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SENATE DEBATE
AMUSES WILSON
SMILES BROAl>LY AS REPUBLICANS
SOMERSAULT.
Opponents Sustain
Colombian Treaty Ratified By Men
* Who Bitterly Opposed Former
President.
Washington, April 23.?The Republicans
have eaten their crow, and
Woodrow Wilson is more amused
than any other man in the United
States.
In the ratification of the Colombian
treaty the senate, by a twothirds
majority, withdrew its criticism
aimed at Wilson two years ago,
and after profoundly apologizing,
proceeded to do as he told the sen
oi Tneoaore rtouseveiu xiie ycuyio ui
the countrv were not for the Colombian
treaty. They did not believe
that Theodore Roosevelt had done a
wrong act, and it is most extraordinary
and amazing that three years
later after that issue had helped to
win a campaign for the Republicans,
Republicah leaders have now turned
a complete somersault, and what was
an infamous crime under Woodrow
Wilson becomes a very divine proceeding
under the administration of
the Republican party.
"During the last campaign, the people
believed what we said, regarding
our intentions?about economy. Yet
our very first act as Republicans in
power is to vote $25,000,000 to a set
of bandits by a treaty that was denounced
in a report signed in 1917,
by Republican leaders, as a blackmail
proposition!
''T A r\ n r,t iri r-> + + r\ Vioor mn r>V> ynrtPO
J. U.V/ XIKJ I IV iJL^CXX uxuvii xiiv* v
about economy in this congress. I
have been receiving letters from
farmers on the brink of bankruptcy
who urge us, if we have money to
throw away, to lend it to them."
And it is said that Woodrow Wilson
smiled grimly when the Kenyon
rebuke was uttered. But Kenyon
had no effecft. Neither had Borah.
The Idaho senator, having heard the
Republican leader, Senator Lodge, declare
that he did not regard the language
of the treaty as an apology for
the rape of Colombia by Roosevelt,
offered an amendment, so stating, to
the treaty. It was voted down. Another
Borah amendment which Lodge
and his colleagues, who formerly denounced
Wilson for advocating the
treatv, voted down, follows:
"That neither said payment .nor
anything contained in this treaty
shall be taken or regarded as an admission
that the session of Panama
in November, 190.?, was in any way
aided or abetted by the United States
of America, its agents or representatives,
or that said government in any
way violated its obligations to Colombia."
ate to do.
There is no question in non-partisan
minds that President Harding in
demanding of his party the ratification
of the treaty rose above political
consideration in a determined effort
to act justly toward a weaker
republic. It required considerable
courage, because it was necessarily
to be followed by sharp and bitter
division in his own lines, and in excessive
embarrassment to Republican
partisans who stand against a Democratic
administration, always, and for
a Republican administration, always
1 ' "Vi nr TtTv-r.-l C n f tTlP
?:?partisans iu vmci "umui ^^ ~ ~
Senator Lodge type.
In the speeches of Senators Borah,
Johnson, Poindexter, Kellogg, and
? Watson of Georgia, Woodrow Wilson
found intense satisfaction. He did
not agree with their sentiments expressed
against ratification. But their
assault against the Republicans who
changed views respecting the treaty
in response to the direction of the
president, served as a most palatable
morsel.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, an idealist
the variety generally regarded
as "sweet though impractical," sometimes
constitutes a thorn in the side
of his party. For instance in arguing
against ratification of the treaty,
he expressed the hyporicv of the Republican
politicians who deceived
tfce- country into returning a Republican
congress in 1919. He said:
"In the campaign of 1918 I heard
many excellent addresses of leaders
of the Republican party. Nearly
every one I heard denounced the Colombian
treaty as the crowning infamy
in the attempt of Woodrow
Wilson to slur the life and character
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MARKETING FACILITIES
.. The advent of the cotton boll weevil
has produced such conditions that
it is absolutely necessary for the
planters to look for other money
crops. That Bamberg county is peculiarly
adapted for the growing of
other crops has been undoubtedly
proven already. The question that
now confronts the people of this section
is that of marketing facilities.
In growing cotton and tobacco, there
are no worries about being able to
market the staples. Cotton can be
hauled to Bamberg, Denmark, Ehrhardt
or Olar and sold any day in
the year. .The money is secured for
one bale or one hundred. Tobacco,
during the selling season, can be
'brought to Bamberg and sold in the
warehouse anv day, and the money
is paid then and tjiere. This is not
true of any other crops, however.
Corn can be profitably grown in this
county for market, but there are no
marketing facilities. The merchants
will buy a limited quantity for their
trade, but all the corn purchased by
the merchants of the county combined
is only a dent in the quantity that
the county is capable of producing.
