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THR SUMTES WATCH1EAX, listabi Consolidated Aug. 2,1; COTTON FARMERS IN SESSION ^Tabulate Returns From Every I County in The State WILL ISSUE FULL REPORT TODAY . i Today's Meeting in Columbia .Will Mark New Epoch in South Carolina Columbia, April 2.?The following statement was issued this afternoon by the South Carolina Cotton Asso ciation: , The central committee of the South Carolina Cotton Association has been fn session all day and will probably work a great part of the night. With the assistance of experts they will tabmulate the returns from not only every county in South Carolina, but from the entire cotton belt, . and will ^ issue tomorrow one of the most im portant -.reports, ever issued in the youth on cotton acreage reduction, fertilizer reduction and labor condi tions, this report being more accu rate than the report issued by the United States Department of Agri culture. The result of the work of the association has demonstrated the fact by a house-to-hoiise canvass in the various counties of the belt that the acreage report as issued by the United States Departriient of Agricul ture is in many cases incorrect. The entire committee is giving untiringly of their time and efforts and are making personal sacrifices to make this great work a success. They re ceived today telegrams from officials of every State in the cotton belt. The reports are the most complete over perfected in the South. The entire committee are delighted with the re sult which they state will prevent bankruptcy and disaster to the South dually bring prosperity and inde pendence. ?. J. Skottowe Wannamaker chair man ..of the South Carolina Cotton Association issued the following state ment: To convince any one that cotton 1 acreage reduction . 1 1:v TtrfrT^jrf;TBjfc: dorn for 1919, I need only recall the conditions existing at the beginning of the world war when the business men of America were urging and beg ging to buy a bale at 10 cents, in or der to save the farmers of the South from actually suffering a financial disaster. A five hundred pound bale of cotton, basis middling, at the com mencement of the world war finally went to $30 per bale, or 6 cents u. pound, and a buyer was hard to find. In 1918 a bale of middling cotton went to 35 cents per pound, or $175. which wasi an increase of $145 per bale. Middling cotton today brings 25 cents per pound, or $125 per bale a loss of $50. since the fall of ly27. hut aii increase of ?l'r? per bale, as ? compared with the commencement of the world war. If we plant a large crop we will face the same condition.-, agai n that we faced at the com mencement of the war. Cotton will go begging at 6 cents to 8 cents per pound. The condition of the South will be far worse than it was at the commencement of the world war. The most disastrous financial crash that has ever visited the country will visit the South. We are .lust in receipt of the follow ing telegram from Texas, one of the most active associations in the entire belt: "Peace is not in sight, but it was discovered *~a!y a week ago that the market is still affected with Barney tJaruch. It was thought this burden was off the market when he left Washington. It turns out he went to Europe and to Paris and gained the ear of the president and suggested to him that he appoint a commission headed by Mr. Redlield and allocate all American raw material to the na tions of the world as they (the com mission) might see lit. How does this sound to the oil mills and cot ton men of the South, with oil and cotton eagerly sought by a hungry and naked world, but which for the lack of transportation is deteriorating in value every day? The delay in providing ships and allowing ship ments of cotton. cotton oil, cake and iinters is little short of crimin al. The cotton planters of the Sotuh. in particular, the cotton feed crush ers and dealers and cotton buyers and brokers have had to suffer ever< possible hardship due to ignorance and design not only in our own country but in other countries. Wher ever our government has touched cot ton or cotton seed products a with ering blight has followed, it there fore becomes imperative that an em phatic protest be made by the cotton and cotton oil interests of the South at once against any further stricture or handicaps to the cotton and cot ton oil trade, whether by the propos ed Redfield commission or otherwise Just let us have free and unrestricted business is all we want. We arc no: looking for the governmeni to becorm a wet nurse for us. as it has become for the v*:eat growers. Governor Allen, of Kansas, please take notice. If the manufacturing and money in terests of the East are wrapping their anaconda coil about the agriculture of the country and seeking to stran gle the free marketing of agricultur al products that other interests may thrive, it needs only to be proven Tn order to provoke a thunder storm of public wrath that wiU overwhelm the ft?ed April, 1850. 581. ROADS REJECT STEEL PRIC Boards and Officials Refuse to Convince Hines That Prices j are Fair ' i - SESSION WAS QUITE STORMY AT TIMES Question Recommended to the Industrial Board of Depart ment of Commerce [Washington, April 2.?Director General Hines, of the railroad admin istration, ,-which is the largest pur chaser of steel in the United States, refused today to accept the price re-' adjustments arranged by the indus trial board of the Department of Commerce in conference with repre sentatives of the steel industry. An effort to effect an agreement be tween the board and the head of the railroad administration failed a!