Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IteB^wsd for Indeterminate Pe ; j^d With Delay of Three Pays for Denunciation of It. IS FLANS THAT HUNS " MUST CARRY OUT TERMS iS p^i^d Foch Statement Declar ?~. ~ ~ , ?. v * ? ... ; ^ ^':*'|ig:Gehnany Knew of Serious r . ? "? - -'A-y' - . '?- *...-' ; Consequences Involved. J'^y'r ?? - -Parjs, Feb. 17.?Marshal Foch this ?'-?f^gnoca informed the supreme coun cil .bfxthe acceptance by the Germans W t^e.-conditions for a renewal of the J;:;*'*rinKtice. . ^arshal Foch appeared in person be^pe the council of the great pow ?:..-4^r?..today and announced the accept -.aiife/and the signing by the Germans ~ ?of^the new conditions of the armis tice: . p.; - -T?he signing .took place at 6 o'eloek . * Sntfday evening on board Marshal ..... Eocfrs private? car at Treves. i JChe. aliening averts what promtsad i to-be a lather, crittca; situation as -;t ; has bee^^reported that: the Germans m^gjbt-persist in carrying out their ? Jntimatioiis of a refusal to sign. * ::?*j*oe new terms .while- still withheld, X : understood to- restrict German ; operations against. Poland within cer .. tain "fi2ed lines, thus rremoving the $?pg<*r Of a military clash/and at the > aarne time opening access between the i&tertor of Poland and the Baltic sea. / ? \ *f$fet. more important .results will take form shortly when Marshal Foch . returns to Treves for submission of - /j^* details of the disarmament and : dj^ipbilixfttion of the German forces i i^n^h.arc being-formulated by the ? r^^ftry,-; naval and economic advisers Of .J^cb. These are of a nature ?^qir?hting in fact to a preliminary ?$fi&- agreement . -;''AT^afraament is understood 'to in .??-jS^?fdiftfboth the naval and military : branches .and the naval authorities Cjpeet the ultimate naval terms will provide for the - dismantling of the J^rti?eat'ons of Heligoland and the JEJel canal, the canal being opened : f^ commercial navigation. / ?"]fFh41e the blockade is not raised by tlfe present terms -yet it is expected ?;ha-t the disarmament under later'and at/hire compete- terms will-obviate the ?^altv of a further blockade and ^l^nit1 ^K?h^economic. and food relief a&7& determined fnp'on.. ? .^ke.. council of the great powers to 4f?-:$SL?e a further hearing on the ? $t?9raan question; but no decision was ij^pbed. Ihe'feeling $eems to be gsu - that no decision is |n sight and iba$ none of the pending plans offer much, -of a prospect for arriving at a -'&{Jffecrp>y vsolxjtion. ,-. - V f$ Signed Sunday Evening. ^Copenhagen, Feb. 17.?The renewal of - the armistice was-signed at 6.30 ir/clocfc Pnnday evening in Marshal #aehrs private car, according to a dis j&tch received here from Treves. ?The following dispatch from Wei ?i?r gives the German account of the signing of the armistice renewal: ^THe government instructed Herr Sftsberger to sign the armistice, but b?5w*e "dohag so to hand to Marshal jaGfch' a vi-ritten - statement declaring ?tha? ? the ? German government was -stWa** of the serious consequences in v?>lt%d in either signing or rejecting *he^ agreement. Instructing its delegates to sign, it does so with - the conviction that the allied and as?sociated governments ; fare endet.-voting to restore peace to die world. .CTThe t'erman government is oblig ,- efi - to define . its ? standpoint to ward throe articles, first, the agree ment entirely ignores the German soyernment which has arisen in -in orderly manner from the will of the people. It imposes in the form of curt orders, provisions for the evacuation fa^favor of the insurgent Poles, of a number of important places, including Bjrhbaum and Bentschen. Although w?. are ready to cease all military ag gresive action - in Posen and other, regions y>e must expect the Poles to refcifree^ the line x>t demarkation: oth erwise; we must be authorized to de fend'ourselves by-force. "Seeond. Germany promises to car ry out those armistice terms which she hitherto had not succeeded In do ing, , but she venures to assume that her obligations will not be interpreted in a-manner incompatible with Presi dent* Wilson's principles. We must wait/and see whether we are in a position fully to follow the contem plated instructions of the allied su lpi*eme command. '?Third, objection is raised to the point in the agreement giving only three days' notice for its denuncia tion?' ... \ Same of the Conditions. > Trevec, Feb. 17.?Under the new terms for the renewal of the armis tie?,\as presented to the Germans byi Mirshal Foch, Germany must aban- \ Con all offensive movements against \ the Pojes and aiso must prohibit her troops Crom crossing the Russian frontier at a certain line. ?The" lice of demarkation between Gerznany and Poland is outlined as) follows: "East ..of Grosser Neudorf (south east of