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; iambwg irralii ' I $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14,1919. Established in 1891 V FOIL AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEE > . FOREIGN RELATIONS TO DEAL WITH MEXICO. To Bring Out Facts Any and All Acts of Government Across Rio Grande May Be Investigated. \ Washington, Aug. 8.?Blanket auY thority to bring out all the facts \ about Mexican outrages on Americans ^ and American property and to formulate a remedial programme, was given to the foreign relations committee today by the senate. Without debate and by unanimous vote a unanimous vote directing the inquiry was adopted after its provisions had been stiffened in committee so as to make subject of investigation any and all acts of the governments of Mexico ind its citizens in derogation of the rights of the United States or of its V ' citizens. / Later Chairman Lodge named a - subcommittee headed by Senator F^ll, T? Atmhliofln Npw Meyirn whn has been one of the bitterest opponents of President Wilson's Mexican policy, to do the actual work of examining witjt nesses and collecting information. The subcommittee will begin its task within a few days, though it probably will deal with only preliminary features until the peace treaty is out of the way. The provisionNauthorizing the committee also to recommend what measures should be taken to prevent further outrages was added before adoption at the suggestion of Senator As hurst, Democrat, Arizona. Under his ^ clause it is expected a definite Mexican policy will be formulated and * submitted as a recommendation to the administration. \ In the opinion of some men the v-? task before the committee would be a matter of months. Senator Fall made it clear tonight that his subcommittee, would take full advantage / of the broad powers conferred and would not be sparing of time or resources in its attempt to uncover the whole story of Mexican infringement on American rights during recent years. It is thought likely that the work of the subcommittee will take it to the Mexican border to investigate conditions there and may bring before it some of the high officials of the American government. Besides Senator Fall, the members are SenBrandegee, Republican, Conn., and ,> V : Smith, Democrat, Arizona, r v\. - The resolution authorizing the inj quiry was introduced by Senator King, Democrat, Utah. The original plan of Republican leaders was to have an investigation committee comf posed of both senate and house members, but joint resolution for that purpose was blocked in the house. LESS FEVER IN STATE. Statistics Show Better Conditions oi Health. Dr. James A. Hayne, State health "v officer, said statistics from every county in the State showed a decline this year in the number of cases oi typhoid fever as compared with pre -J? yious years, me uevnuc is yen uvu larly gratifying in counties in which community health work is being pro' moted, Dr. Hayne emphasized. The heavy rains the last month has created a situation over the State which is now occupying the attention of the health department. Many complaints have been registered relative to ponds as possible breeding places for the malarial mosquito. These complaints are receiving attention as fasl ^ as they can be considered by the health officers.PershiC^ Home? *- ;r Paris, Aug. 9.?It is reported here ^ that General Pershing has been recalled suddenly to the United States Hp and that he may even abandon his visit to King Albert, of Belgium planned for Sunday. Washington, Aug. 9.?Secretarj Baker and General March, chief 01 staff, said today they knew nothing of any order recalling General Per shing to the United States. White House officials said they had not beer advised that such an order had gone forward... Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. 3?? > p.; BLACK VILLK ITEMS. Pleasure Resort May Bo Opened Near Town. '! Black ville, Aug. S.?About two miles from Blackville there is a spring of water that spouts up high into the air when not plugged down. This is aji old spring and has been in existence as long as the oldest settlers can remember. It is called Healing Springs from its marked curative properites. It is alleged that many dogs can be cured by throwing them into its waters. A little town has grown up near the spring. There is a fine school and church located there. People come from far and near to drink the water. The spring is very near the water of a creek and recently the farmers who have plantations on the same creek have bored down and gotten magnificent flowing wells of apparently the same water. This will prove to be a bonanza to them, for this is right in the heart of the" trucking section here and the flowing wells seem to have an unusually great flow and inexhaustible supply of