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; fl % ! ^ ' 4 I ;; VOLUME XXXIV. P WILSON MAY VISIT " I I SOUTH CAROLINA a V | President Considers Coming to 1 10 * Review the Thirtieth F Division t . ~ I .STATE'S SENATORS | GIVE INVITATION ' I ? Smith and Dial Among the First Callers Received at ? I .... x a " White House. r'\ I Washington, July 14.?President i Wilson today was invited to South i Carolina September 29, to review the 20th division, which helped the British army break the Hindcnburg line in front of Amiens last fall. The invitation was extended by Senator Smith and Dial of South Carolina. ,' 1 was understood that the PrcsiIf dent might accept the invitation later MJ should he be able to. I President Wilson today received a I number of Senators and representa I tives who called at the White House 2,' to discuss a variety of subjects. The KL visitors included Senators Smith and Dial, of South Carolina; Stanley, m- Kentucky; McKjcllar, Tennessee, and ml, King, Utah, and Representatives Ste venson, South Carolina, and Johnson, m Kentucky. } The engagement today were the 15 x first made for tho President since 1?^ his return from Paris. jj .WOOflROW WILSON AT WHITE HOUSE; 9 |j President Returns to Washington Home After Four L Months Absence. I Washington.?President Wil: on -c.|j tinned to Washington after an ; b-; I senco of four months at L\ ri p ace I conference. lie was aceompani .1 |t by Mrs. Wilson, Miss Marguerite| Wilson and by Vice President Ma [ft shall and most of tho member> < f his ; V I ' A. _ 5- 1 1 _ 1 1 Icaoincv wno greeted nun on nis a: iv- 1 al at York. The presidential party was greet d j at the station by a crowd of several j thousand persons who had waited \ for several hours. After brief welcoming ceremonies, the president and j Mrs. Wilson drove directly to the t White House. , Welcoming the chief executive | were representatives of the Non-ParK tisan League of Nations, the War I Camp Community Service and the r Central Labor Union and committee I of Washington citizens headed by I Commissioner Brown low, who cxII tended greetings on behalf of the K city. i* As the president and Mrs. W lson I left (Jr'o train shed they walked b > j nealh \i bower of flowers an 1 pa scd I ^0 to a waiting automobile betwe? n l^tog linos of ft-iris representing heraids while the marine band played. Plans to strew roses in front of the , ^^B presidential party at the station were j disapproved by the police. Hb At the city postoffico, adjoining ! HH| thp union station, a tableaux of Co- J l^jjnbia welcoming tPo president was illuminated by searchlight. A batHB talion of t yeowemon in white v.niHh forms also were present to gro t MM their commander in chief. CONTi'xbn INVESTIGATION. A. 6^-Sdmmcro of the State dcpartmemt of agriculture Wont to Darlington County to continue his investigation of crop losses, thought to be incident to the use of domestic potarh. Considerable iavestig tion II has already been mad?. Photograph ? are to be tahen of 1ho fields of cotton and tobacco which have been destroyed. frhr HARRIS PREDICTS EXPENSIVE COnON Will Go Beyond Figures of The Last Sixty Years, v He Says ?! ' Commissioner Harris has given out a practical statment on the cotton crop conditions. He says the farmers have won their fight for 1919 and should now get ready for 1920. Here is his statment: "I am a farmer and I have been watching the crcps closely for 40 years. I can say honestly that the | crops of cotton and com are at thin I writing in the most critical condition I have ever known them as to what I they will make per acre. Why do"I say this? "f irst wo will begin with the prep aration for the land for a seed bed. Taking it over the entire belt, it was one of the poorest prepared seed beds for planting that I have ever known. "Second, since the planting season opened until the present time, there has not been one week, all told, of ideal growing weather and the first 90 <lays of the young plant's life will determine whether it will yield abundantly or sparingly. The season must be ideal so that the plant may make good root growth. The roots of the plant must take good hold of the ground before it will make a good fruitful stalk. "Crops rarely improve after the 10th of July, as they are like a young animal, which, if neglected the first six months of its life, will never develop into what it would have done if it had been well cared for. If tlvc jains keep up through July, we know the cotton crop is cut short, and we also know that if the rains shut off and hot. dry weather sets in this, too, will he injurious. We are sure to have one or the other of these two seasons. So I say that the cotton crop will he cut, no matter which of the two seasons we will have. "Cotton can not recuperate from now until the growing season ends. H matters not what conditions arise, the maximum size of the 1919 crop is fixed. The only marked change will be deterioration rather than recuperation. "Now I wish to remind the farmers that they had been advis'd by the best authoriitos to hold cotton off the' market and it would reach he price set. Last week it did not sea h thai figure?115 cents. Some if the mills had to buy and I heard V spots in South Carolina selling for <V) cents. Conditions arc cepl rable, however, when spots se'.l for "2 cents in New