Truck can be grown here with success,
but the problem is to sell it.
I Potatoes, sweet and white, are profitable
crops, but there is no provision
to get the money for small lots, although
in a large measure the potato
house here is caring for sweet potatoes.
What the county needs and must
have is a ready market to take care
of the money crops of the county.
There is now a movement on to establish
piarketing facilities throughout
this state. It is to be sincerely
hoped that the movement will meet
eiinnacc that it wall Drovide I
WILLI OUULtcw^uu ? ^
the people with the means of disposing
of thei-r crops in small lots as
harvested.
To ship commodities carload lots
must be made up to avoid the transportation
charges exceeding the value
of the goods, and it is not possible
for one planter to ship carload lots.
Th4 thing to do is to provide a system
whereby the planters can combine
their shipments and make up car lots
at short notice. We understand the
object of the movement is to provide
just such facilities for the planters.
SELLER OF* "WATER" STILLS.
Dry Agents and Postoffice Men Raid
His Business.
Atlanta, April 25.?Prohibition
agents and postoffice inspectors today
were seeking H. McGinty, proprietor
of the Atlanta Supply Co., charged
with .violating dry laws and using the
mails to further sales of distilling
equipment throughout the United
States.
Investigation of McGinty's business
I was made on orders to D. J. Gantt,
| supervising prohibition agent for the
southeast, from Washington. John t\
Kramer, prohibition commissioner
reported, that his department had information
that the "Atlanta Supply
Co., is shipping distilling supplies
everywhere from Mexico to Canada,"
and that it was advertising extensively
in the newspapers.
A raid on McGinty's place of business
and home Saturday, officers stated,
disclosed a large i^umber of seamless
copper stills in the store while
at the house they found, it was said,
a copper still and a quantity of newly
distilled whiskey.
According to the agents, advertisements
in various newspapers solicited
orders for "stills to distill water in
homes." Hundreds of orders for these
stills, some of them accompanied by
postoffice money orders, were found,
they declared.
According to the officials one of the
stills was purchased bv Harry Saphire,
a prohibition agent posing as a
mule trader from Little Rock, Ark.,
for $44.90. He gave the address of a
federal official in Little Rock, R. A.
Caldwell, and the outfit was to be
shipped at once.
English Like the Dickens.
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An advertisement from a Siamese
newspaper:
"TIip tipws of English, we tell the
latest. Writ in perfect style andj
most earlist. Do a murder get com-1
mit we hear and tell of it. Do a
mighty chief die, we publis it. and in
borders of sombre. Staff has each
one been college, and writ like the
Kipling and the Dickens. We circulate
every town and extortionate
not for advertisements. Buy it."?
The Pioneer, Indiana.
Big Clean-up Campaign c
The mayor has proclaimed tl
zens are requested to make this
make Bamberg the model of ne;
The progressive spirit of our citi
necessary to mention this work i
Valuable prizes are offered fo
ed same is neatly piled and mad
County Pt
"infinn r?f TT1 hPT?T COUn~ I
1 lie pcaoiuu i uw j. ^
ty 'is given below. The pension I
checks have been made out, and may;
now be secured on application to
Probate Judge J. J. Brabham, Jr., |
Class "A" receives $105.00 each;
class "B" $80.00 each, and clas? "C"
$46.81 each.
Class "A" Receives $105.00
Bessinger, John W., Bamberg.
Copeland, Jacob C., Ehrhardt.
Dempsey, Calvin R., Branchville,
R. F. D.
Garland, Geo. W., Bamberg.
Hartzog, Dan'l S., Denmark.
Kearse, J. F. Olar.
McMillan, John E., Bamberg.
Pearson, Henry F., Bamberg.
Rentz, Calvin, Bamberg.
Robinson, J. D., Bamberg.
Rowell, J. D., Denmark.
'Wilson, Albert, Bamberg.
Zeigler, Jas. H., Bamberg.
Class "B" Receives $80.00.
Copeland, J. Laz, Ehrhardt.
Copeland, W. R., Denmark.
Dempsey, Asberry, Bamberg.
Eaves, U. M., Govan.
Hunter, Ds O., Bamberg.
Milhouse, C. A., Bamberg.
Still, Chas. F., Olar.
Class "C" Receives $46.81.
Bessinger, Adam, 'Bamberg.
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jareianu, u ouun, viu^
Carter, J. E., Smoaks, R. F. D.
Copeland, F. E., Ehrhardt.
Copeland, J. I., Ehrhardt.
