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VOLUME XXXIV., LAURENSt SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Ili 19180 UBR2 WILSON CROSSING TO ATTEND PE Goes In Interest of World Peace CONVOYED BY FIGHTING SHIPS Greatest Demonstration in istory of New York When President's Party Ateams Out from New York Harbor. Convoyed by Super-) read naught Pennsylvania and Quintet'Of Torpe do-Bout Destroyers. Now York, Dec. 4-Bound on a mils sion, the principal objects of which are the abolition of militarism and the at tainment of a just world peace, Wood row Wilson, the first president of the United States to visit. Europe While in office, -was tonight speed ing across the Atlantic toward France to attend the greatest international conference iII history. On the transport George Washing toin, one time German passenger liner, ianned by a. naval 'convoy crew and (leck guns ready for action and aceom palnied by a Iivy Convoy. the presi dent left New Yor-k hiarior today a1i( a dimlontstraition without parallel in the history of tle paort. The plres;ildent tool( his place on tle flyinn; bridge as the great sii moved down tle -hIy. Hi ver craft and ships of many nation dipped laugs and toot ed whistles and thouisands of persons bade him God-speed il cheers and flag wavings from skyseraper's and jpiers. Off quarantine, where Staten Island throngs iwaved and shouted a second farewell, and monitors, gunboats and artillerymen at Fort Hamilton joined in saluting gunfire, the George Wash ington met its ocean cnvoy-the sui perdreadnntight Pennsylvania and a (ittintet of destroyers. With her oll clal consort mnd ten other destroyers which joined tile fleet for a cruise tc the Ilmit of American territorial wa lers, the George Vaslinmgton disappear ed over the eastern horizon shortly after n1oon1. Mr. Vilson left his native shores acord int to ersons Who coniferrev w\,fil him before tle George Washing tonl sailed, dleterminled against mtilitar Iism in any foritm. i1e feels that tIhi e(rlushiig of 1Prussians militartiisimi is par of his plani for the fitile 1peace of th<4 world, thecse intformants said. Greeted ly lM1euttluig Soldiers. in emihiasis, it seeime(d, of Aimerleta' part in bringing about German's down fall, the presidential party, outhoundl met somne of the Amerien hosts re turning from overseas. Two thousand home-coming aviatioi troops oi the Lapland checred th George Washington as she left lie pier, and outside quarantine the .Nlii nekahda was sighted, steaming up th harbor wvithi more than 3,000 soldier as passengers. 'In command of Admiral Mayo, th peace sqadron is heading, it is ur (derstood, for Brest, an .American d< barkation pert in France. Its date< arrival is uncertain but a quick pa sage is not reqiuired, as ample titr remain for conferences preliminaryi the main peace assemblage. Off tl French coast the president will 1 welcomed by a tsqadron of Anmerica hvarships. British, French and Italif ships5, also, it is said, will join in I greeting at sea, which twill be folloi ed by a succession of official cerem nies marking the passing of the Ame lean executive to iParis, to the w front, and presumably to the capita of Great Britain, 'Belgium and Ital Presidential Party The liner's passenger list contal a group of prominent names, probal without parallel for any single voya in the annals of shipping. tWith the president are two of I fellow delegates to the peace confi ence, Secretary of State Rlobert 'IA sing, and Henry White, former ambi sader to France andl Italy, who n join Coi. 19. M. House and General Ta ker' H. Bliss, already in Europe. qepts of the eoiof %* i ' e cluded the Fr-each and Italian amb sadlors, John 'W. D~avis, newly appol ed ambassador to Great Britain. h naval and niilitary authorities, rep sentatives of variotus government partments and a staff of specialists advise the American peace commiss on problems of political, economii : ATLANTIC CE CONFERENCE COUNTER PIROPOSAL MADE TO POWER COMPANY BY CITY City Fathers to Meet Again Thursday Evening to Consider Power Contract Further. The