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-/ ; y 'J ' Established in 1891 ' PRESIDENT WILSON wmii n nppnsp 11 HUUkU VI I www IV 1 Proudest Thing to Report is Thi ed Throughout the World. Purpose of the THE WORLD WAR WAS WON B\ Critics Invited to Test the Senti "We Set Out to Make Men F Them Free, and Sustain 1 Mechanics Hall. Boston, Feb. 24.? The text of President Wilson's address here is as follows: Governor Coolidge, Mr. Mayor. Fellow Citizens: I wonder if you are half as glad to see me as I am to see you. It warms my heart to see a great body of my fellow citlsens again, because in some respects during the recent months I have been very lonely indeed without your comradeship and counsel, and I tried at every step of the work which fell to me to recall what I was sure would be your counsel with regard to the great matters which were under consideration. I do not want you to think that I have not been appreciative of the extraordinary reception which was given to me on the other side, in saying that it makes me very happy to get home again. I do not mean to say that I was not very deeply touched by the cries that came from the great crowds on the other side. But I want to say to you in all honesty that I felt them to be a call of greeting to you rather than to me. I did not feel that the greeting was personal. I had in my heart the over-crowning pride of being your representative and of receiving the plaudits of men everywhere who felt that your hearts beat with theirs in those great crowds. It was not a tone of mere greeting; it was not a tone of mere generous welcome; it was the calling of comrade to comrade, the cries that come from men who say, "We have waited for this day when the friends of liberty should come across the sea and shake hands with us, to see that a new world was constructed upon a new basis and a foundation of Justice and right." Inspired by Crowd's Voices. I can't tell you the inspiration that came from the sentiments that come out of those simple voices of the crowd. And the proudest thing i have to report to you is that this great country of ours is trusted throughout the world. ^ I have not come to report the pro ceedings or the results of the proceedings of the peace conference; that would be premature. I can say that I hare received very happy Impressions from this conference ;the impression that while there are many differences of judgment, while there are some divergences of object, there is nevertheless a common spirit ind a common realisation of the necessity of setting up new standards of right in the world. Because the men who are in conference in Paris realise as keenly as any American can realise that they are not the masters of their people; that they are the servants of their people, and that the spirit of their people has awakened to a new purpose and a new conception of their power to realise that purpose, and that no man dare go home from that conference and report anything lasi noble than wan expected of it. Why Conference "Goes Glowiy." The conference seems to you to go slowly; from day to day in Paris it seems to go slowly; but I wonder if you realise the complexity of the task which it haR undertaken It seernn as if the settlements of this war affect, and affect directly, every great, and I sometimes think every small, nation In tha wnrM nn nno Hi>. clsion can prudently be made which la not properly linked with the grent series of other decisions which must accompany it And it must be reckoned in with the final result if the real quality and character of that result is to be properly Judged. What we are doing is to hear the whole case; hear it from the mouths of the men most interested; hear it from those who are officially commissioned to state it; hear the rival claims: hear the claims that affect new nationalities, that affect new areas of the world, that affect new commercial and economic connections that have been established by the great world war through which we have gone. And I have been struck by the moderateness of those who have represented national claims. I can testify that I have nowhere seen the gleam of passion. ! have seen earnestness, I have seen tears come to the eyes of men who pleaded for down-trodden people whom they were privileged to speak for; but they were not the tears of anguish; they were the tears of ardent hope. And I don't see how any man can fall to have been subdued by these pleas, subdued to the feeling that lie was not there to assert an individual Judgment of his own, hut to try to assist the cause of humanity. All Look to America. And in the midst of It all. every interest seeks out. first of all, wh<W < Jt reaches Paris, the representative^ \ - - .V ? _ -t* * " The DEFIES THOSE 10' ME DF NATIONS it This Great Country is