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* ' ? \ . VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 73. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1920. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEA! WHITE HOUSE GIVES OFFICIAL VERSION PRESIDENT'S REMARKS AT PEACE CONFERENCE GIVEN. Spencer Continues to Insist That Wilson Promised Aid to Rumania and Serbia. Washington, Oct. 11 (By the As- ! sociated Press.)?Two additional ! contributions were made today to the j * --l t*? ?: j 4. \xt:\ controversy De;ween rresiuuiit **??- i son and Senator Spencer, Repuuli- ; can, Missouri. i To support the president's declara- j tion that Senator Spencer s state-, j ment that Mr. Wilson had promised j American military aid to Rumania j . and Servia in the event of an inva- j sion. of those countries was "false" ! the White House made public an "of- j * fieial version" of the president's re- j marks to the Servian and Rumanian representatives at the Paris- peace | conference. n A roor]ino* ' ^enuiur opeucc^., anti , this transcript, said in a statement ; that there was not substantial dif- j 5 - ference between it and the pfficial stenographic. reports from which he j had quoted. He reiterated that the j president had promised mil.itary aid j to Rumania and Servia and declared 1 he would continue to make this as- [ sertion in his campaign for reelec- j tion. % The senator again called upon the; White House to produce the* official j record of the president's address, j which was delivered at the eighth j plenary session of. the peace confer- j ence on May 31, 1?I9. * Secretary Tumti|ty refused to; ,answer or comment upon the sena-t tor's statement. { _ 4 'Meantime it was announced at the! state department that a cablegram J had been sent to Paris s requesting! thfit the officialjjeace conference rec-! ord of the president's address ;be sent | to Washington. Officers of the de- i partment would not say what use j > was1 to be made of this record and ! there was no comment from the White House. . f Volunteered by Stenographer. It is understood tnat xne pre&iy dent's direction to the department to N cable to Paris was given )before the t "official version" as made public to 'v day was received at the White < House. This version was volunteer ed by Fred A. Carlson, of Chicago,1 who was an official stenographer for! the American peace delegation. Mr. j Carlson wrote that he had prepared j ? the transcript from his/original notes! i taken at Paris after he had read: i Senator". Spencers statement as { printed in the Chicago newspaper cr> J October 5 and that he "would be! glad" to make oath to its accuracy. The ext of President Wilson's address, as supplied to the White House by Mr. Carlson follows: Mr. President, I should be very sorry to spe this meeting adjourn without permanent impressions such as is possible have bee'n created by some of the remarks that our friends; have made. I should be very sorry-1 to have the impression lodge in your, minds that the great powers desire to assume or play any arbitrary role in j ~ ?v.o+f/aTnj nr assume, be-1 illCdC UIMVVVAMJ V* ? ? , x cause of any pride of authority, to j exercise an undue influence in these j matters, and therefore I want to call j your attention to one aspect of these ; questions which has not been dwelt , upon. We are trying to make a peaceful] -settlement, that is to say, to elimi-| nate those elements of disturbance, I t so far as possible, which may inter-' fere with the peace of the world, and we are trying to make an equitable distribution of territories according' ? xv . .j.1 to tfte race ana tne eumugiapmvcw character of the people inhabiting; these territories. And back of that lies the funda-; mentally important fact that when; the decisions are made, the allied; and associated powers guarantee to: maintain them. It is perfectly evi-! dent, upon a moment's reflection,! that the chief burden of their main- j tenance will fall upon the greater: powers. The chief burden of the, war fell upon the greater, and, if it had not been for their action, their > military action, we would not be1 here to settle these questions. And.: (Continued on Page 6.) j y PUTTING NEWBERRY ! I IN THE LIMELIGHTI THE CITIZENS OF NEWBERRY ! SHOULD WAKE UP. i Civic Pride, a Wise Use of Capiial ' and a United Citizenship Can Turn the Trick. J (By L. W. Maxwell, Secretary! Chamber of Commerce.) Business is dull. We all admit it. j The manner in which we face this ! situation, however, may prove to be! the making or the breaking of New- i j berry. People are complaining that; costs -are high. They say it costs too j much to build houses, too. much to j float bonds, too much, to erect, an ! apartment house, too much to add a j hospital to tnc improvements of i Newberry, etc. Costs are only relative quantities.! One man in Newberry paid telephone j bills amounting to $75 for the toll! calls of one week. "PinepooteEcuVj you may be inclined to say. "A man can no longer afford to use the tele-' phone." But there are two sid<?