Felder, J. D., Bamberg.
Felder, J. M. Ba'mberg.
Folk, J. C., Ehrhardt.
Grayson, E. H., Denmark. ' <
Guess, E. B., Denmark.
Hanberry, Geo. D., Olar.
Hunter, A. J., Bamberg.
Kearse, J. B., Olar.
Kinard, G. F., Ehrhardt.
MoCormick, John, Bamberg.
McMillan, H. Z., Ehrhardt.
Mitchum, Henry, Ehrhardt.
Peters, J. A., Ehrhardt.
Rice, Langdon C., Denmark. I
Rizer, T. P., Ehrhardt. I
Sandifer, Wm. P., Blackville.
Smoak, Moses, Bamberg.
Varn, P. M., Bamberg. !
The following is a list of the widows
of Confederate veterans in Bamberg
county receiving pensions:
Class "A" Receives $105.00.
Fail, Emily, wife of Jos. Fail,
Olar.
Folk, Annie E., wife of W. C. Folk,
Bamberg.
Neeley, Catherine E., wife of Ed. P.
Xeeley, Denmark.
Ray, Lucia J., wife of S. G. Ray,
Govan.
Kentz, Mary, wife of J. G. Rentz,
Bamberg.
Class "B" Receives $80.00* * 0
Brabham, Janie H., wife of J. M.
Brabham, Olar.
Xeal, Adeline, wife of Louis Xeal,
Bamberg.
Class "C* 'Receives $46.81
Beard, Lucia, wife of Geo. Beard,
Bamberg.
Bishop, Sarah Ann, wife of Josiah
Bishop, Ehrhardt.
Blume, Susannah, wife of Dan'l.
Blume, Denmark.
Brabham, Julia A., wife of J. F.
Brabham, Denmark.
Breland, Cornelia E., wife of J. F.
Breland, Olar.
Brickie, M. R., wife of V. V.
Brickie, Bamberg.
RrohViam CJnlilp "H Trifp r?f AT .T.
Brabham, Olar.
Carter, Henrietta, wife of Marion
Carter, Bamberg.
Carter, Susan, wife of Harley Carter,
Bamberg.
Chasserean, Martha, wife of J. A.
Chassereau, Ehrhardt.
Clayton, Martha M., wife of Geo,
W. Clayton. Ehrhardt.
Clayton, Sarah C., wife of Chas. R.
Clayton, Ehrhardt.
Driggs, Fannie, wife of H. G.
Driggs, Ehrhardt.
Dunn, Cornelia J., wife of J. H.
Dunn, Bamberg.
Eaves, Maggie J., wife of B. B.
Eaves, Bamberg.
Gillam; Mary Ann, wife of J. B.
Gillam, Blackville.
in in Bamberg This Week.
tiis week clean-up week. All citiweek
a record breaker in effort to
atness, cleanliness, and healthful,
zens is such that we feel it is only
in order to make it a success.
r the largest pile of trash; provide
accessible to the collector.
ins ion Roll.
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Goodwin, Sheba, wif? of Jas. Goodwin,
Smoaks, R. F. D.
Jenkins, Crulhia, wife of J. A.
Jenkins. Bamberg.
| Johnson, Alice, wife of Geo.
I Johnson, Bamberg,
j Jordan, Rebecca, wife of Perry
Jordan, Bamberg,
j Kinard, Cadelia, wife of Elmore
j Kinard, Ehrhardt.
Kinsey, Gatsey, wife of W. E. Kinsey,
Branchville, R. F. D.
Kinsey, Mary, wife of R. Kinsey,
Smoaks R. F. D.
Main, Mattie, wife of J. E. Main,
Govan.
Martin, Lou A., wife of Richara
Martin, Denmark.
Miley, Amanda E., wife of J. C.
Miley, Bamberg.
Mitchell, E. E., wife of Jno. Mitchell,
Bamberg.
Morris, Eliza, wife of Elijah Morris,
Olar.
Morris, Nellie, wife of Gideon
Morris, Bamberg.
Myers, Mary, wife of Alex Myers,
Bamberg.
Newsom, W.' A. B., wife W. A. B. j
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isewsom, caraoerg.
Owens, R. A., wife of C. J. Owens,
Ekrhardt.
Owens, Sallie R., wife of J. R.
Owens, Bamberg.
Rice, W. F., wife of Wm. F. Rice,
Bamberg.
Sandifer, Sarah E., wife of Wesley
Sandifer, Bamberg.
Shuck, John S., wife of John S.
Shuck, Bamberg.
Smith, Mary E., wife of J. M.
