Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

HEALTH INSTITUTE . TO OPEiJ JANUARY "THE GREAT DISEASE SCOURGES OF SOUTH CAROLINA WILL > BE DISCUSSED." _ / uABEFULLVIjELECIEO FACULTY , X- - Will Place Scientific Information Concerning Health Before People, > Says Dr. Aiken. Columbia. "The public; health institute to be ?eld in Columbia Janury 9-14 is the most pretent.ous effort ever mde in - - - ? ?nrro<.t CPIprttlflC tms state ior iMamif, ? information concerning health matters before the people," said Dr. C. V. Akin. "This institute." continued Dr. Akin, ""will be just what the name implies, a school of public health. The faculty of this institute has been carefully selected from among men and women prominent in the professions of medicine and public health administration end the fruits of their knowledge and v experience will be given in the abunexperience iwll be given in abundance to those who attend the lectures. "The courses of instruction to be given represent a liberal education in sanitary knowledge. The program should appeal not only to physicians and nurses and social workers but to thinking people in all walks of life who are interested in their own welfare and in the advancement and protection of the communities in which they live. "The great disease scourges of m South Carolina, tuberculosis, cancer, the venereal diseases, malaria, and the infections which annually kill and disable so many of the babies and young children of this state, will be discussed by masters of these sub jects. It will not be possible to place a copy of the institute program in the bands of every interested person in South Carolina hut programs and full information will be sent to anyone requesting them by the d'reetor of the institute whose dffice is 513 I'almettc building. Columbia. / Much Work for Legislature. The approaching session of the gem eral assembly, will be devoted to -a number of fights on various legislative matters, the biggest effort probably being the attempt to enact several proposed new revenue bills to Teduee the present taxes on visible prdperty. An effort for tax reform has already been started. Among the. new revenue bills that are considered'almost certain of passage is the gasoline tax measure. It was passed by the house at the last session, but continued until 1022 in the senate. An inheritance and income tax are also being proposed and may pass, but the income tax is expected to encounter a stiff tight in the senate where it was held up in committee rooms at the last session. ; It is unders*ood that the new measures will be given an impetus by the governor, who is expected to call a conference of leaders early in Janu ary and go over the measures. The chief magistrate, it is indicated, will ' call the joint legislative committee on investigation, the twd finance Pom mitte?s of the genera' assembly and possif.lv other conimtttees togemei prior to the convening of the legisla ture for a general discussion on the new revenue bills. Reduction on Farm Products. Freight rates in South Carolina on live stock and all farm products, ex cept cotton,, cotton re gins and cotton linters. will he reduced 10 per cent under the terms of an order announc ed by the state railroad commission the reduction order being effectiv< January 16. Cotton, coton r?-gins and cotton linters are not included in the hlanket reductions only because the rates on these commodities have but recently been reduced to what the commission considers at present a Just rate. Mav Train at Camp Jackson. Hope for the establishment at Camr Jackson by the veterans' bureau of a vocational training university receiv ed considerable stimulus recently when a letter was received by Kdwir W. Robertson from the secretary o! war to the effect that the use of the camp was now under consideration. As is generally known the veterans bureau intends to establish several training centers over the country and Charles F. Forbes, director of the bu reau. has already inspected several proposed sites. License Plates Begin to Arrive. The first shipment of automobile license plates for 1922 delivery was received by the state highway depart ment. In preparation for issu'ng the new licenses the highway department f; sending out application cards to all owners of machines registered this year. These application cards contain all the necessary da'a for re-n-gistra tinn and nil the ownnr will have to dc will be to put the