~ to the question. You may be doing; yourself the injustice of seeing only one side of the picture. This man } whom you were beginning to show sympathy for, by investing $75 in! toll calls, made profits on his busi-! ness amounting to over $1,000. Was' he not wise, therefore, to disregard costs and proceed with his development program? Present-costs are large only when compared with prewar costs. When compared with j j-.i' ts they are no than they used to be. If we wish to be fair minded as well as intelli-! gent, we must admit that profits dur- j ing the past year have been higher, than at any time during this genera- i tion, and that costs did not rise as' rapidly or as high as profits. Somcof us are "kicking against the pricks'* by seaming to expect costs to decline and profits to remain at high lovolc I *v w # j We people of Newberry are too conservative. We have "kiddel", ourselves iitto balking at increassd^ costs, ami thereby we have forfeited untold profits. Other towns near us have not been content to sleep, j Greenwood,^ Greenville and others: which you can name?those towns which have "pep" and vision and the spirit of cooperation?have not ceas ed to grow-. Go to Greenwood your- J self and- count the new houses. Two , i facts will be evident to you. First,1 Greenwood has not been content to1 forfeit the advantages which follow, fcuilding, merely because costs were ! higher than before the war. Second- j ly, Greenwood is alive, alert, and backed by a united citizenship. Eut let us return to Newberry. j Most people acfcnit that we need an ( apartment house. Builders are wait-1 ing, however, for prices to come ' down. Can't they realize that when: costs come' down, rentals will come j down also? An apartment house now ; would bring in* a rental two or three j times as great as would have" been : the case before the war. When will J some builder realize that low costs j and low profits go hand in hand? Two months ago Mr. A. in New- j berry, was considering buying a j P?iiT_rnr>rn hrmsp He said if he had I assurance that by replastering the j walls, putting: on a new rojof, and ; building: and equipping a bath room, i he could rent the place for $30 a month he would close the deal. Mr. B. offered him the specified rental, j on condition that the house be repaired as above described. Mr. A. J later found that the bouse was too j low to connect with the adjacent! sewer line. Nevertheless a third' party came along who paid him $30 , rental, even though the house had no jath room and the other repairing' was uncompleted. This illustrates the ' demand for houses. The writer knows of people in Co- j lnmhia who want to come to New-' berry, but can not find houses. A family in Kinard gave up a plan to I move to Newberry because no house ! was obtainable. A professional man rented an office in Newberry, then grave it up and went elsewhere be-; cause he could not find suitable quar-1 ters for his family. With this great1 demand for houses, and when the, possibility of a high return either from rental or sale is so evident, is i (Continued on Page 6.) J * THE \ t ; > ^^^''' ^ ^ - ^ iji ?m ' ill I rr - - nil i ??? A photo of the former pride of the war. Her engines fixed by U. porting troops to and from Fran* at her pier in Hoboken and the fui FORMER PRESIDENT^ QUESTIONED BY CO] CANDIDATE HAS NINE SPECIFI QUERIES FOR TAFT. Asks Man Who Unce Occupied wnu House Hew Ha Explains Past and Present Stand. St. Louis,. Oct. 11.?Governor Co of Ohio in his address here tonigl at the Coliseum propounded nin specific questions to Former Prcs dent Taft bearing upon the latter support of Senator Harding,* Republ can presidential' nominee. The Democratic presidential cai didate- gave numerous quotatior from Mr. Taft's statement today an past speeches in support of the le.j gue. The governor asked wheth: Senator Harding and the, forme president- were not joined togetne "in deliberate deception." "Ex-President Taft/' Governc Cox told a throng of thousands in th Coliseum, "in a recent statement, di: cussing the proposal of -adopting th league of nations by leaving Artie] 10 out of it and responds- to th Suggestion with these words: 'Thz is exactly what we want.' I shoul like to ask Judge Taft these que: tions: "1. Did you not in an article t the Covenanter under the title. 'Th Principle We Fought For' riiscu: Article 10 in these words: 'The la1 of the league with the sanction of Lh Dower of the league, thus forbids th violation of the international con mandments "thou shalt not steal b force" it is the embodyment of th principle that we entered and fougl this war to maintain.