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-OL. XXXIX MANNING, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1919. No. 15 TO SAIL FRIDAY The Geo. Washington Ordered to France Immediately. CABLEGRAM FROM BENSON Mr. Wilson, Would Be in Posi tion to Leave France Any Time. Washington, April 8.-Specific in structions from President Wilson that the sailing of his steamer, the George Washington, be expedited immediately were received today at the Navy De partment through Admiral William S. Benson, chief of naval operations at Paris. As a result the vessel will leave New York for Brest at the earliest opportunity, probably next Friday afternoon. Admiral Benson's message gave no reason for the President's order and the White H1ouse professed to have no information on the subject, but' interpreting in the light of press dis patches from Paris ' telling of the President's determination that delays at the peace conference must end, most officials regarded it as signifi cant. Added importance also was given by the fact that this wts the second message from the admiral re garding the ship's departure, the first, received yesterday having inquired as to the time the vessel could get urder way. Benson's Cable. Admiral Benson's cablegram to the Navy Department was summarized in this statement by Acting Secretary Roosevelt: "Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt late today received a cable gram from Admiral Benson at Paris requesting that the sailing of the U. S. S. George Washington be expedited . at once by the direction of the Presi dent. The U. S. S. George Washing ton will therefore leave New York at the earliest opportunity, probably Friday afternoon, April 11." By fast steaming the George Wash ington should reach Brest by April 17. She would be held there subject to the President's orders, it was said, and thus would be immediately avail able in the event Mr. Wilson should decide to cut short his stay at Paris because of delays in agreeing on the terms of peace. In some quarters it was explained that without his ship at a French port the President might find himself in a somewhat embarass ing position should he decide to leave the French capital before the treaty had been agreed upon. Late press dispatches from Paris indicated that a more hopeful view as to the progress of the peace ne gotiations was entertained than had been for several days and this view was refkctcd in a cablegram received tonig~ht by Secretary Turmulty from Rear Admiral Grayson, the Presi dent's personal pnysician, who report ed that the general situation had in p~ro.ed sllightly,. Secretary Tuiulty sail he had not beenz advisd as to the situation which ha !led the President to~ order the (1 iege W-cngo~ton to [trest andI that Ad:tiral Grayv:oni e"idenltly had as su. d :hait .Mr. Tiumnulty w as ecgni za'.t of the state of affairs through pres dispatches. T[he George Washington erred at New York from Brest March 28, after taking P'rn-Hnt W ilson back- to France and naval ofhicials decidedl to lay her up for a few weeks for an ove rhaulnyr. Mr. Rtosevelt explain. ed today that the ship, was not in ne( :! of any extens: ye repairs but that it wvas regarded as deosirable' to dJo sor +' work on her at that time. tGhbn :n went to the New York na' v yerdl omecers estimated that she wo5. I l re~ady, to sa:1 again next*~ Mo. day, but on communicating w.it h the navy yard ysterday after re'ev. ing AdIrral IBenson's first message, M~r. Roosevelt found that the ves:el could start fou -lay': en iior. No orders for her de(parture were issued' however, until after the receirpt o.f the second message from Admiral lBen- um late today. 0 A UICTION SA f.. For the benefit of~ the .J(ewish Re lief Fund, I will sell at public auction, for cash, the biggest, finest, juciest, sweetest most lucious and decsirable home-cured, Clarendon--ra ised, corn fattened country 11AM, on Friday night at 9 o'clock at the Pastime Theatre. This Ham was donated by Mr. E. M. McElveen wvho is planning a new brand of hogs which wil consist en tirely of 11am. Charlton DuRant, Chairman. J. R.. UKttUIN WHIltS Of SCENES IN FRANCE Brest, France, March 18, 1919. We shall leave in a few minutes for Paris. We went to an ancient Chateau just now. It is the Chateau, when one refers to it here because of its antiquity and renown. It was built as a castle and, like all ancient castles was, was a military