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/ A VOLUME xxxin " DISCUSSIONS OF PEAGE NOW UNDER WAY i /M i . n -? _ uiemenceau unosen 10 rresiae ^ at Conference in Paris, France % WILSON OFFERS FRENCH PREMIER i Nomination Seconded by Lloyd V George and Adopted Unanimously. Paris.?The peace conference, do^ jstined to be historic, and on which ' the eyes of the world are now centered, was opened in the great Salle <le la Paix. The proceedings, which were confined to the election of Georges Clemenceau, the French premier, as permanent chairman of the conference, an address of welcome by the president of the French ^republic, Raymond Poincare, and speeches by President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and Baron Sonnino were characterized by expressions of lasting friendship and the apparent determination of the representatives oi the various nations to come to an amicable understanding with respect to the problems to be decided by the conference. When President Poincare spoke the entire assembly stood, and the fact that, according to custom, no ap plauso greeted his utterances gave greater solemnity to the scene. M. Clemenceau's acceptance of the ^ piesidency of the congress was both a feeling expression of personal grat itude and a definite outline of the . great questions immediately ahead. Three of the largest general subjects ho defined as responsibility of the war, responsibility for crimes during the war and international labor legislation. The league of nations, he declared, was at the head of the program for the next full session. As the delegations arrvied they were met by fanfares of trumpet'? and accorded military honors by the troops. The Japanese were among the earlier arrivals and were followed by the Siamese and East Indians in picturesque turbans. Wilson Warmly Greeted. President Wilson's arrival at ten minutes of 3 o'clock was the signal for a demonstration from the crowds. The president passed into the ante chamber, where M. Pichon, the French foreign minister, awaited and conducted him to the council room. Already the chamber was crowded with delegates who greeted President "Wilson warmly as he passed towards the table of honor. Here he was joined by Secretary Lansing, Mr. White and General Bliss, and exjtVinrtfvnH cri*fV*tincrM with t.ho British >fuul many other delegates. v- Just at 3 o'clock a ruffle or drums tmd blare of trumpets announced the Approach of M. Poincare. The French president was escorted by the gTOu/p of premiers to the head of the 4 table while a hush fell upon the assemblage as the moment arrived for the opening of the congress. It was exactly three minutes past ' 3 o'clock when M. Poincare began his address and the peace congress came into being. The entire assemblage stood as the president spoke. President Wilson stood immediately at his right and listened attentively. M. Poincare snoke in an ear nest, easy manner, without declamatory effect, and following usage there was no applause or interrup # ** tion. ' ^ M. Poincare spoke in French, am when he had concluded an interpre ter read the discourse in Kngli: h. As. M. Poincare closed, he turnc< t;? ?u'0!Vo the congratulations o President Wilson and Premier Lloyi ^icorgp and then withdrew, greeting each delegation as nc retired. President Wilson rose as M. Poin care made his ex.it. "It gives ny 1 great pleasure," he said, "to propos as permanent chairman of the con / p me LI.... PUNNING FIGHT I AGAINST EPIDEMIC Akin Asks Sheriffs for Defii nite Inf. mation From All the Counties. < < I Dr. C. V. Akin, in charge of influenza control measures in South Car- 1 olina, is rapidly making himself thoroughly acquainted with conditions over the State with regard to influenza, and is preparing to secure the best results possible with the $10,000 appropriated by the general assembly last Friday as an emer- 1 gonoy fund with which to combat the disease. Last week Dr. Akin addressed tele grams to the sheriffs of all counties in the State asking them to eonferwith the chairman of the boards of trustees of the various school districts for the purpose of determining the present prevalence of influenza in all counties in the State. In towns where influenza is now epidemic, health authorities have been instructed to wire in daily reports of the progress of the disease. It is especially desirable that these telegrams be concise, giving the num bcr of new cases of influenza, the number of cases of pneumonia and the number of deaths. With these reports at hand, l)r. Akin will be able to direct his medical force to the best advantage. Hit ATH OVVKSK A ? OF HORRY BOY B. F. Singleton received a letter a few days ago from the War Department informing him of the death of his brother, Joseph Sparkman single, ton, who died in France October 29, of Influenza 'Grippe. His name appeared ini the casualty list of Dec. 7th as Jos. S. Singleton, of Boxport, S. C. The address was somewhat, misleading and relatives and friends were uncertain until recently when the report was confirmed by letter from the department. Sparkman