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Rtary %enry*C. Wallace of _ artment of Agriculture, act-' >tid?j- the it? of Presi; Warren G. Harding, sent out if invitations to a specially selected ^ ?sr^?wii^iotJv^eleg^es in all the |L?3? . inviting them Mtead-a-fXarmecg' Conference to ^icrv, Washington, beginning W. 23rd. The , delegatesselected-were mainly the brgiftizations, editore Of fetm 'wV^i^nes, represenS?55 V* '.V *TV - ... > ,. . tnttves of the * Federal Reserve ^ -. ?' Banking System, College presi- . ^vliy, deate. meet j^kqrs/. cotton seed. - crusher?, .c^t<m ^exchanges and ~ .*>? v .^variousother business interests dependent more or less on raw agriproducts.. In scanning the it r list of about-three v hundred dele'~tc,s-4 vgntes^.there.i-does-, not- appear to fr 0V -larti been .xnany ;gej\uine dirt far>.t*1 V mers, that.is'.men who devote; their 4 time, capital -and activities in the y actual field of agriculture. >;.'>.-"VWien Presldent-J; : S. Wanna^ ? " ?h!?aker was-Appointed in behalf of 5:' /u ?' .the American Cotton Association, <u- he requested and urged Secretary Wallace tdr appoint forty-two outitahdiiig, representative farmers v kai; from the fourteen cotton states, * 'u '" but the request1 was'refused, as the " , , :>? li?* Ar /JWoontM-wai aplppfprf hv n special committee ~ fn "Washington | - appointed for that-particular purpbie.:,J The moist of the delegates :*r we're What might he termed technical students of agriculture and Utx- -i ,i ? .... * -. ? r, >; ..farm advisers.. Following is a list of delegates attending the "Confer,i x-.-i enoes.-.-y^. ? . ? v;;,.: President-J* S. Wannamaker, American Cotton Association; ' Carl Williams, Oklahoma, Ghairv3Jl. , .mancAmericanCotton Exchange.; "A: C'. fiiavis, Arkansas; J. N. Harper, Georgia; Henry N. p : ;Pharr, Louisiana;B. W. KilTr gOre< North Carolina; R. W. H. k- p.-..,, 8t0ne, North Carolina; B. Hariris, South Carolina; ' Geo. B. Terrell; Texas; A. F. Lever of 'Federal Farm Loan Board; J. r ; T.y Duggar,. Alabama; A. J. } Iteming,. .Georgia; Vernon T. Mississippi; W. R. Dod- I ,1, " aim, Louisiana; J". A. Simpson, Okftthdma: ~W. M . Riggs, South . - Carolina; r Clarence Ousleyv Texas; Joseph Hirsch, Texas; -"W. Story, fei Florida; C. a.uir CJcfbb,1' i: reOrgia; Thomas ,, Cooper^Kquluckyt Judge, Robt.' it yikrf v.W *a.p.ingiw.m,.Kentucky; Gov fe-r; f Louisiana; W. . Fox, Mississippi; D. R. Coker. South Carolina; H. AMorgan, ganwiij i TUimiiULiLbrHenryC. Stuart, Vif- Ti' 5?i Vdck, Tennessee?' C. 8tfiAe, F^tucky; President V- f/""'Lowell of the" National Grange; ff. S. Barrett of ; National - Farmers' Union; A&tori Bapirb, famous authority v- on cooperative marketing, Cali f, >. ' fornia; Congressmen Anderson of . , Jtoe Joint.Commission of Agricul _. - tural Inquiry; "C. H. Gustafson, Illinois; G. Harold Poweil, Cali' ' fornia; Raymond A. Pearson, Iowa; G. I. Christie, Indiana; :x- 1 Henry J . Waters, Missouri; Dr. '^. Richard T. Ely, Wisconsin; lr< Jtafius H/Barnes, Now York; . ; r. Pitfchot,'- Pennsylvania; - "Chas.- 'Brandk Pennsylvania; Thomas , jP,., Hunt, California; i . Eugene Meyer, Jr., of the War ; ? Finance Corporation; Ex-Secrevrf~' Uury E. T. Meredith; Bernard " M . Baruclr, Samuel Gompers; G. .1AP.<.v Watrenp. TV/*?C. Atkeson, .Washington; Wayne Dinsmore, > - Illinois; Clifford Thome, Illinois; > Rnaseft, -Wisconsin; Chas. siftfc-.* Ai liyman; Cfcar>ee W. Holman :rX '.a ;Ca^Xroop*an. '*>'< . .Vjt> , ^The jwogwp of the. Conference ' . .. to the appoftitment of commitifeea 7ah2f fe&bje&S*Hd be discussed . ' '<* dppe*M lb'hate-been prearranged *1 r*o^.that-.: the, attending delegates :, r: 1 /QOH14 gene^flly have a god time at . p .. the nation's capita} and endorse the cut and dried program of action . ^ "" The'Conferencektifas opened on the morning of January 23rd by an ad. 'ovdresw by - President Harding,- in -J .'.....4 w?icb . he discussed the . farmers problem^ in a sympathetic way and suggested :methods for Federal aid now pending, in Congress. He en - y dorsed cooperative marketing and a ' better system of short-term agricultural finance, but stressed the * fact- that farmers _ must depend largely 'upon their own efforts to ' ' the solution of the economic prob' ' lems of production and marketing. ' also took occasion to particularly " ' ' U :" ?v.n.vnlti<Ml tA tVlO lirPSPTlt * ' sircba ii:a ujyi;ui3iuuji .?