^ though members of the cabinet, the industrial board and representatives of the food and fuel administrations, the war trade board and the war finance corporation conferred for four hours. The conference at times grew stormy, with the cabinet members finally withdrawing to an adjoining room, from which they emerged with ; a recommendation that the question ! be recommitted to the board for I further consideration. This was final jly agreed upon. Members ol the conference were j reticent in discussing the proceed ings. Secretary Glass, who called the ??conference, refused" to see newspa per men afterward and the official [Statement concerning the gathering w;/s very brief. As originally issued, ; it read: j "The steel prices approved by the ; industrial board of the Department of [Commerce not having been accepted [fey the railroad administration, the ?: . lews of both were expressed by Sec | rotary Redl: aid, Chairman Peek and ; other members of the board. The I views of the railroad administration I were presented by Director General Hines. The matter was recommit i t^d to the board for further consider . The, statement caused such a flurry by its instimatlon that the. entire (Question of steel prices would be re I opened, that an amendment was addr cd by Chairman Peek, to make the i..rv sentence read: ??The matter was recommitted to I the board for further consideration with the railroad administration." ' At addition:: conferences, it was I raid, the board will attempt to show 'the railroad administration that tha ? prices agreed upon are not exces jsively high according to cost figures obtained by the federal trade com mission. Director General Hines has ;maintained_the*, the railroad admin istration war entitled to its enormous purchases at prices as low as cou'jd be obtained. Much Road Building Amount Available for Federal Aid Highway Construction Largest Ever Set Aside Washington, April 1.?With full Uate cooperation according to the terms of the federal aid road act, the United States will have a total of at least $574.000,000 for cooperative read building during the next three years. The federal part of this fund is assured by an extra appropriation of -i=209.000.0nu ;n the postoffieo ap propriation bill just passed by con gress and signed by the president. Officials of the bureau of public roads. United States department of agriculture, which administers the provisions of the federal aid road act and cooperates with the State governments in the expenditure of th" money, point ottt that this amount of funds is the largest ever appropriat ed for similar purposes and for a sim ilar period by any government in the history of the world, and that it en ables the federal and State govern ments to carry out a road-building program of a magnitude never equaled. Tn connection with the great fed eral aid program it is also noted that expenditures for highway work in the United States this year are likely to amount to a half billion dollars or more. On reports received from State highway department, the bureau of public roads estimates the 1919 ex penditures for roads and bridges al S385.000.O00. or $110.000.000 more than the average expenditures for for 191? and J917. An important effect of the law containing the new appropriation is that it broadens the definition of a rural post road, under which class a highway had to Qualify in order to receive the benefits of the federal aid act. -j London, April 2.?The newsoap* Vetcherni Listy. of Agram. Jugu- j Slavia. according to a wireless mes . snge from Itctne, announces that! Karageorgevitcli dynasty has been deposed and a republic proclaimed i;.: Belgrade, the capital of Serbia ar ' .in^o-Slovia. authors of such schemes and puri-; fy the commercial atmospher ?>l i America with the suddenness and force of the thunderbolt and the! lightnings flash." ' ad F?*w not?Det *i* tbe ends Thou Ain SUMTE.E, S. C. SAT?] ????? f [ Kansas Governor Thinks Cotton: Movement is All Wrong TALK OF PROSECUTION FOR VIOLATION OF LAW I_ i Allen Declares South Carolina ' ' .Men Must Be Rather Sure of i Immunity. j Topeka, Kan., April '2?In reply to la, telegram from J. S- Wasnamaker. j [.chairman of the South Carolina Cot- j : ton Association requesting ja further: [statement on his position regarding : the effort to reduce the acreage of . I cotton in the South, Gov. Henry J. j I Alien hi a telegram tonight told Mr. ) }Wannamaker that he believod the; ! proposal was in violation of federal j trade commission orders. The gov-. ernor stated that the question at is- j Sue "seems to rest upon the right of] any group.of men to form a combina-j [lion for the restraint of production. He cited two practices which the fed-( era! trade commission has condemned. One forbids the "entering into ar.1 agreement cr understanding or pool by competitors to maintain prices or al lot business." The other forbids "agree men* among competitors to limit out fput." "It strikes me," the governor's tele gram says, "that you gentlemen must ? be rather sure of your immunity from ] prosecution in attempting to run so [contrary to a declared public policy. 1 Having read an entire set of circulars which the cotton reduction propa gsnda has is-sued. for the purpose of insuring c small acreage of cotton. 1 am constrained to believe that it is more a movement in the interest of those engaged in speculation of the product than in the growing thereof The question at issue seems to be whether any class of business men haying purchased a widely needed commodity on th?% market With the ex pectation that it would go higher, should be allowed to recoup their losses by string production. Your ' awn declaration 5^'fbre ilm^ttouth Car o-i'.ia legislature, that your-iexpectcd a ?vritical shortage of cotton before the 17i* 19 crop becomes available makes ii perfectly apparent that you recognise rhat the present cotton condition is e.et going to continue and that a situ ation which inevitably will become vrilica! you hope to ra J.ce even more critical by creating a condition in jv'h'ch there will not he enough cot ' .:: to meet the wcr'n's demand. J "I am receiving letters and telo --'?iT&ms from many of your own people j -forming me that this movement is in the interest of speculators and not bf the cotton growers . . If gov ??rmental action is necessary to ste j bilfze the price of cotton during the 'period or" industrial and economic re j adjustment., I will be glad to assist :n the consideration of such a plan but 1 can not bring myself :o approve in (he face of the great need of tb ? world, a reduction of the necessary j commodities." ! Little Big Stick j Theodore Roosevelt Retires from Easiness to Devote His Life to Politics Xew York. .April 1.