was connected with the Signal Corps of Headquarters Company 54th U. S. Infantry and has been in France since July of last year. He received training at Camp Wadsworth, S. C. The deceased soldier was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jos. E. Singleton, of Socastee, and was the only brother of B. F. Singleton, of Bucksport. Sparkman attended the Socastee School when quite young, and later attended the Spring Branch school of this county. He also completed a course in Bookkeeping at Massey's I Business College, Richmond, Va, and has .spent the past few years working in that city ond at Hopewell, Va., from which town he was called into service last May. influenzaIpreads over entire state Dr. C. V. Akin, in charge of influenza control measures in South Carolina, estimates that there are not less than 18,000 cases of the disease in the State at the present time. He bases this estimate on reports of cases that have been made by sheriffs over the State who have responded to the telegrams sent out last week asking for definite figures with regard to the disease. In the first epidemic approximately 10 per cent, of the population was affected, which leaves 90 per cent, unaffected. Dr. Akin said that the . disease i.s as widespread at present it was during the first onslaught. j ference, M. Clemcnceau." President Wilson spoke in conversational voice which, however, car ' : i"<( throughout the chamber, as he ; paid eloquent tribute to the French premier. Premier Lloyd George seconded he nomination of M. Clemcnccau, -peaking earnestly of the distinguish 0 ;>d service the French premier had rendered in war and peace. Www QPWWAY, S C., THURSDAY, COOPER INAUGURATED AS GOVERNOR *\< Columbia, Jan. 21.?Robert A. Cooper, of Laurens, became Govern- i )r of South Carolina today, succeed- { ing Richard Irvine Manning, who < had for four years served as the 1 Slate's chief executive. The inaug- 1 uration was not made the occasion for a military or civic display, but the exercises, which were held on. the 1 iront portico ot the suite house, were witnessed by several thousand 1 people who came from all sections < of the .State. < The oath of office was administered to the new governor by Associate Justice It. C. Watts, of Laurens, an old friend and neighbor. Governor Cooper, in his inaugural address, asked the General Assembly which is now in session, to pass a stringent compulsory school attendance law, a law providing a minimum school term >f seven months, a budget law modeled after the Virginia plan, liberal appropriations foi the State board of health and a revision of 'the State tax system. Legislation that would restrict the use of patent medicines as beverages was also earnestly urged by the newexecutive. Junius T. Idles, of Orangeburg, who was to have taken the oath as lieutenant governor, is ill at his home, and was unable to be sworn in. Sam M. Wolfe, of Anderson, became attorney general, succeeding Thomas H. Peoples; B. Harris, of Pendleton, became commissioner of agriculture, succeeding A. C. Summers, and H. H Arnold, of Spartanburg, .succeeded J. G. Richards as railroad commissioner. A number of State officers who were reelected, a'so were sworn in. PROHIBITION ACT i&i nrurii nrirr-n IN JfcVtNSIAItS Chicago.?Seven States last week completed ratification of the prohibition constitutional amendment and brought the number taking such action to 30. The number necessary for ratification is 36. Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina and Alabama were the States going in the "dry" column. In addition the Nebraska senate and the Utah house voted for ratification. Tn California, however, attorneys for the Grape Growers' Protective League filed suit for an injunction to restrain the governor from certifying the ratification. In support of the suit, it was argued that all acts of the California legislature must be submitted to a referendum. The States which thus far have ratified the amendment are: Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Dakota, Maryland, Montana. Arizona, Delaware, Texas, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Maine, West Virginia, Washington, California, Indiana, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, OkI 1 1 m tii A lauuiuu, i ennessee, laano, ArKansas, Illinois, North Carolina, Kansas and Alabama. Total 30. APPOINTAGENTS FOR DEMONSTRATION Miss Edith L. Parrott, State home den\onstrtaion agent, makes the following announcement: "We are glad to announce that with the beginning of the year 1010 we are able to appoint three* district home demonstration agents for the State of South Carolina. These agents are Miss Rutn E. Perry, Sen < < a; Miss Mary '?. Martin, Abbeville, and Miss Amanda Edwards, Kingstree. All of there avo former county home demonstration agents and have dene splendid work in their rospect ivo counties. "The duties of these district home demonstration agents are to supervise and assist the county home demi on.stration agents in every way possible. 