Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ , M ; 1 r m . i / FERTILIZER MILLS TRT TO RETRERGR OUTPUT TO BE REGULATED BY DEMAND AND ALSO BY ~ ABILITY TO PAY. FEW MILLS ARE IN OPERATION Factories Are Not Producing Beyond What is Required to Take Care of Current Business. Charleston—With several more or less perplexing factors entering into the situation, the outlook for the fer tiliser industry in Charleston, as well as in the South generally, is regarded as problematical, but on the whole it can be stated tahat this Industry, 'Which is one of Charleston's most im portant, has passed the worst period of the depression which struck it with full force last year, and is now groping its way to a more hopeful condition. One local fertilizer* man is of the opinion that the business this year will in volume be approximately the same as last year, when Just about half the normal business was done. The session of fertilizer shipments usually commences here about Janu ary 1 to January 15, but this year it Is not expected to open until at least February 1. With few exceptions, the local factories have been closed since last March, a few being temporarily in operation now The factories have adopted a very conservatice policy in manufacturing and are producing not beyond what is required to take care of current business It has been a number of months since acid phos phate. one of the most Important of fertilisers, has be*n manufactured and If the demand for this product is as great as last yejir. there is likely to be a shortage. The atorks on hand at present In the factories consist si- moat entirely of raw products.. The business this season will b« mgalated by two main factors—the demand for fertilisers and credit standing of those who would pur chase A number of fanners tried last year eto dispense with the fer tilisers. bat the unsatisfactory results am ax parted to bring soil foods bark to the use On the other band, some tarpiers owing to the boll weevil sit nation win probahlv nbt wish to re- qnlre the usual .fertiliser There Is Urns uncertainty existing, but from the standpoint of the factories, there la no question but that the worst Is over Naturally there Is s tendency to be somewhat gloomy — when one oontrnsts the prosperity which flamed np doting the famous war era. and fertiliser men locally did not antici pate that anything like a “return to normalcy" ran be expected in the Imtnediaiq future RELEGATES TURN TO E. LEE TRINKLE. E. Lee Trlnkle, the Democratic gov- ernor^elect of Virginia, whose 76,000 majority is the largest ever given to a candidate In the history of the state. SHIP SCRAPPING IS PROBLEM CONFERENCE HOPES TO DISPOSE OF THIS PROBLEM AS SOON . . AS POSSIBLE. ‘ . V - KEY TO FAR EAST QUESTIONS Naval Treaty Completed ami Method of Scrapping Ships it Settled Apparently Satisfactorily. AWAITING WORD, FROM TOKIO CONCERNING ARTICLE ON t FORTIFICATIONS. x The American Delegates Regard Other Issues Than the Ship Problem as of Great Importance. Farmers to Uto Colleton Plant. Walterboro —What will prove lb be a most Important meeting was hr+d« at the court house here when a mass meeting of the farmers of the county was held and addressed by W. W. la»ng of Clemson college and T R Young district agent. Florence These gentlemen came to Walterboro upon Invitation, and following a conference held here a few days ago, at which time s plan for rendering the Colleton l»jt>ducts association of more use to the farmers of the county was dis cussed At this conference It was unanimously decided that the best thing for the Colleton Products asso datlon to do was to offer the plant to the farmers of the county If they •would organize a countywide co-oper ative organization so that all the farm ers of the county could feel free to bring their surplus products to the markets through the use of the plant At a subsequent meeting of the stockholders of the association, the plan was discussed and a mot'on unan imously carried to turn the plant over to a properly organized co-operative marketing organization, for a period of years, the first year to be used by the farmers of the county free of cost It is felt that in this way the valuable plant of the association can be utilized to the greatest advantage In carrying out the original intentions of the promoters. Want Court Relief. Spartanburg.—The grand Jury i^n its final presentment recommended that the*legislature do something to relieve the congestion of the court, v’either make Spartanburg a circuit wijjiin it self or to establish a county court which will take care of many of the cases. There is the greatest possible congestion in court here. Ninety cases were brought over from the last term of rourt and the grand jury brought in (4 true bills this term, which re main to be tried. The grand jury found county offices in good shape. Taking Tax Returns. Oaffney—During this week and next J. W. George, county auditor, will be oat in the county taking tax returns. The office however, will be kept open for the purpose of receiving returns during Mr Georges absence frv.ji town Mr. George *ayl that very few pappts make returns at tfceae county Appointment*, and It would appear Uwt It ts a useless expenditure of time ■ad money to make the trips, but the law provtdss that It doae aad Washington.