necessary "cash" in an envelop and mail th? card to the highway department. Heads of Colleges to Meet. A meeting of the hpad* of all male , ,.]i. ./Pc 0f South Carolina will he held in Greenwood in January, at a date tc lv> .irranerd later, to discuss matters of mutual interest to the schools. The recently adapted one year rule for f-oshmen of the Southern Interoollegi : association wil come up for tl's cmsion at this meeting, it is und?r stood A number of the smaller col l?res are oppose*! to the one year rule for freshmen and propose to pe ?:Mon the assocition to repeal it. ot to withdraw from the association. Decrease in v^iua. An increase of i-i.81G.209 in the ii vested capital in co.ton mills in Sout Carolina for 1921 over 1920 and a d' crease of 127.1S2.SG3 in the value c the annual pre duct of the mills fc 1921, as compared with 1920. are tw striking facts brought out in the ai nual report of the labor division of th department of agriculture. This report has just been compile by A. H. Gibert. Jr., chief inspector ( the department, and will be submi tod to Commissioner Harris for th regular report. An increase in the number of en ployes in cotton mills is also show for this year with 55,058, as compare with 54.529 employed in 1920 and 51 462 in 1919. Total wages paid for th year. December, 1920, to Decembe 1921, amounted to $34,848,358, as con pared with $51,032,998 in 1920 an $36,677,388 in 1919. These wages dl not include salaries of managers. In 1919 the cr.pital invested in a cotton mills was $117,177,166 and i | 1920 the amount was $140,343,84 | while this year the figures advance | to $145,290,056. The value of the ai I nual products of the mills in 191 I fOOOOIOOCn nnrl {n 1Q9ft it VL'C 1912. relating to work of children i factories, mines and textile establis I ments be amended so as to prescril a penalty for employing children wit out a state permit from the commi sioner of agriculture, commerce ar industries, the penalty to be not lei i tha? $25, nor more than $100 for eat and evrey offense. "That Section 424. criminal cod I 1912. limiting the hours of labor f< s children in factories, etc.. to read n< less than $25 nor more than $100 fi I each and every offense, or to be it ' prisoned not longer than 30 days t the discretion of the court. "That Section 428, criminal cod factories to be provided with suitab water closets, to be amended to ret not less than 25 nor more than $11 i "That the messenger boy act (40 acts of 1912) be amended as follow! i That children under 16 years of a) . be prohibited from working as nev boys, messengers in mercantile esta . lishments. i "To amend an act entitled hours i I labor for women in mercantile esta * lishments. Section 430. criminal cod i 1912, to read as follows: That tl t hours of labor for women in merea > tile establishments be limited to ! i hours per week and not more tha ten hours in one day. Charleston Man Wins in Debate. > Joseph Horowitz of Charleston, d t bating the affirmative side of tl nuery. "Resolved: That the Unite ' States should recog-nize the presei i Russian government." won the annu f Roddey medal debate between tl Euphradian and the Clarisophic lite ary societies at the University < South Carolina. Mr. Horowitz was I representative of the Clarisophic s I cietv. W. C. Floy dof Newberry, the neg I tive representative of the Euphradis society, was given second place. Fine War Record. J South Carolina's First regiment i National Guard now becomes the Oi Hundred and Eighteenth infantry < the Thirtieth division, an organizatic that fought with great ga'lantrv ! ! the world war. Under ordets of tl I. war department and an agreemei i reached some time ago. all Notion; i Guard units are to be renamed f< units of old world war organizaHc! i to preserve the name and historv i i these organizations and the One Hu dred and Eighteenth infantry was a stened to South Carolina Nursing Force Has Good Year. 1 At the present time the bureau i I child hygiene and public health nur > ing. under the supervision of Mr i Ruth Podd. has a staff of 42 nurse . thoto sunnorted by varioi ' agencies. County appropriations hn> been made in 11 counties. Local R? Cross chanters contribute to the su port of 16 nurses and seven are er ployed hv cotton mills. Other age cies rendering support are the Metr Dolitan Life Insurance company, t berculosis committees, chambers < commerce women's clubs. Wits MtfVIV auu IU awwv ?v 286 158.142. while