Students Askf?e movalM Dr. Curreil Petition Calling for Resignation $f Present Presented to Trustees of S. C. Uni?ersity Columbia, March 18.?At meeting '?f trustees of the University of South - ?.Carolina today a petition signed by X?6: ont '6t 246' students asking the resignation of Dr. W. S. Curreil, the pr%ident, was presented. The trus tees went into executive session to consider the matter. The students allege that Dr. Ciir ieiji is' unfitted for the ^office, but made, no" charges against his charac ter or scholarship, it is said that . trouble has been brewing at the Uni versity for" sometime. Governor Makes Appeal Designates Bays for Jewish Welfare Canvass Columbia, March 18.?Gov. Cooper yesterday issued a proclamation des ignating April 7, 8 and 9 as Jewish war relief days in South Carolina, and calls upon the people of the State to- respond to the appeals for starving peoples in Europe. The proclamation reads: For centuries the great majority of Jewish peoples have been oppressed BpBtically. and in other ways have been harassed. They have had no na tion, and no home, except under the dominion of other peoples. But the. Jews, have not allowed their race to . be;..Jost, Respite autocracy and the ^^jFiendiy. attitude .of many of their European rulers. Palestine, their an cient, home, has long been under the heel of the cruel Turk; old Russia, -where, approximately half of the 14, 000,000, Jews of the world resided, i was none too kind to them. Auto- j . crxi.?c Austria-Hungary where anoth-j .eV million lived, gave them small op portunity for self-assertion. Rela tively few Jews have enjoyed the freedom of England or France, and only some 2,000,000 to 4.000.000, enjoy the freedom of the XTnited ^States. ; The Jews have subsisted ' in the j hope of a better day. The dawn , of j that day is at hand, for rights of the! smaller: peoples have been written! into. ..international ethics. But the! Jews ot Europe can not see nor at- j tain, the end in rags. Their plight in Poland is pitiable, as it is in other parts .of old Russia; neither do those residing in old Austria-H.ungary enjoy fu?.opportunity. ... Haying given generously to ? va rious war funds and haying fought well in the battle lines, the Jews of .America now ask their Gentile fellow citizens to come to their assistance. They. can not alone rescue their .brothers in Europe. Their appeal to "the,populace as a whole is a worthy' appeal. The world owes much to the Jew of old and to the Jew of today. Therefore, I, R. A. Cooper, govern or of South Carolina, do designate j April. 7, Sand 9 as Jewish war relief days in this State, and w.e call upon the. people, to lend an attentive car to ^e cries , of distress from the Jews in Surope. fax Payments |C Mist Be Made! Installment Privilege No Longer %-2j r Applies. Washington. = March 17?Persons} ;;.%ho have neglected to pay the first in s^Hment of income taxes last Satur day have lost the installment payment privilege- and must now pay their en tfrc tax upon demand of a revenue collector . :To avoid the penalty of 23 per cent, j in addition to the regular tax, per-! sons "who failed to file returns Satur day may now submit belated returns Vith a. sworn statement of the reason for; delinquency. Without this the penalty will be. imposed. These policies announced today b Internal Revenue Commissorier Roper, are intended to grant a degree of len iency to those who for some legiti mate reason failed to file their returns when they were due. By law, how ever the installment payment privi lege is removed from all failing to make payments on time and the in ternal revenue bureau has no author ity to change this provision. A revenue bureau statement in ex planation follows: /?Revenue cllectors will accept all delinquent returnes presented after March 15 and deposit any payment made therewith. Under law failure to make first payment by March 15 auto matically makes the whole tax pay able immediately. Tax payers filing (rre make re turns or payments on time. In some cities, according i '? -? ? ? I Booze Dies Hard j Brewers Go Into Courts to De-1 ? feat Prohibition ' i ? - - New York. March 19.?A local j brewing company, bringing a test j suit in the interest, of the United I States Brewers' Association today] applied "to the federal district court j for an injunction restraining the col lector of internal revenue and the United States district attorney from beginning any proceeding to in terfere with its contemplated produc tion of beer of two and three-quar ters alcoholic content. Phoned Aeross Atlantic Marconi Company Established Communication. Between Ireland and Canada London. March 19.?The establish ment of wireless telephone commu nication between Ireland and Cana da- was announced today by the Marconi Company. Study American Methods Czecho?Slovaks Sending Com I mission to this Country j Paris, March 10.?The Czecho | Slovak