Smith, Ehrhardt.
Smoak, Annie, wife of Andrew
Smoak, Denmark. >
Smoak, Delia, wife of?Dave Smoak,
Bamberg.
Smoak, Ella A., wife of J. G.
Smoak, Bamberg.
Smoak, Rebecca, wife of J. M.
Smoak, Bamberg.
Steadman, Sarah S., wife of J. E.
Steadman, Denmark.
Steedley, Amanda, wife of D. 0.
Steedley, Bamberg.
?. Tant, Mattie E., wife of M. W.
Tant, Denmark.
Tant, Sarah Ann, wife of J. C.
Tant, Denmark.
Textone, Nola, wife of Darling Textone,
Denmark.
Tindal, Sallie R., wife of S. H. Tindal,
Denmark.
Walker, Mary E., wife of T. K.
Walker, Denmark.
Walker, Susan, wife of J. A. Walker,
Denmark.
Wilson, Maggie, wife of H. E. Wilson,
Bamberg.
Wright, Elizabeth, N., wife of L.
A. Wright,'Bamberg.
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CHURCJI MEMBERS AID.
Plant Corn and Cotton Crop of Sick
Brother.
York, April 23.?Who said church
membership hasn't a practical value
as well as a spiritual?
Take the case of W. H. Howell, of
the Bethany section.
Howell has been down with rheumatism
for weeks. His means are
slender. Planting time was at hand
and it looked like the little farm
was going to be unplanted 'his year.
Imagine his surprise Friday when
more than 100 members of the Bethany
congregation, of which he is a
member, came to his home in work
clothes and with tractors and other
farming implements and planted his
cotton and his corn.
Not only that, but they gave him
assurance that at the proper time
they are coming back again in order
to cultivate the crop.
Paper Versus Leather.
A Swedish paper felt is said to
have proved a cheap and effective
material for dust guards in journals
of railway carriages. Tests on the
Swedish state railways have shown
that dust shields of this material do
not stretch, like those of leather,
and they are claimed to be unaffected
by oil or water, and to endure service
a long time without hardening.
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A WISE DONATION
The education movement of the
Methodist church is causiug those
who are interested in the welfare of
the nation to do some serious thinking.
The real issue is becoming more
and more clearly seen. The leadership
of tomorrow must be Christian
or our nation will be pagan.
It is a conceded fact that secular
institutions do not produce a Christian
leadership. A large per cent, of
the students passing through them
lose their faith in God and immortality.
The foundations of our nation
were laid in the Christian religion.
Should these be undermined the en
tire structure of our civilization will
be overthrown. Realizing this, in
spite of the financial depression, men
of vision are carefully considering
how much they can invest in the institutions
of the church. Last week
it was announced that a citizen of
the state would contribute twentyfive
thousand dollars to the cause. It
I is understood that this is directed to
Columbia college as a memorial. Such
a contribution should inspire others
to go and do likewise.
The citizens of Bamberg and adjoint
territory should begin to
thinK about what they might give in
the next five years or less to make
Carlisle school greater.
Money invested in a memorial
building or memorial rooms would
be more than a monument to departed
loved ones. It would be a permanent
investment in the character and
lives of hundreds and thousands of
young men in the days to come. Think
it over.?Contributed.
TWO BILLION FISH KILLED.
Sudden Cold Snap Traps Them on
Alaskan River.
Kechikan, Alaska.?What is declared
by Captain Brunn and officers
of the steamship Northwestern tc be
the greatest fish tragedy ever enacted,
to human knowledge, occurred
at Klawack Bay, Prince of Wales
island, January 30, when at one
stroke more than two million good
sized herring lost iheir lives. The
crew related their remarkable experience
of sailing through, miies of
the dead fish.
The said Klawack bay was full of
herring three days before the Northwestern
arrived, when a* sudden
freeze caught the fish in the narrow
necked harbor before they could escape
to sea. The freeze cam? with
great suddenness and severity and
about six inches of ice formed in the
harbor. Millions of herring at the
entrance could be seen dumbly fighting
to get out to sea before the inclosed
waters were frozen.
"It may sound like a fish story,"
said Mr. Bradovich, "but the fact is
that the greatest chance in the
world for obtaining good fresh fish
without a stroke of work was lost.
For days a few persons tried to put
some of the herring away for the
summer, but made no inroads on the
supply. The* nearest Indians, who
would have appreciated the fish,
were 300 miles awav
"The ship had difficulty in navigating
out of the harbor, as the propeller
had to do the work of dissiccator,
and it barely made a knot an
hour."