Brom berg), south of BaBis cftn, i?Utl. of Schodziesen, north of aSsin," (southwest of Bromberg), south/of Sann, north of Czarnickau (east of Xreuz), west of Birnbaum j and Bentschen (west of Posen). W?ll stein;' I/ssa and north of Kiernszow a^'thenca along the frontier between Siiesia and Poland. (This line of de niarkatioo gives to Poland a consid erable part of German Posen). It was provided by the allied terms ? that the armistice must be renewed! ?br>an indeterminate period, with a fixed delay of. three days for the de- j nunciation of it. The old terms of the LUNATIC WOMEN INJURE CAUSE l Came Nation Suffragettes Dis gust the Members.of Equal Suff rage League. COLUMBIA NOT PLEASED WITH ABUSE OF WILSON Interest in Cotton Holding and! ! Acreage Reduction Campaign i Increasing. Columbia, Feb. IS.?The members of the Columbia Equal Suffrage League are. about the maddest people in town today. They declare that they have a right to be and lots of people agree with them in their as sertion. They say that much of the work that they have done in months has been killed by tbe visit to this city yesterday of a bunch of militant suf fragists. . The militants are traveling on what they call the "prison special" and are visiting .the principal cities in the South. If they make the same speech es everywhere that they made here and the impression formed by the people everyhere is the same that was formed V-y the few: people who heard them here they will be delaying fthe cause of suffrage in the South very much. A crowd of from fifty to one hun . dred people heard the militants speak \ here. They spoke on the street cor t hers ana only a few passers-by stop ! ped to hear them. The speeches were for .the most part a denunciation of President Wilson. Posters denounc 1 ing the President w re also distribut ed by the party. The Columbia Equal Suffrage League, composed of some of the most prominent women in the city, ^recently sent a communication to the local papers announcing that they did not sympathize with the National Wo man's Party under the auspices of which the speakers appeared here yesterday. Mayor Blalock served notice on tbe visitors before they began their meet ings that no disloyal utterances would be permitted from them. Members of the General Assembly who heard the addresses said that the suffrage cause had been hurt by the visit of the militants. The farmers of the State seem to mean business in their holding move [ment and acreage..reduction drive. A meeting of the central steering com mittee was held in-this city yesterday and J. Skottowe Wanamakcr, of St. Matthews, was elected chairman and J. Rutledge McGhee of Columbia j secretary. It was decided to make j February 28 "pledge day" and on that day, every farmer in South Carolina ! will be asked to sign a pledge to re jduce his cotton acreage one-third this j year and to cut the amount of ferti Ilizer which he proposes to use 50 per cent. Pursuant to suggestions made by W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve bank, in his speech here last week, a bill has been intro duced in "the General Assembly pro viding for the organization of a cot ton corporation under the Webb act to stimulate the European cotton markets. Mr. Harding in his address before the joint assembly declared the' states should do something to relieve the distress of the cotton growers as the selling price of their product is I now. below the cost of production, j The plan ? he suggested was the [ organization of two corporations, one i for the Gulf spates and the other for j the Atlantic states, these corporations {to become the selling agent in the foreign field. Mr. Harding said that all artificial stimulation of the cotton market could thus be eliminated . Booze Makers Are Not Whippedj Campaign Started for Referen-j dum Elections in Fourteen \ States. ! I- ?? Cincinnati, Feb. IS?Referendum elections are to be held in fourteen i States on the federil prohibition j amendment, according to an an-; jnouncement made by the National! Association of Distillers and Whole-j 1 sale liquor dealers here today. Ar-1 kansas is the only Southern State on the list. The distillers say they be- \ lieve at least thirteen of these States j will reject , the amendment, thus de- \ feating national prohibition. i */r More Pay for Judges j Columbia. Feb. 18.?The senate to-j day passed the bill raising the sala ries of justices of the Supreme Court to $4,f,<J0 a year and providing that until they become eligible for the increase they shall be allowed $1,500 j a year for expenses. The house discussed good roads legislation, taking up the bill provid ing for a special automobile license j tax for the construction of permanent roads. The bill was recommitted for certain changes and will be voted on i tonight. Doth houses met tonight, j The senate today rejected the bill to: raise salaries of senators t o$500 :t i year. - London, Monday, Feb. IT.?The j American steamer Xarragansett. which ran on the rocks off the Islej Wight F. ; ruary 1st. was refloated to day, j armistic'.