water. It is reported, that in one section, the water is near the surface and has a great pressure. One farmer commenced driving down a rail and it soon struck water and the rail was forced out and up into the air. A stock company is being formed and a pleasure resort will be opened up and given free to the people of the surrounding country. Most of the cotton of this county seems to have been damaged by the heavy rains this season. The stalk usually is very large but very poorly fruited. It is estimated by many that our crop will be at least 25 per cent, off from what was expected six weeks ; ago. The red spider seems to be in evidence practically all over the county 1 and in some places has done quite a bit of damage. There was quite a congestion here 1 last season in getting cotton ginned but a number of plantation gins have | been overhauled and enlarged and at 1 Elko near here a large well equipped plant has been erected and the con' gestion will be relieved. 1 * Carloads of watermelons are still ' being shipped from this point to the Northern markets and are still bringing a fairly good price. The truck crops here this year have been fine and the price way above the average, * with the result that the farmers have good bank accounts to start the cotton gathering season with. The banks here made a fine showing at the last bank call. Denmark Doings. Denmark, Aug. 9.?Mrs. Frank Simms is in Kansas City at the bedside of her brother who was wounded in France. Picnics, parties and motoring are the events of the visit of the Misses Shuler, of Holly Hill, with their sister, Mrs. Rupert Hughes. Carroll Mobley has returned from ? ? the hospital at Columbia and is able to be about again. Mrs. Richard Hardwick is at her L summer home^n Saluda, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sturgeon are i at home after their vacation in Hen; dersonville. The Denmark colony now at Hen. dersonville includes Mr. and Mrs. L Lang. Rice, Mrs. Emma Owens and . little daughter, Mrs. Sylvester Guess and Mr. George Goolsby. ; H. B. Grimes and family lert Fn> day for Norfolk, Va., whence they will i go by boat to Washington, New York, . and other Northern cities. } Miss Pauline Ray is entertaining 5 two of her "G. W. C." schoolmates, . the Misses Mattie and Kathleen Boyl ston, of Salley, who during their stay ? here are being much entertained. On Monday evening Miss Rafy entertained in their honor. Misses Vera and Martha Wiggins honored them with a rook party Wednesday morning. > Thursday evening they were guests * at a river party on the Edistp. 5 Miss Maggie Milhouse, of Olar, is 5 the guest of the Misses Virginia and , Willie Dell Hutto, and on Tuesday afternoon the Misses Hutto entertained very pleasantly in their honor. Miss Onie Brux, of Gainesville, Ga., E is the attractive guest of Mrs. John J Boozer. Having lived here until she - was grown, Miss Brux feels very ; much at home in Denmark. i ^ i? m i Engineers demand decreased cost of living or increase of pay. Which will the government grant? Well, which requires the least thinking? ! POISON FOR SOU WEEVIL AVAILABLE CALCIUM ARSENATE IS MOST EFFECTIYE. Poisoning is Successful Cotton Experts Will Furnish Necessary Information.?Stocks of Poison Low. Washington, Aug. 7.?Useless and expensive attempts to poison boll weevils after the infestation has become too general are likely to result from the present boll weevil panic, according to cotton experts of the United States department of agriculture. Manv cotton growers, they say, believed that the weevil had passed them by and took no precautionary measures until their fields were overrun, and are now trying to get poison and dusting machinery in a hurry under conditions that absolutely dc not warrant poisoning. The experts warn growers of the difficulties of beginning poisoning af{ ter a field has become completely inI fested. Poisoning tests have been j successful with complete infestation; | but it is a much more difficult matter j than merely holding developing inI testation in check. It requires not only several more applications thar would have been necessary if treatment had been started earlier, bul much more poison is necessary foi each application. Stocks of Poisons Low. Another point on which a warning is sounded is the difficulty of getting poison in time. The supply is very short, dependent upon the stocks of a few Northern factories, and shipments are bound to be slow. Still another question which should be carefully considered, they say, is whethei or not the cotton is actually wortt poisoning. There is a great deal oi cotton this year, even in the best producing sections, tjjat will not justify the expense. It t?ieS6 limnanoiis art; uusci ?cu the experts say, the yield of cottor under boll weevil conditions can b( considerably increased by poisoning