The result of the arms confer,
at Washington, he said, is a
"regional alliance." This, h& continu
ed, "has led to other alliances, and
grave crisis have come in conse
quence."
"Not only have we ceased to be
helpful, but in view of recent devel
opments it is apparent that we ^re a
distinctly disturbing factor in inter
national affairs. Our leadership in
banking and economic thought are
doing the best they can as individu
als. Recognizing the futility of ap
pealing to our government, the
statesmen of thp world are endeav-'
oring to arouse the cooperation of |
individual agencies. It is so opposed
to every moral and practical consid
eration that public disapproval is in_
evitsble."
The Republican campaign pledge
of "reorgaization, economy and
added efficiency in government," Mr.
Cox declared, "has developed into
the actuality of spoils in govern
ment."
He charged that the "chief opera
tor of the old Mark Hanna machine
is in charge of this work, and the
ruling objective is to strengthen the
control of the old guard." He con_
. tinued:
"With an almost unprecedented]
opportunity to render service to hu
manity, -with every facility of politi
cal control, with a widespread spirit
of public cooperation the Republican
party has not successfully met the
test of responsibility.
"We are at peace with a world,
and yet the burdens of taxation re
main and a yearly deficit of approxi
mately $500,000,000 :s not denied.
"Unparalleled conditions call for
modern measures of relief and yet
day by day the country is drawn
ba?k to the reactionary policies of
an almost forgotten past. The old
guard has tied the Republican party
to the post of provincialism.
"A tariff law with schedules high
er than the puiblicly repudiated
Payne-Aldrich measure is about to
be enacted. The belief that we can
live sufficiently unto ourselves again
is present. The economic truth that
we can not sell our surplus without
exchanging commodities with the
rest of the world is ignored. The
proof of experience that if the
American people are to be busy we
must sell one-third of what we grow
and make is not a part of the equa
tion. The old guard does not seem
*to sense the conditions of the hour.
It is living in a world it does not
understand. It is surrounded with
problems that are international and
the political craftsmen who were
trained in the narrow provincial
?chool are incapable of the task."
' "If the Republican party," he as
serted, "is to survive as an organi
zation is must turn to a new leader,
ship. It was constructed upon the
moral philosophy of Lincoln. It can
not feed on the hate of Lodge and
live."
POWERS PREPARE PREAMBLE
OF THEIR MAGNA CHART A.
PROMISE FROM JAPAN TO
LEND ASSISTANCE ?CDNFI
DENCE IS NEEDED
Genoa, April 30.?The powers
have prepared the preamble of their
magna charta for Russia; it out
lines how Europe will give practical
financial and economic help to per
lint tuau uvuui/Ajr o icoiviowvii
and reconstruction.
Across the Asiatic littoral Japan
promises to contribute her portion
of money to assist In the reorgani
zation of Rusia, and although the
United Statee is not mentioned in
the preamble, it is wide enough in
scope to take in the whole world,
for its framers voice the conviction
that once confidence is felt the
foreigners can normally engage in
enterprises in Russia, the banks of
all countries will willingly advance
funds to their citizens to invest in
Russia. Great Britain and Belgium
as well as Japan to a lesser degree
are placing credits az the disposal
of enterprises in Russia; France
will provide railroad materials;
Italy will he-lp by' inland water
transports and all will participate
in an international consortium.
The sub .commission on Russian I
affairs has already adopted Article
1 of the document which is direct
ed against propaganda by th? Bol_
sheviki or attempts to change the
existing frontiers. This has chief
reference to Bessarabia, now an
nexed by Rumania. An arrange
ment was also reached on the mo
mentum question of the nationali
zation of private property.
Apparently some compromise on
the project has (been devised by the
jurists whereby the Soviets are able
to adhere to their great doctrine of
npionalization and simultaneously
satisfy the foreign governments
and peoples by granting the use of
the property, instead of admitting
actual ownership. The text of this
article has been kept secret, but it
will come up again Monday for con
sideration.
Difference developed between
England and France on the ques
i+irm "Rnccin'c war AoiHf.q "FVorifa
insisting that Russia recognize them
in their entirety, though ready to
scale them down later. The question
was left to a committee.
On the question of war debts
England proposed that tne percent
age whereby the wai- <*et>ts were to
be reduced could be decided by the
supreme court of the United
States. During this discussion M.
Barthou said France was willing to
grant facilities for payment such
as a moratorium and was even
ready to consent to reductions at a
later /lata- m rnxrVii 1 o TiVnn(?<? dp
mantled unqualified recognition by
the Soviet of the war debts.