this year it dropne to $158,065,179. The number of estal Ushments in 1919 was 174 and in 192 the number was 1S4, while in 1921 th number dropped to 180. Another fact brought out in the r port is that in 1919 the average nun her of days plants were operated wa 296 and n 1920 the number was 2S and thsvyear 271. The number < males under 16 years1 of age emplo; ed n thejnlls was 1.774 n 1919, l,*f n 1920 and 1.418 n 1921. The numb( cf females employed under 16 yeai of age was 1.511 n 1919, 1,471 n 192 and 1,336 n 1921. As a result of factory inspection i v,? ctau Via mimltpr nf r-hildren er ' ployed in the mills has greatly d creased year by year until none und< 14 years of ape is now allowed I work, while the number between 1 and 16 years of ape has decrease ' from 5.229 Jn 1916 to 2.987 in 192 This decrease has ben made despil the tremendous increase in the nur I her of spindles. Figures compiled t I Chief Inspector Gibert show that i steady decrease in the employment < children has taken place since 19( when the number between 14 and 3 years old was 4,412 and between, 3 ' and 14 it was 8,876 and under 12 yea: i of age 726. Since 1912 no children u I der 12 have been employed and sin< 1917 none under 14 years has b&n er i ployed. 1 Several changes in existing lav are favored for next year and ne laws are also recommended in tl report. Among the new laws recor mended are a ^minimum wage sea! for women, a workmen's compens: tion act and a change of the presei law so as to make the hours of lab< not more than ten in any one day ( 55 hours in any week. The recor mendations are as follows: "That Section 421 of the crimini code. Volume 113*Code of Laws < South Carolina, relating to hours < work in cotton and woolen mills t amended so as to prohibit employ* from working more than ten hours i one day and not more than 55 houi in one week. Continn iOfi rriminal cod 1 d h- 1?Yankee doughboy bidding ;0 was leaving Coblenz for home. 10 Dirigible Roma, purchased from I' : news review of i current event: ;r 1 France's Excessive Demands fi Submarines Block Agree2 ment on That Topic. e I MR. BALFOUR'S PLAIN TAl d te Use of Submersibles Against Coi n. merce May Be Forbidden?Irisi^j >y People Urge Ratification of a Peace Treaty?Longer Oc3f cupation of Haiti Con^ sidered Necessary. 16 12 By EDWARD W. PICKARD rs PRANCE'S conception of her nee n* " in tlie way of n defensive na ;0 and the firmness with which her del n" gates upheld their position broug about a complete deadlock in t! 8 Washington conference last week ai w made it almost certain that no agrf ie% ment will be readied by the prese j1" gathering concerning the reductU and limitation of submarines and an a" lliary naval tonnage. The other po1 ers participating in the conferen were willinir to concede the fairne of the French position concerning tl reduction of Iier land armament, b j they feel that In this naval matt ' ^ France Is demanding too much. Albert Rarraut, having recelv* )e fresh Instructions from Taris, to ,a the naval committee that France, a in cepted the allowance of 17o,000 to r9 of capital ships, contingent upon ja mission ta begin replacement btilldli e> In 1927 Instead of 1931. hut Insist' in* that she be allowed 90.000 tons jj. submersihles and 330.000 tons of an )Q lliar.v ships. The submarine tonna fj. he asked Is equal to the maxima 8. proposed by Mr. Hughes for Ore ,<j Rritain and the United States ai 3S three times what France now has. Mr. Balfour, In language as pin as diplomatic usage permits, retort' 6i that France could want such a subm 3r rine fleet for no other purpose thi ot Illegal uf\e against commerce, that t! 3r plnti was a direct threat again n. Great Britain, and that In the circui at stances the British would agree to l limitation In the building of crulsei e, destroyers Rnd other antl-suhmarl le vessels. To M. Sarrauf's assertl id that British fears of French aggrt 10 slon were baseless since Britain w 5f allowed a capital ship tonnage great j: than that of France and Italy coi r6 bfned, Mr. Balfour replied that,< in r i*s event of war between Great Britn b- and France, England, having no lar army, could not strike at the heart of France, hut France, employing a pre b- navv of submarines against onmmer< e, could destroy the "very existence" ie Britain. To the layman It would sef n- that Mr. Balfour had the best of t 55 debate, but M. Rnrrnut was unvlel in lng. Therefore Mr. Hughes, deplorl the