- - - .* .7 Senatorial Agricultural Bloc, by stating that the farmers should organize their own Bloc and that either the farmers nor the coun~ try needed a Bloc in Congress. ?V~ The delegates attending the Conor , ferenpe, however, did not take the . . same view as the President, and before adjournment, passed a reso, lutipn.fully, endorsing the activities and helpful aid of the Senatorial Agricultural Bloc. A delightful social* reception was tendered the j f-oi-.o delegates by the President and Mrs. Harding on the. eyening of Janui >: %?ry f i m s. Gcm?erence /</af Washington FARM LEADERS IN CONFERencjS Combine against cut ? Tvt?m\ TlDAflD A vr jvn I.lil J1XUUW JL SECURE PASSAGE OF WHOLE. SOME, CONSTRUCTIVE RESOLUTIONS. ^ .President J. S. Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association and" other leaders of farm organizaI tions attending: the Conference, created what was termed an insurgents group, soon after the Conference opened and the administrative plan ' of action f ally outlined. Instead of ; f. playing politics and being used as automatic pawns to carry out the .prearranged program of this Conference, these so-called insurgents balked and -insisted upon the consideration of constructive measures which co^tld be recommended ' to Congress" "for'enactment of real hefpfti! and immediately beneficial leigi61a?t?Jn. * In this fight for recognition;. of the farmers'- welfare,' J President Wannamakcr took the leadership, and as the results of the Conference show, the so-called insurgents won out on every strong and forceful measure they pressed forward to consideration. It is now up to Congress and the Administration to whip into definite and tangible enactment such laws as will tfit.hout delay give to the a?-~ ricufture of the nation the benefits of. the various practical measures incorporated in the resolutions '* passed by the ' Conference. The proposals and petitions to Congress and the Administration arc ciear cut and forcible. No more meetings are desirable or necessary. The time for definite action is impelling if the present stagnation of agriculture is to be pulled out of the ruts of financial depression, and the. industry put once more upon its feet. i ... OUTSTANDING RESOLUTION'S PASSED RT THE CONFERENCE BEFORE ADJOURNMENT ON JANUARY 27TH. The following measures for re- j construction and the rehabilitation | of American agriculture were favorably acted upon by the Conference: No. 3.?The establishment of . commodity financing through loans to farmers running from six months to three ,years; the. creation by the Government of a Federal financial system for diS-' ' counting farmers' short-term . notes based on agricultural commodities and livestock as collateral; divorcing farm finance from the short-term, red tape .commercial system employed by the Federal Reserve bahks,: and have short-term farm, loans i . handled by the Federal . Farm. Land-banks either direct or .through, the. agencies of local . , ttiiu cuuiiciauve iiutiHeung associations. ' -:> No. 2.?To extend the present operation of the -War . - Finance -Corporation soi;long as its. ser- . 'lt vi,ces na^ he,needed; in making *' , loans on warehouse, products aftd livestock as at present Conducted* ' No. Endorsement of the ac tivitieS'of the Senatorial Agricul?' tural Bioc in its efforts for passing and seeking to enact Turther , beneficial legislation in behalf of American agriculture. \ No. 4.?Endorsement of the report of- the Joint Congressional t Commission on Agricultural Inquiry; its fulsome criticism of the drastic deflation policy of the Federal rceserve Board and the various measures proposed to Congress for immediate and future agricultural relief. No. 5.?Endorsement of Federal legislation to aid in the development and succesful organir zation of cooperative marketing associations among the farmers of the Nation as the best solutidn Of existing 'difficulties in the economic and efficient marketing , of staple agricultural products. No.,6,.?Endorsement of the leasing of the Muscle Shoals dam and goveirriment " properties to Henry Ford, in- the interest* .of ..