* "2. Did you not also in the sam article say the Monroe Doctrine ? originally declared by Monroe v;? Article 10 limited to the aggressio of non-American nations again* countries of the Western hemi; phere.' "One of Great Steps." "3. Did you not in- the same a tiele also use these words: 'Article 1 is one of the great steps forward pr< vided in the league for the seeurin of general peace*? "4. You say that the League t Tl "rliw.ll vn:i v.'P 1 i^niorce reace, ui wu*v.. chairman, had not Article 10 in ii proposition. Shouldn't you have bee more frank with the American pe< pie by telling them that your p!a only had four articles in it and ths your substitute for Article 10 w: Article 3? fan you deny that i your Article 3 you provided for ti* joint use of the military forces of tl' signatory powers in event of viol; tion of the conditions t>f the cov< nant? "5. Did not your proposal carr a definite legal obligation to emplc force and in this respect was it.nc very much more drastic than Artie' i (Continued 011 Page 3.) ; ^ LEVIATHAN. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO T / ' I S. Naval destruction by the < ze. Her last'^ip^wHfeht General Pcishinj ture of this great liner ;j| unknown. i "iCLEVELAMlNDIANsTGI! (j WIN BASEBALL TITLE: C j THIRD VICTORY FOR STANLEY \ NEC COVELESKIE. . e ; Tris Speaekr's Team Dafeats Brook* ! Milli j lyn, Giving American League Kep- ] j '"resent* trfres Five-^Sf^eyoa Cdsic^r r*~{ x| "Cleveland, Oct. 12.?Baseball F; Lt | champions of the world. The Cleve-! wide ;e land American league club won that; keef i-j supreme title here this afternoon, j stap 's j when the Indians defeated the Brook- was i-.'lyn Nationals in the-.seventh and de-{]or(] ! cidir.g game of the 1020 series by a ; emp score of .3 to 0. Tonight Cleveland j plan ls| is celebrating in a manner adequate-j whe (1, ly in keeping with the honor, and it. to d ; is doubtful if a government procia-; shot v] mation announcing the selection cf' ?t Al-I ? ~ ' i- ? n? r> -p 4 I-i ^ ly j IH1S mhy US HJC lutun; ui uik fj-jg >i-l United States would create a ripple j repC j of interest among the frenzied fans.; u j*e ;r j The shutout victory was chiefly en-1 of t e! gineered by Stanley Coveleskie, the and 5-ispitball hurler of the local teanv'ed ? e ; who has proved to be a pitcher of re-' stro; e markable skill and endurance durir.g; 000. ie the series. Backed by an airtight dv1- was / it fense on the part cf his teammates at thor d j the critical moments of the game, the that 3- J Shamokin, Pa., coal miner let the j spec j Robins down with live hits. But two j just o ! Brooklyn players * reached second \ ered c! base during their nine innings at bat, j -p ;s ' and but five of the invaders were left i r(r)U kV | on the bases, all told. Coveleskie's j forn e i feat in winning three of the live ' j10U;. e games necessary to clinch the cham; pionship for Cleveland will j;o down gev( yjas one of the outstanding features etj ( lG I of world's series history and one of j the most prominent and praiseworthy | jias I factors in a struggle wlyich has fur- | r(>rt e nished more startling incidents than ^jon IS any similar series in years. The ! firc IS; Brooklyn batters accumulate.! but Tjan n'two funs oif the moistened slants "of ' diay ;t! Covey, as he is affectionately called' f a 3. here, in 27 -innings in which he of-! er i ficiatecl on the himing mound. He j ( I ! let the Robins down with one run in -vfor) r.; the first game at Brooklyn on Oc-; war, 0 tcber 5, allowed a second tally on ^en ). Saturday and shut them out today. It' cenj. <v is doubtful if a more masterly exhi-! i on bition of pitching has been flashed \ ?. o; before the fans in any world's se-' ,c KJ VVctO e ries since li)05, when Christy war, ^2 ; Mathewson. then at the height of his. , n: twirling career with the New York Qr . ).(Giants, shut out the Philadelphia;^ t \ 4-K * / ./ * /rornne i P ' ?T1 tiJICiil LJ1I VVT I 1 J)C lt j G>eat as must be the credit ac-1 ed " iS; corded Covele^kie for his remarkable CI n feat in .coming back after but two com days of i^est and pitching hi< best and 'Ojgame of the series, the genetal of- ty h i-; fensive and defensive work of the ; the ' other members of the Cleveland club gins . can not bo dimmed bv the individ- thus *y ual glory of their star boxman. The \\ y Indians as a team grew more impres- j new )t give as the scries progressed, and day, le their feat in winning four straight | advi (Continued on Page 5.) J ' ' , . - 1 1 . ' 1 I HER? i ^ 1; ]' ! - -A &gm-w. .,/<* yv ' ;;.: 'Tm'ftii ' Tg-.iir i nwirui ?iiuinm-'i ,,ii ] ( by the United States duri.is ^ Germans and put in use trar.s- < ! home. She now lies rusting ^ 1 1 ? ( NS ARE BURNED EY NIGHT RIDERS : < ;ro guard slain at .Arkansas plant. ion Dollar Fire in Texas Followed by Two Others in Same State. '' irst bloodshed in connection with , ispread efforts of night riders to > cotton off the market until the !e is bringing 40 cer.ts a pound reported Monday from Eng. Ark. Noah Canada, a negro loyed- as guard at a gin on the tation of Thomas W. Steels, ; re a warning had been received iscontinue operations, was rcuna to death. he heaviest loss sustained since 1 night riders' campaign bega i is irted from Cameron, Texas, re the compress and warehouse , he Cameron Compress company 7,000 bales of cotton were barn- . Sunday morning. The flames <:e- : l.