* are to be carried out com-1i pleteiy fcy Germany. }; The German delegates reached1! Trevcs Friday morning and Marshal Foch arrived at noon. The first dis-j eussion was at 3 o'cloek Friday after- I' noon and was begun by Marshal Foch \ < Mathias Krzberger spoke first for the {< Germans. 1 ] Public. Sentiment of Entente Na- j tions Demands Conclusion of | Peace and Return of Troops. FEAR COMPICATIONS FROM j HASTILY MADE TREATY J Undue Haste in Concluding Peace With Germany May Re sult in Sacrifice of Necessary Fruits of Victory. Paris, Feb. IS.?Some of the en tente powers are planning as soon as the Russin problem has been dispos ed of and a few more hearings have I been accorded the small nations, to : take up the treaty of peace. Public sentiment in America, Eng land, Australia and Canada., has im pressed their representatives here of ihe necessity of taking steps for the return of the soldiers home, which cannot be accomplished entirely in advance of tbe conclusion of the peace treaty. The French government is fully aware rf this feeling, and expresses sympathy with the motives underly ing ?t. but there are fears of dan gerous cori\plications and the prob able failure to realize the necessary friuts of victory if there is undue haste in the conclusion of the peace treaty. GERMANS WHINE FOR CHARITY [Plea for Consideration That ! Crime's and Cruelties in War Debar Them Of. [ ASK AMERICA'S AID IN [ REMEBRANCE OF 1862-65 - [Says It Would Be Good Business I to Furnish Food and Raw Ma [ terial in Lieu of German Loan, j /_ Paris.. Feb. 17.?Among the decla rations of -Mathias Erzberger at [Troves, according to a Berlin dispaten j published. in . the Term.s. was one to j the American representative on the I armistic? commision that Germany j went .to the aid of the United States I from 1S*;2 to 1805, during the great economic crisis, furnishing money clothes, shoes and machinery. If the United States came to the aid of Ger many today, more than fifty years afterward. Erzberger said, she couW give Germany food and raw mater ials against a German loan and at the [ same time would be doing a good i stroke of business Erzberger said Germany was suf fering from hunger. He said doctors had mad^ known the number of vic tims of ;ne blockade. More than a half mi'hon men. women and children had died from exhaustion or the re sults of lessened capacity to resist disease, he said. He declared that Bismarck ?' amediately gave succor to Paris in 18"l, after the Franco-Prus sian war. Erzberger gave warning that Bolshevism would result from hunger in Germany. He protested against what he termed the oppression against every thing German in Alsace-Lorraine and against the encouragement given by the Entente "to the Polish appetite for coneuest." Germany, Erzberger declared, ha . accepted irresident Wilson's fourteen points lor peace, and the allies also had accepted them. Article II, he said, did not give to tbe allies the right to forbid the German people from de fending themselves against such en eroachme.iis as the Poles were mak ing. . T- o notes were handed to Marshal Foch by Mathias Erzberger when the renewal cf the armistice was taken up at Treves. One note concerned the j employment of the German merchant marine tor various purposes, while the other was longer and contained several requests, including the release of German prisoners and the main tenance of economic intercourse ' be tween Germany and occupied German territories. Will Remain in Office WYm. Elliott Makes Announce ment for Food Admin istration. Columbia, Feb. 17.?William El liott, food administrator for South Carolina, announced today in a state ment to county food administratrs inj South C arolina that the food admin-j istration will remain in office in this State. Tn ? food administration also) announced that stabilized prices fori cotton seed are'to remain in force, j a ton for wagon seed and $71 a ton in *yr lots. I Paris, Feb. IS.?