-i,, securing the manufacture, of , comipercial nitrates for use on American farms and the full* development of that'splendid water .power/to be utilized, in v hydro .electrically-driven enterprises - of , various kinds for the benefit of "-- the whole country. No? 7.?BecQfltmeYided the '* appoihtfrieht of an American ' Commission to attend and thkotv part in the World Conference to be held at Genoa, Italy, in March, - to discuss ways and mea?jsrfov rehabilitating.>:the industrial ae-. | tivltioc aiH finance in tho foreign countries, and that this Government extend all possible aid to European countries to enable them to purchase needed raw products from the United j States. | No: 8.?Endorsement of the j economic policy of acreage con- j trol in planting certain staple : crops, so that production will j more evenly balance with the de- j mand for legitimate consumption 1 and avoid the heavy losses to I farmers which accrue from the produ< tion of a surplus of raw products to be sold at low prices. This plan provides for restoring j the farmer's dollar to its nonr ii j purchasing power. No. t*.?Vigorous and united action of all allied agencies to j place the avocation of agricul- ! lure on a parity with all other j industries. That the President ! of the United States and Congress should at once take steps to reestablish a fair exchange value of all agricultural products with thai c ; _ ties. No. 10.?An equttiiiiiuon G? I. tariff legislation which will prof 1 tectraw agricultural products | s'frO'ni competition with cheap for-'' eign labor products imported in (. .-Ulis country upon UIU sail!p uaoir I of equity that American manufacturers are protected. Xo. 11.?The taking of a Federal Census of the acreage planed in staple farm products every -five years. A more correct gath- . ering of . statistical data regard-. * ing crops and production each year by the tl. SI Department of j' Agriculture.1 The 'expansion of - American commerce ; by -the L- maintenance of. representative ..^..Federal agents, in the. various . countries which stand In need. of. * American raw ^agricultural ' ^prdduCta and other commodities produced as a surplus in this country. ' ''iio. 12.?Recommended an immediate reduction in the freight . rates, a readjustment of wages paid employees, to the end that /the railroads should participate in the deflation which' has been forced upon alt other lines of business in the past two years, ' rtnd especially that of agriculture. .This means reduction of freight rates on farm products and livestock to what the rates were prior to August, 1920. Xo. 13.?Endorsed the open- i ing up of the St. Lawrence and j ' Great Lakes waterways to ocean- j eroine commerce and that this I waterway project be completed by international agreement at " the earliest date possible. "No-. 14.?Endorsed the action of President Harding and Secretary Wallace .in calling the Con... ference. It will be noted in reading over the leading resolutions as above set nut, that they are in line and ac cord with suggested resolutions appearing in Cotton News of January 15th. .The Conference at Washington will no doubt do much good. ' The delegates, in strong and forceful memorials, have told the.President of the Nation and the Congress what the farmers of the country need from the Government as an aid in their rehabilitation. The language of the resolutions passed j upon are plain, simple, yet effec- . tive and to the point.; It is now up to the Administration and Congress to get busy and put into immediate operation the plan of action I called for; if agriculture is to get back upon its feet and play its proper, part in the reconstruction of the nation's business, and meet | the needs of the world commerce. at*v m. i??Tnr ctfAT rro HP4TH' WiU.1 :'J. M tvtvij CiLVTA AW THREE ARE HEED EOR CRIME * ** }: (Continued-from Pago One.) ' . *' .V salts to Sam Perry and 'Mr. Ben. .When I come back to drug store, I saw Mr.. Quincy standing by the stove. He told me to put wood In stove. I heard the shooting. Mrs. Sheppard was in the drug store. I was scouring the floor.... Dr., Ha/mon, .went-out badfc /door (When . he told me ro heat the water to drench the hog. I don't' know where Dr. Harmon was when they were drenching the hog. That looks like Mr. Rice's gun. He doesn't leave his. gun at Drug Store. That i: hi? gun. When he went'hunting, he would1 have me clean out his gun and take it to his house. He was not hunting/today. 