The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 14, 1919, Image 1
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PRESIDENT WON'T
. VISIT SOUTH NOW
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'Decide^ Not to Extend Tour to
* This Section of the
jj. Country
I'LEAGUE OF NATIONS
| BIG ISSUE IN WEST
|*M.r. Wilson Will Confine Speakp
ingl\o That Part of
,? Nation.
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"Washington.?It became known
mere today that President Wilson will
/not he able to visit any points in the
'South, including Charleston, Colunij
bla and Greenville at this time.
J -This decision not to go South on
the contemplated trip over the coun1ft
ry is due to the fact that in the I
I/opinion of the President's advisers it
|ji.<:best in the interest of the League
Bofj. Nations, that the West be gone
rf'oyer now, leaving the South for a
later time..
t' There is no <langer to the League
j'pl&ns in the South while in the West
jufider the attacks of Senator Borah
-.and others there is considerable hosJtility
to the plan.
( It will be a disappointment to
jmany persons in South Carolina to
know that the President will not visit
them in the near future. Plans were
ne.lng made to have the President
*it Greenville at the first reunion
)i' "Old Hickory" men on September
and urgent invitations had been
j^xtended him to be there by both
.Senator Smith and Senator Dial. Had
>^t not become imperative in the infr:erest
of the League of Nations that
(Jj.he western sections of the country
Le visited at this time. The President
r.vould have gone to South Carolina
'vithout doubt.
Germans plan?
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Commissioners Discuss With
French Representatives
| Methods Operation.
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I Paris.?Several commissioners hav- j
^ng to do with reconstruction and oth- i
work in connection with the Ger- I
nan delegation went to the Paris offices
of the Eastern Railway today to
ta>rk out with French commissioners
(he railroad schcedules for the trans- <
icrtation of a large number of Ger- 1
jnan workmen who will , be. assigned ]
fo rehabilitation of operations in the
northern and eastern departments of
France. 1
' Doesn't Attract Germans.
Berlin.?Better food conditions do <
lot ttract German workmen in large 1
nough numbers ti corry out necesary
reparation work in France, ac- s
|ording "Neue Berliner Zeitung" I
dircjjf estimated that only one-fifth *
f the men needed may be expected
o volunteer. The newspaper said
he remainder probably must be con- <
cripted. i
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B George S. Price was in Conway \i
no day last week. I
BONGRESSCANDIDATES.
E SPEAK HERE SATURDAY
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The candidates for congress from j
he 6lh di^ffrict, to fill the place made
acant by \the recent death of J. W. j
agsdale, will address the voters of .
lorry at Conway, on next Saturday
.ugust 16th.
The campaign opened at Florence l
Hn last Tuesday.
The car ls and advertisements of ]
ie candidates for this office are ap i
caring in this paper.
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HIGH PRICES DUE
TO VICIOUS PRACTICES
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President Tells Congress How
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Down.
Washington ? President Wilson
laid several specific proposals before
Congress today for checking the high
cost of living but at the same time
declared .permanent results could not
Im expected until peace times could
be fully established after the ratification
of the peace treaty. High prices
the President told Congress, were not
justified by shortage of supply, either'
present or prospective, but were ere- j
ated in many cases "artifically and
deliberately" by "vicious practices."
Retailers, he said, were responsible in
large part for extortionate prices.
Strikes, the President warned the
labor world, would only make matters
worse and those who thought to imnlv
threats of coercion were only prcpar-1
ing their own destruction." Leaders
of organized labor, the President said
he was sure would soon yield to
sound and sober thought.
"Illegal and Criminal."
"Illegal and criminal" were the
words of the President used in characterizing
the methods by which some
present day prices have been brought
about.
Present laws, he said, would be eneigetically
employed to the limit to
force out food hoards and meet the
situation as far as possigle, but to
supplement the existing statutes he
specifically urged the following:
Licensing of all corporations engaged
in interstate commerce with
specific regulations designed to secure
competitive selling and prevent
"unconscionable profits" in the method
of marketing.
Extension of the food control act to
peace times and the application of,
its provisions against hoarding of
fuel, clothing and other necessities of
life as well as food.
A penalty in the food control act
for profiteering.
Cold Storage.
A law regulating cold storage, lim
it'ne- the time durinir whirh ?mnd>;
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may bo hold; proscribing* a method of i
disposing of them if held beyond the
permitted period and requiring that |
when released, goods bear the date of
storage.
