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% ?-*7*. *\v- * ;; * Established 1891. COLUMBIA TO BE HOST TO BiG FARMER MEETING Columbia, March 17.?Preparations Cotton association are nearing completion and the indications are that there will be between thirty and forty thousand farmers here for the day. It Ihiirsday, March 25, by the Amcri<-an for the area! eelehration to lx> nUwwl bids fair to l>e tlic greatest gathering of farmers ever held in the south. Officials of the South Carolina division of the American Cotton association are working day and night on the details of the program for the day. The main features of the celebration will he a big parade in which over 20.000 farmers arc expected to participate, followed by addresses by Secretary of Agriculture Meredith and Senator K. 1). Smith. Secretary Meredith and Senator Smith have already accepted the invitation^. Music will be furnished during the day by Arthur Pryor'B world-famed band. The details of the celebration are in charge of a committee headed by J. Skottowe Wannamakcr, president of the American Cotton association; R. M. Mixson, president of the South Carolina division of the American Cotton association; B. Harris, commissioner; J. C. Hi vers, warehouse com-, missioner; L. I. Onion, member of the executive committee of the South Carolina division; H. C. Booker, publicity chairman of the South -Carolina division, and Mrs. H. R. Clinkscales, secretary of the South Carolina division. This committee has issued an invitation to every white farmer of South Carolina to Iks present ntid also to the merchants, bankers, business and professional men of the state. Secretary Meredith's address here will i?c iiis nrst pulilio appearance in the aouth since he became a member of. President Wilson's cabinet and his remarks are awaited with great interest, lie is expected to touch upon the subject of marketing and direct sales of cotton in which the American Cotton association is so greatly interested. Invitations will be extended the offi cials of the North Carolina and Georgia divisions of the American Cotton association to be present for the celebration and it is expected that many of them will attend. Farmers who coinc to the city for the ~ celebration will also have the oppor tunity of seeing the greatest automobile show ever held in the south, an elaliorate fashion show, a business exposition and trades display, and other attractions. PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC FLEETS TO HAVE BATTLE Washington, March 16.?The Pacific and Atlantic lleets will meet off the Pacific coast of Panama next January in their first maneuvers, designed to keep the navy "on its toes" during pence time. This was decided today at conference between Secretary Daniels and Admirals Rodman and Benson and the fleet commanders who will work out details. It is practically certain, however, that a battle between the fleets, approaching nr> urnrty as possinie actual warfare will be arranged. It mny nlao serve as an actual test of the Panama Canal as an element of naval strategy. After the practice is nt an end, the combined fleet will visit the principal Pacific coast ports of the lTnited States so as to give the people there an opportunity to see the nation's full naval fighting force. It will be the first time that the entire battleship strength has visited the Pacific coast . since the Atlantic fleet made its memorable cruise around the world in 190708. The fleet which will steam out of the Pfinnmo It a v 1 * ? .-.-j IVi ubh riBiu-mni III' \ I year will be many times as large and powerful as that which the late Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans took through the Golden Gate in 1908 after a voyage around Capt Horn. There will be 10 battleships of the dreadnaught class? the same number that circled the globe ?perhaps a dozen line battleships, 11 cruisers and all the supporting units of destroyers, submarines and axaularics. FARMERS WILL QUIZ THE CANDIDATES SAYS BARRETT Washington, March 10.?C. S. Barrett, chairman of the "questionnaire" committee of the national board of ^ farm organization, that is preparing a series of interrogations to be submitted to atpiranta for the Presidency, announced tonight that the work probably would be completed tomorrow. There was no intention, he said, to offer questions with a double meaning or to lay traps for candidates, nnd the elimination of such pitfalls from proposed questions took much of the committee's time. "It is the wish and the intention of the committee," Mr. Barrett said, "to produce something to which all patriotic eitisens will willingly subscribe. We are not initiating a campaign to punish ctrtain politicians; we are trying to establish a constructive program, and we hope that a candidate, morally and intellectually qualified for the Presidency, i will be found who is willing to endorse i cur views." ' k.v? j,. -*- ^ _>:.wif -.