—The “big five’* powers made further progress in their final revision of the naval treaty but en countered a difference of opinion when they came to lay down rules for the scrapping of (he proscribed baUlc- ships. For the American delegation. It was proposed that the surplus vess-Hs be rendered entirely useless. France rendilv supported that view, with It aly Indicating a similar attitude. Great Britain and Japan withheld assent, however, the suggestion being made that the dismantled ships might be used as harbor guards or training ves sels. When the five delegation heads ad journed after several hours of debate the question remained unsettled and will be taken up again During their two sessions, however, they had com pleted approval of the first of the treaty annexes, embodying a replace ment chart, and they expressed hope that all of the five annexee might be dl*P<*ed of. Except for the article dealing with Pacific fortifications, all of the teat of the treayr proper already had been virtually approved, and should Tohto*s reply on the fortifications provision be received in time a plenary tension for public discussion of the completed treaty may be held The Japanese in dicated that' they expected to receive the awaited message from their capital soon Indications that an agreement will •not be difficult were supported by a dec laration of a Japanese spokesman that he saw no objection to Including Bonin island and the Oehtma group in the “status quo" agreement on for tification* It Is said to have been over these Islands that the laaue now referred to Tohlo arose. Meantime,, aiao. some members of the various delegations began to lay their plans for resumption of the general far eastern negotiations, which will follow completion of the naval treaty. Washington.—With the naval treaty virtually completed, the arms dele gates are preparing to turn the con- terence spotlight on Shantung, ap parently in the hope that a settlement of that controversy may make It eas ier to go ahead with other trouble-, some problems of the far east It now is the expectation in con ference circles that during the next few days, and probably until a de cision is reached, the Shantung negotiations will have right of way while discussions of other far east ern subjects remain at a standstill, j So far the Shantung exchanges have taken place between the Japanese and Chinese alone, with American and British observers present, but the next phase of the i conference program Is expected at j least to concentrate upon the prob lem'the friendly interest of all the governments represented here. At their meeting the Japanese and j Chinese group* reached an agreement for opening up the entire Kioa-Chow leased teritory to foreign trade and , they are 40 take up others of the : collateral question* Involved in re storation of the leasehold to China. In the naval negotiation* only a few details, considered more or less perfunctory, remain to be arranged. An agreement has been reached u* gardlng method* of scrapping, under which discarded battleships majK bo converted la some cases into airplane, carriers and training ships, snd a final settlement relating to Partflc fpr ttflcattnns awaits a reply expected from Toklo. If present plans develop, the final draft of the naval treaty will be laid .before the full naval committee this week sad will be publicly announced at a plenary session of the conference a few days later. PREMIER RRIANO RESIGNS OFRGE CALOMEL C000 BUT TREACHEROUS HIS INTENTION TO RESIGN CAME AS SURPRISE TO 'CABINET WHICH SUPPORTED HIM. CAUSED EXCITED In the Course of His Speech Briand Said United States Would Par ticipate In Genoa Conference. BRIG. GEN. H. M. LORD. Brig. Gen. H. M.- Lord, chief of finance, U. S. A., who may take the place of General Dawes as director of the budget. UR6E SALE OF MUSCLE SHOALS WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS LOOK FORWARD TO AN EARLY SETTLEMENT. * To See Wilmington Man as Soon as Approaching Conference With Ford is Concluded. Federal AutherHieu Hold Liquor Snip. Washington _ Disposition of tho British schooner. Message of Pence, held at Wilmington. N. C.. 1a appar eutly la the hand* of federal officials in North Carolina, It was Indicated at the Justice department The Message of Pence waa seised with a cargo of liquor off the North Carolina coast by the coast guard ser> vies. KederaJ Prohibition Director Kota- loss of North Carolina has roofer- bed here with prohibition headquar ters snd the Justice department* on the rase, but officials declined to comment on future proceedings. At the Justice department It was said that ho statement regarding Mr Kohloss' conference nor the disposi tion of the British vessel would be made, hot that developments In tbs case would be expected from the fed- ‘eral authorities In North Carolina. Prohibition Commissioner Hagaes Washington.