-Equal representa tion for governments, employers and abor was decider! by the commission m international labor legislation yes-j erday in adopting plans for a meet ng of the proposed annual internal-:' onal labor conference. ' Jacksonville. Feb. 18.?The condi ion of Cob Bennett H. Young, past! commander in chief of the United' Confederate Veterans, who is serious- ? y ill here, was improved today. j, TAX COMMISSION WItfS BY 22 TO 13 Senate Kills All Tax CommissioL Bills?No Change in Law. SENATE AGAINST PROPOS ED CHANGE IN TAX BOARD Senator Moore Withdraws Sup port?Many Speeches Made in Defense of Commission. i _ i j Columbia. Feb. 20.?The senate will meet at 11.30 a. m. today. ! The bill to abolish the tax commis I sion was killed by a vote of 22 to 13 ; last nisht. v Senator Ketch in of Fairfield county , was the first speaker on the bill to j abolish the tax commission. The sen ator stated that though he had very modest interest in a bank, that the majority of property he owned was in land. He said That he could see no equality in paying so much greater tax on merchandise than on land. He declared that the time to hunt in visible property was alter the tax on visibio property had been equalized. "The tax commission," Senator Kctchin declared, "'should be siven an opportunity to perform its duties without having a big stick waved over its head." Senator McGhoe of. Greenwood stated that he was not concerned in so far as the personnel of the tax com mission was concerned. That he was not in the senate to represent a fac . ton or section, nor were the other senators, but that they were there to make laws for the State of So ith Carolina for all time. The senator said that were the bill under dis cussion to pass, the chairman of the proposed board would be practically an autocrat in power, lie emphasiz ed the fact that no charge of rtishon \ esty had been brought against the present tax commission, but that the objection to the commission was a difference of counties. "If you will let the tax commis sion alone, and let it work out its own salvation, our children and our grandchildren will call it blessed," j declared the Greenwood senator. Senator Alan Johnstone of Xew I berry made a thorough review of the I old tax system. The ? senator said J that though he was elected to the ! senate by farmers, that he was rep j resenting all the people of the State, j However, he said that he proclaim ' cd the voice of the farmers as only ; wanting justice done them. Senator j Johnstone declared that when the J commission has looked into the *sit j uation and tenderer! a report of its j investigation to the senate, then the j senate would know how to act. The i senator, spoke at length on his per l sohal knowledge of the chairman of j the tax -commission. He declared j that the chairman was a man who I knew the strugjrlrs of the people, and ja man whom the people ?recognized J as a friend. ? Senator Johnstone said that the { same God who made Moses had made j Jones and as Moses was not a mfag ! netic man. maybe Jones was not. but j as Moses had Aaron so Jones had j Derham and Query. He told of a conversation with a banker about Jones. The banker was condemning Jones, but when the matter was finished Jones was commended. This man had not been returning certain property because he feared other banks were not doinp: so. bnt when he found that Jones knew the whole matter he knew that Jones .would compel all to return and he was satis fied. . Senator Johnstone said that he fen it his duty to give a short analysis of the situation because of the utter ances upon the floor of the senate. Senator Moore said he' was opposed to centralization, therefore he was opposed to the tax commission of thr<'o, the law and not to the per sonnel. But he was afraid if the bill was passed seven men would be as BUILDING MATERIALS Lime, brick, cement, framing, lumber, skiing, shingles, composition roofing, flooring, ceiling, plaster, wall-board,, mouldings, dressed boards, fire brick, fire clay, valley tin, ridge roll and everything else necessary for any building. If we haven't got it. we will get it for you. Ask us about the building business. We will be glad to advise you. BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc., When You Think of Building. Think of Cs. PHONES 10 & 631 SUMTER, S. objectionable as those who were now j on the board. The situation narrow ed itself down to the law. If seven I were elected one could be elected ; j chairman and he would be a kaiser j and the others would come to Co i lumbia and perform their duties in a 1 perfunctory manner. He was one of the authors of the new bill, but he had made a mistake in allowing" his : name to be attached to the new bill land he was man enough 10 acknowl-j j edge his mistake. The bill did not I I change the law. The purpose of the i bill was simply to put one out and ! ? put in another. The people had ask- j i ed for bread and were to be given a i stone. Simply to break up three ! stones an?i give them seven. I Senator Alexander of Pickens said ! i he had heard no remedy wbieh ; ! would help the people of Pickens ; county. There seemed to be State- ] I wide oppo:-it ion to Jones, but he dfd j not s^e how the situation could j be Improved and he saw no reason to change. He had promised the peo ple of Pickens nothing and he