** 1 THE f rCLEMSON STUDENTS FACE CHARGE OF DEiERTlON Columbia, March 17.?-This weak will decide the future personnel for the remainder of this school year of Clcmson Agricultural College. The students who are all nway from the campus, on account of the strike of freshmen and sophomores last week, have until Sunday night to return or else thoy will bo counted us deserters. The action of the trustees in standing firmly back of the college authorities in the eni'or.vmcnt of discipline has met with approval from mtuiy prominent fjouth Caroltman?. "We took the position that wo would rather close the college than to see It turned over .to the students, with alldiscipline abandoned," stated a member of the board, \V. D. Harnett, in Columbia today. The parents or guardians of every Clemson student is I liia uriuil- !>?!" mailed a copy of the statement issued by the trustees Monday night, following the three dlty meeting over the situation. This statement puts the matter of the conditions under which the atu dents may return clearly before the patrons of the college. Each student must ngain pledge his allegiance to the college and. must refute hja former posi-. tion of rebellion. Clcmson College# i March 15.?f-The re|?ort of Clomson college trustees, completed only after 48 hours of most seal eiiing investigation into the student "Walkout" which resulted., in 4d0 freshmen and tsophmorcs 'leaving- "the reservation for their homes last Wednesday ami senior aiul junior classmen threatened to walk out in sympathy unless their demands for reinstatement, without punishment, of all underclassmen and certain reforms in methods of cadet government were met, shows these net results: Vigorous support of tlic president, the commandant and the discipline committee of the faculty. Refusal to even consider the. ultimatum from senior and junior classmen. Laying down of certain conditions upon which junior and Benior classmen who signed the ullimutuin and sophomore and freshmen classmen who walked out may reenter the college. Asknowledgement that conditions of the mess had not been what the authorities would have them, but that economic and other conditions the world over arc such that the situation could not bet better under existing limitations, authorizing the president to make certain improvements in the mess and providing him with additional funds to cover cost of same, without raising the monthly rate of ls>ard of cadets. Open trial for cadets, not upon demands from nny cadet element, but solely to inspire more of a apirit of confidence in the work of the discipline committee of the faculty; permission to be granted accused cadets to have faculty counsel of their own choosing at the trial; no student representative upon the discipline committee. Appointment of a committee of the trustees to study the cadet government regulations and suggest such changes as might be deemed advisable, this report to be submitted nt. tl?? r?n. ular April meeting of tlie trustees. Consideration of the case of Cadet Crosslnnd, not upon the demand of the junior and senior classmen, hut upon the petition of Cadet Crosslnnd himself as provided by regulations. Conditions upon which junior and senior classmen may reenter the college provide that each individual who signed the ultimatum shull sign and tile with the president for the trustees hy 11:30 p. m., March 21, a written withdrawal of their approval of the last paragraph of the document. Those failing to comply shall be considered in a state of insubordination and shall he dropped from the rolls of the -college without the privilege of reinstatement at any time in the future. Members of these classes who do not return in accordance with the term* of their, preaent leave, without sufficient excuse in the opinion of the president shall be adjudged deserters and dropped from the rolls as such. Freshiuen and sophomores who fail to return by 11(30 p. m., March 21, shall be adjudged to have violated paragraph 32f>, cadet regulations, and their names dropped from the college rolls. When these conditions have t>een met those cadets returning will be reqnired to subscrilte anew to the pladge given upou their formal entrance and to make up all work missed. A number of Fort Mill boys, students at Clemson college, have returned home during the last week as a result of the revolt of the freshman and sophomore classes against alleged intolerable dining room conditions at the institution, between 450 and 500 students taking part in the "strike." Monday at a special meeting of the board of trustees the revolting students were given the alternative of returning and resuming their class work within six days or thereafter finding the doors of the col- j lege forever closed to them. It is not known which horn of the dilemma the | Fort Mill boys plan to take. 