Trust?No Nation Distrusts the United States. f THE INSPIRATION OF IDEALS ments of the American Nation: tee, and Now We Will Make Ihem in Their Freedom." of the United States. Why? Because ?and I think I am stating the most wonderful fact in history?because there is no nation in Europe that suspects the motives of the United I States. Was there ever so wonderful a ' thing seen before? Was there ever so moving a thing? Was there ever any fact that so bound the nation that had won that esteem forever to deserve it? I would not have you understand that the great men who represent the other nations there in conference are disesteemed by those who know them. Quit the contrary. But you understand that the nations of Europe have again and again clashed with one another in competitive interest. It is impossible for men to forget those sharp issues that were drawn between them in times past. It is impossible for men to believe that all ambitions have all of a sudden been foregone. ( They remember territory that was coveted; they romomber rights that it was attempted to extort; they remember political ambitions which it j was attempted to realise?and while they believe that men have come Into a different temper, they cannot for- > get these things, and so they do not resort to one another for a dispassionate view of the matters in controversy. They resort to that nation which has won the enviable dtstinc- | tion of being regarded as the friend j of mankind. i Whenever it is desired to send a small force of soldiers to occupy a piece of territory where it fs thought nobody else will be welcome, they ask for American soldiers. And where other soldiers would be looked upon with suspicion, and perhaps meet wtih resistance, the American j soldier is welcomed with acclaim. Imaiiij Mrvunus i ur r riuo. I have had so many grounds for pride on the other side of the water that I am very thankful that they are not grounds for personal pride.1 I'd be the most stuck-up man In the world. And it has been an infinite pleasure to me to see those gallant soldiers of ours, of whom the constitution of the United States made me the proud commander. You may be proud of the Twenty-sixth division, but I commanded tho Twenty-sixth division, and see what they did under my direction, and everybody praises the American soldier with the feeling that In praising him he is subtracting from the credit of no one else. ! have been searching for the fundamental fact that converted Europe to believe In us. Before this war Europe did not believe in us as she does now. She did not believe In us throughout the first three years of the war. She seems really to have believed that we were holding ofT be- < cause'we thought we could make more by staying out than by going in. And all of a sudden, in a short 18 months, the whole verdict is reversed. There can be but one explanation for It. They saw what we did?that wtihout making a single claim we put all our men and pli our means at the disposal of those who were fighting for j their homeR. in the first instance, but for a cause, the cause of human rights and justice, and that wa went In. not to support their national claims, but to support the great cause which they held in common. And when they saw that America not only held ideals, but acted ideals, they were converted to America and became firm partisans of those ideals. : Met Greek Scholars. I met a group of scholars when I was in Paris?some gentlemen from ono of the Greek universities who had come to see, and in whosp presence, or | rather in the presence of those traditions of learning. I felt very young Indeed. I I told them that I had one of the delightful revenges that sometimes comes to a man. All my life I had heard men sneak with a sort of con-' descension of ideals and of idealists, and particularly those separated, encloiatered horizons whom they choose to term academic, who were in the habit of uttering ideals in the free atmosphere when they clash with no-: body In partciular. j And I said I have had this sweet revenge. Speaking with perfect frankness. In the name of the people of the United States. I have uttered aa the objects of this great war ideals, and nothing but ideals, and the war has been won by that inspiration. Men were fighting with tense muscle and lowered head until they came to realise those things, feeling they were fighting for their livos and their country, and when these acconta of what H was ail about reached them from America they lifted their heads,1 l^ey raised their eyes to heaven.! Hk' Foe FORT MILL whoa tbaiy hv mem fa kbahi coming across the oca la die spirit of crusaders, and they louaa that these were strange man, reckless of danger not only, but reckless because they seem-1 ed to see something, that made that danger worth