Laws requiring that goods released
fiom storage for interstate commerce
boar the selling prices at which they
went into storage and requiring that
till goods destined for interstate commerce
carry the prices at which they
left the hands of the producer.
Enactment of the pending bill for
the control of security issues.
Additional appropriations for government
agencies which can supply
the public with full information as to
prices at which retailers buy.
Early Ratification.
Early ratification of the peace
treaty so that the "free possesses of
wpply and demand" can operate.
Immediate steps by executive agen
des of the government promised by
the President included:
Limiting and controlling wheat
shipments and credits to facilitate
the purchase of wheat in such a way
as nbt to rise, but rather to lower
the price of flour at home.
Sale of surplus stocks of food and
dothing in the hands of the government.
The forced withdrawal from storage
and sale of surplus stocks !n
private uuiiuS,
General Recommendations.
General recommendations included
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Increase of production.
Careful buying by housewives.
Fair dealing with the people on the
part "of producers, middlemen and
merchants.
That there be no threats or undue
insistence upon the interest of a
angle class.
Correction of "many things'* inrc<pcct
to wages and condition of labor.
In concluding the President made a
plea for deliberate, intelligent action,
reminding Congress that an unbalanced
world was " looking to the J
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY
CARLOAD OF SUGAR
FOR DISTRIBUTION
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Governor Cooper was advised by :
the Louisiana Sugar Commission that
one carload of sugar had been al- j
lotted to South Carolina to meet the
present emergency.
Immediately upon receipt of the
telegram, Governor Cooper advised
the commission that Mayor Blalock
of Columbia had been designated to
receive the car and would distribute
this shipment of about 100 barrels
wherever in South Carolina it might
be urgently needed. A lot of 15 cailoads
was turned over to the commission
by the United States equalization
hoard, and one car is to be sent
to each State in the South for canning
or other emergency ne4ftls.
"WORKANOTAVE"
SOLVES PROBLEM
Washington.?"To work and to
save" is the remady for the increasing
cost of living pointed out by the
federal reserve board,
j In reply to an inquiry from the
senate banking committee, asking if
it was advisable to attempt contraction
of currency by legislation in the
hope of reducing prices, Governor
Harding wrote Chairman McLean
that tho rrnwtli in tVw? vnlnmn /\C
culating notes was the effect and not
the cause of advancing wages an J
prices and that the water period of
finance would not be over until government
obligations now carried by
the banks, were absorbed through
the actual savings of the people.
BELGIUM PLANS
TO OPERATE FARMS
Owners Will Be Paid Five Per
Cent Interest for Their
Use.
Brussels?The Belgian government
has undertaken a vast project for reelaiming
the devastated farm lands
in the battle zone. The farms will
be taken over from their owners and
worked under the latest scientific
principles and then returned in firstclass
condition to them. Owners are
to be paid five ner cent intnwvt
the pre-war valuation of the property
during operation by the government
which however is prepared to purchase
the land outright in the event owners
do not desire to keep their farms.
King Albert will fix the limit of op
oration of the project which is designed
merely to hasten in the national
interest the restoration of the vast
territory laid waste by shell fire.
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A. P. Floyd spent last Saturday
here on business.
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NEGRO IS ARRESTED.
A negro by the name of Moses Dray
ton created trouble in a community
near Conway last week, and a warrant
was sworn out by a colored farmer,
Ernest Graham, so that the officers
managed to overtake Drayton
as he was about to make his escape.
The charge against him is criminal
assault. He is a bright mullatto negro
about twenty-eight or twentynine
years of age. He was arrested
by Constable H. N. Sessions while '
his way to catch the train at some j
of the stations un the rr?nd. nr?H V>o I
was lodged in the County Jail last
Thursday in default of bail.
* ?Herbert
Hoover, head of the interallied
relief commission, has stopped
all relief supplies on their way to Bud
apest.
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United States.
"We, and we alone," he said "no>v
hold the world steady. Upon our |
steadfastness and self possession de- !
pend the affairs of nations every- i
where. It is the supreme crisis?
this crisis for all mankind?that America
must prove her mettle."
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AUGUST 14, 1919.
FEDERAL GAME ACT
CAUSES CONFLICT
Federal legislation has changed the <
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wjjuu oua^uii mr snooting doves from
September 1(5 to October 1(5 as the
opening- dates for sportsmn in South
Carolina and therepy brought about a
conflict with the State law, according
to Wade Hampton Gibbe, State game
warden. The South 'Carolina law was
mde to conoform with the federal mi- ?