attitude of the French, r nounced with regret that an agn ment on the reduction and llmftntl e- of submarine and auxiliary tonnn ie appeared impossible. ?d rjESPlTK this, the naval commltt U reached other agreements 16 great importance which it was } r' sullied the conference would confii in its next plenary session. One a these limits the caliber of capil ?" ship guns to lfi Inches. Another w that the use of submarines agair commerce be barred. The latter. lD the form of a resolution drafted Kliliu Root as an established part International law, is as follows: "The signatory powers, desiring make more effective the rules adopt ie by civilized nations for the protect! of the lives of neutrals and nonco hatants at sea In time of war. decla 10 that among those rules the foilowl ie are to l>o deemed an established pi of international law: a' "1. A merchant vessel must he i dered to stop for visit and search 13 determine its character before it e I be captured. a" I "A merchant vessel must not he i 8" tacked unless ft refuses to stop I visit and search after warning. "A merchant vessel must not he ( * OPPOSE IDEA OF CARNIVAL 9. 3' German Government Appealed To ,s Forbid the Usual Pre-Lent Mere rymaking in Cities. >d P" Berlin.?The fSerman governnif n* has been asked to forbid the amn n' pre-I.ent carnivals which for four dti are held In virtually every South <! u' man and Ithlneland city. Compla Is made that the carnival Is "too fr clous and, furthermore, has a tender to impoverish the population whl I vwi77fnrrri-. : ? * ..-..... v* *./... .. .wi^A.w;<..v-..,..\..... his German sweetheart farewell as first detat 2?Prince of Wales replying to municipal taly, arriving at Boiling Field, Washington. - stroyed unless the crew and passen- th % gers have been first plnced In safety. pi ,(2. Belligerent submarines are not. in _ nmior nnv eir^nmstnnees. exemnt from th Stlie universal rules above stated; and pr If a submarine cannot capture a mer- At chant vessel in conformity with these N< rules the existing law of nations re- M jp quires it to desist front attack and P? front capture and to permit the mer- ke chant vessel to proceed unmolested." IIJ President Harding is not disheartened by the failure to reach an agree- ini ment on submarines, but hopes that if ati neeessury the conference will arrange m< for another parley at an early date all to further consider that and other St questions of armament limitation and Cf that all nations maintaining navies lei will be Invited to participate. He re- dr cards it as unfitting "that five na- ly, Hons should set out to legislate for ac the whole world." . ac th CONSIDERABLE progress was made in settling the Chinese puzzles. Mr. Underwood's compromise plan for ('s the Chinese tariff was accepted by all V"J' the powers.. This provides for an Iinmediate increase in *^riff of 5 per ht cent ad valorem, a future Increase to ',e per cent, and un increase to 121? 1(I per cent when the provincial tariff is 8C >e* abolished. It may be three or five Ka n* years before the increase to 7*4 per ^ t>n cent-goes into effect, since Japan and ^ India require time to adjust their In- in (V* dustries. Pr ce Apparently the deadlock between 1,1 ss China and Japan concerning Shantung to 'ie was complete, and it was said there 0,1 ut would be American and British offers 1? er of mediation this week. But from *n Tokyo came the assertion by "high 'U1 cd officials" that Japan had gained her iu main point ana tne wiioie uispute ic- probably would be settled soon. Wlien C ns China agreed to negotiate with Japan ^ >r- for the purchase of the railwny, it eo ug was asserted, she acknowledged Ja- in ed pnn'R right in the road won from of of Cermany. Clilna's offer of treasury lie x- notes in payment for the railway does n>< ge not suit Tokyo as China lias lieen un- th im able to pay similar notes outstanding, co at Japan wants payment by a bond is- vli ad sue, which would prolong her control isi of the railway until cash for the 10 In bonds could be gathered by the Chi- pr ed nese. he la- An organization of non-Rolshevlk ad fin Russians has appealed to the confer- of he ence to consider the situation in east- sa ist ern Siberia before adjourning. In the th ai- brief submitted Japan Is accused of is no political and strategic aims in Siberia, pr rs. tb nf> r>AIL EIREANN during its recess cu nn has been hearing from many Sinn >s" Fein clubs and other organizations of ns southern