'ORT 1 FOBT MILii, S. C.t THXJ] . SITUATION IN GERMANY CAUSlNGiAPPREHENSlON Washington, March 15.?According to belief in ofliciMl circles, the whole situaI ion - produced by the overthrow of the Kln-rt government in Berlin is full of un.-crtainty und danger, and it is bcliev ctl here that the European Allies will immediately take common counsel to. determine what steps are essential on their {tart to remedy conditions that may provu harmful to aiUcd interests. The report that i Field Marshal von Ifindenburg had been proclaimed "Im I iprial Ptt>Utilhnf nf lJom?o??o" **' I - ? v?v? Iimu^ CXbbJCWtlCTI interest in official ..circles. The opinion wan given that if Hindcnburg wan placed at the head of the new regime he would be merely a ratspaw for General Laidcudorf, who in regarded an the roul i'oree behind the monarchist and militarist movement. .. Hindcnburg is represented to be :>anything but the strong character he' showed! himself to be in the war. His age is tolling on him and he luiKi lost mm-li of bis force, ft is said by those acquainted with recent affairs in (Germany, while Ludendorff is credited with being the master mind of organizations that are opposed to the democratization of his country. One of the foremost authorities an international affairs said that any change of Government in Germany i at this time would be bad from the viewpoint of alliod interests, but if the mili itaristic-monarcliistic group was in control the situation would be In the worst jK?s?iblo shape. The opinion was oxpressed that Great Britain and Franco would be induced to take a hand in the situation and that it would not be surprising if tbey began assembling their armed forces with a view to drastic action. The fear that dominates the allies, it was gathered, is that a change of government will endanger the execution by Germany of the terms of the peace treaty. One serious factor in-the situation is that Germany apparently has still a formidable military force in being. Her army demobilization under the conditions laid down in the peat* treaty lias been slow, and recent official reports received here indicate that the military .force 4s comprised as follows: ,.U 1 lit. ? ? m. - A * -i mnnnwnii (uic rem I'amiiti lorce), 250,000 men. Sioherheits-PoHzcr (State constabulary). 75,000 men. Various military contingents' that are only partly demobilized or engaged in adjusting the military records of the war, 50,000. Home guards (militia) estimated at from 200,000 to 2,000,000, but beliered to number about 300,000 men. The strength of the principal allied forces In the occupied territory is In detail as follows: French troops, 154,000. British troops, 106,000. United States troops, 15,000, including those being used for policing Silesia during tho plebiscite period. It wus the intention of the United States Government to reduce its armed orccs in the German occupied area to >1,800. There are now in Kuropean eoun-i dries, according to tho latest reports received, 774 officers and 16,316 men of the American Army. Major Gen. Henry T. Allen commands the American troops in tho occupied areas. Brig Gen. William H. Sago commands the American contingent in Silesia. No move has been mado by the United States Government in connection with the situation that has developed in Germany. It is supposed that Great Britain and Franco will consult this govern-* incut before undertaking any plan of action. To what extent the United States will regard itself as involved in measures that tho European Allies may doom necessary to meet tho now conditions is a matter that can bo settled only by President Wilson. GERMANS NOT ALLOWED TO CONFER WITH WILLIAM The Hague, March 17.?Several orum inent Gerr<>ang arrived in automobiles at Amerongen yesterday afternoon for a visit to the former kaiser, according to advices received here. They were not pormitted to see the former German emperor, despite repeated attempts to gain admission to the quarter* occupied by the dethroned monarch. Weather forecast for South Carolina: Cloudy Friday. The - town council and street commission of Fort i I i Mill jointly frive notice this week of a special election to II be held in Fort Mill on i April 16 to submit to the i voters of the town the question of the issuance of $30,000 in municipal bonds for street improvements. ! With the assurance of federal aid, it would aeem that Fort Mill is now in position to take a loner step forward in municipal betterment. ,r . v;-V ''* " i.