republic plans to send a _-ora mission to the United States in April j to study American methods of Indus- j try, social welfare and sanitation. JEWS IX PALESTINE. Organizing for Government and Gen eral Improvement of the Country. Jerusalem, Feb. 1G (Correspond fence, of The Associated Press)-rA ! call to a Constituent Assembly of j Palestine Jewry approved by the I British government in April 1918. ;has been sent out by the Zionist Com j mission in Palestine, it was announc j ed here today. All Jews of both sexes who have roached their twentieth year are en titled to vote and all who have reached their twenty-fourth year are [eligible for election. One of the other j qua.'ficat ions necessary for candl j dates is that they wiil be able to read, j write and speak Hebrew, j The provisional Constituent As sembly ejected Dr. Cham Welzmann arid Mr. Xahum Sokolchv. the Zionist i leaders, to represent them at the j Peace Conference. It instructed its delegates to urge.: "Thai the powers should nominate) I Croat Britain as their representative! j or trustee end should confer on it thej government of Palestine with a view} ; to aiding the Jewish people in blind ing its commonwealth. ? '"That an executive council should ; !;c nominated by.-Great Britain in |agree"men< with tin- World Zionist j i; ??anizaiion representing. t!k> entire j Jewish people." There has been great activity] amongst (he Jews oi Palestine since [ General All'en-by Creed it from the ? I Turk: Efforts are being coneentrat-j f?d on procuring agrieultiial ma chinery, the purchase of liv?> stock.; and development of credit facilities,i i wl.ib- the American Zionist MedicalI Unit is .establishing hospitals and I medical aid stations in the colonies, j Everyone ."-'?(?mis* inspired with the j hope rh.-r a splendid era of prosper-1 ! jty, of big agricultural, industrial and ' ' comnioTfi.il enterprises are about to opr-3) out. A society of Jewish entri? I heers has been recently started which is working In conjunction with so cieties of Zionist engineers in Russia and the United States, Ten Cent Cotton Liverpool Expects Farmers To Act as Usual '?Liverpool is expecting: to buy the j 1019 crop of cotton at ten cents perl pound," said Commissioner Harris yes- j Xcrday. ''Believing that the South) will plant a large crop or at least nor - j mal one this year, Liverpool, which is i one. of largest markets in the world \ is counting on a very iow price. The j information is reported by a Liverpool j dealer who has. just come from Eng- j land, And this is just exactly what j will happen if cotton planters o.'.' the J South do not heed the warnings of i thoso who know conditions. ??.Time and again it has been proved I clearly, that a 10,000.000 bale crop has ! brought more money than a 15,000,- j 000 balcerop, Why should the farm er raise 5.000.000 bales of cotton for nothing? Just look at the waste of time and energy and of money, loo. "In 1918 the government urged the farmers, to plant a large acreage in I food crops. It was necessary in order j to win the war. In spite of this great j opportunity and disregarding the ap- j peal of the government, the farmers (. j the South planted the largest acreage ; in cotton that they ever had; and if good Lord had "not cut the bales the j South would have been ruined. It has! been well said that He has a special ; providence over children, drunkards: and fools. "I hope the farmers will do right; thing this year. Our farmers have j b*cn warned of the disaster that will I befall them if they do not give heed j to the advice of those who have i.een ' watching the ebb and flow of condif \ tious for many years. Now what is the | right thing to do? Her?.- is the advice of the combined thought of the leaders of .tjie South. "Hold your 1918 crop until the price J reaches 35 cents and even then sell1 sparingly. Cut your acreage 33 1-3 i per cent. Ji" this is done, we will win the fight-and save the Smh from bank- i ruptcy and slavery. ; "Investigation shows plainly what: the South has been.losing annually by; th?! slipshod method it has had for j selling cotton. The Soui-h lias been! losing annually $180^)00,000. 1 can! prove this and may do so at another time when space penults. Can this' system of selling he changed? It cam : How: By organization and cooperat ion of the farmers, backers and bnsi- '? ness men of all classes. ? "Have we ever had over production! of cotton? 1 would answer, ho.' but; We have had under-consumption, as 1 j will prove. There has been no over- j production so long as our people in the South have not enough clothing! when the weather is cold and bad. It : was not over production of cotton that j caused the price, to be low?but under ? consumption of cotton goods. It is o ? fact, strange as it may seem, that; the farmers who produce the j cotton and the labor that spins and weaves it into cloth are the most poor ly clad people in the country, as a | rule. There has not been one family irt j fivae hundred that could not have used j three times as much cotton goods if; their real needs could have heen met, but the price of cotton was so low. th?"