City Fathers held their regular bi-monthly meeting Monday night, the greater part of the meeting being devoted to consideration of electric power when the present contract ,with the IReedy River Power Company runs out in January. Mayor Babb laid before the council the proposal of the Reedy River 1Power Company for renewal of the contract on the ba sis of 3 cents per kilowatt hour, iwith a minimum charge of $1200 per month, the power conmpiany to have the ex clusive right to sell power to con sumers operating motors of over one fourth horse power. After long de liberation over these terms, council concluded that the rates submitted by the' llower. company wpre too high. flid a counter prolposal was ordered Imiade to tile 1poWe'r compally. Inder' the ('otiltlr prIiolosal the City Would pay the power company 2 cents per kilowatht hou'111( and the miliui haige wol(l be $700 per Iloith, will Iie city hin t4e exclusive privileg(' to sell urrent to all motors ipi to 1. horse p~ower. Counill mwould also de ny the right of the powei company r1111nte'lent and ow'iers to eceive IpOWer' over the city lies without any charge ther'for, and would also pro teet itself from any damage to pr'op erty due' to the company's negligence Inl providing a regular flow of current. 'le (details of the*contract, whiicIi is a very lengthy document, is app'rox Imately the same as the present con tract, except as 'to the 'basis on which the current used is to be charged, the old peak load system being done away with. Mayor iabb stated to couniell that lie had made investigations as to Ilhe cost of overhauling -the present plit in case the city could not comlie to terms with the power copilny, and that lie ilgiured that this cost would )t% around $17,000. 'pon a question from the floor, .\r. J. J.. l'hilp~ot, city cleCtricialn, state'd that he had be'ell ad Vised that hIle estiim Ited cost. ol' generAling power ourri'eit Would be bet ween,' $17 and $18 per horse piower, hl that he did not know what. costs \ere included In this estimate. The city at p Ire is paying $.50 per lio'se-flower for' its current. Council will Imneet again Thursday - night to receive the answer of the power coimipany to the counter propo' - sal and to take what steps are neces nary to ensure a current supply when 1 the present contract expires. Other matters acted upon by coun r ci iIncluded a decision to b1'i'oro - $5,000 to tide tile city over until taxe C commence to conic in toward the flirs 5 of the year. 'hatter discussion of th<i ilnancial affairs of tihe city developet 0 that -the iwateomvorks department ham an extra burden of about $600 a monti to btar since thle big lpumpi broke f down,. last year'. On account of th< -high cost of coal and poor conditlo1 e of tile steam 'boilers, which latter hat 0 more recently been remedied, the cos e0 of operating the steaml pump Was ver; e expensive and had to be added to th n cost of tile electric power, which ha n to be' paid for anyway. O ~Cuncil fixed the license for opern ~- ting fruit stands on thp streets durn ~the Christmas season at $l.00 per dal r- Mr. E~. W. Copeland presented a pm in titton through the mayor for the cat is cellation of a water bill against hII y. for $2.68. The bill was for water cor suimed in the old 'taylor hlousie on til as hill in the eastern section of the cit, ly It developed that SIr. Copeland an ge Mir. D. El. llarnett had been allowed 1 'ir. dIeff Taylor to tap his line ande tis three secure water from the ~aan ri- source. Water running through t1 ni- meter to the threce -houses had not a is- tually exceeded the minimum char' ill of fifty cenlts al month until Ia is- -month, the 01(1 Taylor' house bel empty, a lar'ge amounlt of water w in- wastedl .thrnouigh a 'broken llpipe. at- tradie and r'acial characteristics of r ghi tions affected by thle war, re- Mirs. Wilson, together with thle-wiv [e- of Secretar'y Lansing, Ambassador 1] to vis and the French and Italian envo ion are members of tho George Washli =ai1. ton's company. WIN PEACE WITH- FOOD. Again, 'i full confidence, I