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\ 1' THE CHRONICLE Strives to be a clean newspaper, complete, newsy and reliable. If You Don’t Read The Clinton Chronicle You Don’t Get The NEWS FOMJMBIII rjJNTOM.s. n , THn»snAt r nfrmium ti-j, mi? f | COW ON COTTON FORMED ^Peraunent Or^anliaiUon of World Cot* ton Conference Completed TesUr* day.. Officers Elected. ft' LADIES TO MEET. New Orleans, Oct 16.—The world cotton conference came into perman ent organization late today when a report submitted by the committee on organization was. adopted Sir A. Her bert Dixon, of Manchester, England, chairman of the British delegation to the conference, was elected secretary and the recommendation was made that the next conference be held in England in 3921. Other officers elected were: General secretary, Rufus E. Foster, Boston; assistant secretary, Frank Nasmith, England; treasurer for European members, (Sir James Hope Simpson; for the United States, W. Irvingr^allard, Boston; vice presi dents for the United States: Fuller E. Callaway, La Grange, Ga.; England, Edward B. Orme and John Smithers; France, George Badern; Belgium, Count Jean De Hemptlnne; Switzer land, Herman Buhler; Italy, Giorgie Mylius. The recommendation by. American members of the group on financing foreign credits and exports, that con gress place at the disposal of the war finance corporation sufficient funds to permit the corporation to extend the exportation of at least a million bales of cotton was adopted. It was point ed out that the government had au thorized the extension of $1,00,000,- 000 of credit to finance export, through the agency of the war finance corporation and it recommended the purchase, of foreign securities against debentures which would be issued and sold in this country in order to get away from short term banking credits -and stabtHre the~rate of ezc&Ange: Recommendations of the growers, embodying fourteen points, were voted against in the objection of cer tain groups to several of the points. It was agreed finally, however, that the rules be suspended and that points in the growers’ recommendation not previously killed at the general com mittee meeting be voted on. As a re sult all points in the growers’ recom mendation were adopted with the ex ception of those condemning the sale of cotton on call, favoring gin com pression, condemning gambling in cot ton and other necessities, recommend ing that there should consist only of the actual weight of the bagging and ties of the bale and urging closer co operation between the grower and spinner. Foreign spinners objected to the condemnation of the sale of cotton on call, declaring it was necessary that they should be allowed to purchase their cotton in that way. -The ginners group objected to the gin compression recommendation. Because “gambling” wah not defined the bankers’ group voted against that feature of the re commendation, explaining that the futures market was a necessary part of the cotton industry and that deal ing in cotton futures had often been classed as gambling. The recommendations of the grow ers’ committee which were unani mously approved after a suspension of the rules follow: Diversification of crops urged. ^ Country damaged recognized as an inexcusable economic loss. Storage warehouses urged. Twelve more marketing systems for farmers recommended. Formation of the American export financing porporation endorsed. Tagging of each bale with the name and address of grower urged. Opposed price-fixing by govern ment f Opposing embargo and restrictions on cotton in times of peace. ,.' , ——V—■ Demanding a price for cotton cov ering cost of production and allowing a fair profit It was after an agreement was reached to suspend the rules that a number of British delegates left the hall. The report that the delegates from England had bolted the con- # * ference was circulated among the delegates, but was later disproved when Dr. John A. Todd of London ex plained that only about six of the eighty-three deleigates had left the hall and that they went out to confer off the matter pertaining to a resolu tion. A recommendation by the grhwers that all revenue taxes be removed The' Civic Improvement Association will hold an important meeting in the Public Library room, Tuesday after noon, October 28th, at 4:30 o’clock. Ar rangements must be completed for the bazaar, which this Association will hold on November 7-8th. Discussion of plans for betterment of schools and improve ment of school buildings will be re sumed. The Civic Committee will out line some plans they have in view which will, if accepted, go far to pmke Clinton ‘‘a city beautiful.” New books for the public library will be purchased soon, and will be discussed at that time. Surely every woman in Clinton is in terested in the w*orkj outlined above, at least in some phase' of it; then all of you come to Library on Tuesday after noon, the 28th, and give us the benefit of your judgment on questions pertain ing to the happiness and uplift of your self and your children, which will come through the medium of improved .school surrtrtrmliiTgs, gffotf boolts amTcTean city streets. It is hoped that every inan, woman and child in Clinton willat- tend the Lyceum Course, which has been secured through the instrument ality of Civic Improvement Association, the first lecture of which course will be rendered in Auditorium of Thornwell Memorial Chapel on Wednesday even ing, Oct. 22nd. MRS. R. D. BRYSON, Press Correspojident, C. I. A. BELGIANS «NJOY JOURNEY ACROSS Popular Passengers on the George Washington. New York( Oct. 14.