-j product selling at cost of production, j that no money was left to purchase j clothes. 1 have known many a farm- j er to have not enough money left to i buy even one garment apiece for his j family after he had sold his last bale, j "When is the system of cotton go- \ ihg to be changed? It is starting Inj aow. in 1910; and in 1920 the farme'-1 will have, the privilege of saying to the world; 'You will give, me my price.' j How is this going to.be brought about? I By the organization and cooperation i which I have pointed out, and by i sticking to it. ? "I will say to the farmers, when this | is done, you will break the Hindenburg ' line. The bear speculator,* or tho Huh, j is about ready to sign the armistice, as ; h* must have cotton to deliver to tho j spinner who is calling for cotton as] the supply of the mills is very,. very j low and they cannot spin wind con- j tracts into thread and cloth. Now' ?.vhen he puts cotton up a little bit. b don't take, the bait. Sit stoady in the: boat. Have patience and detennina- j trion and it will come out all right. Peace League is Harmonious I New York, March IS.-r-The League j to Enforce Peace, of which William i H. Taft is president, issued a state-! ment tonight denying that the organ- i isatlon is split by serious differences' Of opinion among oi?cers and men- j hers over its endorsement of the Par- ' is covenant of the league of nations. ".Since the league announced its in dorsement," tin* statement declared.: 'only eight members have resigned . our of a total list of 30*0,000. h\\y three of these, are officers." j .O00 j employees the bureau's pay roll now j is more, than $1,000.000 a month.; About 1,200.000 cheeks' for allot- j meats, allowances, insurance and compensation now are mailed month ly amounting in the aggregate to more than 840.000.000. Nearly half of this sum comes from the war de- j partment and represents soldiers' al- \ !olm?mtS. There is no shortage in the] f?/id? for allotments since this is de-I ducted from soldiers' pay. but the; funds available for allowances added j to the allotments aro limited. Secretary Glass explained to.lay! that although he has not specifically j recommended early reconvening of I congress to deal with this situation.; lie has presented "certain facts" inj regard to the government's financial; situation from which the president : may make his own deductions. !?> this connection it was learned today other eabiijcj nlembe.Js have cabled} '. im president reports of serious condi- ! tioris in their departments caused by j failure of congress to appropriate] fnmls. YfMrational Education Federal I?i>:ird Prepared to Givej j. Training Washington. March l!i.~-Tir..i,'L:ii (lie large donations to the gift tund authorized by congress, the federal; board for vocational education. w nouncfd today that it is now able to offer vocationa! retraining f<> Amer ican citizens disabled whl!?' serving ?; . tlie armies <>1' the allied nations. ! Paris March The chamber of! deputies yesterday authorized the re- i moval of the special fortifications :ibeut Paris erected shortly after the war began. j Railroad Labor Troubles - i Director General Hines Issues ; Statement in Reference To Strike by Clerks _ < Washington. March 14.?] regret to j learn that efforts are being made to: j prevail on various railroad employees1 i in the Southeast to quit the service j ! of. the government and thereby' j hamper the operation of the rail- j ! roads because of dispute which has! j arisen between certain clerks and: I their superior ollicers. I call atten- | j tion of the employees to the fact] . that adequate machinery has been I f provided by the United States gov ?? iernment through the railroad admin-! j istration to deal with all cases of dis-! putes and grievances and that em-j ployees ought to submit their griev ances in accordance with this ma {chinery and not otherwise. The j trouble arose through certain local j organizations of clerks on the X. C.! ! & St. Louis demanding- the imm.p-! ! rriate discharge of the Federal Audi- j tor of that railroad. These clerks did j not resort to Board of Adjustment j No. 3 which has been created in J Washington and which consists of four representatives of the employees and four representatives of the man agement and which has been created to deal with) alt such grievances. They refused to resort to. this ma- j I chinery notwithstanding the fact that] the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks! of which they are members agreed to I submit all grievances to that board j and has a representative on that j board. It is indispensable that these, problems shall be handled in an or- j