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gratory bird treaty act bv the 11)10
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general "assembly of the StatOe. but 1
[since that time United States agents
I have notified Mr. Gibbes that the
open season under federal law is
from October l(i to January 31, inel i%
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sive. This is a direct conflict with ^
the old act of tlie government which
was adopted by South Carolina. Un- '
dcr the old act and the one adopted
here the dates were September 1(5 t-> [
December 31, inclusive.
PAClpCFLEET :
IN HOME WATERS:
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?i-ifj HniiTiciin armao-i
?the greatest that has ever turned a
propeller blade in the Pacific?came 1
today to make the seas under the '
Sierra and Cascade slopes, its honh. !
Ik an inspiring naval parade Admiral
Hugh Rodman's newly created fleet '
passed in review of Secretary of the '
Navy Daniels and governors and 1
mayors of Western States and cities :
aboard the crcuiser Montana anchored
off rpronado beach, while thous- (
ands lined the shore to aid the welcome.
Six miles of war vesseles, 31 in
numbers-some of which had held
guard with the British in the North
Scapswunig past the reviewing shin,
firing the dreadnoughts' salutes of 19
guns in honor of the secretary of the
navy as they came abeam the Mon- (
lana. It required one hour for this
vast fleet of dreadnoughts, battl - '
'.hips of lesser typo and 21 sleek an 1
peedy destroyers to pass the wel- '
coming party.
The war vesel turned in shore by
the Montana then stood away to the (
southward for three miles, came
about and steamed in to the northwest
making almost a complete circle (
and then the dreadnoughts look up '
their anchorage off the beach while N
the battleships and destroyers came '
into hte bay. )
MORE FOOD STOCKS :
THAN LAST YEAR:
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Storage Figures Show 20 Per
Cent More Now Being
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Washington.?Although prices of '
practically all important foods have '
shown a substantial increase during ?
the last year, stocks of food held in <
storage on June 1, this year were ap- i
proximately twenty per cent greater p
than those held on June 1, 1918, ac- c
cording to a memorandum showing <
the relation between figures, and f
prices issued by the federal trade ^
commission. Government stocks were \
excluded from the comparison. i
"The fact that stocks of many im- i
portant foods were much larger on (
June 1 this year than on the same t
date Inst. veai\" said the commission's \
statement, "while prices were as ]
high or higher, apparently means >.
that they are being withheld specula- , t
lively for a world demand which is ' j,
not now here but which is expected j.
when hunger impelled strikes secure j
higher wages with which higher food t
prices can be pushed. h n !{
To show that the "law of supply (
and demand is not working," the com *
missioni listed eight staple foods \
which on June 1 showed an increase ;
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:ii siocus wiuinciu i roiTi um manu-i, |
vanning from 3 to 298 per cent over j
stocks on June 1, 1918, anil in each >,
instance there was shown to have j
been a substantial advance in the \
wholesale price during that period. ]
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POTASH EMBARGO
LIFTED BY BOARD
Senator Smith Wins Fight for
Farmers of The
South
Washington.?Senator Smith % of
rJouth Carolina, who appeared last
>veek with Senator Krelinhuyseen of
Slew Jersey and a delegation of farm
'is before the war trade board to
.irge tlie lifting of the embargo
igainst imports of potash from ene*
n\ countries, was informed by the
n>ard that from this date such imports
might be freely made from cvm\
source except Hungary and such
parts of Russia as remain under Bolshevik
control.
Retention of the embargo until October
was demanded by produiers of
trona potash and other American pot
ish interests, their expectation bein^
that by that date congress would
wive provided a protective tariff and
that their own production would be
equal to domestic demands. Farmers
ipposed this policy on the ground
that prices of potash were ruinous
iml that some of the American potash
had wrought damage to crops.
William Banks of the South Ctrolina
lepartment of agriculture exhibited
photographs taken in the Pee Dee region
of his State, showing many instances
of such damage. Heretofore
potash could be imported only under
certificate of non-enemy origin. The
heard has also by the order issued today
raised the embargo on sugar and
oa wheat and wheat flour, the control
of the atter two items beipg passed
to the director. "r~l'
Representatives of the American
Potash Producers' Associatioon told
the war trade board that to lift the
embargo now would enable German
syndicates to make cont racks for
uppling the American demand years
in advance at alowcr prices than th<
\morican infant industry could meet
ilthough with a minimum of five
rears protection the American proli.cers
believed they could supply at
acst half of the home requirements.