with powdered calcium arsenate. This chemical, as an insecticide, is decided ly a new development, the supply is limited, and most cotton growers are not yet familiar with the necessarj composition of the chemical, or witt the proper methods of applying it. The cotton experts of the Unitec States department of agriculture are undertaking to furnish the necessarj information. They say, however, thai their advice must be taken as genera and not as definite in its applicatior to all cases. They recommend thai all planters who plan to poison wee vils communicate with the depart ment's Delta laboratory at Tallulah La., describing their local conditions The laboratory experts will then giv< them the most definite advice pos sible. It is impossible to say just wha gains in production may be expecte( from weevil poisoning. All experi ments have shown, however, thai there is a rather large margin o profit from the operation in reason ably good land. Poisoning is prob ably not advisable on lana wmci would not yield at least half a bah to the acre if there were no weevils Skimping is Poor Economy. While weevil poisoning has beei successful, it has not yet entirel: passed the experimental stage. Fo the present, it behooves all who ar< going to try \t to place themselves 01 the safe side by doing it as nearl: right as can be judged from presen information. It is foolish, the ex perts say, to attempt to economize 01 a few pounds of poison or a hand dus gun or two. Unless the poison i.' promptly applied in sufficient quanti ties, the injury will be about as se vere as if poisoning had not been at tempted, and the money spent in th< operation will be lost. The depart ? +V? A4- OT1TT AT>< ment Specialists urge uiai auj uu< who desires to poison make up hi! mind to use the proper methods o" simply drop the idea altogether. By far the best poison for weevi control is dry powdered calcium ar senate, but the department urges tha it be bought on specifications. Other wise, the material may be too low ii arsenic content to poison the weevil: successfully, or it may contain s< much soluble arsenic that it will bun the plants, or it may be in such me chanical condition that it can not bi used as a dust. Every man buyins calcium arsenate should require tha f MAY EFFECT COTTON PRICE. ( I Representative Relieves Fifty Cents ! Would Still Allow Profit. I Washington, D. C., Aug. S.?Representative Byrnes of South Carolina . today introduced a resolution directing the federal trade commissicm to ascertain and report to congress the ( cost of manufacturing the various grades of cotton into yarns and cotton cloth for the year 1919, the ( ' manufacturers' selling price and the retailers' cost price and selling price. He also asks that they immediately report what information they now have as to the manufacturers' cost | price during 1918. Mr. Byrnes says that the commission at the request of various departments conducted inquiries last year as to the cost of manufacturing cotton cloths and he is confident that these figures will show that at the price cloths are sell| ing today the manufacturers could pay 50 cents a pound for the raw material and still make a large profit. 1 He believes that thqse figures are available and will convince the public that if undue profits are being made out of cotton cloths at this time that the profits are going to the manufacturers and not to the farmers. He will press for immediate action upon his resolution. i mm * m? ? COLSTON CLIPPINGS. Items hf Social and Personal Men: tion From the Community. L Colston, August 12.?My, what * rainy weather we are having; everyone wishes to have sunshine again. Messrs. Joe Beard and Johnnie, Kirkland spent Saturday in Colum' bia. > Mrs. Annie Price, of Denmark, is visiting friends in this section tms L week. Miss Flossie Davis, of Orangeburg, " is the guest of Miss Cora McMillan. Misses Mamie and, Laura McMillan and Messrs. Jack Kearse and 1 Clyde Padgett dined with Miss Evie ^ Kirkland Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Jennings and T children spent Sunday in Hilda. Miss Blanch Avant, of Charleston, ? is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ephraim 1 Bishop. 3 Mrs. Joe Beard and little sons, ? Harold and Joseph, Jr., spent the 3 week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Jack - Rice, near Bamberg. 3 Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beard and chil3 dren spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T J. F. Clayton. i Mr. and Mrs. Isham Goodwin dined with Mr. and Mrs. Thos Clayton Sunl day. J Misses Ethel and Dora McMillan f and Messrs. Henry Kearse and Albert t McMillan spent Sunday at Mr. J. C. 1 McMillan's. i Miss Elvie Kearse, of Bamberg, t spent Saturday night and Sunday - with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Kearse. , Misses Laura and Eleanor Gooa. win spent a few days last week in i Bamberg with Miss Aileen Hutto. FIFTY PERSONS KILLED IX RIOT. t 1 Half Hundred Meet Death Xear Chemnitz, Germany. t f Berlin, Aug. 9.?Fifty persons - were killed during disturbances yes terday near Chemnitz, a railroad sta1 tion 38 miles southwest of Dresden. 