derly way. It is of the highest im-j portance to the employees themselves j that this orderly procedure shall bej adopted in all cases and that they j shall exercise the patience and self restraint necessary to permit of the carrying out of these orderly prac tices. If this is not done the effort which the United States Railroad Administration has made to recog nize and promote the just interests of labor will be rendered unsuccess ful and ihr- employees who are re sponsible for interfering with this or derly process wiil put themselves in I a position before the public which I will react injuriously upon the em ployees and their future interests. I Every employer- who is asked to dis-j regard this method of adjustment and j who is asked to try to hamper the! government in conducting the rail-: road business is requested to r-onsider: from the standpoint of his own best j Interest the following points: I be lieve that any employee who wilt think over this matter will agree that during the last ten months more pro gress has been made toward improv ing the wages and working conditions of railroad employees as a whole than was ever made before. This has be?m practicable because the railroads have been under a unified management' which has had as one of its leading purposes the recognition of the just interests J of the employees and the provision of reasonable wages and conditions for them. The great improvements could not have been accomplished except through the establishment of a uni fied management directed by a cen tral administration. Necessarily con clusions must be reached in cases of dispute by the machinery thus pro vided. While in specific cases there may be some delay in dealing with such matters the delay is far less than would have been involved under form er conditions. In fact in the past, la bor movements have in many cases taken from one to two years, have in volved enormous costs to the labor organizations and even then have fre quently produced exceedingly small benefits. Whatever delay is incident i. to the method of the central admin- j istration is relatively small compared i, with the delays which would have been experienced under other condi-1. tions. No business can be success- . fully conducted without the exercise ( of proper authority and discipline, j This is true particularly of the rail road business. Ample machinery has j been created by the central adminis- j tration to correct instances of abuse i of authority or the exercise of dis- ( ciplihary measures in an unfair way. \ It is indispensable that these orderly , methods of settling these "questions ? shall be followed pending disposition ^ of these matters in the reasonable , ways which have been carefully work ed otit. There must be a recognition of authority and a submission to dis cipline. Otherwise the railroad ^ business would become chaotic and - the public which in the last analysis t' has to pay the bill would resent the ] resulting excessive cost and inerfi- , cicnt service and the reaction would j be exceedingly unfavorable to the , employees themselves. r I having an abiding faith in the in- j herent intelligence and reasonableness | of the railroad employees. In my ; early life l came in contact a great j deal with these employees in all ranks t of service and during all the rest of , my life 1 have been in touch with the , situation sufficiently to appreciate the (j capacity and intelligence of the; average railroad employee. I { therefore feel justified in ask-L Ihg these employees, as men of in-j. telligence ami reason, to think over!s these things in a dispassion- J t ,it;>- way and t" redouble their j efforts to make the Railroad i (. Administration a success by do-},, ing their work to the best of their t ability. by exercising patience ; and self-restraint where ques- j tions arise which call for set tlemcnt. and by accepting the! handling of ;i!l these problems! through th.- regular channels which! s have been carefully provided ?*?>? that ^ purpose By doing these things they j can justify am' strengthen tin- ; ?? at advantages which have come to labor since the United States Railroid Ad- \ ministiiiton began it:: work. If they j fail to do these things the> discredit ( the efforts ?-f the Railroad Adminisivn- j :ien. injure !h?ir own best inter.*sts and seriously hamper tin- efforts , f :iiose who are sincerely trying to con- j tinue t?