--Klng Albert and Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium, af ter a week at sea, on their way to America became ( the (most popular persons on board the George Washing ton, If It is possible to except that quiet, modest, likeable boy whom they call Prince Leopold, hair apparent to the Belgian throne. Each had some personal contact with officers and men, and in every quarter the opinion was expressed that while maintaining their official dignity tney were, as one Southern jackle expressed It, “mighty good folks.” One warm afternoon the king with Admiral Ixmg, Captain McCauley and f member of his suite wsH plftying “deck tennis.” All the meu were ex perts at the game, and the play was so close the king manifested the deep est Interest At length it came the king’s turn to serve, and, looking the field over, he removed his douse of a lieutenant general, and resumed play in his shirt sleeves. It happened that an official photographer was handy, and the scene was preserved for pos terity. Queen Elizabeth Is an accomplished photographer, and has taken many photographs since coming on board. She knows light effects, position and all thq other things which most ama teurs lack, and while in Brussels keeps one man pretty busy developing and printing her piotures. During 1 the games between the king and his friends she got a number of snaps and was herself photographed one _day while she focused her camera-on the royal party,. It was apparent from the beginning of the voyage that the queen was not to appear prominently in the news re ports, it being made known to the correspondents that she did not par ticularly care for publicity of the int mate sort. But she did not hide her, self, going to all parts of the ship and manifesting the liveliest interest.In the sailors and soldiers. In company with her lady In wait ing, Countess Carman-Chlmay, she visited the sickbay, and expressed her .sympathy for the men who were ill. Her experience in th Belgian hos pitals during the war told her the sick bay was ideally equipped and splen didly conducted, and she congratulat ed the medical force in charge. In her apartments the queen main tained the atmosphere of her home, and one of the officers who dined with the royal family said of It afterwards: "It was just like going into the home of any other well bred family. The king and queen made us feel at ease, and in five minutes we were all chat tering away Just as wel would if we were at the table of one of our old friends. To me it seemed that these royal people of little Belgium were cultured and refined and very human. I will remember that dinner as one of the most pleasant experiences of my military life." One day on board, an officer having been selected to dine with the king from cotton seed oil products and markets enlarged was rejected by the conference, an adverse vote having been recorded by the textile manu facturers who announced they feared cotton would be raised more for seed than staple under conditions urged in the recommendation. $40.00 In Cash To Be Given Away By The Clinton Chronicle On December 24th. HERE’S WHAT YOU DO TO WIN IT Subscribe to The Chronicle or if you are already a subscriber come now and pay your subscription. With every $1.50 paid us we will issue a duplicate number ticket. Oir^ecember 24th7T919 a number will be drawn from a sealed box and the sub scriber holding the lucky number will be awarded the $40.00 Absolutely FREE. Subscribe-Renew Get busy today. Come to The Chronicle office and subscribe or move up your label. If you live out of town mail your subscription and we will forward your number. Here’s a chance to get your Christmas money FREE. Two Year Subscriptions or renewals will be accepted during this period at $2.50 instead of $3.00, the regular rate. SUBSCRIBE-RENEW-SAVE AND WIN. THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Over King & Little’s Grocery Store PETROGRAD’S FALL SEEMS VERY NEAR Russian City Last Night was Closely Invested by Anti-Bolshevik Forces. Trotsky is Defiant in Face of Defeat London, Oct. 18.—Petrograd tonight was so closely invested by the anti- Bolshevik forces, according to the lat est official advices that military ex perts expressed the belief that litUe short of a miracle could save the hard- pressed Bolsheviki. Indeed, one news paper dispatch reported General Yudenitch’s cavalry in the capital, but there is no confirmation of this. Neither had British official confirm ation been received of the reported surrender of the Kronstadt,, although AherWAv -officF states- Ttffff’The'Es TURNER BUILDING OPENING FRIDAY The formal opening of the new phanage, known as the Turner building, will be held Friday after noon from 4 to 6 p.’ rii., to which the friends of the institution and general public are invited. The opening was to be held two weeks ago but had to be postponed on ac count of some of the diningroom furniture not arriving in time. The missing equipment has arrived within the past few days and ev erything will be in readiness for the opening Friday afternoon when the’entire building will be thrown open for inspection for the first time. A Silver Shower for the dining room is to be held at this time, and, it is hoped that a num ber of contributions will be made by friends of the institution. — — ■ missed his invitation, and not knowing of the honor went as usual to the big mess room for his evening meal. He just eaten his fill when the courier came to tell him the royal family was awaiting him in the dining room. He had dined sumptuously, hut there