3 Troops were overpowered and dis. armed by a mob. The soldiers' horses were slaughtered and the flesh disl tributed to the crowd. Many wound7 ed persons are in the Chemnitz hosr pital. 5 Additional troops are being sent to i quiet the disorders. 7 ' ? ^ t Practical Gift Brings Teasing. i Gaffney, Aug. 11.?A young man t of Gaffney a few days ago presented 3 his sweetheart with a fine Berkshire - pig, and since that time his life has - been made miserable by the thought less young people of the town who a persist in teasing the young fellow . for his very very practical gift. The a young woman realizes that the gift is s a valuable one and the young fellow r has probably lost nothing so far as the girl is concerned, and this being 1 the case he does not mind the quibs _ of his friends. * Box paper at less than wholesale 1 prices at Herald Book Store. s it conform to tthe following specifi) cations: Not less than 40 per cent, i arsenic pentoxide, not more than .75 - per cent, water soluble arsenic pen5 toxide; density'not less than 80 nor * more than 100 cubic inches per t pound. I i STARTS MACHINERY TO REDUCE PRICES ATTORNEY GEN. WIRES STATE FOOD ADMINISTRATION. To Serve as During War Committee To Be Named in Each n x _ ? r* _ voumy to Arrange rair Price List. Washington, Aug. 10.?Attorney General Palmer started out today to ascertain how much of the high cost of living is due to excessive profits by retailers. In a telegram to all State food administrators who worked with Administrator Hoover during the war, the Attorney General requested the appointment of a fair price committee in each county to investigate what is being charged for retail necessities and if in excess of what the committee considers just to publish a list of fa^r prices for the guidance of the public. * This is the "extra legal" means of reaching profiteering which Mr. Palmer recently indicated was under consideration. He has frankly admitted from th# start that there was no means to prosecute directly a man guilty of extortion in prices. Retailers who are gouging the ultimate con sumer will have to be disciplined bypublic sentiment which officials have no doubt is sufficiently alert to the situation now to ac? vigorously in clear-cut cases. Hoarders, on the other hand can be reached through the war time food laws or the Sherman act, and Mr. Palmer requested the State food administrators to transmit to him any evidence of hoarding or other violations of the law which they might encounter in their work, with the promise that the government's law enforcement machinery wTould act promptly. Without Compensation"There is pressing necessity for the restoration of normal conditions," Mr. Palmer's telegram said, request-1 ing the men who did such effective work during the war to take up the j burden again. They were asked to serve without compensation, the Attorney General believing that the public service to be performed now is as important as when the country was engaged in hostilities and that no patriotic citizen would refuse the call of duty. Attorney General's telegram follows: "In order to secure acurate information relative to charges of profiteering by dealers in necessary commodities it is the desire of the government to ascertain whether or not such dealers are making more than a fair margin of profit. Win you assist in your State by requesting those persons who have been county food administrators under your jurisdiction to appoint fair price committees, including one retailer of groceries, one of dry goods, a representative of the producers, of organized labor, of housewives, twTo or three representatives of the public generally, also a wholesaler when practicable. Same Inquiries. "Please request them to pursue, approximately the same inquiries with reference to food products and the ordinary necessities in dry goods and clothing that were pursued by your fair price committees under the food administration act. This committee will be an extra legal body without power to summon witnesses or fix prices. It is requested, however, to ascertain the cost prices, determine a fair margin of profit and if the retail prices are in excess of what the committee regards a fair price, to have publihsed a list of fair prices, reporting to you for review. You are requested to report to the Department of Justice a general review of the situation in your State. Submit Evidence. "Any evidence of hoarding or other violations of the food control act which may be developed