1 have worked tor him about four years. I." didn't hear anyone talking when the shooting took place. I didn't see Air. PricV-' go into the store, i didn't See Mr.1' ' ? i V . , . Price till after the shooting. ' He passed me. Didn't say anything. Shooting sounded like it was on the outside. Mr. Hendrix was back in store when shooting took placev Mr. Price came out first by me." I went out behind him. Mr. Hendrix didn't I - .. > come out from back of store before J left store. I.didn't see Mr. Price at '* '? * ? fountain. I had left back of store about ten minutes before shots were fired. \ "(Signed) Sinclair Waring." v . JJr. Homer Mathias,. sworn, says: "I reached Olin Price be/ore he died> IJe diedab.oul fitteen minute? after I got to He was lying on his baejw * 1 found a gun-shot v.oun< on left side about collar bone. The wound went inward and outward, lie bh>ad mueh. That-Wound killed him. He didn't' speal:. There were other wounds on back. 1 picked out some of the shot. They were number si:: or eight shot. That was a shot-gun wound. I would say that ilie wound was made from close range. I didn't j see any powder burns. i was there J when his clothing were removed. He! didn't have any pistol. J l'ound j bottle, in his po.ltet. It (.otiiaiacd : white lieuid. The wound ranged outward. i am not positive whether wound ranged upward or not. "(Signed) . H. Math ins." I>r. G. P. Ho her Ps, sworn, sriys: "1 examined body of Mr. Price. There were two wounds?one in from and one in back. The ore-in from I was about the union of collar bone i and breaet-bono. The collar boric was shot off. This ahot ranged outward. | It looked like it was straight through !?probably upward. If i: was nd - r vlSglp.?'" AVi-v-ii-si. f r': . ' . \.L JiVAS '!,0 SO secec.;. i. J;Tfce wc^und from back did not produce | death. ' The front wound caused death. |." "(Sigrned) G. F. Roberts, M. D." y . M. S. Geigcr, sworn, says: "I was not ill store'when shooting I /%/?.! r\l a T e* % tiri"* riYS-k a \T ft f luui; |;iaLv; x ? ao xu ^auv^ai Bank. T went to my home from drug store. From home to bank and hack to drug- store?whole time being almost thirty minutes: I hoard- no disturbance in drug store before I" left. ;V-: , ?- '" (Signed') ST. S- Geiger." . s'/ r y; .. 1/\ *.*. . f ^ . Sinclair Waring, re-called: ' ."I was standing in store.' Saw Dr. Harmon coming up the alley towards store, and had his shot gun. I did not tell anyone about trouble between Dr. Harmon and Mr. Price. Dr. HarI mon was. near the rear end of store going towards store with his gun. "(Signed) Sinclair Waring." Fur man (riles, sworn, says: 'I was on outside of store at Auto, house and I heard someting fall up against something. 1 heard this noise in store oeiore any one or mem , come out. Dr. Harmon come out and went down alley. Sinclair said Mr. Rice hit Mr. Price. We went on drenched the hog and Sinclair and < 1 went on back to store. I was in j store 5 or 10 minutes before I heard shooting:. 1 did not see shooting. "I have been in jail. Sheriff locked < me up this* A. M. lie didn't have any warrant for me. He didn't tell me what he had locked me up for. j and didn't take me out till he brought me here to testify. They had me ? locked up in cage part of jail where I could not speak to any body on outside. I am IS years ?!d. I am a negro bov. "(Signed) Fornion Giles." j $ |l Lucius Hick ley, sworn, says: "J live in Lexington. 1 was in front of Court House when 1 heard the shooting. 1 was at home just before T came to Court House. T saw Dr. Harmon and Norman C.oiger come out of Dr. Harmon's house. Dr. Harmon had gun in his hands and bo::. Dr. Harmon turned and went up alley vtovrards his store, and Geiger came on up town. I came along behind them and stopped at Court House 2 or 3 RKSKflHBHHB 9EDK5??^BBBZ?E^DS Ill Specia We are now c ed prices and and every-day RIKER'S PEPTONA, LARG REXALL PETROLEUM EM REXALL COD LIVER EMI (For Coughs COMPOUND EMULSION I LIME AND SODA, PINT BC \ (For Thr< AROMATIC CORDIAL EX' (A Palatal HIKER'S MENTHOLATED A. D. S. CROUP AND PNE NATURE'S OIL, A COMPOI ? ? . - ? ? e 1 1 TRY HARMON 'b laaa ? ? v i Wine of Cord I WITH EVERY PURC5 AND ONE PACKAGE OF WE WILL GIVE ABSOLUT ! Mj THECFCiO'S BLACK DR/ i ; i j i j j I.I .11 . I I ... I ? i | ;!! The H ? Lexington ii i?? ? " - - i aW-V;r, * r?: r-1 shoeing.. 