strong hold. It is an immense structure o stone with great high walls and moats, iron gates, vast dungeons, and subterranean passages. It was begun in the Fourth Cen tury A. .D. Think of that-over fourteen hundred years old! Brest was an ancient fortress. The town is secondary. The place was fortified entrance t9 France, ,. miles of great, thick walls and moats which were flooded as additional bar rier against- every approach. We have nothing like it in America be cause we have never feared invasion. It all bespeaks the age-old thought of hostile approach. This morning we went out to the great camp at Brest-six miles out. The newspapers are making savage attacks on the camp conditions, but soldiers say they are better. What could be expected of a place where it rains 330 days in a year? It is raining now. Oh, this language and this money! After doing our best to pay for something we finally hold out a hand full of coins and the right change is taken, presumably. The women work and can be seen carrying great packs on their backs. Yesterday I saw a great pile of brush, as we would regard it, being I carried to little retreats for fuel. These people don't have things in abundance as we Americans are ac customed to. Their frugality is based on strict necessity. They have so pitifully little to plan with that every centime is a real consideration. It takes 100 centimes to make a franc and a franc is only a fraction over 19 cents. So you see why they are thrifty. Their coinage bespeaks the pancity of re sources. The poor wear wooden shoes and they clatter over the cobblestones like children walking with skates on pavement. This is the province of Brittany, originally Breton, I think. --- o 'ROGIR M. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Manning .l. E. Church South will meet next Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. W. Rigby at five o'clock. Topic: "The Wesley House as a Strategic Center for the City." Bible Lesson: Tle life of Prayer a life of devotion. (Matt. 1:35; Luke c:12.) Voice: "Prayer at its heart is ktejuing company with God.'" lynn 703. lrayer. lteports' fronml ofieers andme commroit Topies: "Our task in the city and what we have,'' byv Mrs. TI. .\i. M\ouzon. DuLet, Mris. G. L. Dickson and]. lirs. J1. h ')rvin. l(''ndii: "The L~ost Granddaugh Ice," by M\ r's. i . E. Broad wa:,'. Ilyn (97. I rayer. C'ollectio~n of duec.. ('APT. W. S. ElIIBIil, NOW M AJO1t Major Ehrich Made Many ['riend-i Here on liceent Visit is Sister. It will lbe learned w5~ith int rest by his friends here that Dr. Wm.t S. lEhrich recently Divisional Neural aist oif the~ 33r.I1)Divisioni has re eelived at (commfissionf as mal~jo:-. Tlh honor shoul have reached D~r. Ehricht .everal months ago, but (due toi I changes of ailress the ordler of this coinmission(jJ has followed him over the Amrerican Expeditionary Forces inr France, thence to the United States-- ' andl finally reached him in Baltimore where he is at this time doing special l surgical work with D~r. Hugh Youngt at Johns Hlopkins University. This high honor conferred on so young a t nman as D~r. Ehrich comes as a mark s of inerit for the especially fine ser- r vice he has rendered his country in s this time of need.k Mrs. Ehrich and young daughter. 'J wh'lo are guests of Mrs. Leon Weint- ( berg will leave in about- two weeks f to. join Major Ehrich in Baltimore. R. D. COTHRAN TO TOE Co the Editor of the Manning Times: I will thank you to give me space n your paper to get in a few news tems that may be of interest to the ;obacco growers of this county. Since my return from Virginia .vhere 1 conducted a tobacco ware iouse business, 1 have been over. vhelmed with questions from ny rriends asking about what the next rop will rule in price. Of course is I have often stated in the past ir articles that have appeared in your paper from year to year\ there isn'i z man living in the tobacco busines hat can speak with any degree of ertainty as to what the prices of the text crop will be. It is true that w an base our judgment or opinion or conditions as we know them to exist I have always done this. I will state in the outset that I tr3 my very best to keep in touch witi :he conditions that govern the markel price of tobacco, and often seek foi information from the proper source iiz: our big tobacco companies. Als< being somewhat familiar with statis tics as given out by our own ant ther