York and October fu tines for 35 cents. This shows that the boars are trying to put a bandage on their bruised heads. "The farmer who has spot cotton on hand will be paid handsomely if he will hold this cotton until June, 1020. Of course, I refer to farmers who have their debts paid, for T would not think of advising farmers to avoid their indebtedness. This cotton will pay all warehouse charges, 8 per cent, interest and then bring a handsome! dividend to the holder if he will keep it until next June. "We will sec higher cotton in 1920 than we have since the War Between the States period. No one krows just what the top price will be, for wc have a world's famine; m cotton and the bear speculators l ave at last realized it. "The government "s crop c nd'tim report as of Juno 23 was 70 ;ci" con", against 85.8 last year. By July 25 the public will find that the condition report would be nearer correct at GG instead of 70. It is impossible, so I have said, fo rthe crops to recuojcrate in the next 20 days. The ra'ns ;ue continuing in the Western an 1 Eastern cotton belt States. "As the price has been set for the | IMS crop, and as our prediction as j to the pi-ice has been verified, we will pas; that up and will now open eui guns lo protect the 1C10 crop, to help to make it bring more money to the Sell tin than any crop that has e ver been produced, even though wo : <; not make more than 10()?y0,000 * * * ~7 conway, s o., thxjrsdayi ALL PARTS ENTITLED ^ TO EQUAL RIGHTS' I As to Building of New Roads and Spending Public Revenues, Says Subscriber. I Editor Herald:? In a recent issue of the Herald, there was an article relative to the roads, to be built or improved under the Federal Aid Road Act; and one individual offered $500 to the County to put Loris on one of these highway routes. Surely, this individual appreciates the value of good roads to his community, and feels keenly the fact of being- left off the map of road construction. The people of Loris and the North Eastern portion of Horry are no doubt thinking of how different things might be if Horry were cut in half about Gurley, with Loris the county seat of a new county, quite as large as Dillon or Marlboro. The rest of Horry will, also, do well to think of this when they are dealing' out the county's revenues which are collected alike from aii portions or sections of the Independent Republic of Horry County. Self interest is very alluring: but dangerously poisonous and some people have drank deep of the draught, anu will be laid at rest in due season. A disinterested person looking over the road situation in Horry county would take a very different view from those who have great interests at stake and also have the lines of government in hand. There arc several things to be carefully considered in mapping out there highways to oe built by Federal, State, County and Township cooperation: First, the Federal Government expects these roads to be laid out along the lines of our most traveled highways, which lead irrespective of Township, County or State lines, to the most important trade centers, whereby, the public interest will be most fully served. Snj'rtn/'l ill/ ! /> unrvlll/l lin nAnnni'o) inn between the States, as to which ones of such highways, should have first consideration. Third: These should bo chosciv to mete out justice as near as possible, to the people who are to help bear the cost of construction an 1 maintenance. Part of these roads will some day, no doubt, be National Highways under ''Federal control. Part, will be State Highways, or remain as such, and when we have advanced far enough, some will be classed as Farm or Community reads. Now the unwritten law of "all Roads must lead to Rome" will not vlo in our day of Democracy. Different sections have different interests? National, State, County, Township. Beginning at t the County seat and building as the spider weaves his bed -around self?is r.ot going to be toloiaicd by that portion of Ilorry County who help pay the piper and can't- see the dance. Tell us why a | great thoroughfare leading from j Charleston to Georgetown and Wilmington, should be built into one corner of the County to Conway and I then side tracked in the interests of ! special legislation, tell us why in j planning out the other three routes to lead out from Rome. The great highway leading on to the sea ports I of South port and Wilmington should jbe overlooked, ignored Notwithstanding this old King's Highway has the indorsement of J. Roy Penned, State Highway Engineer. Tell us why, when, two bridges across the ? 