was nothing else for it, and he had to eat another dinner. Queen Elizabeth won the hearts of the sailors when phe appeared at the games in honor of her son wearing one of the little round white hats the jackies like so well to wear in sum mer. She had draped it with a white veil, but through the gauze the sailors saw the mark of their rank, and they were immensely pelased. Prince Leopold saw all there was to see about the ship. He is still a stu dent at Eaton, but was given leave in order that "he might accompany his parents to America. He is a quiet, bright-eyed boy of 18, with a pleasant smile and a perfect command of Eng lish. He is fond of athletics, but ad mitted one day, while chatting with the correspondents on deck, that he is an expert in none. His eyes sparkled when asked what he most 'desired to see in America, and he promptly an swered the “Rocky Mountains and the delta of the Mississippi.” Prince Leopold has no position in the army, other than that of a private soldier in the Twelfth Infantry, the uniform of which he wears. His blouse is cut to the regulation, and on his sleeves is the numeral “12”. # When he has completed his classical educa tion in England, it is understood he will enter the Belgian military college, after which he will' be eligible to a commission. Until then, however, he is “Private, the Duke of Brabant.” WILSON CAN NOT RECEIVE ALBERT Belgian Royal Party be Guests of Vice President and Mrs. Marshall. — Washington, Oct. Hi.—Owing to thr illness of President Wilson, King Al bert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and their son, the Duke of Brabant, will not he entertained at the White House during their stay in Washington from October 27 to 30. They will be the guests instead of the Vice-Presi dent and Mrs. Marshall. Plans for the visit by the royal par ty were announced today in the state ment by Secretary Tumulty: “It is much regretted that the ill ness of the President will make it im possible for the President and Mrs. Wilson to receive the king and queen of the Belgians and the Duke of Bra bant as their guests. “During the visit of their majesties and his royal highness in Washington the Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall will act in the place of the President and Mrs. Wilson as hosts for the gov ernment of the United States. “Their majesties and his royal high ness, during their visit to Washing ton, will occupy the residence of the third assistant secretary of state.” BOLL WEEVIL SPREADS. Line Now Runs Through Calhoun Falls, Columbia and Sumter. Clemson College, Oct. 15.—During the last two weeks no boll weevil maps have been issued by the South Carolina Crop Pest Commission owing to the fact that the line would not have been good after twenty-four hours. Requests for map?, therefore, have been answered by sending to those correspondents the various points in the state through which the wbevil line passes according to the i last telegraphic report from the in spector. T)»e line at this time runs through Calhoun Falls, through a point about ten miles above Columbia and Sumter, and no one knows how much further this line will have advanced by the time this report reaches the readers. The conditions for weevil migration have been the best possible, due prin cipally to the fact that cotton stopped fruiting, and since the squares formed the weevil’s preferred food, migration began in search of squares. Permits for the shipiftent of seed and hulls have been withheld over a ians Friday, operating in conjunction with Yudenitch, got within four miles of the Krasnal Korks, facing Kron stadt. Thus Kronstadt would be in a dangerous position, as with the char acter of Petrograd, it w r ould he cut off. " Coincident with these reports comes a vitrolic announcement -by Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik war minister, referring to the anti-Bolshevik forces as a “pack of bourgeois curs worry ing the body of the Soviet Russia,” and declaring that Petrograd will not fall. In the meantime, in the south Gen eral Denikine has been pursuing his successors, hut has been meeting with strenuous resistance in the Orel re gion, where the fiercest fighting is going on. , The following description of the situation in the Baltic Is attributed to Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik minister of iwar, by a wireless message from Moscow: “A pack qf bourgepis curs is worry ing the body of Soviet Russia on all sides. Polish knights are gnashing their teeth. The German General Von Der Goltz, under instruction by the stock exchange and the offscourings of all lands, is seizing the Baltic coun- ~try with"' the T^p'of monarchist’s bands in order to attack Moscow from there. “In the northwest, the blood-drunk en trio, Yudenitch, Balakovltch and Redzianko, are advancing on Petro grad. The Esthonia peace negotia tion served as a means to lull the red Petrograd troops and as soparlfic. ‘♦The army defending the ap proaches to Petrograd failed to with stand the first blow, and danger has again come to Petrograd. The Eng lish and French radio stations an nounce with joy the fact of our fail ures ou the road to Petrograd. The stock exchange and the press of the whole world are sharing the Joy and predicting the speedy fall of Petro grad. But they are wrong this time. “For the defense of the first town of the Proletarian revolution sufficient strength will be found In the peasants and the workers of the land' Yuden itch’s successes are those of a cavalry raid. Troops are being sent to the as sistance of Petrograd and the Petro grad -workers, who rose first of all. We must break the skulls of Yuden- itch’s bands and the Anglo-French imperialists.” FIGHT ON mVi IN FINAL ROUND Hope Lost of A tucking Amendments, Opposition Tans to Reservations. Lodge Says Latter Certain to Sde- ■v eeed. . Washington, Oct. 19.