*c . rlv' MILL 1 StSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920. SOUTH CAROLINA PAYS HIGHEST CORN PRICE Saluda, March 15.?"The price of corn per bushel was higher in South Carolina ou March 1, than in any other state," says a report of the bureau of crop estimates, United States departi ment of agriculture, issued through the ofllce of ita South Carolina field agent. The average price Tor the state on that date was f2.ll per bushel, against an average price of $1.49 for the entire United States, the lowest being $1.15 per bushel in Colorado. The report shows 17,222,000 bushels or 48' per cent of the 1919 corn crop of South Carolina remaining on farms March 1. On the corresponding date of 111 vaar fKorn mrnoinnr) !*? ns?. j ?' K,B" ceding crop 10,2227,000 bushels, there being 22,059,000 bushels of the 1917 crop on farms March 1, 1918. For the entire United States there were 1,092,095,000 bushels or 37.4 per cent of the 1919 crop remaining on farms March 1, as against 855,269,000 bushels March 1, 1919 and 1,253,290,000 bushels on the corresponding date in 1918. The amount of wheat on farms in the United States on March 1, was about 105,539,000 bushels, against 128,703,000 bushels March 1, 1919 and 107,745,0000 bushels March 1, 1918. The average value of poor plow lands in South Carolina on March 1, is reported at $41 per acre, against $27 on the corresponding date of 1919 and $23 on March 1, 1918, the average value of good plow lands being $82 per acre March 1, against $56 per acre on the corresponding date last year, $45 per acre in 1918 and $43 in 1917. The average value of all plow lands on March 1, was $61 per acre as compared with $45 per acre on corresponding date last year, $36 in 1918 and $31 in 1916. * The average value of l>oor plow lands for the entire United Oifna 1 ?... Mnlfl ? - i.iatvu I, wan <pw.l v, guuu plUW lands $113.34, the average for all plow lands being $00.10 per acre. It will l>e observed that the average value per acre of all plow lands in Souut Carolina increased approximately 100 per cent from March 1, 1910 to March 1. 1020, while the average value l>er acre for the entire United States increased during the same period from $58.30 per acre to $00.10 or an increase of only 54 per cent. The average value of all lands in South Carolina March 1, with improvements, was $75 per acre. LEAGUE COUNCIL ACTS TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIA Paris, March 14.?The executive1 council of the league of nations met yesterday in the cloak room of the foreign oflice under the presidency of Leon Bourgeois. In his opening address, M. Bourgeois reviewed the work of the council. He said that, while there was some skepticism regarding the success of the lea-, gue, it had not retarded the league's work. Up to the present time, M. Bourgeois declared, the league bad shown its reality and vitality. Arthur J. Balfour, the British representative, replying to Mr. Bourgeois, said there was no reason for anxiety as to the field of work for the league. On the contrary, he declared, he anticipated that the nations and peoples would give the league all the work it oould do. A resolution was adopted providing for the appointment of a commission of ten members, each with two counselors, to make the proposed investigation into conditions in Russia as soon as a favorable reply should be received from the Soviet government. To this commission is' to be added a commission from the International Labor Bureau for the special purpose of investigating lultor conditions. Salvador and Venezuela have deposited their declarations of assent to the covenant of the league of nations, thus completing the list of thirteen nailAnu invif zul fn luuuvmn bora of the league. BREWERIES CAN MAKE A GOOD SYRUP FROM GRAIN Philadelphia, March 17.?Brewery equipment and grain* can be used for the production of a augur substitute, official* of C. Schmidt A Son* auid today. For more than a year the entire plant of the old Mchemm Brewery, they .announced, haa been engnged in the production of malt ayrup. The company ia a subsidiary of the Schmidt firm, and ia known aa the Philadelphia Malt Extract Company. . Not only ia the ayrup of equal food value with nugar, but haa other advuntagea, they assert. One of these ia that it increases fermentation, and thus bread made with it is lighter and more palatable than bread sweetened with sugar. Hew Census Report. 