TO MEET MAY 4TH
To Receive Bid* For New High
School Building
The Abbeville iSchool Hoard will
meet Thursday, May 4th, to receive
, bids for the new high school build,
ing. The board has received the in
formation that there will be at
least ten bids submitted. With ma
terial and labor down reasonable
bids should be received for con
struction.
DINNER FOR THE
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
The Daughters of the Confeder
acy will serve dinner to the Veter
ans on Memorial Day, May 10th.
All Confederate Veterans of the
County are especially invited to at
tend the exercises of th? day. Short
exercises will 'be held in the Opera
houso, and dinner will be served af
ter the exercises.
MANY PRISONERS
HEAR SENTENCES
*' ! % ' I * .' 'V'
NINETY-FOUR PERSONS APPEAR
IN NEW YORK?UNUSUALLY
SEVERE PUNISHMENT GIVEN,
JUDGES HOLDING THAT SEV
ERITY IS NEEDED.
New York, April 29.?Ninety-four
persons appeared for sentence today
in the criminal court of Manhattan,
the largest number that ever went
up to the bar in a single day to take
their medicine in the history of the
city.
Most of them received unusually
severe punishment, the judges hold
ing that severijy was needed to check
the frequency of crime.
Eugene Diaset and Moise Bagnoli,
confessed participants in the recent
$75,000 midday holdup and robbery
of the Washington square home of
Albert R. Shattuck, retired banker,
were both sentenced by Judge Rosals
ky to confinement of 40 to 60 years
in Sing Sing. They were two of the
gang of five which locked the Shat
tucks and their servants in the wine
vault, where they almost suffocated
while the home was boldly plundered.
Their counsel asked for light punish
ment, as both had good war records
in the service.
"A substantial sentence must be
imnnca/) " coir} inHcyp "aupVi a
sentence as will strike terror to the
hearts of bandits of this kind."
Three of the four men who tried to
hold up Charles M. Brady, construc
tion company cashier, on March 31,
near the Grand Central terminal,
were given 18 year sentences by
Judge Rosaisky as second offenders,
and the fourth man got eight years
as a first offender. All had pleaded
guilty. Theirs was a daylight holdup,
frustrated by detectives, tipped off
in advance.
Charles E. Tampa, 22, thrice con
victed of carrying a pistol, got seven
years.
Harry Testa, 24, was given a 30
year sentence for holding up the own
er of a delicatessen store and'forcing
him to turn over the $59 in the cash
register.
A warning against undue optimism
i-t- - A. J T 3 V mtp.
mat crime ii.au ut:cxx ^hc^a-cva nao &* -
en by Judge Rosalsky in dismissing
the regular and additional grand ju
ries. He reminded them that penal in
stitutions were daily discharging
large numbers, "who have been con
victed of crime and who will return
to crime."
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
The County Democratic Conven
tion met this morning in the court
house and was called to order by the
Chairman, Hon. J. Howard Moore.
Dr. G. A. Neuffer was elected tem
porary chairman and Major R. B.
Cheatham temporary secretary. AD
of the clubs of the County were
represented except Muntain View
and Hampton 'by full delegations. A
new clulb at Brownlee became a
member of the convention.
The following officers were elect
ed permanently: Dr. G. A. Neuffer,
President; Maj. R. B. Cheatham,
Secretary; Mr. Henry J. Power,
Treasurer; Hon. J. Howard Moore,
County Chairman of the County
JDACWU'blW wuMiUKwui w. m. .1 ?
Esq., waB made State Executive
Committeeman.
The following were elected dele
gates to the Stave Convention:
Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Hon. J,
Howard Moore, W. W. Harris, R,
H. McAdams, M. J. Ashley and Dr,
G. A. Neuffer. The State Conven
tion meets in Columbia in May.
MRS. H. L. MOORE SICK
Mrs. Harry L. Moore is very sicli
at her home on Uherokee street.
Mrs. Moore has been sick for sever
al we>eks and her mother has beer
over from Winder, Ga., staying
with her.
WHEN OUTSIDE ORGANIZA
TIONS GIVE EVIDENCE?EXE
CUTIVE HEADS OF EMPLOY
EES WALK OUT BUT TESTI
MONY CONTINUES
Chicago April, 29.?Although exe
cutive heads of the railroad employ
ees bolted from th? wage hearing
today, at which outside organizations
were allowed to give evidence on be
half of the public, it did not stop
presentation of the Industrial side of
the dispute in which the National
Industrial Traffic league asked the
railroad labor board .to throw out all
controversy and revert the matter
to the employees and the corpora
tions.