Ii eland, and in every In- C pr stance, so far as known, has been ["* urged to ratify the Irish peace treaty, mi Investigators report that fully 90 per In, 'n cent of the people in the island?ex- se cepting Ulster?are in favor of ac- th cepting the pact. The English press on n* is confident it will be ratified, and the co -e" British authorities at Whitehall are In; of busily working out the details of plans ar >rn for the immediate banding over of the in '1P government of the island to the new fe Irish provisional government. nr 112 r\r*rvA tlinco momhors nf thp 1ft' OU91 IU |M vnj IHV.7V . ? in" Pall who still oppose the treaty, Pre- gl >p" niier Lloyd Oeorge Inst week Issued a P< r,n statement to the effect that the Brit- qv p0 ish government had gone to the ut- he most limit, and that not only the re- S< jectlon of the treaty, hut even its da ee alteration by the Pall would render of it. null and void. "To reopen the dis- q is- cusslon," said lie. "which has been O mi closed only alter the most exhaustive n, of consideration of every point, would fe ml be a fruitless proceeding and is Imas possible." rn ist 111 In BEAT BRITAIN'S two other fam- te by vJ lly rows?In India and Egypt?are 7.11 of quieting down somewhat, though the so conditions are had in both countries, ap to Numerous arrests and the influence of re ed Mnhatma (Ihnndl are serving to dl- tr on ininlsh the rioting In India, where the co m- prince of Wales goes on his festive "I re way little disturbed. In the Indian bj ng nationalist congress at Ahmedahad an of irt effort was made to force the adoption T,; of a motion that complete independ- wi r>r- ence from the British empire sltould er to he attained by "possible and proper re an means," hut flliandl and his support- rn ers frustrated this and the wording ut- "legitimate and peaceful means" was A 'or adopted. 01 it ts Interesting to learn that a | d< Ic- Christinas message to Tlie Indian na- | or ? | cannot refrain from participating." i rr I Hiring these carnivals the whole ! te to population of country and city parade 1 lie streets, dance, throw confetti, blow It! whistles and feast. It is necessary to lo i purchase tickets for the restaurants ?nt In advance, and all stores are closed til ml for the four days. tli ivs "It is Impossible to keep aloof from er- the merriment of these carnivals." said int a resident of Cologne, where tiie tner- tli Iv- riest of tiie merry carnivals once was tf icy I held. "The people dress up fnntas- ,v< ch J tically and celebrate with utter dis- tl . * { j3Kj^j&^~ ^ I -.1... ^ | hnient of army of occupation address at Bombay, India. 3? nalists, In the forin of n poster dlsnyeil In many cities, pledged Amernn aid for the campaign to oyerrow British rule In India. This eeious document was signed by 44 nerlcans,, among thpm Senntors >rrls of Nebraska and Walsh of assacliusetts, Congressman Burke of mnsylvania, Mayor Hoan of Milwau e and former Governor Dunne of inols. Rioting In various parts of Egypt, eluding Cairo, Port Said, Alexandria id Suez, followed the forcible reoval of Snld Zougloul Pasha, nationIst leader, and others from Cairo to lez, whence they may be taken to \vb?n. A number of the natives were lied and wounded by troops and huneds of arrests were made. Nominal, of course, this Egyptian revolt is alnst the saltan's government, but tuall.v It Is against the British, for e sultan does always what the itish high commission advises. \XE wonders whether President ' Harding Is not already repenting s Christmas mercy in freeing Eugene ?bs from prison. From the moment his release the Socialist leader has en emitting a steady stream of ntlmental bunk, disgusting to all ve those who believe, like Debs, at all prisons should be abolished, at lawbreakers should be petted stead of punished, and that the oletarlat can do no ^rong. With e expressed intention of starting out obtain from every man, woman id child in the world a pledge never take up arms, he yet gives exnngant praise to the Russian revotlonlsts, who have slain hundreds of ousands. ENATOR M'CORMICK and his associates of the committee which ngress sent to Investigate conditions Haiti will recommend occupation the Island by American marines as cessary to the peace and develop?nt of the Island. It will also ask e appointment of an American high mmlssloner to co-ordinate and superse the work of the American adminrntors created by the treaty of 15. jxnd expedition In making the oposed new loan so that the debt Id In Europe may he discharged on Ivantageous terms and the claims Haitians against their government tlsfied. One of the greatest needs of e island, says Senutor MeCormick, good roads. This Includes the reiblic of Santo Domingo, where also e committee holds the American ocpaMon must be continued for the esent. 