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"* - Section One --~~ Pages I to 12 Seto 2 VOL XL MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1920. FIGHT STILL ON OVER ARIICLE TEN Hope for Compromise on Treaty Nol Very Bright, EFFORTS ARE MADE TO GET TOGETHER Position of Democrats and Republi cans Still Far Apart and Seems to Be No Nearer Solution Than Before-Sufficient Votes Can Not Be Mustered. Washington, March 10.-Article 1( more than ever the dominating is, sue in the peace treaty fight, becatm the unfliished business of the senat4 today while Republican and Demo cratic senators who want the treat3 ratified worked with redoubled effor but with fading hope for compromise Several of the Republican leaders convinced that ratification would bo impoissible with their Article 10 re servation of last November -unchanget agreed on a substitute and made at active campaign to line up the nece.i sary Democratic votes behind it. Bu they (lid not succeed, and althoug! the compiomise negotiations will con tinue as the question is debated ot the senate floor, no one had much acpi tonight of an agreement. The ne w Republican reservation fol lows the general outline of the oni adopted in November, but it puts inti different ar.d more specific form it, declaration regarding the article's ob ligations. Some of the Democrat were sati.4'ied with it, but 28 was the peak of Democratic votes which it! Republican advocates claimed for it it any eventunity and it would take a least 30 and Probably 34 to make rati fication pjossible. It was indicated that President Wil son's iiew letter on the subject, al though it fniled to stop the compro mise i.egotiations. had not been with out effect in stiffening the adminis tration ranks against .uything lik the old Rr.piblican reservation. Dem > cratic senators were in disagreemen t-ver what the president would do ii the event of a compromise ratificatiot and many of them declared their in ci-ction to let the doubt resolve itsel: in favor of a conservative course. Leaders in Despair. So discouraged were the Republi e ' leaders that they had not decide< tonight whether their substitute res crvt tion would be offered at all in th4 smate. They indicated, however, tha they would not long delay action oi the article in the interest of compro mise and that the debate to begin to morrow probably would last but i few days. The way to consideration of th subject on the senate floor was clear ed just before adjournvnnt by readop tion in a modified form of the reser vation on voting power in the leagu4 As it finally prevailed the reservatior the last except that relating to Articki 10, on the Republican program declar esi that until the covenant is amendie< so as to give equal voting power, th4 United States declines to be bound b3 decisions to which Congress has nol previously given consent. The vote on readoption of the reser vation was 57 to 20 with 1-7 Demo. craots, or nine more than supported it In November, voting for it. The on ly changes made were on motion o1 Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, th< Republican leader, a substitute offered by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska the Democratic leader, failing, 41 tc 34, and one by Senaotor McCormick Republican of Illinois, 67 to 19. Th( reservation on the subject urgedl lasi session by Senator Johnson, Republi can, also was re-introduced by Senotor Phelan, Democrat, of California, but was voted down '/3 to 4. Lodge Objects Again. In the course of the day's debate on the'voting power reservation, Senator Lodge told the senate that the presi.. dent's letter had emphasized the fea-. tures of Article 10 to which reserva tion Republicans were objecting and thus had touched upon the vital dlis agreement of the whole treaty con t,roversy. The article, Mr. Lodge dlea cribed as a binding agreement based ont "naked force," a characteristic wich ho said the presidecnt apparently regared as essential, but which the senate majority never would accept. He, also criticised the president's ref.. erences to France and to th&e Adriatic question. The revised Article 10 reservation COURT, NEWS , Court convened in Manning Moniay morning with Judge Rice, Solicitor McLeod and* Stenographer, Wood at their respective seats. The following cases have been disposed of: The State vs. Caleb Welsh, violation of prohibition law; sentenced to $500 fine and six months on gang. Upon payment of $200 other sentence sus pended. The State vs. George Sowers and Lee Davis, violation of prohibition law; fined $250 each. ...... The State vs Ervin Gary and Allen Wilson, grand larceny, sentenced to 12 nionths on gang. State vs. Doe Robinson, housebreak ing and larceny; guilty, not sentenced. The State vs. Arthur Smith, viola tion of law; fined *250 and four months on gang. The State vs. January Stokes, vio lation of prohibition law; not guilty. The State vs. Butler Peterson, vio lation of prohibition law, fined $600 and six months on gang. A part of the sentence was suspended. The State vs. Rawson Walters, vio lation of prohibition law; fined $200 or four months on gang. The State vs. Charles Dowdy, re sisting an officer; fined $150. The State vs. Sam Abraham, as sault with iintent to ravish; sentenced to one year on gang. VILLA HOLDS UP MEXICAN TRAIN El Paso, Texas, March 7.