4 Washington, March 10.?Danville, III., 33,750; increase, 5,879, or 21.1 per cent. Iatfayette, Ind., 22,450; increase, 2,375 or 113 per cent. Binghumton, N. Y., 00,000; increase, 18.367, or 37.8 per cent, i Oak Park, 111., 39,830; increase, 20,380, or 104.0 per cent. Mattoon, III., 13,449; increase, 1,903, or 17.4 per cent. Newport, Ky., 29,317; increase, 992, or 3.3 per cent. ' CTMES. SHORT NEWS STORIES . FROM MANY SOURCES Because prohibition has put an end to arrests, the citj of Austin, Minn., ^ has sold its jail toa man who will use it as a storage house. At the first presidential nominating j Socialist convention since 1912, to be < held in New York on May 8, the party < is planning to nominate Eugene V. ( Debs, now serving a ten-year sentence j in the Moundsville, W. Vs., penitentiary t for disloyal utterances. 1 A law that would make it illegal for any child under Id years old, instead of > 16, as at present, toe moke or in any 1 way use a cigar, cigarette or tobacco 1 in any public street or resort, is pro* I posed by Assemblyman Everett of Sti e Lawrence county, New York. ^ The extent to which motor vehicfes ^ are supplanting the horse on farms U problematical, department of agri- ^ culture experts declare, after a recent c survey, which disclosed that at least 50,000 fanners in the country own motor trucks which they use on theif 1 farms. Franklin K. Lane, who recently resigned as secretary of the interior, had ? accepted the chairmanship of the 1 national committee to have charge of 11 ? a ?_ i ?? ?? -wun niuijt a nuiue service ap* E peal for 1920. This is Mr. Lane's first ^ civic work after severing his connection f with the cabinet. * x United States District Attorney Clyna J of Chicago is preparing to force 4.969,^ y 398 pounds of butter, now stored in Chicago, into the retail trade in an I effort to break the prevailing high' ^ prices. In addition he plans to see that' ' 6,600,000 poundB of cheese are made [ available for consumption. As a result of her war activities, t Canada lost 63,843 of her population, c The total casualties, including wound- r ed, prisoners and missing, numbered 1 212,703, or nearly 3 per cent, of her ^ total population of 8,000,000. A total " of 696,441, or 7 per cent, of Canada's e population, enlisted for service. a Army aviators, in an effort to break " the ice jams in the Susquehanna river at Port Deposit, Md., dropped 60 oi * more aerial bombs, the kind used by u the American airmen in the World wat*. i Bombs weighing 230 pounds and con- H taining 110 pounds of TNT tore hol< I in n the masses but failed to move them. ? Husbands who do not give their 1 wives money have no redress when j they find their pocketa rifled in the b nifht fhv said wivnol niwlwr a rlltinrr nf a. Judge Leo Sullivan of Jersey City, m N. J. Judge Sullivan made the ruling ii in a aettlemont of the domestic affairs b of a couple 30 years married, * i Harry Hahn, a 17-year-old clerk in ^ New York city, picked up an order on the bank of Montreal, Can., entitling t the bearer to $1,200,000 in railroad A bonds. He returned the document to a * brokerage office in New York city and i received a reward of $2 and the advice u that he was an honest boy and prob- 11 ably would make his way in the world, j ' Tips received by Louis Bock, head r waiter at the Jefferson hotel at St. t Louis and in 20 years received by him 1 as a waiter in hotels in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Boston, have j enabled him to secure control of a _ $100,000 hotel in the heart of the fash- n ionable residence section of St. Louis., t Bock has taken charge of his property n and will act as manager. v THE FLU EPIDEMIC SEEMS h TO BE ABOUT OVER NOW , Columbia, March 13.?The influenza e epidemic in South Carolina is about at an end. Reports reaching the offices of the state board of health are so f few that they do not warrant daily re- \ ports being tabulated by the health t officials. I The one place in the state where the H epidemic lias held on longest is Mur- ,s roll's lulet, on the coast of Horry coun- v ty. The state board of health sent n Dr. II. H. burroughs, of Conway, to |< handle the situation, and his report u was received at the health oflice in v Columbia Friday. The doctor reports an of the Dtli, that there were only 19 e cases of influenza and four of pneu- d uionia at that time, and he said tho h situation had greatly improved and n was not considered serious. All the aick persons he reported as doing I well. There was in addition six cases of chicken pox. r TEXAS FORCE ORDEDED TO HOLD ? LAND CLAIMED BY OKLAHOMA S t Austin, Texas, March 17.