while. Men hay# tea- J tided to me in Europe that our men , were possessed by something that they could only cell e religious fervor. They were not like any of the other soldiers. They had a vision, they had a dream, and. fighting in the dream .they turned the whole tide of ! battle and it never came back. Tribute of a Humorist. ? One of our American bhmorista meeting the criticism that 'American soldiers were not trained Ions enoneh. - T~'.T said: "R take* only half as long to train an American soldier as any other, because you only hare to train him one way. and he did only go one way. and he never came back until he could do ft when he pleased." And now do you realise that this; confidence we bare established j throughout the world imposes*a bur-, den upon us?if you choose to call j it a burden. It is one of those bur-' dens which any nation onght to be | proud to carry. Any man who resists the present tides that run in the world will find himself thrown upon | a shore so high and barren that it will seem as if he had been separated from his human kind forever. The Europe that I left the other! day was full of something that it had never felt fill its heart so full before. It was full of hope. The Europe of th eseoond year of the war, the Europe of the third year of the war, was sinking to a sort of stubborn desperation. They did not see any great thing to be achieved even when the war should be won. They hoped there would be some salvage; they hoped that they could clear their territories of invading armies; they hoped they could set up their homes and start their industries afresh. But they thought it would simp!" be the resumption of the old life that Europe had?led in fear, led in anxiety, led in constant suspicious watchfulness. T". ey never dreamed that it would be a Europe of settled peace" and of justified hone All Peoples Buoyed Up. And now these ideals have wrought this new magic, that all the peoples of Europe are buoyed up and confident in the spirit of hope, because they believe that we are at the eve of a new age in the world when nations win undratand one another, when nations will support one another in every Just cause, when nations will unite every moral and every physical strength to see that the right '-hall prevail. If America were at this juncture to fail the world, what would come of it? I do not mean any disrespect to any other great people when I say that America is the hope of the world, and if she does not justify that hope the results are unthinkable. Men will be thrown back upon the bitterness of disappointment not only, but the bitterness of despair. All nations will be set up as hostile camps again; the men at the peace conference will go home with their heads upon their breasts, knowing that they have failed?for they were bidden not to come home from there until they did something more than sign a treaty of peace. Suppose we sign the treaty of peace and that it is the moat satisfactory treaty of peace that the confusing elements of the modern world will afford and go home and think about our labors; we will know that we have left written upon the historic table at Versailles, upon which Vergeness and Benjamin Franklin wrote their names, nothing but a modern scrap of paper. No nations united to defend, no great forces combined to make it good, no assurance given to the downtrodden and fearful people of the world that they shall be safe. Anv man who thinks that America will take part in (tiring the world any such rebuff and disappointment as that does not know America. Challenge to Critics. I invite him to test the sentiments of the nation. We set this up to make men free, and we did not confine our conception and purpose to America, and now we will make men free. If we did not do that, the fame of America would he gone and all her powers would be dissipated. She then would have to keep her power for those narrow. selfish, provincial purposes which seem so dear to some tninds that have no sweep beyond the nearest horiion. I should welcome no sweeter challenge than that. I have fighting blood In me and it is sometimes a delight to let it have scope, but If it is a challenge on this occasion it will be nn indulgence. Think of the picture, think of the utter blackness that would fall on the world?America has failed. America made a little essay at generosity and then withdrew. America said: "We are your friends." hut it was only for today, not for tomorrow. America said: "Here is our power to vindicate right" and then the next day said: "Let right take care of itself and we will take cam of ourselves." America said: "We set up a light to lead men along the paths of liberty bnt we have lowered it, it is intended only to light our own path." We set up a great deal of liberty, and then we said: "Liberty is a thing that you must win for yourself, do not call upon us." And think of the world that we would leave. Do you realize how many new nations are going to be set up in the presence of old and powerful nations In Europe and left there, if left by us, without a disinterested friend? What of the Helpless? Do vou believe In the Polish cause. r Mi , 8. 