Nebraska producers said that if the
imbargo were continued until October
and freight rates put into effect,
vhich had been practically agreed to
>y the railroad administration, they
vould he able to resume operations
immediately and would eventually
make American agriculture independ
>rt of Germany in respect of potash.
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It will he welcome news to all forncr
Clemson men and to the cadet.*
is well that Lieut. Col. Joseph M!
Cummins will again be commandant
>f cadets at Clemson.
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HAS MADE BOND.
E. V. Jarrott, a colored fanner of
?Moyds township, succeeded in making
>ail here last Friday and left th<
ounty jail where he had been conined
for about a week under charges
if assault and battery brought
igainst him by his wife.
Stocks of frozen fowls showed a maxmum
increase, of 298 per cent and the
>rice despite this* fact increased 3
ents a pound. Wheat stocks showed
an increase of 174 per cent with
in increase in price of 31 cents; floustocks,
an increase of 21 per cent,
vith an increase in the. price per bar
el of nearly $3.00; egg stocks, ar
ncrease of 9.8 per cent with an in
mease in price of 11 cents and but*
;ei stocks an increase of 129 per cent,
vith the price soaring 12 cents ahov
est year's figure. Salt beef, canned
almon and canned coin completed
;he items in this table, the latter
showing an increase of 91 per cent r
stocks with an increase in price. ,
All dry storage stocks, according
x> the commission's figures, showed
in average increase of 124 per cent
3f these not listed in the above table,
stocks of rye increased 346 per cent:
mrley, 207 per cent; buckwheat flour
>27 per cent and canned tomatoes, 202
>ei cent.
Increases in other cold storaf?
docks were shown as follows: Cured
>eef 103 per cent; frozen lamb an
nutton 91 per cent; frozen pork. 2
per cent and pickled pork 10 per e'er.
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NO. 17^
RAILROAD STRIKE
HURT CONWAY TRADE
Tobacco Buyers Called Off by
Manufacturers Only Temporarily
TOBACCO GROWERS
ARE ONLY DELAYED
Will Take Care of the Weed
Until the Market Opens
Again.
The strike of the men in the repair
shops of the Atlantic Coast Line at
Florence and other points injured
business in this section of the State.
The mechanics and helpers in the
shops struck about ten days ago and
after the strike had been on for several
days, empty freight cars could
not be had to take the tobacco away
from the depot. For some time the
hogsheads piled up under the
freight sheds and buyers were fearful
the tobacco would ruin on their hands
before they could get it to the drying
| houses.
Last week this condition was growing
worse when notices from the tobacco
companies to the buyers stopped
the sales at the warehouses until
conditions were better.
The action taken by the buyers ?o
nut off the sales until later was taken
last week, too late to publish in
the.Jderald.
| The tobacco growers determined to
pack up what they had at home and
by careful handling preserve it in the
best ways they could until the market
should open again. This is confidently
expected in a few days.
Strike conditions began to improve
early this week, and bv Tuesday al'
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most all of the shop men had gone
back to work according to reports in
the daily papers. This indicates that
after a few days conditions will he as
they were before in regard to freight
cars and the tobacco sales will be
put on again, very likey by next
Monday.
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HAS FINK CROP.
The first open cotton to be brought
10 ine Herald office this year came
from the farm of B. L. Buffkin, of
Bayboro, who has six acres of fine
cotton as well as fine crops of corn
and tobacco. Mr. Buffkin is making
quite a success this year on a farm
that lie bought recently, and from the
products of his crops he will clear at
least half of what the place cost him.
Thirty-five acres are cleared on his
tract of land.
T0BACG06R0WERS
MEEUTFLORENCE
Situation Caused by Strike to
Be Discussed as Delays Are
Feared.
Florence.?A meeting of the South
Carolina Tobacco Growers' Association
has been called for Wednesday
at noon in the Florence court house
to consider the situation caused by
plnsdnrr fV?r? tnKo/.n" "? ""
-n win h/uhvh' uuti u11 at*
count of the shopmen's .strike.
The meeting waf-*Hllf<^ by N. A.
McMillan of Mullifis, vice president,
at the suggestion of Bright Williamsen
of Darlington, I). UCoker of
Hartsvillo, J. W. McCown ' of' Plor-'
cncer and others. J. W. Berger, secretary
of the Pec Dee Tobacco Warehouse
Association, has requested every
market to have a representative
there and C. G. Brown, secretary of
tl;e Florence Chamber of Commerce,
has taken similar action with the
boards of trade in several counties,
including Richland and Charleston. It
i< hoped there will be a large attendance.
The meeting is regarded as
b< ing important.