11,ales. "With the organ rzation of the American Cotton Association, which is now going- to be pushed to completion by August 25, and the export cotton corporation and the $400,000,000 corporation to finance distressed cotton, if there be any such, the people of the South will get their hands upon their own purse strings. They will say, for the first time in the history of the cotton belt States what their product will be sold for. The producer, when he has srch a monopoly, has the rights to say what he will take for his labor?as much so as the manufacturers have to say what they will take for thoir product." \ u IN JULY 17, "1919. SOME FARMERS ARE i DAMAGED RY POTASH I Coming From Searl' Lake, Cal- I ifornia, Other Sources Proved Good. Clemson College.?Clemson College authorities have investigated j the potash situation which has given ( trouble in the Pee Dee section, and have traced the matter to its source , in the use of Trona Potash, which 1 contains impurities injurious to crops. Mr. Bright Williamson, a prominent banker and farmer of Dai ling- ! ton, and John M. Napier, County Agent of Darlington County found trouble with potash in that county recently and reported the matter to Clemson College. Prof. C. P. Blackwell, Agronomist, and Mr. J. L. Seal, Pathologist, went immediately to< Darlington and Florence Counties where they met Dr. W. W. Garner, Chief of the Office of Tobacco and Plant Nutrition Investigations. The three studied the situation in the fields of Darlington, Florence, and Dillon Counties. They agreed that the very erratic seasons have caused poor crop conditions in parts of Florence County which some have erroneously attributed to potash. In Darlington County, however, where Trona Potash from SearP Lake, California, purchased thru a Charleston broker was used, very serious injuries were obseived on a number of farms. The Clemson and Government experts were convinced from field ex animations that this Trona Potad. is responsible for the trouble. Tho.isands of acres of crops in Darlington have been destroyed. Other sources of American potash have given good results so far as investigations show. Since nearly all the Soils of the Coastal Plains section o ' the State arc in need of Potash it would bo unfortunate to have all j potash indiscriminately condemned along- with this one source. Director Banc announces that exp< riments will be begun at once at the Pee Dee Station to obtain all possible information on the effect of this material on plant growth. Further study will be made in Darlington fields to assist farmers in securing data upon which to b: ;e claims for damages. These invc.-ligations will be reported as soon as the data is available. The legal a poets of the case will be considered by the Board of Fertilizer Control. There has probably been injury !o ciops from this same source in other sections of the state, and if fanner.j think they have this trouble they should consult their county agents, pi rr whom have been posted about the matter. Late in June Director H. W. Barrc | of the S. C. Experiment Station, attended a potato conference on Long : Island to examine tests of ail sources of domestic potash. Trona potash showed marked injury to potato . plants, and the conference developed) the fact that similar trouble was being experienced in North Carolina j with cotton, tobacco and corn. Similar trouble seems to have been experienced in several localities along the Atlantic coast. For the guidance of farmers Prof. Blackwell gives the field symptoms as follows. In tne case of cotton an I com germination is retarded or prei vented. Soon after plants which do j germinate are above ground, they turn white or yellow and die. To- j ibacco when transplanted turns light j J end soon dies. The roots are found t > be undeveloped and many dead. ' Tin trouble is worse where tobacco j beds have been knocked down, as this | brings the roots in closer contact iwith the poisonous substances. With all crops the trouble is worse on light | randy soils than on heavier soils. j Waecamav.' River in Horry Comity? | an upper and lower bridge?were promis'd, the upper bridge was n: v! or built? Tell us why, now, Lorfa, Simp en jCredk and f/t'lo River Tov.n hips nv 1 not entitled to some consideration mM. AUSTRIA MAY GET ~~1 PLACE IN LEAGUE Must First Show Proper Gov- i ernment With Will and Power. Paris.?Austria will be admitted t ;o membership in the league of na,ions as soon as the allied and associated powers consider that she possesses a responsible government with joth the will and the power to ful- . till its international obligations. The Austrian peace delegation has been so informed in a reply by the supreme council of the peuce conference to an Austrian plea for immediate admission to the league. The Austrian note embodying the plea was sent by Dr. Karl Rcnner, the Austrian chancellor and head of the Austrian peace delegation, to Premier Clcmenceau as president of the pace conference on June 23, and with the reply, was made public. The reply as follows: "The principal allied and associated powers note with satisfaction the adherence of the Austrian delegation to the ni'ftiprt. nf n lonmir* r?f nntiAno I g VV?^ V4V/ VL llUVIV/m> and to the principle upon which such a league of nations has been founde<l by the covenant embodied in the conditions of peace. They were glad to know that the Austrian government shares their view that the establishment of such a league will conduce to the maintenance of peace in these parts of the world which hitherto have been centers of international frictions and mi: understandings. "The principal allied and associated powers have taken into careful | consideration the demand of the 'Austrian delegation for the admission of their country as an original member of the league of nations. It has never been their intention to exclude Austria for any long period from the league; on the contrary wi ?h to reiterate that it is their hope and conviction that the lecagud will at the earliest possible date include all nations that can he trusted to cm' ry out tho