The railroad men refused to sit
in the hearing when J. H. Libby
started to introduce the shippers'
views. Frank P. Walsh, attorney for
the employees, in a protest said .that
tne employees are not going to De
placed in the position of being
drawn into another hearing."
"As far as the men are concerned
the. hearing is closed and we desire
to make no rebuttal to the evidence
now introduced as suggested by the
board," h? added. "We could bring
the small shippers in to testify that
the railroad men are not deserving
of a wage decrease and for every or
j ganization representing the dollars
we could bring in 100 witnesses to
testify that the board should not de
crease wages."
The employes also presented a
brief in which they protested the
bringing in of outside parties not in
terested in the dispute.
In ruling that the outsiders had a
right to intervene, not as a party to
the dispute, but as an outsider, Ben
<r. Hooper, chairman, said:
"The board holds that these par
ties can not intervene here as par
ties to the dispute because the sta
tute does not authorize it but tho
board has the .power to hear such evi
dence if it so desires without obligat
ing itself to do so at other hearings.
The board has in this Instance not
gone out of its way and asked these
men to appear here."
Outside organizations represented
thp TnHn?trri.n.1 Tmffir
League and the National Industrial
Conference board. Charts were pre
sented tending to show that before
1918 wages in outside idustries were
less than those in railroad work, but
that now the two were about equal.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
;| Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cason and
'| daughter, Cassandra, of Anderson,
| accompanied by Mrs. Cason of
Woodruff, Mrs. D. E. Etheridge and
Mrs. R. L. Bowen of Spartanburg
' spent Sunday in Abbeville with Mr.
J. M. Gambrell. Mrs. Etheridge
made her home in Abbeville about
.?/v? Wi aWA TTM-Vl
| l/WCUl>y ckf^\Jy xijli. uviiviiugg
1 being in charge of some department
at the Abbeville Cotton Mill. -She
was interested in the great im_
> provement in the town and enjoyed
, the day renewing old acquaintances.
TAKING A TRIP
( (Friends around Abbeville have
received many pleasant souvenirs
of the trip taken by Miss Victoria
Howie, who went to Hot Springs,
' Arkansas, as undergraduate repre
' sentative of Agnes Scott College at
' the Y. W. C. A. Convention. The
' Georgia delegation made the trip
in a special car and saw all the
sights on the way out, among them
being the Mississippi river which is
just now on its usual spring spree.
Miss Howie returned to Agnes
: Scott Friday.
There will be songs and speeches
i by unannounced song birds and
; speakers tomorrow night. Attend
the "Get Young" party.
CpM>MITTEE AND MANUFAC
TURER FAR APART?GOR
GAS PLANT AND FERTILIZER
PRODUCTION TWO POINTS
AT ISSUE.
Washingon, April 30.?An im
passe has been reached by the house
committee on military affairs and
the local representative of Henrj
PafH rAwnopfinor dion/wifi/** nA
* * V^W????g, V?*W>|/VUi btvil V/i
Muscle Shoals.
The committee insists that th?
[ Gorgas steam plant, on which th?
Alalbama Power company, has th(
option, be eliminated from the lisi
of properties Ford would acquiri
for $5,000,000. The committee in.
sists that Ford guarantee to pro.
duce a finished fertilizer during th<
100 year life of the proposed lease
Ford continues to demand Gor.
gas and his only concession is to th<
effect that he will defend its star,
render in the courts in the event o:
litigation. Respecting fertilizer pro
duction he continues to he obscure
He guarantees <to produce a com
mercial article "at a profit not ex.
ceeding 8 per cent of the fair, ac.
tual, annual cost/'
He refuses to bind himself t<
continue the production for anj
number of years, and is under,
stood to be of the opinion'that th<
govmment should not insist on hii
continuing to produce if it shou>l<
develop that production is at i
loss.
The attitude of the committee re
specting Goigas is that the govern.
mnnt ia in Vi/\nivr hivniu) fn <rrve till
Alabama Power company an op.
jportunity to acquire it from tb<
j government direct and that as it i
| not essential to the operation of ni.
j trate plants 90 miles distant, it v
[consistent with sound business prin
ciples that it be permitted <to serv<
where it is greatly needed.
The committee is obdurate re.
garding fertilizer production. If i
turns over to Ford property worti
$100,000,000 it is determined tha
it be able to tell the people that i
secured the production of a finish,
ed, high grade and Inexpensive fer.
tilizer for 100 years.