> protect and promote the rea- v scnablc interests of railroad cm- ^ ployees. t (Signed) WALKER D. KINKS ( Director General oi Railroads t r FligKt Across Atlantic British Aviators Will Make At tempt to Fly From New Foundland to Ireland London. March 18 (By the Asso> ciated Press).?British aviators arfe to try for a flight across the Atlantic. A secretly' built airplane, accompan ied by Harry Hawker, as pilot, and Commander Mackensie Griee, Royal navy as navigator, was shipped front England yesterday for St. Louis, N F., frr: n which it will start at the ear liest possible moment in an attempt to win The Daily Mail prize of 10,000 pounds for the first machine to fiy across the Atlantic. The machine is a two seated biplanfc with a 37.") horse power engine. The fusilage is boatshaped and will sup* port the machine in the water. Hawker said he believed that the flight would occupy about 19 1-2 hours. The machine, he said, had llown 900; miles in nine hours and five minutes, on one-third of its pe trol capacity and is capable of main taining a speed of 100 miles an hour for 23 hours. 1 Harry G. Hawker won the British Michelin prize for 1912 by a flight of eight hours and 2?, minutes. He has made many long distance flights along the British coast. He established a, world's altitude record of 2S.5O0 feet in 1916. Newfoundland lies nearer to Europe than any other part of North Amer ica, the distance being about 1,900 miles. Money for Railway Use Hines Gets Fifty Million Dollars Washington, March IS.?Fifty mil lion dollars was loaned today to. Di rector General Hines by the war! finance corporation as the first ad vance for the railroad administration since it was left without funds.; by failure of the. congressional ' appro priation. Other loans will follow as rapidly as they can be arranged. The war finance corporation today also approved an application from the. Central of Georgia railroad for an advance of $1,121,000. These loans' are in addition to the $70,000,000 ag gregate advances made heretofore to individual railroad companies. The $50,000,000 loan was made to the di rector general as representative of railroads which the war finance cor poration considers essential war in dustries. Adequate collateral was given in the form of railroad bonds and notes. The loan was made at 6 per cent., the same r?-.te as is charged by the director general for most ad vances to railroads, and is payable July 15, with the right on the part of the director general to repay before that date. The loan will replenish the rail road administration's funds which were almost exhausted owing to Zieavy demands and the failure of congress to pass the measure appro priating $750,000,000 for the revolv ing fund. The railroad adminlstra* tion is expected to use the money for its more pressing obligations. RIOTS LX LAWRENCE, MASS. & Serious Clashes Between Police ^?^B| Textile Workers. . Lawrence, Mass., . March 18.?En counters between policemen and tex tile strikers and strike sympathizers, which started today when the police broke up a parade, were resumed to night. The disturbances were the most serious since the operatives went on strike six weeks ago. . Shots were fired at policemen from tenement houses while they were struggling with leaders of the parade; and tonight the police exfchanged shots with occupants of a housie who made an effort to prevent them from arresting a man" who had thrown a ??-tone at an officer. There were two, other conflicts in which no shots were fired. Twenty-one men arrested during ' Lhe early rioting were held under *5'00 bonds each on charges of incit ing to riot. Four men arrested be cause of tonight's disturbances, .will be. arraigned tomorrow. The police jsed their clubs freely today after the itrikers had thrown stones and bot tles, and many of those arrested rere bruised and cut. Clothing the Pressing Need. This is the cry from the destitute var stricken countries. The week of March 24-31 has been set for a na ion-wide collection by the American led Cross for used clothing, shoes md blankets for the refugees of al ied countries. Every Red Cross chap :er will be asked to assist in this mammoth undertaking. Minimum al otments, based, on :i national total of .0.000 tons of garments, have been unsigned each division, and it is ex pected that the success that attended he campaign lor the Belgians will >c duplicated. The destitute Marne ?efugees also number some 100, 100. During the two previous campaigns or the collection of such clothing he people of Sumter, the entire coun y. ami especially the merchants re sponded heartily. It is believed that his campaign will meet with even rrcater success, as the need for arti cles of clothing is so great. Th? ?arhpaign begins next Monday. March he 24th and will extend through the tlst. Gel your contribution of cloth ng ready and watch the prtpors foC art her a nnOuncemehts. London. "March 10.?Eight. German steamers sailed from Hamburg this veek for foodstuffs, according to Ber in advices. Washington. March 19.?The Rain- v ?>ow Division will sail from Brest be ween March 2Sth and April 19th, "Jen. Pershirig informed the war de partment today. London. March 10.?Official re ports hero indicate that a critical ?t?te of affairs extst in Odessa. No onfirmation can be obtained here of he rumors that Odessa, is being waouated bv allied forces, but the eport is not denied. J