call upon the American people to set aside Sunday, December 1st, and the week following, for the consideration of America's opportunity for renewed service and sacrifice. Last summer, when the military situation was acute, we as sured the *Unter-Allied Food Conference in London that what ever the war-food program of the Allies required we were pre pared to meet ; that the Conference need not consider whether or not we had the supplies--twe were prepared to find them; we pledged ourselves by -the voluntary economy of our people, to have the reserves in food to supply all necessities. The end ing of the war does not release us from the pledge. The same populations must be fed, and until another season has passed they cannot feed themselves. The change In the foreign situation necessarily alters the details of our food brogram, because the freeing of the seas from the submarine menace renders accessible the wheat supplies of India, Australia and the Argentine. The total food deniand ipon the United S'ates is not diminished, however. On the contrary, it is increased. In addition to the supplying of those to whom -we are already pledged, we now have the splendid opportunity an dobligation of meeting the needs of those millions of people in the hit herto occupied territories who are facing actual starva tion. The people of lielgium, Northern France, Serbia, Rou mania, Montenegro, Pol and, liufssia and Armenia rely upon Anerien for imiediate aid. We niist also participate in the preservation of the newly liberated nations in Auistria; iior Can we Ignore the effect on tihe flittilre world developlietis of a falline: condition 11 am1ong those other people whomi we have rle ently i reeased from ouilr eneiIies. All these consideralions iieaii that u pwards of 7001 iillion people, in addition to those we are already ileded to seive, are nov looking to its in thi (1r Im isery anld falil'o. Our1. appeal today is thell refore larger than til fornier appeag l 11 he. var con..i lce' of ouir people. The nl\w appeal is to tei "world consencte", which m utst he the gtildinig ilispiratain of our fIturie prram. The Presil 8n1t of1 the I'lited States has asked ile to take eliar;', for this C overn ten I of lthis work; to ieifeCt ald en ilar e the arralgeielts for foodMuffs to the pioillat ions of HIel giluim and Franece now being released, and to organlize and de termin1e the Ileed of provision to the liberated peoples of Souith ern P'Iiuroipe to prevenlt such debacle as has talken place in Russia. The (let3111n1111iig factor for the success of such all enlarged appeal will b the vivid consciousness ill every individual in each coiiminity of obligation and oplortunity. It is tha. coonlIlillil recognition of obligation that we now wish to create. Such an intelligent "world conscience" ii the American people muitst ie tih(' imai n dependence of the striken u011nltries of tie world until n1orl-1 condiitions" ar-e once more restored. Alterila, by helr participation in the war, ha:; acconplished hot objectives of sef-defenute and 'of vindiciting the etlliciecy of a governmiilt ii which tle twoPle, and tite P0ol olly, are sove re itn. She has established tile foundation of gove ne'l nt11 1I by tlhe peopl throtughot tthe eneliy collitries, a. this is tlho real ilwark of wvorlid Ieace. \\' ha;Ve yet to btIil( Oil heSe 1flettins. No govroamlIt iorl 111on tal stanli if lit peopl '1re Stri. \\e ima0 dlo Our part it' the World be no1 ('(11 Sa!:ned in a ltme tof 8n r bltciy. 'l'he .