1HILK last week accepted Rent's * proposal that the two governents send plenipotentiaries to v"ashgton to continue negotiations Ira ttlement of their disputes, and Fern en suggested that each nation first hie to Secretary Hughes asking the >nsent of the United Stafes for holdg the negotiations In Washington, id also asking that President Hardg act as final arbitrator of all dlf renees Derwpyi me iwv cwumncn, appeal from his derisions helng alwed. Bolivia Is Insisting that Chile ve her an outlet to the Pnelflc, and >ru offers her help In settling that lestlon. So the war cloud that has en hanging over the west coast of >uth America Is getting thinner illy. KXATOR I.A FOLLETTK of WIs1 consln has come out with the rearkahle statement that a secret conrence was held in Washington Deniher 9 hy representatives of the ilroads and of the coal, steel and tnher interests, and that they atmpted to obtain from farm organltlon lenders, and did obtain from tne such leaders, adherence to an [reeinent not to push legislation to penl the guaranty section of the nnsportntioii act and to restore state ntrol of state transportation rates, f the farmers of the country abide the agreement entered Into by a few their representatives." said Senator t Follette. "the railroad interests ill defeat the united demand of fartns in every section of the country for j lief from the present extortionate ilrond rates." James It. Howard, president of the , merlonn Fare? Bureau Federation. I ie of those n.-rincd by the senator, ' mies that there was "anything secret j unholy" about the conference. card for strangers. A gloomy connnance Is the cue fur a boinba'dment! confetti or ribboned paper, until | s owner laughs and Joins the frolkers." The complainants declare this Is no mo for .frivolity in (Serum ny. ami idt it would waste money which will sorely needed. A number of municipalities forbade ie carnivals last year, but prepnraons for scores of celebrations this >ar prompted the n'ppeal direct to ie central government. NEWS BRIEFLY TOI DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT ^ PENINGS GATHERED FRON OVER THE WORLD. fOR THE MSY REAI Th? Occurrences Of Seven Days 0 In An Epitomized Form For Quick Reading Foreign? The Bank of Italy, at Rome, pended following the announce! of the government permitting a i fled moratorium. Lenine told the Russian congres cently it was necessary to maintf standing army, whereupon the gress extended him a vote of c dence. The German railway strike is idly spreading and threatens to come a general iridustrial / demon tion, according to latest advices Berlin. Dr. Howard B. Gross of the R< teller institute died at Vera ( Mexico, a victim of yellow feve France's determination to ha< powerful fleet and objections to limitation efforts of the Washir conference wece vigorously voice the senate during a discussion ol marine section of the governm 1 1 4. uuugei. So hard put is Austria in me< her obligations to the allies thai reparations commission has alii the government to mortgage the ous Gobelin tapestries at Vienna other art objects of high value in < to obtain credit. Nine hundred and seventy-one A lean soldiers, twenty-two officers an overseas casual detachment thirty-eight men and sixteen des former soldiers left Coblenz for werp. i Demonstrations apparently - pr< that the Irish people overwhelm favor ratification of the peace ti with England are reported throug the south of Ireland during the ho intermission of the dail eireani bate. The authorities are taking s( measures to prevent the congreg of riotous crowds at Suez and an cial notice has been posted that i military airplanes observe bombs will drop smoke bombs, and if assembly does not then disperse will drop shells and fire machine j The French chamber of dep gave the Briand government a lease of life by the substantial jority of 177 at the close of a day debate over the failure last mer of the Industrial Bank of C The reparations commission at Is has decided to hold a special sion'to hear poctor Fischer chai 6t the German war debt commie and other German orriciais