Governments. I weigh matter; as best I can and then base my owr private opinion on the information htained. I wish I did know with ab volute certainty, but if I did I wouk indeed be a prophet and financia >enefactor to mankind, especially th' obacco producer. You hear us saa o often when asked about the price your tobacco will bring, "Well ye: John you want to know what you tobacco will sell for? Well old fel ow I think you will get a good price aind especially if you grow a goo< )right crop." This is about what thi ve rage tobacco warehouseman tell uis farmer inquirer. I have gone as far as I can to ge the desired information which I an going to impart to you within thi: write up. 1 have tried to gather o assimilate all the data 1 could ge and have obtained through the big ompanies which I -referred to in thi ,atset. I have given these letters t< .he editor, and asked him for you nformation to please publish them. iote that the companies who commi hemselves at all seem to think tha obacco will sell well. I note tha %r. .J., IL. Mahler, Vice President o the A. T. Co., states that we have i vorld shortage of tobaco, and unti his is supplied we should get goot rices for our tobacco. M1r. J. P I'aylor, President of the Taylor To :wco Company, says that the farme hould try and make as much tobae o as he can Ier acre and as good \r. .1. S. Cobb, .\lanager of the ILig rett- .\yers Tobacco Company, say: hat he sees no reason why tohace< .hould not sell at a profitable prie( o the grower. You will note that he Imperial and .lohn E. Iiughes To camec (olp:anies are the most con ervatie. John E. Iiuglhes & Co. h in epc'ni lent concern. Now frien-Is I have given you thesi (t ters for what they are worth. (O: -ourse thesee companies dlo not like o makhe futureis prediet ion-, but taker is a 'vhole I think the dlopa they iml lrt encouaing. I also a-ive 'you et ter fromc ( ol. G. E'. W'ebh, ed ito) if the SouthIern Tlob acco J1ournal . -evardli hir.i a-; being the best priv'ate ''ource' o0 foruma tion in the tobae lusiniess. C'olonel W\ebb has beecn in he tobacco bu siness for 1thi rty- fivi 'ears. lHe s(-em:s to.-this (1r1' dlil ave-rag'. twencty c-eats, lie ad! i'-e farmoers toc rise their supplies ihome, wh ich is rgood, sounmd advyice, I woald have writ ten th is artic-le ,(re bu(' lt li ce thle rest of you I a o ben vercv bu~sy trying to get "ody t(o rphmt. tdbceco andi octher cr'ops ii n Iut ivat ing1 ten a(cres of tobaicco in shares; this year. Ncow boys (do c'c Iet me beat you at your own :'ame. It am going to (d0 my best 0 c' .rike it goodI and( colory, I believe ocbw'e'o with rood col(or and <piality .ill be in r' ord dernmand this year.I iean tobacco that will make eiga ettes. will comraand a fine price. This :as true in Virginia this winter. Now, friends, let's do our best to eat the fellow on the other side of he road. A fter all we can only do0 ur part and wait on the Lor I for he inicrease'. As I see( it, tebacco tands well up towvardls the top as our uoney crop for this year. I f ail to ee where King Cotton can eac'l the ettle black. I would rather say King 'obacco for 1918-1919 and Queen 'otton. Tobacco can boast of the act that he hasn't been thrown round in the barnyaral fr the hogs WRITES AS ACCO SITUATION and cattle to walk on, and tobacco can boast of the fact that it hasn't had its name taken in vain from day to day. I hope that after all that cotton will get out of the dirty barn yard and take on a white fleecy ap pearance and bring its master an abundant harvest. Let us hope that it will be thirty five cents a pound. Now bbys i wul not take up more of your time reading this. Here's hoping that we may have a success ful year, one of the very best of our career. Yours very faithfully, R. D. Cothran, Manning, S. C. J. P. Taylor Co., Inc. Richmond, Va. March 17, 1919. Mr. R. D. Cothran, Proprietor, Central Warehouse, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: Replying to your valued favor of the 15th in which you state that it has been reported that the South Car olina crop of tobacco would not sell well this year, and that you had heard same as coming from us. Beg leave to say that there is no human being who can tell what the coming rop of tobacco will sell at. The chances are, however, that to bacco like all other products, will have a downward tendency for the next few years. We certainly, how ever, expect to see tobacco bring re munerative prices, and while it may not be as high as the past year there is no reason that it will not sell at a price that will pay the farmer. Our advice to the farmer would be not to try to increase their crop over last year, but to try to make as good and as much tobacco per acre as they possibly can, by good cultivation and close attention, and not to place all - of their dependance on one crop. Yours very truly, .1. P. Tay!or, President. fle Southern Tobacco .Journal Winston-Salem, N. C. . larch 17, 1919. Rl. 1). (Cotlhran, Alanning. S. C. Dear Sir: Your letter of L1th lay receiveJ. 