0., THURSDAY, FKBRUA mm ft ma I ftJT 70a going 10 Ml up.roland, immature, inexperienced, as jet unorganised, and lea to her with a clfcle of armies around her? Do you believe in the aspiration at (he Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs as I do? Do you know how many powers would be quick to pounce upon them if there were not the guarantees of the world behind their liberty? Hare you thought of the suffering of Armenia? You poured out yoofr money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again. The arrangements of the present peace cannot stand a generation tm- ?J less they are guaranteed by the united forces of the civilised world. And if we do not guarantee them, cannot you see the picture? Your hearts have instructed you where the burden of this war fell. It did not fall upon the national treasuries, it did not fall upon the instruments of administration, it did not fall upon the resources of the nations. It fell upon the victims' homes everywhere, where women were toiling in hope that their men would come back. % No Doubt of Verdict? When I think of the homes upon which dull despair would settle where this great hope is disappointed, I should wish for my part never to have had America play any part whatever in this attempt to emancipate the | world. But I talk as If there were any questions. I hare no moro doubt I of the verdict of America in this mat; ter than I have of the blood that is in I me. j And so. my follow citizens. I have j come hack to report progress and I i do not believe the progress is going to stop short of the goal. The nations ' of the world have set their heads now j to do a great thing, and they are not going to slacken their purpose. And I when I speak of the nations of the ! world. I do not speak of the governments of the world. I speak of the peoples who constitute the nations of the world. They are In the saddle and they are going to see to it that if their present governments do not do their will, some other governments shall. | And the secret is out and the present governments know it. I There is a great deal of harmony ! to be got out of common knowledge. There is a great deal of sympathy to be got out of living in the same atmosphere. and except for the differences of languages, which puzzled my American ear very sadly. I could have believed I was at home in France or in Italy or in Bngland when I was on the streets, when I was In the presence of the crowds, when I was in great halls where men were gathered together, irrespective of class. I did not feel quKe as much at home as I do here, but I felt that now, at any rate, after this storm of war had cleared the air. men were seeinr eve I 0 I to eye everywhere and these were the I kind of folks who would understand what the kind of folks at home would understand and that they were thinking the same things. Manners Very Delightful. I feel about you as I am reminded of a story of that excellent witness and good artist, Oliver Herford. who one day. sitting at luncheon at his club, was slapped vigorously on the back by a man whom he did not know very well. He said: "Oliver, old boy, how are you?" Ho looked at him rather coldly. He said: "I don't know your name. I don't know your face, but your manners are very familiar." and I must say that your manners are very familiar, and let me add very delightful. It is a great comfort for one thing, to realize that you all understand the language I am speaking. A friend of mine said that to talk through an interpreter was like witnessing the compound fracture of an idea. But the beauty of it is that, whatever the impediments of the channel of communication. the idea is the same; that it gets registered, and it gets regis tered in responsive hearts and receptive purposes. i nave come Darn ror a strenuous ' attempt to transact business for a lit| tie while in America, but I have reall ly come back to say to you. in all | soberness and honesty, that I have been trying my beat to speak your thoughts. When I sample myself, I think I find that I am a typical American, and if I sample deep enough. and get down to what Is probably the true stuff of a man. then I have hope that It Is part of the stuff that is like the other fellow's at home. And, therefore, probing deep in my heart and trying to see the things that are right without regard to the things that may be debated as expedient. I feel that I am Interpreting tho purpose