in the work of such committees, should he turned over to United States attorney, who will be instructed to employ all his resources, as well as those of the bureau of investigation, to co-operate with you and your committees in seeking out and punishing all violators of the law. "There is a pressing necessity for the restoration of normal conditions and it is believed that through the same organization which you had as federal food administrator, together with their appointees, can render a valuable service to the country at this BA1 L\ W K LI, AI TROVES. > Baptist Association Organizes for 75 Million Campaign. Blackville. Aug. 7.?The Barnwell Baptist Association composed of Barnwell, Bamberg and part of Allendale counties, made a start yesterday towards raising its part of the Baptist $75,000,000 campaign. The State's apportionment is about $5,500,000 and the Barnwell associations^ apportionment is $200,850. A meeting of the executive committee of the association was held yesterday at the Denmark Baptist church and all of the pastors of the association were asked to be present. A well attended meeting was held and the executive committee decided to make the apportionment as suggested and the following committee was appointed to make the apportionment for the churches of the association: George P. White, of Bamberg, J. B. Gillam, of Denmark, and R. B. Fickling, of Blackville. Publicity man of the association is R. B. Fickling and the Rev. C. W. Jones, of Denmark, organizer. An organizer and publicity man will be appointed for each church and other meetings will be held soon to perfect the organization and get in shape to push the campaign. i?I ^ DEMAND WHEAT PRICE CHANGE Statement by Grona and Representatives of Farmers. 1 Washington, Aug. 12.?Demands that changes be made in government wheat standards under the price guarantee act "so as not to penalize every grower of wheat" were made in a statement prepared by Chairman Gronna and representatives of the farm organizations and approved today by the senate agricultural committee. Chairman Gronna announced that a committee would be named to present the demands to Julius R. Barnes, president of the United States grain Corporation, and representatives of the department of agriculture in the 1 " ? e mn/HfioH tro rinn C PT\ V? uuye ui. uaviug uiuuiubu lunvuw 0w. ernment regulations by which, it was charged, "the producers are defrauded and the consumers receive no benefit." In the statement, designed to give the farmers' side of the high cost of living question, the senate committee said it believed grave injustice was being done the farmers and might continue to accumulate and seriously injure not only agriculture, but the entire nation as well." "While entirely sympathtic with the hardships which present prices cause the people of the city," said the statement, "farmers individually and through their organizations are no less concerned with their own economic situation." "The powerful' machinery of the government is now being set in motion to apprehend and bring to justice those who are guilty of conspiring to restrain trade and secure undue profits. But it must be remembered that this drive is now coming at a time when the great staple products of the farm are going to market and that in selling the wheat crop, for instance, the farmer is selling his entire season's labor. "Julius H. Barnes, of the United States Grain Corporation, openly states his policy to repeal wheat, curtail our foreign shipments and use the resale of wheat to help control the domestic market price against C .. 1, ^vnnnai! TVlO rOOll 1 + nf <511 pTl i Ui Liiei au ? am.to. j. i vu?.v policy together with the manipulation of a system of grades and standards has been to reduce materially the farmers' income and to deny him access to a free market. "In the production of wheat as in other crops, labor enters in the last analysis as the chief item of cost and city people should realize that the effort that is being made by the au- - > thoritv of the government to restrict or still further reduce the price at the farms must inevitably lead to denying the farmer living wages. "We at this time shall insist on a change in the wheat standards so as not to penalize every grower of wheat. ' Hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat have been shriveled by extreme heat this season which under the present grading and dis-^ count rules may not average the pro- * ducer $1.50 per bushel." time, and your cooperation and theirs without compensation, will be greatly appreciated. The widest publicity of this movement and the results obtained by the county committees, it is believed, will be an important factor in its success. Please wire whether the government can count upon your active co-operation." / ' V . - - ^ v -i -- f TCesy i