-ed property valued at $1,000,-i] Some officials 'believe the fire \ , cf incendiary origin and the au ities are investigating a report , an automobile driven at high d was seen to leave the vicinity < before the flames were discov- ; I wo additional cotton fires were 1 rted in Texas Monday. The platr 1 i of the Farmers' Union ware- 1 ,e at Rockdale was discovered in 1 es tut the fire was extinguished. bales of cotton were repDrt- i lestroyed in a fire at Thorndala. c e Fire Marshal Williams, who ( been investigating fires in the I hern part of Alabama, reported i day to Governor Kilby that the < which destroyed a store at 1 ceville last week was of incen- [ i y origin but that the destruction s gin in Morgan county and anoth-is i- Cullman county was accidental, j ins in Mculton, Ala., ware idle j i day after the operators had read j * lings posted on them ordering; t 1 to close until cotton sold for 40 j s a pound and cotton seed $40 aj i very gin in Calhoun county, Ala., pested Sunday night. The: 1 iir.g resulted in the calling of a 5 meeting of the county branch jz ho American Cotton association j 2 iscuss methods for protection, j warnin.gr in this case were sign- j1 Committee of One Hundred." j? ins in Douglas and surrounding jc 11 ies in (Jeoruia have been posted 's Sheriff Baggetl of Douglas coun-l as ofFered a reward of $300 for' arrest of the guilty persons. Nojt have been destroyed in Georgia f far. * |( 'amines appeared on a gin in a'a section of South Carolina Mon-j' Governor Cooper having been! sed that a gin near Bishopville in,c r (Continued on Page 3.) r Farmers Face Empha 5lan to Take Case Directly to White Hcuse and Place it Before President Wilson. , 1 Washington, Oct. 12.?Staps to j ^ 1 i 1 i "T*_ 1 A. TT7 ' 1 I ippeai directly to rresiaent wnsonj tgainst the currency deflation policy I, >f the treasury department on the |, ground that farmers generally faced , leavy losses unless the downward rend of prices of farm products was ihecked were taken here today by a! special meeting of agricultural in: crests called by the American Cot,on association. Senators Overman of North Caroina and Harris of Georgia, who are connected with the movement, called it the White House to prefer a re]uest for the conference with Mr. Wilson and his cabinet and were j :old by Secretary Tumulty that tbey; vould receive an answer from ths j ^resident tomorrow morning. . } The senators laid stress upon the! lanencii-yf t\f nvnnin^ MS tVl2 ' IWL v/A. v* v v* v mw ...w , regular full conference of the fa-d- j .?ral reserve board and governors of J :he various reserve banks ' also isj scheduled for tomorrow. The ques-1 :ion of interest rates, it was said, \ would be considered at that confer-1 jnce and the agricultural representatives gathered here declared ^hey wished to present their views on the | whole question of crop financing be- j fore action was taken by the federal! authorities. Speakers at the meeting before adoption of the resolution proposing to take the problem to the president! personally repeatedly denounced the I deflation policy of Secretary Hous-j ton.- Farmers stood to lose billions; urfcess the government acted to| check the fall of prices, they de-j clared, adding that in many cases | market prices were now below the j actual cost of growing. The result J would be greatly decreased proauc- j tion next year, they said, if means j to remove the situation was not | found. McSwain Takers Hand. ; A c'large by Former Senator Mar- J ion Butler of North Carolina that j there was a "conspiracy*' of officials I to fcrcc clown the price of agricul- j lural products brought a protest from ! John J.