ol ligat ions accepted by members of the league. "They must point out, however, that in urging the claim of Austria to membership in the league as immediately necos nry to the safety of their territory, the Austrian delegation have used some arguments whim; appear to indicate ti at they have not fully appreciated the provisions of the covenant. But they recognize, .nevertheless, the strength of the claim put forward by the Austrian delegation. They fully appreciate \no cvuiencc, wnica i y tr;3 atuiude which she has hither o cb c ved, Austria has given of hor good intentions. They see no reason why she ah01.1 hi act apply for admission to the 1'v'iio, in nccordan o with the provision of Article 1 of the covenant, at the earliest opportunity that may piesent itself after the raiifiaclion of the treaty of peace. "As soon as they are assured that Austria possesses a responsible government and tit is government has both the will and the power to fulfill its international obligations they are prppared to support Austria's candidature for admission to the league." when the Motor Tax, County and Fed oral Aid moneys are to be spent in Bridge and Road Building? Self interests should not bias those who are charged with the duty of rep resenting Horry County in spending the people's money and if the Tnv.n -.bin Provnt.m R.ond T,nw has not h<> mi appealed surely, we have the right and should have the courage to demand our own. If the laws arc sucl that we have been hoodwinked again some one i& responsible and will b held to account for it. Just see what Cue Eastern portion of Horry Coun t".V li,l? lir?r>n /lonird fnv T r? tUrr. VJ ..%?? .^VV. X% VI H r> many years. It was Conway int r~ot that cut the bridge down at Wo/tham's Ferry and it is Conway interests that has 1; pt it down ever since Oti this account, Little River ha been denied a quick mail route from Loris and made to wait two day? fo mail to come via Conway. Loris has I en denied the upbuilding which Ihij bridge would undoubtedly give NO. 13. rOBACCO markets" open in horry Mong With the Other Markets of Eastern North and South Carolina GROWERS COMPLAIN ABOUT SAND LUGS Better Grades Brought Good Prices on Opening Sales of the Weed. The Conway Tobacco Market opened on last Tuesday with big sales at the four warehouses, the sales beginning about 11 o'clock and running' until a late hour in the afternoon. Only an estimate can be given of the amount sold in the county as the figures from the warehouses were not available in time for this week's issue. At Conway there was at least one hundred thousand pounds disposed of on the floors of the four wa rehouses. The sales consisted largely of the primings or sand lugs, and a look at the piles on the warehouse floors shewed that even these bottom leaves had, in most instances, been gathered while too green in order to save them from drying up and being entirely lost from the extremely dry weather of some weks ago. Very little of the second gathering was offered on the opening sales here and the same is said to be true of the other markels of the county. The prices realized on the. opening sales, as compared with those of last year, showed that the primings or sand lugs of low grade brought an average of about one third what this grade brought last year; but the bettor class of first barns and small quantities of second gatherings, when ever offered in these opening sales brought two thirds as much as likegrades brought last year. It was stated on good author ity that there was another drawback to good prices on the opening sales, and that was the fact that two or throe of tin* leading factories had no buyer; hero for the opening rale -, as they would not send cut their buyer- uuf'.l July 20th, the time when they wanted the season to open. Many complaints were hoard about the prices last Tuesday by farmers who realized low prices for the primings and who no doubt compared these with the high prices ttcy got last year for about the same grade. It is thought by many, however, that the grade of the sand lug:; this time is nothing* like as high as this class ot tooacco was last year, owing to the. dry woathm* which prevailed just before the plants were ready to begin to ripen the bottom leaves. Paper towels in rolls at the Herald ofTiec. o A Mitchell car of the six cylinder, touring car type was driven into the river in this county recently where it remained until taken out of the water and turned over to the acc'der.t insurance company who had insured the machine against damage by accident. The damage was regarded as rather large and the company decided that the best thing to do was to pay off the owner and take over the car, and this was done. The car has since been sold to a citizen her. it. The people of the interior hnvo been denied a great advantage rn I the cast side of Ilorrv has suffered accordingly. High River means prac. i a / vagoi nnr 'n o * 1 VlV?.?ttJ 11V VI tHI i 04 V*U . UVII injustice continue while we sit idly by anil see the last opportunity flip? Conway has its bridge and road to the coast. The Southern portion of the County is well provided for. G've Levis a fair ileal. She asks for no less. Exempt these Townsli ps from the County bonds or else give, ur> representation. Protests are in o dec. Let men speak their convictions. 1 ?Subscriber* y %