—War department of ficials look forward to an early con clusion of the n-gotlations they have been conducting with private Interest* for the lease, purchase and operation of the government s nitrate and water power projects at Muscle Shoals. Ala., or a derision for their retention by the government In the event none of the proposals received Is found ac ceptable to the department or to con- gresa The visit of Henry Ford scheduled for- the latter part of this week. It was said, probably would lead Sec retary Weeks to tsks deflnlt# action at an early data on the proposal sahmltted by the Detroit mannfac- turer Whether the secretary would decide to recommend Its acceptance to congress to satisfy himself with submitting n report to that body merely reciting tbs farts of the case and leaving congress to dedlde for It self on tbe question of areeptaare or rejsetton waa said to depend largely upon the answers. Mr. Ford would give to the questions Mr. Weeks will ask him * The war department has prepared a questionnaire, which In tbs opinion of some officials will lead to quick action by the secretary when Mr. Ford arrives. Tbs question* are described as being pointed, with the Intention of bringing the negotiations to an end and without delay aad designed to bring the parties concerned to thor ough understanding of their positions. Former Senator Marlon Butler, of North Carolina was Informed that Mr. Weeks would confer with Frederick Kncatnim, president of the Newport Shipbuilding company, of Wilmington. N. C.. a* socn a* the approaching con ferences with Mr Ford was concluded Paris.—President Millerand accept ed the resignation of Premier Briand and his entire cabinet and indicated he would not ask anyone to form a new ministry for a day or two. Min ister of War Barthou ancKformer Presi dent Poincaire were mentioned oroin- inently in parliamentary lobbies as likely candidates for the task of form ing a new government Premier Briand submitted his resig nation to President Millerand at the Elysee Palace after making a lengthy statement before the chamber of depu ties justifying his attitude at the Can nes conference M. Briand's intention to resign was announced to the chamber at the close of his hour's speech. - The announce ment came as an entire surprise, as he had apparently won the sympathy of the chamber. Hi* Colleagues of the i cabinet were filled with amaxement *t his sudden determination. M. «Briand. after making his announce- , ment. left the chamber alonr The members of the cabinet followed as soon as they had recovered from their surprise. Groups of deputies and government officials speedily gathered in .excited dlacusaicn of the seriousness of the situation^, seeking a way out of the difftcultleu. Premier Briand put the Ando- French part, the quest'on of postpone ment of Germany** reparations pay ments and French ffcrtlrlpnttoa in the Genoa conference squarely up to the chamber of deputiee. telling the depu ties In the bluntest terms to take them or leeve them The premier first presented the question of the British pert "Ton have been complaining for three jseers." be said, "of not being railed upoe to share la shaping French politics I am bringing yon what yon have been demanding for three yseru aad R Is np to yon to My whether yon want It or not" Premier Briand in the course of hts Mid the United States had to participate la -the Genoa conference “As far aa I am concerned.** he con tinued. “I am merely making these ex planations to yon aad do not ask your approval or refusal Here ts France's oernrtty Take It or Imvo tt “ The premier next turned to the (ab ject of the Geadi conference “It to Inadmissible.’* be Mid. “that France should be absent from this con ference. which Is purely fluanrlal aad economic, especial!/ when sorb n powerful financial aad economic state as the United States, without whose co-operation work Is Impoasllfee, has agreed to participate ’* Next Dose May Salivate, Shock Liver or Attack Your V Bones. k • \Y " v You know what calomel Is. It's met*- cury; quicksilver. Calomel is danger ous. It crashes Into sour l)Ue like dynamite, cramping and sickening y°y* Calomel, attacks the bones and should never be put Into your system. If vou feel bilious, headachy, consti pated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get a bottle of I>od-_ son’s Liver Tone for a few cents which isi a harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and If it doesn’t start your liver and straighten you up better and quicker than nasty calomel and without making you sick, you just go back and get your money. Don’t take calomel! It makes you sick the next da? , it loses you a day’s work. Dodson’s Liver Tone strai-ghtens you right up and you feel great. No salts necessary. Give It to the children because it Is perfectly harmless and can not salivate.