\mei'eein ttroph-le, ill tils olist eritical 1triol Of their hitsiory, hav lilt opIortu it.11.1Y to deiontstrate ntot Otly Ili a!ility to asstst iln esuihiitshing ptace (Iln enrlih, itI also tillti constcratio, by seilf-detilal,. o the (auseo of slIfferi tt humtit. HERBERW~iT 1100\ I-P. was this lwastage that Mr. Coplald "Pete" Hudgens Severely Woui received a bill for and twhicl lie asked Afte' (ays of hard tighting on to be cancelled. When the bill w:' formally brought 'before ite council it liindenburg line, Calt. Robert was pointed out that the ord ilia nces Iludgens, of Headquarters Co., of of the -city forbade the distributioni of I18th Infantry, was severely Iwo water to two or more separately own- ed by a bursting shrapnel, infli ed premises from one meter all the nineteen diferent wounds on his 1 mayor thereupon issued an order' to rknambigtewrt the water wvorks superinitend~ent to no--cn alga eot 111a tify all the property owneirs that they poigfs nalrts opt would have to have separate mneters Frovnge. il tiis opt and each one lpay the minimum char'geFrne Sper month. "Pete" Uuldgens, as lhe is mor' Alderman Hellanms broutght to the milliarly knownt, is a graduate of attention of the conneil that lie had Citadel of the class of '15, a nati received numorouts complaints as to Mountville and grandlson of the automobiles blocking 10ast 'Main street tCol. J. Washui Watts. lie serve din front of the garage near the depot. Sergeant-Major with thie 1st. S. C Council was not ready to wrestle withl tional Guard on the Mlexican b the automobile parking question yet and wvas gIven a commission as gand the matter was dropped -without a tain when thle National Guard motioncalled to the colors in the Spri 1917, being then just 21 years 01 R1ev. Mulliken Goes to Peizer. lle later succeeded Capt. G. 11. M Rev. W. L. -Mulliken, who has serv- nwMiia tjtato h s ~- ed as pastor' of the Methodist churchReintanbfo'gigov wvas assigned to the comman to at the -Imurens 31ills for sevetral year's, -edater Co, i ti 1f was ranfetred o te Plset chrgeJust thIrty days before sailing h td at the recent meetinig of Conference ty in Chester. Rev. (Mullken' alpastorate mridt Ms lao tni .11 here has been full of good work and' mao retvl ~e hIs congrogaution reluctantly gives himi For tht'ee (lays prtior' to being wv ie up. The chutrch that lie goes to is a ed, Capti. Uuldgens; tw a assign c- larger one than lie has nministered to commflanid of Co. (1, theo Fort Mill ~e here and his appointment there is a pany, twhicoh renidered fearless a st recognition of faithfutl service and his fective service in pliercinig the HI ~g powver as a preachier. butrg line. Itnfotrmation is that __________________tihe Hieadl~itartcra and For't Mill as It Corp. Hunter Woutnded panIes suiffere'd heavy casuotie: Mr. and Mtrs. 0. L. Hutnter, of Ora, lng thlese (lays of ilhtintg. a- have been notified 'by the authlorities that their son, Coi'p John P. Hutnter, 3Medlock-Pinsonl es who is ini Company D, wvas severely Mr. and Mt's. WV. F.'Medlock of a- wounded in action on Oct. 2nd(. Corp. fain Inn, annountce the engagen ys Hunter was under tihe draft age and their dlaughiter, Cora Belle, to Mi g- volunteered for service son after war cie Wyatt P'inson, of hleltoni, tht was declared, ding to take nlace in December. MEMBERSHIP IN RED CROSS URGED BY THE PRESIDENT YOUNG M1AN (!M031*-"1'8* Campaign Next Week for John Martin Allows Passenger Train Members to Run Over Himt Yesterday. John 'Martin, a young man of tie EVERY AMERICAN Watts Millso community, committed suicide by throwing himself in front ' URGED TO JOIN of a moving passenger train on the C., N. & b. Railroad yesterday after- "httiietliti Need for Ilvery heartening noon after having attempted to end Work, Says the Presitlett 111 ('11ll his life with a knife about two weeks Ing on Eiery American to join tie ago. The tragedy took place on the led Cross "atd Send Forth to the curve behind the Watts Mills prop- World the Christntait Greeting for erty and very near the Laurens Mills. Wih It. Widt. According to the engineer the young Vasiugton, Dec. s-i'tesi(icni Nvii man was sitting on the track as he 80t1, ill a itotda inatioll made public to came arounti the bend going down yailed on (very American to join grade. Several children were al'so the American Red 'ross Christrualk nearb'y. he eigineer blew his lwhis- ll Call Week,' Iecember 16 to 23, tie several thies to give warning and 'iti thus Send forth to the Wvlole ll slowed up his engine to avoid rui i ng 11, fUimly tile Christmas greeting for, over him, but just as the engine got " clt it await a foi W It 1(1 it Stanis