1 Replying to same I beg to say that I vain only give you my personal - opinion. I min frank to say that I do not believe that prices will be as h igh next seaston as they have been the last two. I Ie!ieve this is the gen er;:l i:ression. As to how much lower it will he no one can te!!. I helie v that 20 cents will be about the average, but that is under the circumistances a liberal estimate. I I also believe that fa -.ners can vrow tob.-Io next e:;son with a fair pro:it. Th only or the best thin; for all farmers to do is to make their own supplies and then what tobacco or cotton they can. If they will do this,.they will be. safe. I shalt r'f.-r totemtter at lenigth in my issue next we(k. \Vith best -:shes I am, Youris very t ruly, and repy Danvwlle~, Va.(Ono lk t(r. R.k aD. l'treacn, .aou o the iaxt crop of tobaeco will sell, hutt hwe' wf say t his much, that priuest ha ufale off t renendously in the Ohi IBelt since the holidays, .some grade fuly fifty peir <ent, and] others considlera bly, antd the same (conditions appliy to Kentiucky crops, which we ar e inclIned to lthink is on account oIf (ver prodctil~ton by the farmers, anid this (rolp of bright tobac w0V.ill un qIuestionably wveigh out seventy- five to a hundred million pounds more than the last one, and the last one, t weighed out syventy-five to a hundIred a mtillion pounds more than the pre-. viouts one dlid, which will make the twvo crops at hundred and1 fifty to two htundred million poutndls more than ever was sotld in the bright belt be fore, and this is evidently creating a suirplus, which in our opinion, to gether with the prospects of a large planting this season, will further re- t dlucte prices, and from the present il prospects, it looks to us like if the I (Continued on Page 4. d :OllO UP COMMITTE[S ON ACR[AGE REDUCTION IN CLARENDON COUNTY Fulton Township. J. E. Broughton, Chr.; C. B. Aycock md J. R. Griffin. Calvary. H. A. Brailsford, Chr.; R. S. De Schamps and F. M. Graham. Friendship. Eugene Brock, Chr.; A. R. Brown md J. Bunyan Harvin. St. Paul. W. D. Alsbrook, Chr.; R. L. Gayle and Eugene King. Santee. M. W. Graham, Chr.; P. M. \Iitchum and John H. Horton. St. Marks. H. A. Alsbrook, nr.; Jeff Ardis tnd Joe P. Tucker. Concord. C. R. Touchberry, Chr.; C. H. Dingle and D. 0. Brunson. St. James. John R. Dingle, Chr.; M. E. Brim son and L. A. Brunson. Sammy Swamp. J. C. Bryant, Chr.; R. B. Beatson md B. L. Broadway, Jr. Manning. W. M. Lewis, Chr.; H. K. Beatson amd J. H1. Timmons. Mt. Zion. C. J. Haleym, Chr.; Hugh Plowden and S. E. Ridgeway. Itrewington. W. T. Blackwell, Chr.; E. M. Fil on and S. A. Barnes. Plowden Mill. E. D. Hodge, Chr.: W. P. Montgom ery and J. M. Lee. Harmony. A. R. Chandler, Chr.; M. B. Hudnal and Alex M. White. Midway. J. H1. iorris. Chr.; J. R. Barrow and D. A. Melntosh. New Zion. P. M. Gibbons, Chr.; Roy McFa(idin mad L. P. Hardy. 1)ouglas. .John F. Tarbevil.le, Chri.; C. If. Castine and 11. L. Hicks. Sandy Grove. F. M. L. Coker, Chr.; G. T. Wor ha m and .John Driggers. There were 8 or 9 delegates from Carendon in attendance upon the large cotton conference in Columbia m the :3rd inst., where some naigniti 'ent speeches were made to 8100 or 1)00 men. I have never seen the farmers of the State, backed up by the merch ants and hank s, more detercmined in their fight to win commercial free him. As I r"'athered from what wias 4aid and (lone, the farmers now have the power, for the first time in thir history. to say what they will t:ike for the fruit of their toil. They cMn throw away the power by not whob.' Imeartedly supporting the e:mpalirn for reduction and the holdingp of the renu'htinder of the irOn. W1e were isa':ppointe.d -h t WO -uhi not ni'.ke a fullir reprt fIr r'larendou ('ounty. A.