-?Oovernor a W. P. Hobby has ordered sent to tho f Texas Oklahoma boundary a force deem- r ed sufficient to hold oil land involved in h dispute between Texas and Oklahoma and to surrender it to no one except h upon a decree from the United States * Supreme Court. i ' *51 LEGISLATURE PASSES . - * MANY SCHOOL LAWS' 'VV>? \^T At the session of th? General Assem- "PC* ^ )ly which adjourned about two weeks igo, many laws conducive to the devel>pment of the public school system of South Carolina were enacted. John E. Swearingen, State superintendent of ^location, points out that of the 611 lets passed, 126 were school laws. The recent session might be appropriately termed an "educational Legislature," V 1 le says. ^ . \ i A significant fact brought out by Mr. *" \ Jwearingen is that it was not many fears ago when the total appropriations 'or all State purposes were below $1,100,000, while this year for common ichool purposes alone $931,090 was prorided. ' He emphasized, however, that f the schools of South Carolina are to >a placed on a plane with those of oth>r progressive States, four or five times .his amount must be taken from the Itate treasury annually. JAPTISTS PLAN SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTES IN SOUTH Nashville, Tenn., March 15.?In what s believed to be the largest effort that las ever been undertaken in behalf of astter rural Sunday Schools in the k>uth, a program of teachers institutes ulculuted to reach hundreds of rural ommunitiea in every state co-operating vith the Southern liuptist Convention a announced by Dr. I. .1. Van Nona, coreaponding secretary of the Sunday School Board. ThiB larger work, aimed to inject new ife into the Sunday schools in the rural liatriutb by providing them with better nfomied officers and teachera, is made At X- *?- I hhimur' mruugu me larger proceeds ol lie Buptist 75 Million Campaign and vill be carried out by the Held forces of .lie Baptist Sunday School Board, in o-operation with the boards of the vuious states. Additional workers will >e put on in euch state and helpful, traetical teachers institutes will be held it strategic points in euch state, the lope being to reach officers and teach.rs from all surrounding communities it every point at which the institutions ire held. Many of the states have already comdeted their plans for this enlarged vork. Virginia will put on 20 additionil workers for this summer program, Tennessee will put on 10, Oklahoma is .lready well under way with her plans, aid each of the other Southern and Southwestern states will soon be ready o launch the rural Sunday School work n a more larger scale than ever before. .est year, through such a series of intitutes, 10,000 rural Sunday Hehools in he South were reached. With the larger lumber of workers available this year, t is .anticipated 15,000 such schools will >e infused with new life and better eaching methods. To make possible an adequate number of trained workers with which to iut on this program of enlargement in he various states, a thirty-day normal raining school will be conducted in iaahvilla, beginning May .11. A large acuity of Sunday school experts has lready been engaged for this school and nen and women from every Southern nd Southwestern state will nttend it. pilled with the inspiration from this ormal school the workers will go out o the various states for the conduct of he institutes there. As a further aid in the development f both rural and city Sunday schools, . j W XT '? ?. ? UII HCTB Hiinuiini'l'H [IIP CSlanilsllnent, by the Sunday School Hoard, of department of Sunday school udminisration, in charge of Arthur Flake, nember of the field force of the board, ifr. Flake wan formerly superintendent f the Sunday school of the First Bapist church of Fort Worth, Texas, which ias an enrollment of nearly 5,000. He rill bo glud to assist any school in olvmg its problems of organization, quipmcnt or administration. Columbia, March 17.?A special train rill take South Carolina Baptists to Vashington in May for the Southern taptist Convention, which begins May 2th. The special train will probably tart from Abbeville, operating over the Seaboard and picking up delegates at arious points where connections nrc nade with other railways. Three car[tads of delegates liave already signed ip with Dr. J. I. Jester, at Greenwood, rho is in charge of the special train. Columbia, Newherry, Chester, Ij?urns, Ablteville, Clinton, McCormiek, Ankrson and other towns in the upper lalf of the state are expected to furash delegations for this special train. ?OSSE IN HOT PURSUIT OF SHERIFF'S ASSAILANT Mncon, March 10.?A pc^a is in hot ursuit of a negro, Will White, who hot Sheriff L. P. Player and Deputy Sheriff J. T. Dixon, of Wilkcrson couny, this morning. The negro had shot t his wife and had driven his family rom his house, according to reports caching the city, and the shcriq and lis deputies were called to arrest him. Sheriff Player und his deputy wore a ought to this city. Doctors say the heriff will recover but Qeputy Dixon * in a serious condition.