wno come from Berlin for oral discus with the commission concerning many's reparations obligations. Lieut. John Bigelow Dodge, ste of Lionel George Guest, fourth s< Lord Wimborne, was arrested by shevik authorities as an alleged s British agent as he was about tc bark on an Italian steamship at B according to a London Times dis] from Constantinople. Rumors that Premiers Briand Lloyd-George have agreed to i certain members of the Soviet ernnient, including Litvinoff and eign Minister Tchitcherin to Lc early in February for an informa cussion on European economic lems are beginning to receive dence in London. Washington? William Randolph Hearst, the i paper publisher, was entertaine luncheon at the white house by ident Harding. The engagement not formally announced at the 1 house and was understood to been quite informal. When the statesmen and mil and naval chiefs of nations gi around the conference board to t the destinies of war and the uni states, another group of learned will convene in Washington ju few blocks away to determine the war wounds of this nation i best be staunched and its suff alleviated. American business houses exp< $4,189,343,000 in merchandise In first eleven months of this yeai cording to figures made public b; department of commerce, which gave imports for the period as vi at $2,271,797,000. In the same el months in 1920 exports totaled 607,729,000 and imports $5,012,42' Approval of 142 advances to b for agricultural and live stock 1 was announced by the war finance poration. The advances aggn $5,089,000 ancf include Georgia 000; Louisiana $7,000; Oklahoma ! 000; South Carolina $320,000; 1 $635,000; ftorth Carolina $65,000, Virginia $102,000. The public health service issu statement, in which "greater peri cleanliness" is urged for immigi in the future to safeguard this coi from infectious diseases. The justice department expect! ditional federal indictments ag many persons engaged in the bui! material industry in different par the country. Rear Admiral Charles Henry D retired, brother-ic law of Set Lodge, of Massachusetts, died al home at Washington. ?He was i tlve of Boston and 76 years of aj Germany's diplomatic and con: officers are pressing their prepara for hanging out their flag agai Washington. New York and othei ies. The new German consulat New York opens January 3. The attorney general announce will seek the aid of states' attor general in his campaign for price i justment. It Is anounced that upward of thousand bules of Egyptian cotton soon come into the United State direct shipment from Alexan Egypt. I Deaths from cancer In the death I registration area of the United States in 1920 totalled approximately 73,000, according to a report by the census 1AP. bureau, which on a basis of proportional population estimated the total of deaths for the entire country as 89.000. or an increase of 5,000 from the estimate for 1919. irn Senator Schanzer, head of the ItalJ?|| ian delegation to the Washington conference, visited Mount Vernon and delve* P?8,ted a wreath on the tomb of Washington. He was. received there by a representative1 of the American gov- * ernment, and in depositing the wreath said it was "an homage of the Italian people and of- the Italian delegates'* to the memory of George Washington sus- and "to the great nation that reveres tnent him as its founder." nodi- The American people spend from seven hundred and fifty million doli8 re- lars to one billion dollars a year to lin a see motion picture shows, the senate con- finance committee was told in the :onfi- course of arguments for and against a high tariff on foreign made picrap tures. The investment in the indus i be- try totals about $250,000,000 and emistra ployment is given to about 250,000 from persons. Under the tentative draft of an acke- agreement presented by Chairman UnCruz, derwood to the subcommittee of the r. Washington conference, which is .e a charged with revising the Chinese the tariff with a view to its yielding inigton creased revenue, China would be perid in mitted to levy an import duty of an t the effective 5 per cent for the present ent's and a 7 1/2 per cent duty at a later date to be decided upon, eting , owed Domestic? *am" Four bandits at Pearl River, N. Y., an shot and killed two bank employes and er escaped in an automobile. Former Governor Thomas Walter .mer- pickett, 52 years of age, suffered a an stroke of paralysis at his home at Ralof eigh. N. C. A origin of the fires in New York tenements, which imperilled many lives, is being investigated. Many he)V roic rescues were made during the lng y conflagrations. !h t Youngstown, Ohio, will have an of1 ?U. "cial "breath smeller" when the new ay mayor-elect goes into office. He will 1 smell the breaths of policemen every > four hours. }\ere pre(j jone8 12-year-old son of Clara ences Jones, architect, was almost instantly killed in front of his father's 1 the home at Chattanooga, Tenn., when run they over jjy a mo^or truck. 