-Francis co Villa commanded the bandits who held up and robbed the northbound Mexico City passenger train near Cor ralites last Thursday when thirty three persons were killed and several held for ransom, including one Ameri can, according to passengers whq reached Chihauhua City today. According to passengers the train was stopped by an explosive placed on the track, which derailled the loco motive. A pitched battle ensued be tween fifty Yaqui soldiers of the train guard and Villa followers to the num - ber of 300, commanded by Francisco Villa in person. Nineteen soldiers, four civilians and ten bandits were kill ed when the fighting ended with the retirement of a sub-lieutenant and six Yaquis, all of the train guax'd 'who remained unwounded. Villa then herded the passengers to a nearby hill, threatening them with death.' Apolinar Ruvalcaba, train con ductor and Jesus Garcia,, pullman con ductor, were killed, the latter by a shot from Villa's pistol. An American. Joseph Williams, an employe of the American Smelting and Refining Company, and Mr. Nas sar, an Ara'bian passenger, were held for ransom, while another American, R. W. Bladk, was not detained. After vainly attempting to open the express car safe, the bandits set fire - to the train. Before leaVing Villa I harrangued the passengers, telling them he was not a bandit but that he wias fighting for civil liberty and to avenge the death of Gen. Felipe An geles. In the course of his talk he said trains would not be permitted to run. The passengers walked twenty-four kilometers north wvhere they weere picked up by a traini from Jiminez. It is reported a number of passen gers hitjden in the cars were burned to death, when the train was destroyed, but this is not confirmed. At the El Paso office of the Ameri can Smelting and Refining Company, it was said that no rep~ort of the cap ture of Williams had been received. Military officials in Juarez. said they had no official report of the train. They explained the interuption of train service for the last few days as being due to shortage of equipment caused by northbound trains being caught behind bridges burned by reb els near Chihuahua. Corralites is about 400 miles south of El Paso. approval of Elihu Root before it faal "The United States assumes no ob ly was agreed upon follo, ligations to employ its military or naval forces, its resources, or any form of economic dimcrimination to preserve the territorial integrity or political independlence of any other countfy ,or to interfere In controver~ sles between nations whether members of the league or not, under the provi sions of Article 10, or to employ the military or naval forces of the Unite StateB under article 10 of the treaty for any purpose unless in any partic ular case the congr-ess, in the exer cise of full liberty of action, shall by act or joint resolution so declare."' In presenting the new draft t'o the Democrats the Republican leaders an understood to have reprocented It as embodying the fthest.they w... PAPP[NINGS OF 26 YEARS AGO March 14, 1894 Mr. W. G. King, of Mayesville, was in Manning this morning. Mr. George L. Dickson returned home yesterday from the Charleston Meicia! College. Mr. Abe Weinberg returned home from Baltimore last Saturday where he has been studying dentistry. Dr. W. M. Brockinton left yesterday for New York where has gone to take post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic Hospital. Jos. B. Gaymon, committed to jail for perjury by Judge Benet, was re leased on bail last Saturday. Married last Saturday at Pinewood, by Rev. N. J. Brown, Mr. Thomas Ar dis and Miss Virginia Ardis. There is a gang of thieves in the county that should be broken up, and it is said the gang is composed of both white and black. Ded. near Pinewood last Saturday, Mrs. Sarah Mosre, aged 88 years. The funeral took place Sunday in the Pinewood cemetery. Several parties have taken out ped. dler's licenses and we hope that the trial justices in the county will jerk up every peddler going about without a license. The town council has purchased one of the old jail lots and will move the market house from the street and place it on the lot. This is a decided imporvement and we hope they will continue the good work by conferring with the county authorities about fix ing up the court house square. One of the fruit stands in town had a key of cidcr from which they were quenching the thirst of the thirsty at 5 cents per glass, but the enterprise was brought to a sudden close by two of our city fathers who ordered the s'le stopped as it was against the law. This manufactured stuff from abroad labeled cider contairs alcohol and comes under the dispensary law. We are informed that two of the coiored detectives engaged here were threatened with bodily harm last nieht bv some of the colored citizens wh-,e friends nre charged with being implicated in the robberies and burn ings. 