and the thought of America; and in loving 'America I find I have joined the great majority of my feL lowmen throughout the world. DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE ARE "LORDS OF THE WORLO" Iyondon.?Under the heading "The Lords of the Wrorld" The Frankfurter Zettung publishes a rather lively sketch of the peace delegates in Paris. It wonders whether any of them will turn out to be a Metternlch. a Talleyrand. a Hardenberg, a Nesselrode. or a Castlereagh, but thinks that none of them at present can be compared with Bismarck. Disraeli or Gortschakoff. It Is added : Wilson. Clemenceau and Lloyd George are already characters with sharply and firmly outlined features. What they have done for their countries the war raises them high above middle stature. But their greatness as statesmen has still to undergo the tests of fire at the green table. # LL T JIT 27, 1919 FIGHT ON EMBARGO nc nrrrinii ctitcc Ul UUI IU(1 UIHILd AMENDMENT INSERTED IN THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL' REMOVES RESTRICTIONS ON EXPORTS. INCLUDES JILL OUR EXPORTS Reapproprtation Item Approved Altai* Adoption of Bland Amendment Relating to Embargoee. Washington.?Representatives from the cotton growing states were successful in their efforts to writa an amendment into the sundry civil bill, designed to remove all embargoes placed by the war trade board against cotton export shipments. The amendment, Including the amendment, now goes to the senate. Although designed primarily to affect cotton shipments, the amendment applies to all American goods exported to foreign countries. The nmpndmpn t nronu rnH of ? ? |?> vfMtcu ul n vuuici cu\.u of southern representatives, was offered in the house by Representative Bland, of Georgia, and afterward amended on motion of Representative Steagail. of Alabama, so that cottonseed and peanut oil also would not be subject to embargo. The amendment was offered while the house, in committee of the whole, was considering an item of the sundry civil bill reappropriating for the war trade board the unexpended balance of appropriations granted last yeur for continuing its operation. Continuance of the agency for a part of the next flscal year may be necessary. it was said by members of the appropriations committee, who framed the sundry civil bill. Funds, it was added, also would be necessary for the agency to settle its accounts. The reappropriation item was approved after adoption of the Bland amendment which directs that no part of the appropriation bill will be available unless all embargoes are lifted. IRISH DELEGATE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO CONFERENCE Paris.?Sean O'Cealligh presented himself to the peace conference as .the "accredited envoy of the provisional government of the Irish repub11*" O'Cealligh has sent to Premier Cletnenceau. to Paul Dutasta, secretary general of the peace conference, and to each delegate, a letter, in which he brings to their notice the claim of his government, in the name of the Irish nation, for international recognition of the independence of Ireland and for the admission of Ireland as a constituent member of the league of nations. This communication was accompanied in each case by* copies of the Irish declaration of independence. In his letter O'Cealligh states that Professor de Valera, Arthur Griffith and Count Plunkeli have been delegated by the national assembly to present a statement to the peace conference and to the league of nations in the name of the Irish people. Ho asks a date be fixed for the reception of these men. POLITICAL OFFENDERS ARE FREED BY AMNESTY DECREE Rome.?Under the amnesty decree just published, various socialist leaders. condemned for political offenses, such as incitement to revolution, were released from imprisonment in Turin. Among them are Signor Serrati, editor of The Avantl. In the evening the released men went to Camera del Ijavoro. Turin,. wher^ a great crowd of workmen awaited them. A triumphant meeting followed. The tenor of the speeches may be gathered from the language used by Signor Serrati, who said Russia was the only nation which h-Ml found the right way of treating enemies of the proletariat. Virtually all the speakers urged the people of Italy to follow in the footsteps of Russia. FIRST SPEECH IN SENATE IN riCCCMCC OC rAHOTITI ITiriKJ Washington:?The first address in the senate in defense of the proposed constitution of the league of nations was delivered by Senator Lewis, of Illinois. Democratic whip, who took issue with the recent criticism made by Senators Borah. Republican, and Reed, Democrat. Speaking for nearly two hours. Senator Lewis denied contentions of opponents of the league that it would abrogate the Monroe doctrine. CLEMENCEAU'8 WOUNDS DO NOT INTERFERE WITH WORK