Southern members of congress
and especially those who are mem.
bers of the military committee, in
eluding Representatives Wright o
Georgia and Stoll of South Carolim
are alarmed lest the impasse cai
never be overcome. It is understood
that the re?presentatives of Ford ar
also in despair and that one of then
J. W. Worthington, has remarkei
to committeemen that Ford ha
"just as well retire."
CHAUTAUQUA AT DUE WEST
Begins Wednesday May 10th am
Continues for Five Days
TVio PVinntnnniia in Due West be
gins on May the 10th and will con
tinue for five days. The numbers ar
well selected and it is expected to at
tract a large crowd from all over th<
County. Those expecting to atten<
will bear in mind that the date i
May 10th, and make plans according
iy.
VISITS OLD HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Kerr Belcher am
daughter of New York, are in Abbe
ville at the Eureka Hotel. Kerr Bel
cher and brother,, Harry, lived ii
Abbeville about 37 years ago wit]
their grandmother. Kerr Belche
went to New York to live where h
Vias made e-ood. and is back now 01
business and to look up old friend
and acquaintances. He will be re
membered as a side-partner to Per
rin Quarles, who is high up in in
surance circle?, and the. two manag
ed to keep their friends in ho
water most of the time wonde-rinj
what they would do next.
VICTIMS OF FLOOD :
FACING STARVATION
'(a f *
FIFTEEN HUNDRED IN LOUISI
ANA MUST HAVE FOOD SOON.
MANY ISOLATED COMMUN1- V
TIES HAVE BEEN COMPLETE
LY SURROUNDED BY WATER.
New Orleans, April 30.?Reports ?
'
* from Harrisonburg, La., late today
1 that the 1,000 residents of that town
r in addition to 500 refugees from Cat
ahoula, Concordia and other flooded
parishes in that section fice starva
> tion unless food supplies arrive
> speedily have greatly intensified the
? gravity of the flood situation and eve
t ry agency is tonight trying to over- ^
? come the dfficulty of transporting
. supplies to the stricken people.
rne most serious phase of the flood
) situation i? in northern Louisiana this
k time, aside from the danger of con
. tinually rising waters, is that of
J threatened food shortage. Many iso
. lated communities have been com
E pletely surrounded by water and resi
- dents forced to depend upon the small
. stocks of food on hand when flood wa
- ters rushed through the break sear
. Ferriday. Countless numbers are liv
. ing on canned products that they are
securing from community grocers but
) reports from some sections indicate 1
j there are other communities not so
fortunately placed 'and that many
? people are very little ahead of starva
a tion. In many isolated farm houses,
j where residents have remained in
i their marooned or flooded homes,
there is very little, if anything, to
eat
With depleted stocks of food re- >.
5 ported from all the ^tefogiee
camps in the Louisiana flooded area,
3 and a real crisis existing at Harrison
3 burg, refugee workers today express
ed the belief that those who remained
3 in their flood swept homes may in the
long run be better' off than those
, Concentrated in the refugee camps
unless some means of reaching the
camp with provisions is found wrfch
out delay.
t .
"If provisions are not rushed to
1 Harrisonbuwr at once there will be
suffering there," N. E. Cotton, a
member of the Texas basin levee
board declared today. A steamboat
loaded with provisions was reported
to be en route from New Orleans but
little is known of -the time of its jSro
- bable arrival or when these supplies
- will reach Harrisonburg, where at
^ least 500 more refugees are expect
a tomorrow. The increased gravity of
a the food shortage problem, the nec
^ essity of providing marooaed persons
e with food and some cases medical at
n tention, coupled with the growing un
^ easiness relative to tl}e number of
^ communities which have beem com
pletely surrounded by water and be
lieved in danger, the lack of commu
nication with the outside wojld, the
prevalence of rumors and distorted
j reports of famine and pestilence, of
floods and disasters in other aectiojis,
all tend to aggravate the pitiful
plight of the homeless refugees, many
of whom have lost everything but
0
their lives, as they huddled up in
small groups about refugee camps.
MAYOR'S COURT
The following were before tohe
Mayor this morning:
Dave Smith, carrying concealed
weanon. fined $50. Dave Smith for
disorderly conduct fined $25. Berry
Jeter disorderly conduct Fined $25.
Robert Allen visiting disorderly
house $10.00.
VISITING IN NORTH CAROLINA^
Mrs. Eugene B. Gary, Mrs. Briggs
fljand little Eliza Gary Briggs leave
s Wednesday for Wilson, N. C. where
- they will spend sometime with Mr.
- and Mrs. Frank Hassell.
COTTON MARKET
The best offered for cott?* on the
Abbeville market today was 17 3-4^