—The long treaty fight in the senate is about to enter its final phase. Leaders hope during the coming week to clear away all proposed amendments and make substantial progress in the framing of a ratification resolution^ TEACHING AT COLLEGE. It is announced by Dr. D. M. Douglas that Dr. Dudley Jones, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, has been se cured to teach part of the Bible el asses at the college for this year. t> President Douglas had hoped to se cure an additional member of the faculty but finds that it will he im possible to secure the professor he has in view until next September. In the meantime. Dr. Jones has taken part of the Bible course and has entered upon the work. X ' . , DR. RE AVIS COMING. Dr. J. O. Rea vis. member of Co lumbia Theological Seminary fa- culty, will preach in the First Pres- wide latitude in the eastern part of i bvterian church of this city on the state. The commission fears to go as near the line as has been cus tomary on acount of the great activi ty of the pest and the Necessity of using every precaution to protect free territory which would not be reached 1 by the weevil this year. It is for this reason that the commission has been so conservative in issuing permits for shipments to the mills in the north ern part of the state. * Sunday morning, Nov. 2nd. In the afternoon he will addre.4< the yong men of the college Y. M. C. A. Dr. Reavis comes here upon the invitation of the Presbyterian College and will be heard by un usually large congregations since he is quite a favorite with tho Clin ton people. ""'Virtually^ conceding that no amend ments will be adopted, the opposition managers are determined to qualify the ratifying resolution with reserva tions and Senator Lodge, the Republi can leader, declared in a statement tonight that a decisive majority would stand for reservations that would he “unequivocal and effective.” Privately, the opposition leader de clared Mr. Lodge’s claim was backed by an understanding amounting virtu ally to a complete agreement among all of the forty nine Republican and six Democratic members to stand to gether for a resolution evolved after many weeks of conferences. It was said not all of the details had been agreed upon, though on general prin ciples and in some razes on phrase ology itself the fllty-five senators had be?n brought very close together. How far the remaining forty-one senators will go in their opposition to reservations is an uncertain question even in the minds of some of their leaders. They have stood unswervingly through the long fight for President Wilson’s program of a ratification that would not require the treaty’s resub mission to the other powers. But it is for the President himself to decide finally -whether any reservations as adopted require such resubmission, and his illness has left the adminis- tration leaders somewhat in the- dark. There have been intimations that should reservations unacceptable to the administration, be put*into the ratification .resolution, the adminis tration forces would vote “no” on the ratification roll call, but their lead ers are not ready to say how they will cross that bridge until they come to it. It would take only thirty three votes to prevent ratification. In his statement tonight Senator Lodge declared opponents of reserva tions would be responsible for any further delay in senate action, indi cating that the whip would be ap plied to hold down debate. Quick action is a slogan of the administra tion forces, but how far the leaders of the two parties can go in stemming the tide of talk is very uncertain. Their hope is to get started tomorrow on the last of the committee amend ments proposing equalization of vot ing, power in the league of nations, and to dispose of them within a day or two; ~ ~ — Senator Lodge’s statement, made public after he had talked over the situation with a number of Repub lican and (Democratic ateservationsi follows: “Decisive majority of the senate will vote for reservations attached to the resolution of ratification, which will protect the peace, safey, sovereignty and’independence of the United States. “The one object of these senators is to Americanize the treaty and they believe that by so doing they will also serve the cause of general peace of the world. Whatever delay there may be in final aotion upon the treaty will be caused by those who are resisting the Americanization of the treaty by proper reservations, reservations at once unequivocal and effective.” The two amendments for equaliza tion of voting strength in the league may be Considered together for the sake of e>pcditioL, though it is thought more likely thai the one pro posed by Senator Johnson, Republi can, California, to give the United States six votes In the league assembly will be taken up first The other is by Senator Moses, Republican. New Hampshire, and would prevent British dominions from sitting in the league council. About three hours' work remains to finish the formal readjusting of the treaty text; it Is the purpose to take up the wo amendments immediately afterwards. A vote may come Tues day or Wednesday and the general prediction is that bath of the -pro posals as well as other amendments to be offered by individual senators later will he defeated. ^