'V 29 % S JANUARY 23, 1919. MAGISTRATE COURT , .. HOLDS HEARING ' * v There was a preliminary hearing j in the court of Magistrate W. H. Chestnut last Monday morning into a charge of assault ad battery with intent to kill and of a high and aggravated nature, brought by Oscar Watts against hi/ Aunt, Caroline Watts! ll i S pnilvlin A KiinHn '1" - . - 7 U VMUIV A \ 1 (HIM Olhan Arnette, the husband of Jessu Arnette. The crime was alleged to . have been comitted on Sunday, De* ( cember 15th, when the prosecutor , claimed he was assailed by all of the above named parties as well as by his Uncle, Josiah Watts, and that he was seriously man-handled, cut in the back of the head with a knife, struck with a club by Caroline Watts, ar.d used up and abuser! generally. W. P. Watts, the father of Oscar Watts, took the leading part in the conduct of the case and was also a witness as having seen, as he stated some of the important acts in th * drama, which came near to tragedy, on that Sunday which was noisy ?n that part of the moral vineyard while it should have been quiet. In a preliminary investigation, the defendant cannot put up any testimony. Only the State's side was heard. The Magistrate decided to let out Jesse Arnette, and threw out the charge of "Intent to Kill" as to the other two defendants, and held Othan Arnette and Caroline Watts foi assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, for trial in the court of General Sessions which sits on the 24th day of February. AVIATOOflOT TALKSTO GENERAL Washington.?Use of the radio telephone for two way conversation between a person using a line telephone and an aviator in flight was officially demonstrated for the first time today when Major General Kenly, director of military aeronautics, seated before a desk telephone in his office in the war department, and Lieutenant Lucas in an airplane flying over Boiling Field, on the outskirts of the city, talked with each other. The .radio telephone for oneway conversation in the giving of orders has been used by the army and navy to some extent for more than a year. The demonstration involved the use of a land line from the war department to Boiling Field where the radio system was installed. The apparatus and circuits used were designed and installed by members of the radio branch of the air service under supervision of Col. C. C. CulVfip 1^17 A {' + In A'l . - . . ?'j v?ov Hi*,- jruivi Uil?J l?l 1 IClill i said it would bo a mere matter of detail for a person in an office, in Washington to talk with an aviator flying over San Francisco. jamest hedrick visiting relatives Corporal Jas. D. Hedrick arrived in Conway last week to spend some time with his mother and brother here at Hotel Grace. Mr. Hedrick is among the list of wounded in France. While in the thick of the fight in Northern France he got a dose of German gas and from the effects o( it he has not yet fully recovered. He also shows a limp in his walk from a wound received in the service. o TO OBTAIN BEST RESULTS FROM THE DAIRY HERD Milk at regular intervals. Feed at regular intervals. Provide shade for the cows in the Summer. Provide comfortable housino- fo* rows during winter months. .Keep barns clean and sanitary. Provide an abundance of succulent feed (turnips or silage) throughout the year. (live access to an unlimited supply oi* fresh water at all times. Provide an abundance of pasture, ' forage and roughage. | Keep feed troughs clean and sanitary. mi til. (YNOR WANTS THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL Proposal Made at a Recent Meeting of The Trustees of Institution. Horry, Jan. 19.?At a mooting last week of tho Trustees of the Horry huiustrial School to consider plans, etc., for the proposed now administration building an unexpected turn was given the proceedings. A delegation of citizens of Aynor appeared before the board and requested its consideration of a proposal to relocate the school in their enterprising community. Aynor is a new town situate in one of tho finest farming sections of the State, and has substantial brick business houses, stores, tobacco ware houses, banking facilities, etc., thai would do credit to much older places. It is situated seven miles north of Horry, the present location of tlm institution, and only six miles from the Marion county line, at the terminus id' the railroad from Myrtle Hoach via Conway, 1 lorry and other places. The Methodist Church, under whose control the school operates, is planning a great educational and missionary advance for the next few years. The recent session of the South Carolina Conference has recommended that $100,000 of the funds obtained in this drive be given the Horry Industrial School for its better equipment. The Eastern portion of the State is beginning to feel the acute need of better educational facilities. There are few high schools and no schools of higher grade in one-third of the State, and the rural population of this whole section is almost without schools which can prepare boys and girls for college or for life. The Horry Industrial School was founded a half dozen years ago by Dr. K. O. Watson and a number of