'Ihere were quite a number of burg br-ies in Summerton and vicinity, the durg store of Dr. T. L. Burgess ahd the dental office of Dr. J. 11. Burgess being entered. Drs. C. B. and J. F. Geiger are brothers of the deceased and were at his bedside at the time of his <'enth. INFORMATION ON INCOME TAX. This matter of filling out income tax returns and doing it right and in keeping with the rules and regula tions of the Federal govenment is no easy job, and is one that calls for many hours of work and worry. You often see a bunch of men corn ered 'off, as if they -%ere discussing politics, you can put it down, they are seeking information as to "how will I make out my income tax." Now for the benefit of those that are in doubt, The Timc.s is oflering the fol lowing information, free of charge: First, take your home, Add wife's income. Divide by your eldest son's age, Add your telephone number. Subtract your telephone number, Subtract your auto license numb'er, Add electric light bill, Divide your number 'jy' kilowatts, Multiply by your fahtre's age,' Add your house numiber. Subtract wife's age (approximate) Dmvde by number of aunts you have Add the numbcir of uncles, Subtract number of daughters, Multiply by number of tir. :s You have gone up in an airplane, Take one good drink, (if you have one) Then go out and borrow the money and pay your tax. willing to take in the dlirection of com.. p~romiise and to have refused a plea from Democratic senators that the word~s "or to interfere in controversies between nations, whether members of In these negotiations both Senators Lodge andl Hitchcock refrained in tak ing an active part, but friends of the Republican leader declaredl they felt ecrtaL1 he would give his assent to the substitute. Mr. Hitchcook, on the ther hand, wvas represented as un.. willing to accept the proposal. It was aranouncedl tonight that a !onference of some domecrats in favor -f reservations would be hc!d tomor -ow at the ofice of Senator Owens, of )klahoma, to "try and find some way it of the wilderness." STUDENTS ARRESTED. Tokio, March 9.-One hundred Ko.. cant students assembledl in a park oday to celebrato the aniversary of he movement for Korean indepen lence. The polico arrested fifty-three f the students, among them flye -irls MEMORIAL COMMIIT OffRRS STEEL HELMET Columbia, S. C., Mar. 10, 1920. To the Principals and Teachers of the White Schools of South Carolina: A handsome steel helmet, captured from a German general during the battle of Argonne forest by American forces will be awardle" to the South Carolina school child composing the best essay on "Why the People of South Carolina Should Erecet a State Memorial to the Men Who Lost Their Liveg in the Gre'it War." The award will be made by the South Carolina Memorial Commission. % The contest is open to any primary or high school pupil in this State, the only requirement being that each ar ticle shill be turned in before April 15th of this year. The competitors are to hand their essays to the prin cipal of their schools who will send them to the chairman of the memorial commission of their county. This chairman and the members of hig commission will select the best essay from his county and forward it to th< memorial commission in in Columbit which will select the prize winnel from among the 46 essays. The prize winning composition and the '15 othei essays wili be deposited in the hall of archives and records of the memoria building when completed. The child when the helmet will havc the option of either retaining it o having it placed as a trophy in th< memorial building, the donor being given credit in the permanent record: of the building for the presentation o his trophy. The helmet itself is a heavy stee protector of handsome design ani shows the marks of hard service There are very few of this kind o helmets in Aimerica. The commission urges you, as th head of your school to bring this ti the attention of your pupils and t request them to enter the contesi The winning essay from each of th 45 counties will be placed in the me morial building. Before forwarding the essays to th chariman of the memorial commissioi of your county, please see that th full name address of the pupil is giv en and also the name of the school. CHARLTON DURANT, County Chairman -- ----- ARGUMENTS CLOS[ Validity of Prohibition Act Under Fir, Supreme Court. HEAR ANOTHER TODAY. With Massachusetts and Rhode sislam Disposed of Kentucky Comes Forward. Washington, M .10.