\s we 6igure ii inly liho .. oine-third of the tt'rritory' anrvalssers, andl there( hai been re nution ofi unIy :ibiint 2'5 per Ygif. Ti r'I cent andl oithir 'litie's arounl ! d1ii 'er the' cot ton hlt inlienhted a It wasti. the siensei of the maesinig Iit stiip worik until1 they could! riport hi:.urrynm ill their' tiixiwns.hip ha! mngive"n anl opport unity to rig.' aking .spicial note of~ those decliin It taikes omoniy to make this' niht. 11nd the c'anvassers should not only all upon farmers for assistance, hnt1 I pon all merchants, hank san! othir \iniesses that wiill profit t herueby. JiTe above namned follow-up icarim!t c's aire explectedl~ to hae hfor ih;. opies of t he MIanninig Time giving ' e'duet ion inl aereai.e, pick 'it thle armers ini their to(wniship, r(ep i auch wvith their township eanvas'.r. nd( report every man11 nlot keeni ha C'harnin. A pril 8th, 1919. MUNICH NOT SATI'SF'IED Copenhagen, A piril 8.-De-I~mons'ara ions have occurredl in M unich aigainsit due new revolutionary government of avaria, according to Be'rin dlispaitch s today. The demonstratorq wo're ispersed1 by troops, thle advices state. TREASURY CHIFS CHANGED BY CARRAN1A Luis Cabrera Succeeds Rafael Nieto as Secretary NIETO FAILED TO GET LOAN Cabrera Regarded in Washington as Bitter Enemy of the United States. Mexico City, April 7.-The resigna tion of Rafael Nieto, who for tour years has held the post of under sec retary of the treasury and who for more than a year has been in full charge of the department, was ac cepted today by President Carranza. Luis Cabrera, former secretary of the treasury, has been named to fill the position and will take the oath of of fice on Wednesday. Senor Nieto is expected to enter the campaign for the governorship of the State of San Luis Potosi. Regarded as Enemy. Washington, April 8.-State De partment officials are much inter ested in news from Mexico City to day that Luis Cabrera has been ap pointed by President Carranza to suc ceed Rafael Nieto as head of the treasury. It is understood that this change has been contemplated for some months. Nieto has just re turned to Mexico City after a fruitless effort to secure a loan for his gov ernment from New York bankers. Cabrera is regarded in Washing ton as one of the bitterest enemies of the United States in Mekico. During the war he toured Latin-America, en deavoring to align the Latin republics in a policy of neutrality with Mexico, where the German minister, Von Eck hardt, was operating his anti-Ameri ean activities unchecked. During the revolution Cabrera was close to aCrranza and to him is at tributed largely the adoption of a new constitution instead of the old one of I857 to which the "Constitutionalists" headed by Carranza were suppose.! .o have pledged themseives. The t w constitution permitted the "confiscat tion" of properties against which the United States, British and Fren-h Government have protested and which is now the point of issue between these countries and Mexico. Cabrera was a member of the Mex ican commission that came to this country at the time of the A.B. C. conferences. At Atlantic City his conduct there so aroused .7ulge Gray and Secretary I ane that the negotia tions were for a time suspended. -_C------ ---- ADDITIONAL LOCAL N[WS I.ient. Gto. Ic gare Hlarvin has re tur ned horne after having recently uidergoing a ii operation for a ppenii (i.i at Fort Mcl'her uson. Go to the 'astime lri.:ay nit ind se' a ure-,nouh II.\ l sold. The war prices have iauscd most of 's f 'f weet he w\ a l lam loioksma mast is. Youi wiy seei this oine fur it f ifty cl-ntt ind b y it for .' Thb manyi fiinls if Mliss Mlar'' S W\ iso wvill be n!hil to knowex that she Ium e m i i--:p ec to eu n h m Th nmd t~m nwunt if in i1 .\in - Finb~v wo d -ete atty .iek n al t s i mo th n . i nk I I ooe b:rhr.'i w swokn r m tooki b ni in C biatan n- T tn ia It'll Itel (- it panyi he ir -tables. On J-r day last thiy iuciw a moiil tiar of plows antI rp'a of c(ottn andti corni planteris. Thei ; implernen(.t' wxiul be hereS in a :'iakmg treait ror'ess in suiilyingi thti finrmi ers oft ( larenidon C ounity with up-to-udate farm namier. M rs. Sam he'ltett retuirnedl home Sumnday. fronm ian extleded visit to IDr. Kellett's mother, Mrus. G ilstrap, at Fountain Innf. Dr. Ketlet t is with the army of occupation in Firance nnd will noet r(eturn home until lute stimmer. Mrs. Kellett wxdl remain with her parents, Mr. nndl Mrs. II. A. Johnen sutnt ii h s t .n.