REPORTS INDICATE REDUCTION.
Cut of 31 Per Cent. Claimed for 1921
Cotton Crop.
Florence, April 21.?A reduction of
31.2 per centum in the cotton acreage
of this year, compared with last
year, is ind&ated in private information
local reporters have received
from reliable connections and supplied
to the chamber of commerce.
The information is considered very
reliable and is known to be quite
close, generally, to the accredited
guveruuieui leyurts uu suca maueia.
Walter J. Johnson, secretary of the
association,- says, regarding the survey.
The reports by states for the entire
cotton belt is as follows:
Decrease Indicated
State Per cent. Acreage
Texas 29 8,929,000
Oklahoma 38 1,714,000
Arkansas 37 1,802,000
Louisiana 34 951,000
Georgia 30 3,470,000
Alabama 29 2,018,000
Mississippi 30 2,1 17,000
North Carolina 31 1,047,000
South Carolina 30 2,014,000
Tennessee r30 577,000
Missouri 28 106,000
Florida 25 76,000
California 50 75,000
Arizona 50 119,000
Virginia .... -..-45 21,000
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WORLD WILL NEED
COTTON SUPPLIES
(
LOOMS MUST SURELY START IS
FUTURE.
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Report After Study
American Commercial Attache at
London Tells of Investigation
He Has Made.
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Washington, April 22. ? The
world's cotton acreage must undergo
a very marked expansion in the years
to come if the supply of the raw cotton
is to keep pace with the world's
needs, Alfred P. Dennis, American
commercial attacne at L?onaon, reported
to department of commerce
after an exhaustive study of the
world's capacity for consuming cotton .
goods.
At the present time, he said, there ?
is a record carryover of raw cotton.
Combined with this, there is an immense
amount of under-production in
the chief cotton spinning centers of
the world. There has been a marked
setback to the purchasing power of
the -world in the amount of cotton
goods and a corresponding setback to
the production of cotton.
"It is obvious," said Mr. Dennis,
"that the world has emerged from
the war with a production capacity of
raw cotton considerably below its re- ,
quirements. Coincidentally there has
been a marked decline in the output
of manufactured cotton stuffs, that in
turn being a reflection of reduced J
buying power in the great cotton consuming
centers of the world.
"With the return of the world to a
normal state of economy, buying
will be resumed, idle and short time
looms and spindles will be speeded
up, and an insistent demand for raw . ?
material may be anticipated. Farsighted
representatives of the British
cotton trade are already agitating
the question of increasing the production
of raw cotton within the em- ?
pire.
"It seems established that the need
of the world for cotton goods within . 4
the near future will grow more rapidly
than will the extension of cotton
growing areas. Increases in the supply
of cotton depends very largely on
the finding of fresh cotton territory
and improving the strains of existing
known cottons.
"The crop in America, which has A
been averaging for the five years,
1895-99, 10,000,000 bales, jumped,
ten years later or for the five years,
1910-14, to an average of 13,500,000
bales. Production in other countries
also increased. The inference
must be accepted, therefore, that
through the increase in the world's
population and through the exten- V,. j
sion of consumption to new markets,
as well as through the inclusion of
cptton into new utilities, such as automibile
tires, the world required an
increase in its supply of cotton. It is
stated on high authority that the
| world in 1914 was in a position to
absorb in manufactured goods at least
700,000 bales of cotton more than it
consumed the year before.
"One-of the prime factors in teh
present day education is the impover- .
ishment.of the world. Trade with
both Russia and Germany has
amounted to little, and while the capacity
in general of central and eastern
Europe to buy cotton goods has
not been destroyed it has been greatly
impaired."
DRIVE TO DESTROY RATS.
Chicago Man Gives Some Interesting
Fac^s. .'L.?!
A slogan "No Rats in America by
1930" is suggested by Wendell Walker
of Chicago in a letter to Governor
Cooper in which the Windy City man
asks the South Carolina chief executive
what the people of this state
would do to rid themselves of the
ever present rodent.
Mr. Walker says that each year
South Carolina loses $3,336,000 from
XCILS, ucisin^ IUCSC aguics uu cacu iat
in the state destroying $2 worth of
material. The state has 1,683,000
rats, Mr. Walker says, and he thinks
it is time to give the rodents the high
sign to leave.
The destruction by rats each year
costs the average farmer more than
his taxes, the Chicago man says, and
the same destructive rat has caused
more deaths than all wars since the
history of the country, he adds. Mr.
Walker thinks a national movement :
to eradicate the rat should be started.
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Women exceed the men in England
| and Wales by more than 2,000,000.
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