- McSwain of South Carolina, i 'I can not believe one of them cap- j ible of conspiring to rob his fellow- j nir.n." said Mr. McSwain. "I be- j licve, however, they made an error j af judgment. Let's reason with them ! and fee where they have made a i mistake.''' J. J. Brown, agricultural commis- j iioner of Georgia, and Senator E. D. I Smith of South Carolina also pro- j :ested against a statement by Mr. i Butler that the country was about j :o face a panic as a result of the de- j laticn policy. Senator Smith said j ;here was "crisis but no panic." A general committee composed of | representatives of each agricultural )rganization attending was named to iraw up a statement to the public Dresenting the plight of the growers n a declaration of principles to be idopted by the conventions. A reso-; ? I ution calling for tne pooling ox j jrade cotton under a selling commis- j ;ion to handle exports sales went to ;pecia! cmmittee on cotton. Senator Smith suggested that the , 'a^nci-s find out their legal rights . inder the reserve system and demand j .hem. "If 40 cent cotton is profiteering, j i $3 wheat is speculating, who say ; t is?" he demanded. "Who in ; \merica gives any one the legal ! ight to fix the price of anything." i The senator said he did not see tny authority in the federal reserve ict for contraction of credits. "I don't believe the law gives any j idministrative officer the right to lay what kind of business shall have ' iredit and what shall not," he as- , erted. Smith and Wannamaker. rwtarimr that, t'nn N"e\v York re-j nonal bank had made 200 per cent, j. irofit when the law allowed it only ) per cent., Senator Smith said "they j tre robbing us in interest to payjj axes.'' "Just let this situation continue,"! aid the senator, "and let the wheat < nen, the cotton men and the cattle : neji say 'here is our price.' We de- < * x. . ^ ..." ' J'0'-''. Loss, 7 tic In Appeal ? mand our 'righs and we will not loosen up one pound of meat, wheat or cotton until we get them*." A suggestion by J. S. Wannamaker that a committee be appointed to work for a federal revolving fund of $1,000,000,000 to be used for the economic handling and marketing of crops was not acted upon. Ben L. March of the Farmer National council protested against the mr.tinn covino- r?n nnp hndv rnuld he said to represent all ?he American farmers. Mr. Marsh also opposed a strike of farmers, which he said, was suggested by Senator Smith, adding* "Everybody knows there is no panic. Let us not be Bolsheviks." ^ Dr. W. J. Spillman, former chief of the bureau of farm marketing of* - the department of agriculture, * . 'A charged that'Secretary Houston and \ \ the rezerve board were engaged in a drive to force down the price of ' wheat. "Those gentlemen are using authority placed in their hands for the purpose of manipulating the market," he asserted. Alfred Tumlin of Cave Springs, Ga., said not a half crop of cotton would be raised in his section next year. "The whole trouble," he said, "is in Washington. There are night riders in Georgia and day riders in Washington." Tobacco interests from Virginia onH Parnlino ronnrfod thflf. thfl> average cost of producing bright tobacco was 35 cents a pound and 20 cents a pound for dark tobacco. They declared that one-third of the cost for the crop had gone into fertilizer. The committee also recomtnehded that the state organize a tobacco warehouse system similar to that.o!' the cotton growers. The &tate. f WflsMnot.nn. Oft. 12.?Honf otjm " ? o"""? * ? ? " confidently expressed here today by ' those in close touch with the cotton situation that the presence here today of several hundred cotton men, bankers and others who came to Washington for the purpose of trying to do somethings to relieve the present situation would have the desired effect. Every part of the cotton growing country was represented' when the Southerners met and it is now probable that the president will oirge Secretary Houston to act in compliance with the request of Senators Dial of South Carolina, Fletcher of Florida and Simmons of North Carolina, when they addressed the president a letter on this subject as far back as August 16, they foresaw what the situation might develop into before the big drop in cotton came. If the president asks Secretary Houston to act on this letter and permit the war finance corporation to again operate the matter will be settled and prices again become stabilized and this is now expected. P. H. McGowan. "Jackson, Miss., Oct. 12.?rFarmers, business men and cotton producers met here today and adopted strong resolutions urging the reduction of cotton acreage for the next crop, the holding of certain percentages of the present crop off the market and a general holding of the present stocks for better prices. W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board, sent a communication to the meeting, assuring it of the cooperation of the federal reserve banks in the financing of cotton. A telegram irom fcunnower county, Miss., read to the meeting announced the closing of gins in that part of the state until cotton reaches a better price. Theo V. Wetzel of Nachez de clared that the Carolina cotton mills in their efforts to hold down prices are borrowing cotton from each other rather than buying the new crop so as to make the next report show a light spinners' taking. mi No man has ever been able to ascertain which gives a woman the most pleasure, hearing herself praised or some other woman run down. ^ ~ -K ' r -fc a * r ,Mi.. ....wi