other public spirited men of this section, with a view of at least partially meeting this need. With varying success this has been realized, but the lark of nniiinmont i? > enrinno embarrassment to tbc wider success of the school. .Aynor or any other community that should make an investment of a few thousand dollars in bringing an institution with so much promise as this one has, within its borders,.will do a great work not only for itself but for a better equipped citizenship for a whole section. o HAS SKCOM) CASK. Mr. and Mrs. Wei Ions' two children arc sick with the flu and this proves that the same patient may have the disease twice during the same epidemic of the disease; at least the facts point that way. Mr. Wellons says that his children were sick when the flu first broke out last year and the doctor attended them and the card was posted up by the health officer. While it is not stated that the doctor then said that it was the flu, yet it was understood to l>e the disease as everybody else had it. This time his children were attending the school and both took the fever with the disease again last Saturday and there is certainly no mistake about the diagnosis this time. o ?SHERIFF HAS SAW RIG. Sheriff Jas. A. L/ewis has a new saw rig that beats anything yet used in Conway for sawing wood by auto power. It is a very simple attachment for an automobile which transmits the power of the automobile engine through the crank handle straight out in front, and from a neat little pulley .1 belt is stretched out to the saw and tilting table. Cords of wood can be sawed in a little of "no time" and tho sherifl was doing- that same thing last Tuesday evening. The attachment can be left on tho car and the machinery started any time or the ear can thm - he taken from place to place ane used in sawing wood or turning other kinds of machinery. It is t great thing. NO. 40. CASES OF INFLUENZA CONTINUE TO INCREASE Week Brought no Serious Cases so Far as Reported WEATHER CONDITIONS FAVOR THIS DISEASE Other Places in the State are Seriously Aftlicted With Influenza. The cases of influenza in Conway and in the adjacent commuities in the country, continued to multiply last week; and so far as we can learn cases are still developing in families where there have not been any cases of the trouble before. By last Saturday morning five of the salesmen and other employees of the Burroughs & Collins Co., had been taken with the disease, this being one instance of the way the disease would strike one establishment. During last week and also up to the present time the stores of the town all close promptly at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and to some c-xtent this prevents the loitering of the younger element about the streets and in public places in the chill evenings. The state of the weather for the past two or three weeks has favored the development and further spread of this scourge. Most of last week was very cold, especially at nights. Toward the end of the week the weather was warmer but to make matters as bad as ever, rains began to fall and everywhere was very damp and disagreable. This condition is believed to be favorable to a rapid spread of the flu and the development of new cases. l?onnrfc lirni 1 rrVi + vo Uivu^uv VV VV/U w?y u* citizens from different sections of the county show that the disease is raging in many communities. The history of it has been that it would lull down for a time and allow every body to get off guard, and then all at once without warning, would spring up again, and often in places where it had not been before; but not always, for some of the worst sufferers are in neighborhoods where the disease has broken out about twice before. In Marion county conditions are no better than formerly. It is better in Dillon but in the country districts of Marion and Dillon counties the flti is making many people very sick. Reports from all sections of the 1 State show thnt th<* | - ?? ' valcnt Jn many widely separate! 1 places, if not more or less in all, and it is yet a serious problem for the health authorities of South Carolina. COMPULSORY EDUCATION NOW BEFORE COMMITTEE The Education Committee of the House of Representatives has under consideration the bill introduced by Representative Hamblin of Union, to provide for a system of compulsory education. The bill, if enacted into law, will require all children between the ages of eight and fourteen to attend some school, unless their health j makes this impossible, and the coni dition of health muse be determined by competent judge, properly appointed. It also exempts children 1 living more than two and a half miles from a school, and any child under twelve years of age living more than two miles from the school j building though children living within a mile of the route of a school ; wagon may not claim such exemption. Details of the enforcement of this measure, it enacted into law, will bo : in the hands of a Truant Officer for ' each school district. E| 0 11 Heed the teaching of adversity If you would avoid a second lesson.