--Presen1tatior 0' argument., in cases ron Rhodc Isdlnd and Mass;achuset ts attacking the validity of the pr1o! ikition amiend. ment to thec cons.itutiun were con. cluded today in supreme court. Thk case from Kentucky wvill be disposed of tomorrow, after whi'ch the questior: will be left to the nation's highest taibunal for decision. Counsel for those attacking the amendment continued today to arguc that it wvas revolutionary and an in vaasiona of State rights. "You are now coming to a fork in the road, one leading to the power of amendment and the oth '- 'h t o the constitution," Levy Mayer, of Chica go told the court in opening for Ken tucky complainants. "The very pro0 position is staggering. There is no difference if we discuss whiskey, to bacco or cotton. I rise above the question that this deals with whiskey and dwell on the principal involved enn this constitution be uprooted ? ... "The question is more than prohi b~ition. Police power is synonomous with the sovereignity of the State. Re move the police power and no State will exist." Mr. Mayer denied that the amend ment had been ratified properly in view of referendum provisions in num rous State constitntions requiring web proposal to be submitted to the "oters. These contentions were denied by -olicitor General King and Assistant Attorney General Fraierson who ar rued the amendmnent was properly idpoted by Congress and had been -atified b ythree-fourths of the States. rhe solicitor general also said the Inmendmnent did not Innefr with th WHY THERE Is so MUC n0G Co[e0l A A few farmers have been complain ing to me and Mr. MciFaddin lately be cause I donot get arounaU to their places sooner than I do,- and quite a number of these saIme men are un prepared to work on their hogs when I -Jo come because their boys are run ning whehever they please. And that is one of the reasons why there is so much cholera; thant, awl the failure of many farmers to think of anyone but the:aselves. All over the county I find or hear of men, both white and colored, who do not bury or burn their hogs when they die of cholera, but drag them out in the woods for other hogs, dogs, buz zards or other animals to eat and spread the germs all over the com munity. I have also heard of a num ber of farmi.ers who have hogs of their own going to see another farmer who has sick hogs, walking all around in his lot where there are cholera germs by the millions and then going home to their own feed lots and spreading cholera there. Is it any wonder there is as much cholera as there is? The wonder is that there is not more. Another thing that helps hog chol era is the unsanitary condition of many barn lots. I have seen some lots in thii county in which the mud was so deep th it - hog had to run in order to get across the lot. Many other lots have a foot or two of manure and lit ter all ver them and when we have some rain you have to wear boots to -et iieross them. Such conditions are just right for cholera and when hogs have to eat i.nd sleep in such places their systems becomes weakened and when they come in contact with chol era they are not able to even give the disease a fight and the cholera has an easy time with that hog. Now the thing for every farmer to do is to keep their hogs in a sanitary place and make a shelter for them iii bad weather. Drain your barn lots and keep the litter and manure in one part of the lot and have the rest of the lot clean and dry. Keep your hogs i' your own pastures and in or der to do ,hat you must fence youi pastures. That fence will keep othei peoiilc's sick hogs away from yours When your hogs get cholera mak( other people keep out of your lot an( also keen all logs out of the lot. I von hear of any of your neighbor's hogs having cholera keep away fron his place until be gets it cleaned ur aind danger of spreading the cholerr is past. Likewise if your hogs gel sick notifyyour County Agent at onect and except at times when cholera i6 so generally spread over the county he will come at once and see what i to be dlone. Also, you farmers are entirely toc easy with your neighbors, or else yor don't care whether you lose your hogs or not. But, if I were farming and my neighbors threw their dead chol. era hogs out in the woods instead of burying or burning them ther 'would ho trouble at once and plenty of it There is a law in this county against such a oractice and if your neighbo refuses to take the nroper care of such enreasses notify Dr. IR. 0. Feely, State Veterinarian. Clemson College, ain d he will see that your neighbor does hiry or burn his hogs, or make him wish he had. I am getting around as fast a.s I ean but don't forget I cannot work on hogs when it is raining,. also that when he roads are in bad shape it is imniossible to get around very fast, an htyou are only one of niany who wants their hogs treatedl. I arn diealI can to stamp (oit the chol.. ('ra but it will he imnrssile for mei to accomol ish t hat until I have more co-operation with your farmers. A.. M. \fUSSER, County Agent. functions of the States but gave the Federal gove.rnmenlt power to act with the States in enforcing prohibition and resulted from a general denmandl upon C'ongress to assist dry States in en forcing proh.ibition laws. lENOCRCATS. ARE U NPlLEDG;ED. I. W~od Leads tin Republican List In New Hamipsire. Manchester, N. HI., Mar. 9.