1 <\Vf Price com? out of sc^ro ui'tei shooting. (Signed) Lucius Bickley." Harry Lee Oswald, sworn, says:.,, . "I work at Dispatch-^sewgoffice second door from Dr. Harinon's store. I heard two gun shots. Myself and Bill Dent and Coke Dent wonf on back platform. I saw Dr. jRipie B. Harmon and; Ben- Teal standing- under edge of Garage . door which, was open Sam Perry was standing between hie and Dr. Harmon. I did not" fifed dii$gun. Mrs. Sarratt came out her bach; door and asked Sam Perry vy,hat. was the matter. . She then askifed me what i; was the matter and .1 said I don't know. I didn't know . any one was shot until I went to front and stood there a lew minutes. ' V " "(Signed) Harry Lee Oswald." ' <*" *'? J Bill Dent, sworn, says: "I am 13 years olu. L was in Dispatch-News" office when I heard shooting. Coke Dent, Harry Loe Oswald and I went on back platform. I saw Dr. Harmon, Ben Teal and Sain Perry standing near Garage. Mrs. Sarratt came out and asked what was the matter and Harry Lee said I don't know. She first asked Sam Perry what was the matter. He did not answer. She then asked Harry Lee.i and he said I don't know. "(Signed) William P. Dent." Q. L. Hendrix, sworn, says: work for Dr. Harmon. 1 was in front of store when I heard talking in rear of store. I heard Dr. Harmon tell Price to leave his place of busi . . iii;ii.es curly layers of produces fast growth In young chicks. tMi Wo <arry :> complete line of faro-Vet S Hogs and Poultry. We will gladly refund results from the use of any Caro-Vct rem AUTHORIZED DEALERS s. W. Boozer.... Chapin, S. C. Brookland Cash Uro..New Brookland, S. C. Eargle Drug Store Chapin, S.C. J. S. Wessinger 6= Son Chapin, S. C. L. P. For Batesburg, S. C. m??a?g? i n _ l ti i\eau >ffering the foil special offers c r needed family IE BOTTLES FORMERLY $125 (The Host Tonic Made) ULSION, PINTBOTTLES FORK r Cough3, Colds, and a Building Toni JLSION, LARGE BOTTLES FOI 3, Colds, Nourishment and a Tissue B PURE COD LIVER OIL, W1 ITTLES, FORMERLY $1.50 NO oat Troubles, Coughs and General l>eb FRACT OF COD LVIER OIL, F ile Tonic and Alterative for AVaMing'D WHITE PINE AND TAR COU( :UMONIA SALVE, LARGE JA. UND LINIMENT, FORMERLY 'E COLD TABLETS. .... .. ui and Black Dr 5ASE OF ONE BOTTLE OF W BLACK DRAUGHT (for the !iv ELY FR\E ONE PACKAGE O fcUGHT. armon Dm The Rexall Store aw* About that time, I hca-rd Di. Harraoa^^^l say Don't, and then the shotting ' \ taken place. I did not see the shoot- / " ing. I didn't think' anything was \rrong, and didn't go to see what was the trouble. About'30 minutes before the shooting,' I went to Bank of "Western Carolina- to majte deposit. "They left to drench hog about the tihib I- went' to- Bank. I did not see Br* Harmon after I carrie back from Banfc'-until ai'ter..?hooting. I do not * know who did .the shooting. ."(Si&ned) Q. L. Hendrixl" w. v* . ' S. B. Kyzer, sworn, says: "I saw-Dr. Harmon turn in alley at Mr. Sheppard's. He had shot gun in his hand. I did not see anyone 'with him. I did not see N. S. Geiger with Dr.' Harmon", or * coming up street. I saw "Mr. - Geiger in Bank when 1 heard shooting. I didn't see anything else in Dr. Harmon's hand. I didn't notice anythnig else iii.^r. Harmon's hand- I would not say he had or didn't have anything elsje in his hand. 1 saw him crossing., the street going in the alley on Idft^aand side street. ; r "(Signed) S. Ji. Kyzer." t'oko Dent, sworn, says: "I was in printing office when I heard two shots fired.. Bill Dent, Harry Lee Oswald and I went to rear of ooff ice. and . saw Dr. Harmon, Ben Teal and Sam Perry standing in rear rff Jli-jio1 ctnrp rear Auto, house. I stayed on ^ack about 2 minutes, v ' ' "(Signed) Coke S. Dent." \ t t om Every Hen : for .1 loafing lien.' You ?:u;i make layers \ out of every solitary hen you own. Egg Producer itonic, develops the egg-producing organs; jnyng pullets ; keeps poultry healthy and pound box, r>o cents. tandard Remedies for Horses, Mules, Cattle, " your money if you fail to get satisfactory edv. IK LEXINGTON COUNTY .1. M. Craps ....'Gilbert, S. C. Rice B. Harmon Lexington, S. C. | J. R. Lanford Swansea, ft. C. Julian Sharpe Ediuuuds, is. 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