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FOIL AUTHORITY
FOR COMMITTEE
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FOREIGN RELATIONS TO DEAL
WITH MEXICO.
To Bring Out Facts
Any and All Acts of Government
Across Rio Grande May Be
Investigated.
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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
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' 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
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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
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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^
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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...
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BLACK VILLK ITEMS.
Pleasure Resort May Bo Opened
Near Town.
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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
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? 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.
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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
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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
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MAY EFFECT COTTON PRICE. (
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Representative Relieves Fifty Cents
! Would Still Allow Profit.
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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
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COLSTON CLIPPINGS.
Items hf Social and Personal Men:
tion From the Community.
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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.
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1 Half Hundred Meet Death Xear
Chemnitz, Germany.
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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.
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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
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STARTS MACHINERY
TO REDUCE PRICES
ATTORNEY GEN. WIRES STATE
FOOD ADMINISTRATION.
To Serve as During War
Committee To Be Named in Each
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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