miea r him the young" manl stit thed ill "eatest Need.' orlive poeamation, out ats the rails and ai lowedl the pr,"d betayse t(he President depated eugin t' to ipass ovetr iin. The eniune rolt Ettlope, follo ws: \\'as brtought to a hait asiyas u qk yt Aran it In te . o possilile and the mialglel ottR eto "and Send rhtts. liriti' N'i.'S pticl(lylVit ill. 1\\t) andtii V~.is tiii'tily extint * \24 tlit "Oe yctir zzio 22.titiui,mm u~''ts 1'1,t dit''('iP~l I :iWorldiCitaetathristmas., rti ng fort i' li I li it.iS t tal- iHIW e . hi Wa Iis Was n toni, ai. 8lle o'isdf h ir of ~tt'.atol tl IS. Aidisn ton, in a proclam tiont imatepi tt)11 o-l I, day, enlle o eery tmei t o' jon th Almerica n111 Rd s .Chr itma "n thus nti forti a te w hle -I tne i f I th i t a sI I ig r It oin f i e'rt' itt u iio u. which i Ita i and tn forh i ch it ata giinds o ut a c o s t h e ai l e a d All w e t h'rp r d b te th e (r sse n t tal e o nn s th oci a ss over h . h w aett, Sin l' t .titr tr t o f ol e st, :t i was t b r merh toni halt as ifel in "T (1 lhe \\'o t of Wa h o , t . lie .,d posl. nti hN M n. led f orm t ill - t remi . oi cet's it' Im t it) i r gin t Iu t fr o eneath te w . e .,1 tAl the ilati a it n itit t here thl a well tuighit of th . A i- w etpl : o o htlly was a ra tiat el tn. dkrt'tw Olocnd bu ..' 1 ee tt 1 tt eel the o Citurral to plat,1e at te baities ~' of th''iie a!o tlty andtof, theI-iit l ins Jli Wfhs, oh oody . s r wit oi neyl r. American se, o i n ta, of isit te ' , tiaj. . A . atts, wda alrea1dy' tnd ctwihente h e the a' Cill - atitile 14 M jr. Ai't'ov of~ , ani e by enroln a ttetVr o the' f ite d t .oyed manin N. V.,last Fridi amlong ( sOss t I of ( eshieda tos ll d:j thet The doieaseolid othe ity litae at-t 0itogautfteasoitdgv iln ende the o'lok Hi'm st of i tit Cay i'o p turns, hI th(ee is .1)Ititt Ca l l-et ro linh anwstit the barli mey Ct' e' httingo wtho and e 11alun y a ffore t s o m t ie u'coe at I tt v h . \vu p I to 1itd tlie e h it is a t u. h. e al tuon i t s ag or soinabi) t ts a i ou il - din le ws iapii' tariedtoMis ~'tter stil utodewtl' Thdey ntde ihv to upt h Ils, lf o ead ingham, N. sek - h so gloy of 11w on Mif. oldn Rt t and that were oft Crosr ii f i n t hotisan e r. he bod hh e . to . . Wlle PILL NOT Aal K trc choic 111 ut "wth lteir ganv __________ II(.)toreove,-..II . r; returnin bo1" tod, he ye of Menit~rlt~l) Dtrni. utac that dterminatisof nout pol a 1n11n amn the e Miti he 0in te ai a of bya War Con.i fte, ta llitI tas ahead. Let its, s fai N r,E ha Ise ". WtatnTS n1.hi hlp tht b(k1to rfa thaianer Tde' he ooine e tt-' no a vorf 1 . vly h elh 'invd r and110' Wuink' al1rnsh Cap to h eaes exts Wt do fre the of th aiya I n of the h Croes con wsr filos atoldi .ern trn, wth h thyorlse i ths gete hu. of the ita . fo lenohiatieonlynt survvtn th son11 of she Ameaged fCoss the Aia aof Assope Juti . . Watt, ned h e oli. uI nde lad f ever Annil athn tted Ad hoespothisa i i tthe xact 3en vomloy of h eRed for1 okshm . C.,wihheas stas'h"t ia mon- ands workus estorth torthlle th eadnl beleved tht treancwere hoaitiaulhy the frirnathip greetn -o brouthrhee amgnsd 's ewhich . ade amid for wic it syd the fune l to ple t the- anule a ' of0 in gerie o te whotueedin W. t tie -r the srvices we So- Tenilwos glor ;ire i'o hser"ite of Woeand a altv. an T. tiai e p tr nfi fom' dY . oe Preay tialln hurche and Cose It eN, bl Gd'.mse vcep ted earo Con- hi.. ' y oftill he la eed 1- ~i rr ~a'es aMll village i:-, i e ate - tef .nvritertay. oeer, JTri , e a1t Wa sldglto s alour sating ie ver.to rese t \\'. . .\ 001an. Isp ptl i im' i, .;u-vaey e i ma rid oni Aibg I: , .tdra. they l zinen .tar ua w i ey ha l ordehm ed ti Iete- s lInesns. in .om l'i' hica . t. a. i'ot ta.rison w m~ t -ine mb hi tile! Then dte'o ng s twatit aboicet,-nytv the last d in tc m,.. \\it - wri t no entro ofa-.--i mother____- 'Nov. her.e'Pmo lclsielvto ('ns and thie C il Mis was yetaohildond Clnospent wori thrae t mriasisi perm avenen wed-seteofahi by d days hereit ls witha :reu set tho lmoo futhe it tnew injt theiiendeesthefUnisersiryhofoltut Caro