1 ' - l,,c R. G. Dun & Co. applied in federal v they court in New York for an injunction guns. restraining the Credit Guide Publishutie9 ing company from distributing its ron w vised rating book which, it is alleged, ma" was copied from Dun's reference book, two- prince Louis de Bourbon, who came 8um" to this country representing a syndi^na" cate seeking to stimulate trade bePar" tween this country and the Balkan ses" states, was hit by an auto in New rman an(j ja jn a hospital in that city, ,8ion' badly bruised. 1 have Eugene V. Debs, freed Socialist leads'0118 er, will be tendered a reception and ^er* be the central figure of a parade on his arrival at his home at Terrespson Haute jnd. according to plans per3n of fected at a mass meeting of union Po1* miners and Socialist leaders. ecret Cordell Hull, chairman of the Dem' em" ocratic national committee at Nash- , atum vi|je Tenn for the get-together Dempatch ocratjc banquet in his honor, said that f he would enter the race for his old and seat in the lower house of congress nv'te from the Fourth Tennessee district. "that the war loans made by the mdon United States t0 the allies should be 1 dis- "PrompUy and wholly cancelled" was .. urged by, Justice John H. Clarke of cre_ the Supreme court of the United States in an address at the weekly luncheon of the Cleveland, Ohio, chamber of , commerce. ? Refusing to prosecute his wife, who iewg_ shot him in both legs, a year ago, |d I in a fit of jealousy, John Henry Stout Preg_ of Sheffield, Ala., is himself now in jail at Richmond, Va., charged with white havin? gagged his wife and thrown / have her into a mill race, from which she was rescued by a policeman, litary Expanding activities of the federal ather courts may swamp them, and "delayihape i?g 1b a denial of justice," Chief Justy of 'tice William Howard Taft of the men United States Supreme court said in 18t a an address before the Chicago Bar how association, urging reforms to exponight dite court procedure, ering City Building Inspector Joseph E. Austin, Lawrence E. Carroll, manager orted of the Rialto theater, and Alfred S. i the Black, president of the Connecticut \ ac- Theater corportion. which owned the y the theater are held criminally res pons ialso ble for the deaths of nine persons in ilued the Rialto theater fire at New Haven, leven Conn., in a finding by Coroner Eli $7,- Mix. 1.000. Denial that there was anything ""so- / ' anks cret an^ unholy" at the Washington loans conference, December 9, attended by ; cor- members of the farm bureau, grange, jgato international congress, manufacturers, $25,- shippers and a representation of rail1122, roads, as charged by Senator LaFol'exas lette, was made by James R. Howard, and president of the American Farm Bu, reau federation, at Cleveland, es a With the American dollar selling at sonal a discount in one European country? rants Switzerland?American bankers are remtry ported to be planning to follow ths movement with gold exports to Ges ad- nevaainst : Finding of a body in the woods of Iding ; Mitchell county, which has been idents of tified as that of B. L. Harsell, wealriyr ! New York clubman and sportsman, avis, who has been missing since last April. / lator after leaving Roanoke, Va., to walk his 10 the northern Georgian line, was ret na- ported at Asheville, N. C., by private ge. detectives. sular Miss Lila Dale Russell, 23 yearr, of tions Albermarle, N. C., who disappeared n in from the south branch of the Young r cit- Women's Christian Association was e in found at a local hospital, at Baltimore, where she was admitted shortly after s he her disappearance, neys Democratic leaders from all sections read- of Tennessee were gathered at Nashville for the conference to be held at ten which plans were perfected for insure will ing party harmony in the campaigns s by of next year. The meeting was called dria, by the Democratic state executive committee. * , .