Paris. ? Premier Clemenceau's wounds have not interfered with the conference work and a general ? ffort has been made to speed up all work of committees so an to be able to establish with all possible rapidity the preliminary peace terms. It is intended that in preliminary peace terms, which it is hoped iflll be ready for signatures earlier than was generally expected, the future frontiers of Germany will be drawn. [MES BETHEA FILES PAMA6E SUIT An Action for Libol Is Brought by ExLieut. Gov. Bothsa Against tho Columbia Evening Record. Damages to the amount of 1100.009 are being asked in a libel suit brought by Andrew ^ Bethea against The Record Publishing Company and R. Carlton Wright, editor and publisher. The suit is the outcome of the publication of two articles In The Record in which it was alleged that Mr. Bethea had no right to wear the uniform of a major in the United States army, and in one that Mr. Bethea was called to Camp Jackson a few days ago, and compelled to disrobe. Mr. Bethea's attorneys are J. Fraser Lyon and D. W. Robinson of Columbia, and George Bell-Timmerman of Lexington. Large Refinery Projected. Charleston.?Official announcement was made by J. C. King, agent at Charleston of the Standard Oil Company, of plans to establish on the recently purchased tracts with Coops! river frontage, an oil refinery capable of supplying all the varied petroleum products now being marketed in Charleston afid the neighboring territory. The construction is designed to provide gasoline, refined oil. nsphalt road oils, fuel oils and all the other derivatives of petroleum. Delegates to Peace League. kock mii>.?The league to Enforce Peace. through ex-President William "H. Taft, has lequested President D. B. Johnson of Winthrop College to name Ave delegates to the Southern congress for a league of nations to be held in Atlanta on Friday and Saturday, February 28 and March 1. According to this request and authority, President Johnson has appointed the following delegates to represent the State: Dr. S. H. Edmunds of Sumter, W. J. Roduey of Rock Hill. Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaster. Frank Evans. superintendent of Spartanburg schools; Thomas F. McDow of York. Tragic Death in Swamp. Columbia.?Belton S. Rawls prominent farmer of Lykesland met a tragic death in a swamp near Flat Lake, about 15 miles south of Columbia. He was one of a party of seven going out to search for wild hogs. Mr. Rawls separated from four men with guns and fell mortally wounded when they flred their loads of buckshot at a hog. One stray shot entered the bpdy under the left arm and pierced the heart. He died ten minutes after receiving the inpury. Mr. Rawls carried a gun and was kneeling in a firing position when struck by a stray shot. J. D. Dunnaway ran up to the stricken man who said, "Somebody dropped me, I am shot, and my side is paralyzed." He expired shortly afterward. The body was brought to his home at Lykesland on an improvised stretcher. The hunting party was composed of Mr. Rawls and his brother. R. P. Rawls, J. D. Dunuaway and four negroes, Haskell Corley, Marshall Squlremack. Will Squiremack and Joe Goodwin. Dunnaway and Corley did not carry guns. Explosion Wrecks Garage. Camden.?The garage work shop of the Consolidated Auto Company was the scene of a disastrous explosion when a carbide generator on a welding outfit exploded. L. A. Haines and James Griggs, mechanics in the shop, were very seriously injured. Mr. Haines' injuries could not he determined further than a badly lacerated arm and burns about the face. Mr. Griggs had his eyes and face terribly burned, bat it is thought he will not lose the sight of either eye. Both men were hurried to the Camden Hospital, where they were given surgical attention, but physicians could not state at this time the full extent of their injuries. Death of Professor Scull. Sumter.?Word has been received of the* death of Prof. Samuel Scull, who made his home here many years ago. at his residence in Jacksonville, after a long illness. He was a retired bandmaster and music dealer. He leaves his wife and two daughters. Misses Helen and Erma Scull, all of whom are pleasantly remembered here. Rumors Pales as to Thirtieth. Charlestc. ?Col. I?awronce Brown, u. a. a.. aooarsauon officer of the southeastern department, issued a statement denying widespread rumors that the Thirtieth division had sailed from France for America. The latest official information received here is that the Thirtieth division has not yet arrived at its port of embarkation. One man traveled several hundred miles from Tenneseee to Charleston to icreet his son, who is with the Thirtieth division, only to meet with disappointment. Contract Let for Drainage. Tork.?After some delay caused by the reluctance of the commissioners