—Advertisement Tin Plate Publicity Planned. * American tin plate manufacturers are planning to inaugurate a country wide publicity campaign designed to enlarge the uses of their product SHE IS “FULL UF PEP” THEY SAT said that he merely discussed the Request Another S50.000 000. Washington — An appropriation of J50.00n.00Q for settlement of claim* was requested of congress by the shipping board This amount is need ed in addition to J50 000.000 already sought by the hoard for expenses dur ing the cqming fiscal year, a commu nication forwarded to Speaker Oillett by President Harding from the bud get-bureau stated. case Of the Message of Peace with Mr. Kohloss before the latter's con ference with the Justice department of ficials and that Mr. Kohloss had re turned to North Carolim without ac quainting him of the results of hla talk at the justice department. Tariff Protection Favored. Washington.— President Harding Is said to have told a delegation repre senting the Southern Tariff associa tion. calling at the White House, that he favored a tariff that gave the same protection to the South that is given to the North and the same protection to the man who toils in the field as is given to the maSTwho works in a fac tory. Newspaper Man in Paris Priion. Paris.—Thomas Stewart Ryan, of the Paris staff of the Chicago Tribune, firmly protesting his innocence, was being hel<J in Santa prison in con-' ection with the serious illness of his wife, due, it is alleged, to the taking of poison tablets wdiile in Mr. Ryan's room at a hotel here. Mrs. Ryan is j& California woman. She is a violin ist and is known professionally as Miss Audrey Creighton. She is in the American hospital, where the physi cians held out little hope for her re covery. Airplane Wll| AM In Search. St. Paul. Minn.—Uee of a National Guard airplane to aid In the search Tor James Maher, county commiaaion- er of Cook county, missing for 14 dsys and believed to be lokt on Lake Supe rior, has been authorlxed by Governor J. A. O. Preus. Tugboats to scout around the numerous small islands In Thunder bay, where It is thought Ma her may be. also were authorized by the governor. XIaher left Grand Portage on Decem ber 27 for Port Arthur, Ontario. He was last heard of at Cloud Bay. Means End te Genoa Confarence. Washington —In the absence of sig nificant developments In the local con ference. attention was concentrated upon the aurprlatng events In Paris. The resignation of M Briand did not come as a surprise: Indeed. It was ex pected when the French premier left ^this city a month ago. But what was recognized on all sides was that the retirement of M. Briand would mean an end to-the Genoa conference and perhaps all hope of American partici pation in European reconstruction for a considerable length of time. Transport Out of Danger. New York.—Threatened by Tieftry northwest “gales which weather bu reau officials predicted would sweep the North Atlantic coast, the atony transport Crook, making eleven kndts an hour under temporary repairs, was striving to reach the lee of the shore ( n a race against the impending dan ger The vessel, bringing back 842 A E. F men from Germany sprung.a leak off the New Foundlan'd banks in heavy weather, hut a late radio said danger had passed an<J all was well. Four Killed by Cave-In. Scranton, Pa.—Four men are knotvn to have been killed, several others are believed to be d^ad and an un known number of mine workers are entombed as the result of a cave-in in the National mine of the Glen Al dan Coal company In Minooka, Just across the southern boundary line of the city. Miners who escaped.said the dumber of men believed to-be behind the barrier ts about twenty. There was no confirmation ot a report that nearly Bd men were caught. The com pany has given out no, information. Blackstone Institute Burned. Richmond. Va—Blackstone Female institute, at Blackstone, Va.. was total ly destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of J175.000. according vto information reaching Richmond. Members of the faculty, board of trustees and student body lost virtual ly all their clothing and other per sonal property. TTiere was no loss of life. Marries In Haste. Miami. FTh —Charles Weston won a race aealnst < time for the possesion of an English estate and an annuity of |*aon when he and Mrs. Xlary C. Vsntine were married here. Weston w** notified by a British firm that "Mrs. Wanton’’ hid he^n left an annual Incoma of ISOM 120000 in cash nnd nf estate of 140 acres In Dev onshire England, hr an oM friend Waatoq a wife having fwo years •no h* waa •<*- that ha esmld rtotm tha ■may only hr i. im (Sailor* Are Seeking Wages. Kfclk&gba!. — Seven warships of the Peking government navy have left for Shiherwet. near Yangchotr. In the province of Kiang : S(i. the command era announcing their intention of rol loff Ingthn^alt duties there.Uk obtain money villi jBhtgh to bay food for thair sailors. Tha crew* have not re ceived wages for six' month* and their officer* claimed before Miltng that the •ctkw was aecaaavry to prerent otoj^ rattan el (heir mm. Shethanro^ to the point ft which salt to * Five Drink Poisonous Liquor. Hoboken, N. J. — Five men died from drinking poisonous liquor. The authorities believe the liquor had been ; obtained from sailors on an incoming steamship. „ The police believe that James Shee- hy, a longshoreman, who died in Jer sey’ City Saturday from drinking poisonous liquor, obtained it from the same sailors who sold it to the other victim*. „ The police started to search piers and steamships here in nn effort to prevent further sales.