-The first of the presidential primaries for the celetion of dlelegates to * e Repubt lii'n anti Demorr..tic national c'onven tic ns wvere held in this State today. 'he vote was livhit. With one exaet pion the Repul~hican (aindidates were~ either pl'edged1 for Major Gen. Leonard Wood, or knowun to be favorable to his nommnation. The exception wvas John WV. F'laherty, of Nashua, a candidate for .ielegate at large, who was pledged to Senator Ilirman Johnson. On the D)emocratic ticket all the candidates for deelgates at large were unpledlged. Washington Mfarch 9.--The reser vation on equality of voting power in the league of n'itions was readpoted b ythe aenate today by a vote of 57 to' to 20 rafter it had been modified o motion of tho Rennhil an leaeri NOT SEEKING OFFICE SAYS MR. HOOVER iHas Ambition Only to Remain "Con. mon Citizen." READY FOR SERVICE WHEN CALLED UPON. Letter to Los Angeles Man in New York Notes Suggestions Doing Him Honor byt Repeats That lie is Not Member of Either Party. New York, March 9.-Herbert Hoover in a letter received tonight by Ralph Arnold of Los Angeles, New York representative of the "Make Hoover President Club" of California, declared he was not seeking public of fice, that his "ambition to remain a common citizen," but that he believed he "like every other citizen, should always be ready for' service when really called upon." Mr. Hoover's letter followed the ac tion of a group of prominent. Cali fornians residing in this city in ap pointing a committee to go to Wash ing to . .: Mr. Hoover to make known his position. Asserting that while "such proposals are indeed a great honor, I feel that I can not alter the attitude that I have consistently pre served," Mr. Hoover's letter contin ued: "First I am an independent pro gressive in the issues before us to day. I think that at this time the inues before the country transcend partisanship. It is well known that I was a Progressive Republican before the war and I think rightly a non partisan during my war service. The issues confroiLin us are new and the alignment upon them has not yet been made by the great parties. 1 still ob ject as much to the reactionary group in the Republican party as I do to the radical group ni the Democratic party. "Second, I am not seeking public office, and, consulting my own per sonal inclinations, I do t want pub lic office. I can not. prevent any citizen or group of citizens from agi tating that I should take public of-. fice, but I can not conscientiously par ticipate in any organization to that end. "I belong to that group which thinks that the American people should elect. their own oflicials at their own initiative anl volition and that resent the manufacture or officials by machine methods. I feel sure that if I entered the race for nomination to the presidency and undertook to so licit and spend the cost of propaganda and organization this would be in it self a negation of the right American instinct because of the obligations that it all implies. I thoroughly be lieve that I, like any other citizen, should always be ready for service when really called upon, but to go out and try to persaude the pub~lic to call me is opposed to m y every instinet. "Third, I hope to have the affee ion of my country, but my ambition is to remain a common citizen, ready to engage in team-play with any or ganization and leadership that has for its -objective the consummation and maintenance of great issues in the forms that I believe are to the pub lie interest and lene fitr. I .of course-, bel iev(- in party organ'iization, but it must he for the promotion of issues, not men. I am not a straddler of any issue. I spend most of m ytime agi tuating for issues that I believe in. It is the privilege of all of us to hold our views and it is our duty to express them when called upon to (10 so. But no man can be so arrogant as to as sume that he can dlictate' the issue. to the American people or to the great par-ties they support. Fourth, you and your friends have ur-gedl that I should undertake to or ganize propaganda for myself as rep resen-itinmg issues5, by cntering into competition for- nomination by a great party. Aside from causes mentioned above this implies entr-y upon a road of self-seeking, whereas my view is that I should agitate for the issues, not for- myself. You rightly say that joining sheer organization without issues is simply office hunting with ont regard to public service. "Finally, I am not so ignorant as not to realize perfectly wvell that such a course does not lead to nomination to the piresidency, but I would not be myself if I started out on a path of