thought -would deliver the goods. I Senator Puck said the authors of I the bill had not made cut a good car". If there was to be no improve ! mr "t why make a change? lie then told how rh' commission had equaliz ed bank assessments which as va , ried from IS to C3 per cent. It had ! struck a balance and after consider I able effort the bankers were con i vinced that the commission was I right. He did not know another piece of legislation in six years which j had done so much good. To abolish j it would be to set South Carolina ': back for 20 years. The complaint . against the tax commission came I from the counties with the big land i owners. Senator Clifton said he had been ; struck with a feature of the discus ., sion; it was a mere trading of i horses. The proposition was to swap the present law for the bill for the same law. There was no propo sition to change the law at all. The senator from Abbeville was to be ?admired by the senate for having the manhood after lending his name to , the bill and after listening to the dis | cussion to say that he would not jvote to change conditions. He had J been l>efore the tax commission and ; he had always been treated with ? courtesy. Adolph us Jones was a j unique character. He had known Mr. ! Jones when he was auditor of Abbe ville county. He was told then that ? Dolph Jones would make people put j property on the tax books. The people had indorsed him every time. He bc j lieved that if he had gone before the j people they would put him at the jhead of the tax commission. ? I Senator Alexander interrupted to say that if Senator Clifton could :make Dolph Jones smile on a moun taineer it 'would be appreciated. ! Senator Clifton said that he had j been amazed to discover that the! j present bill did not change the pres- ? ! ent law at all. I j Senator McColl said the commis , sion to be clectcfl under the bill would j be elected by tbe representative*-* of i the people, while the present board j were established in power. He said [that the intimations that tbe light on i .the tax commission was from a com-' | bination of large land owners and I corporations was without foundation j in fact. Of the ?70.000.000 increase j in tax values. S ;S.noo.Of>o increase i was on l:inds and $22.000.000 was on j corporations. i Senator Alexander asked what was *???*???? i im.m ACTIVE DAY IN LEGISLATURE The House Votes Down Evans' Thirty-Five Cent Cotton Bill. SENATE KILLS MANN PUB LIC SCHOOL BILL Upper Body Returns Several Bills to House With Amend ments. Columbia, Feb.'20.?The house of representatives'by a vote of 16 to 77 today killed the-bill by Representa tive II. H. Evans of Xewberry making it o misdemeanor o sell a bale of c?t j ton for less than 35 cents a pound. This bill was passed by the house I last night by a large majority but members f the house today voted it idewn by a larger majority. The sen j ate today killed the bill by Repre j sentatve Mann of Pickens requiring j all public schools employing two j or more teachers to teach tenth grade I students. The senate returned to the I huse with amendments a bill to pro vide separate accommodations on I street cars for white and colored ; races. The senate today received a portrait of the late Col. L. M. Koitt. ! Ail possibility of adjournment sine I die on Saturday night by the gener ; al r.rsembly was removed today when ;the senate decided to adjourn tomor ? row until Tuesday night. 1 _ ^ 1 ? 1 New Trial Refused 1 ? _________ Judge Landis Denies Appeal^olK^ Victor Berger. I Chicago, 'Feb. .20.?Federal Judge ! Landis today refused to grant a new tral to Victor Berger, congressman elect from Milwaukee and four other * Socialist leaders. Who were convicted of violating the espionage act the assessment in Marlboro county, and upon being informed that it was SI4 said Marlboro should not say a word nor should Anderson. On the motion to strike out the en acting words the motion was carried by a vote of 22 to 13, with'several pairs. Those who voted in the affirmative wen: Alexander. Buck, Butler,. Christensen, Clifton, Cross, John store. Johnson, Kitchen, Laheyi Lightsey, Marion, McCutchen, Moere, Padgett. Pearce, Purdy, Robinson, Rogers, Walker, Wideman and Wil liams. Those who voted in the negative were: Ranks. Baskin. Bethea, Black, Ponham, Dennis. Duncan/ Harrelson, Flough. McColi. Miller. Watkins and Wharton. On motion of Senator Clifton the house companion bill was indefinitely postponed. This ^nds all anti-ta* com mission bills this session. 20 Per Cent Discount Special beginning Monday morning, Feb. 24 and ending March 6,\we offer 20 per cent off all Mahogany, r/alnut and Oak dining-room suites, both in Colonial and period. The Cherry Company The Reliable Furniture Dealers 18 North Main Street Sumter, South Carolina