* , Volcano in Active Eruption. San Jan Del Bur. Nicaragua—The , volcano Ometepe. on the Island of Om- etepte. aight.miles from the western shore of TAke Nlciragua is In active I eruption. < Many of cocoa plants hare be*n destroyed. Laege areas of grazing lands ape covered rw'tth mKm and naby enltle hr* dSs*T. The Inhabitants of the adfacent vfV Isges. terrified b*. the l»*ermat rumb ling*. are fleeing to boom of safety. . Conoid era bt* lav* H towing dawn the i m-M rona hat ho* aa yet doae na Conference at Cannes Adjourns.' Cannes.—The allied supreme council adjourned indefinitely after receipt of news of the resignation of the Briand cabinet.- Adjournment was taken after Wal ter Rathenau, the German financial ex pert,, had finished his addressing the council, and no action or comment was made upon his remarks concern ing Germany’s default at her January reparations payment. Great Undertaking by Ford. JPetroit, Mich.—The Muscle Shoals plan of Henry Ford contemplates one of the greatest undertakings in the his tory of industrial America and if the Detroit manufacturer, obtains posses sion of the project in Alabama he will take Immediate steps to make that part of the South one of the Industrial j centers of tfee country; the AsfcoctflTed Press learned'. His plan, It became known, Includes development of the property as a model to he. extended eventually to many other parts of the country> . Water Transportation .Week. Washington.— President John H/ Small Of the National Rivers and Har bor* Congress, announced that the first week in March Is to be ‘Water Transportation Week” in Washington, with addreases by distinguished speak* ar*. and dlscu**1ona of questions ralat- i fi»g~ to' navigation boffi Upon taladd waterways and the high seat. On Wednesday and Thrusday March 1 and 1. the seventeenth Convention of tha National River* and Harbors Hi be Mfl in tto Now W%- THIN, FADED HAIR NEEDS "DANDERINE” TO THICKEN IT (tot the ; She Is Good-Looking and Gay and Is Always Ready lor a Good Time. Wby Is a girl p«'|Hilar? Look amend and see what a K‘*»l time the gt**!- looklug one* liave all the time. ?«*a seek them out and a*k them tu part lea, dances and entertainments. And ntfilca that It to not the dotl-faqe type rani men Ilka most, but tha red- blooded girl with “pep“ and happy good nature. Any girl who to tired and languid and baa a pour complex- too and dull eye* ran Improve her condition and be far happier If *ba Will simply taka tiude's Pepto-Man ama until she ha* pot her blood Into gOid coodlttua. Red blond toeano Tnll of llfie“ and “foil of Ufa** usually means bapptneoa. Try Gode’s ivpto-Mangan and aeo bow much batter y<*a feet. Dnctnra have ased It nearly thirty year* for • weak, run-down people. It be!|*a them gat wait Rold la both liquid Rod tablet form. A dvertlsemenf. Really Gala Nawbara. Tellln a man hla trouble* A* his awn fault,” a*Id 1'nete Khen. '*»ttt2ply help* along de worry an' duo' give no t< mi stance.'* 35 cent* buy* a bottla of ’‘Dandertne.’* Within ten minutes after the first application you can not find a single trace of dandruff or failing hair. Danderine la to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine*nre to vegetn- f Lon. It goes right to the roots, invigorates and strengthens them, m.: helping your hair toN 1 grow long, thick and I luxuriant.- , \ Girls! Girls! Don’t let your haly stay lifeless, colorless, thin, scraggy. A single application of delightful Dan derine will double the beauty and ra- diapeft. of your hair and make It look twice as abundant.—Advertisement. Better Worth Inspecting. ^“Johnny, you’ve been fighting. I can tell it by ’the look in your eye.” “Yes, mother, .hut you ought to.see the look In the other boy’s eye.”—Bos ton Transcript. Lost Tour Appetite ? (ferrous atid Sleepless ? Hear What Mr*. Jackson Says Duff, Tenn.—“A few years ago I was in bad health. I tried several doctors and they said I had catarrh of the head and was all run-down. „ I had no appetite, couldn’t sleep, was dervoas and my mem ory was so poor that the past seemed as if I had dreamed it. My heart palpitated until at tune* I thought surely-1 would ■ . die. I got so thin and weak I could hardly do anything. Then I took Dr. pierce* Golden Medical Discovery, and also a few viola'of thftJMeoaant Pellets' and P 0 *’ ^ ^ n * c ^ nj ,n better bea.lh than I have Imtm in sixteen yean I cannot prone the Discovers enough for I think it mved my life.”—&In mJt Jarkano. \ <1 \ 3