to have the work done until labor hecomes cheaper, the contract for the drainage of Turkey Creek has been awarded to Sigmunds ft Rhinehart. the price being nine cents a cubic yard. Work will begin as early as practicable. The land that will be affected by the drainage of the creek approximates 4.400 acres and is sita ated in York and Chester counties. The drainage project had its inception four years ago. V ff? $L25 Per Tear. GOVERNOR COOPER A- IIAV A * Afim IS NUIJAIISHtU CERTAIN PROVWIONB IN THE APPROPRIATION BILL WILL NOT MEET CONDITIONS. ADEQUATE MILITARY POWER Mor? Monty Needed For Pension* For Confederate Veterans and Wldowa to Assist Advancing Age. Columbia.?Governor Cooper sent a message to the general assembly emphasizing that certain provisions of the appropriation bill, as passed by the house, were inadequate to meet existing conditions. The three item * cited are for Confederate veterans, the national guard and the vocation.il training fund. Governor Cooper calls the attention of the legislators to the extreme necessity of adequate military power during this period of readjustingt. "In the light of conditions wh'eh forecast certain possibilities I feel justified in saying that ut no time within the past 25 >ears. except during the time war was actually being fought, has there been such need for an efficient national guard," ho says. The third item for which Governor Cooper appeals is for an increased appropriation fot Confederate soldiers. The governor points out that many of the veterans are infirm and unable to make a living, but unless these veterans were wounded, or have since been paralyzed, they do not qualify in class A, and in consequence their pensions are practically negligible. Chile Teacher at Winthrop. Rock Hill.?P. P. Claxton. United States commissioner of education, has accepted the invitation of President Johnson to deliver the commencement address to the graduating class ou June 3. Miss Mercedes Manosalva of Chile, who has been a student teacher in Winthrop this year, has accep'o 1 c position in Cornell University for the summer, where she will preside over a department of conversational Spanish. Postofflce Appropriations. Wasfcingto \ (Special).?The following are the South Carolina items in the public building bill reported in the house: Clinton. $5,000; I?ancanter, 19,000; Aiken, $85,000; Hartsville. $50,000; Summerville, $45,000; Bamberg. $5,000; Bishopville, $5,000; Che raw, $5,000; Conway, $5,000; Easley, $5,000; Greer, $5,000; Manning, $5,000; St. Matthews, $5,000; York, $F000; United States postofflce and court house end other government of flees at Greenwood, $125,000. The secretary of the treasury is author ized and directed bv the bill to sell the present federal building and site at Greenwood at public or private sale, hut at not Iosh than the value uh determined ny an appraisal thereof by the secretary of the treasury and upon terms as he may deem for the best interests of the United States. GafTney to Extsnd Welcome. Gaffney.?The people of Gaffney are arranging to welcome the soldiers of the county when they return from overseas. It was reported here that the Sixty-first regiment had landed in New York, and this organization has quite a number of Cherokee county boys, who were former members of the coast artillery. New Whisky Stunt. Newberry.?A new way to violate the prohibition law of the State was detected here by Policeman L. M. Player. He learned there was a stranger in town distributing liquor advertisements and coupon books for ordering liquor, and swore out a warrant for him. The literature and orders. coupons and addressed envelopes all bore the name of H. W. MetcrK of Baltimore. He Is the same Metcalf who operated from Jacksonville. Fla.. until the prohibition law' went into effect. Child Killed by Auto. Sumter.?Sidney Smith, the small son of C. E. Smith art -1 -m _ ?> oiuiiiu/ ne ui the Avery Lumber Company, was run over and killed by an automobile transfer driven by a negrro. The little boy wan riding; on the back of a truck and it is said dropped off too close to the front of the transfer for the driver, who was only going; at a moderate rate of speed to turn aside. The child's head was crushed. He was carried to the Toumen Hospital, but died about four hours after the accident. Death of a Mother In Israel. Clemson College.?Mrs. Lela Maxwell Sloan, widow of P. H. E. Sloan. Sr., died after continued ill health extending from the death of her husband a few years ago. She was nearly 76 years of age. Burial services were held at the Baptist Church at Pendleton. The news cf Mrs. Sloan's death will bring sadness to the hearts of hundreds of old Clemson men. Many of them were "her boys" and affectionately called her "Mother Sloan." lhe waa a great lover of flowers.