-?Lieut Co!. Theodore Koos .writ, who has been discussed by Republican party lead ers In tills city as a possible candidate for president of the board of alder men next fall, announced today that [lie intended to follow the footsteps o jh father ant! enter politics. I Ho declined to state, however, whether the aidcrmanic berth would prove acceptable to him in case he received n formal invitation to run for chat o.flce. asserting that it was jioo soon for him to pick his initial j goal. Iii? added that he was an j icnnc'-tg bis "bat vva-j in the ring" I only because he kueri.lod to retire j from business, and considers some (explanation necessary Iiis present ! activities, he said, were confined to j organization in this country of the i world war veterans' association. In making known his intention to retire from business. Lieutenant Col jcncl Koosc-vel: said he desired to de ' vote himseif "to public life" by ? which he said he meant "entering ' politics." Of his aspirations, he said: "They [depend upon what the public wishes me to. i naturally am anxious to do . .vha: >vyrk I may Ih called to do in , my own State?in the State in which i my father was bor;:, where I was j born and where w? have always !lv '!. Beyond that r don't sec what I can say. "1 believe strongly in the princi ples advocated by my father. I be lieve strongly in the principle of un; : v^rsal military service. And I be-iev*: M;or:g'\ in undiluted nationalism" The business front which Colon?! P.oosevc? intends to retire is banking for after having been discharged fro? the service he returned to a Wall Street firm with which he was as sociated before being appointed a 1 major of infantry in thu officers' re serve corps by President Wilson in , 1!>!7. Previously he had been con nected with the Hartford Carpet Cor- i poration of Thompsonville, Conn., 1 whence he went after being gradu- i atcd from Hanard in 1908. i i?T ?t be thy Country's. Tfcy God's ? IDAY. AFEIL 5, 1819. Fire Trains With Troops From' France Arrived Last Night I from Charleston _ i MANY MORE ARE COMING TODAY CJnits Which Arrived Last Week j Mustered Out and Leaving for | Home Columbia, April 2. ? Five troop trains reached Camp Jackson t -ight with officers and men cf Thirtieth Di vision which debarircd at Charles ton this morning from the transport Madawaska. The ?rst train hud aboard Brig-. Gen. S. D. Faison, com mander of the Thirtieth Division. Five other trains bearing1 the men from the transport Huron are scheduled to arrive at the camp tomorrow. The two troop movements will comprise 0,000 men. Tentative plans were formed today for a parade f..nd the entertainment of these men here Saturday by Chas. H. Barron and his entertainment com mittee. It is understood that many Xorth Carolinians will he cn hand for the event as the 120th infantry, a former North Carolina regiment, will ! be in the parade. ' Charlest?n is ex pected to send a delegation as the former Charleston Dragoons will like i wise participate. Members of the USth infantry and i of the 105th ammunition train were i leaving for various parts of the i State today. It is expected that all ! of the enlisted men of the former ! regiment will be discharged by to I morrow and a. good part of the am - I munition train, including the head jQuarters troops and the companies of I the Charleston battalion. 'League Will Be~Ratified j Chairman Hitchcock Relieves ! Senate Will Act Favorably I ? _ I Washington. April 1?Senator ' Hitchcock, chairman of the foreign ; relations committee in the last senate ! speaking tonight before the Washing ;ton Commercial Club, expressed the ; belief that the proposed covenant of the league of nations would be amended "as public opinion has de manded" and together with the peace treaty would be ratxSed withoc ; change when submitted to the senate. I The Nebraska senator urged the ne cessity of a prompt peace settlement ! in order to stop the spread of lawless ' less in Europe. j 'This treaty when it comes to th*? senate," Senator Hitchcock said, "vrlli ; have had the benefit of criticism not only in the United States but in other countries and will probably in clude such amendments as public opinion has demanded. "When the peace settlement comes over here for the ratification of the senate it will probably ne too late for the senate to attempt amendments. Any amendment adopted by the sen ate wot j Id have to go back for ac ceptance by the other 12 nations and that would delay the p?.ice settlement for a long time; Delays are always said to be dangerous and in this cane they are dangerous in the highest de gree because at the present time the very life of civilization in Europe is at stalte. If a peace settlement is no* produced at an early date the spread of lawlessness and despair may in volve still more of Europe." Disclaiming any special informa tion as to the inner workings of the peace conference Senator Hitchcock said that among the changes he as- ; sunied would be made would be the insertion of amendments giving a na tion tbc right to withdraw from the league and specifically reserving the' right of individual nations to control Their own domestic affairs including immigration. He said he also believed that provisions would be inserted ' making it clear that no decision of the executive council nor of the league would be binding on any na tion except by unanimous vote, that the recommendations by the execu tive council for the reduction of arm aments be not effective until each nation through its constituted author tie:; had approved them. Senator Hitchcock said one of the curious features of the opposition to the proposed covenant was the "va riety and incons* -moy of that Opposi tion."' He addeu there were "not many who are opposed on principle to the idea of a league of nations." "All of this opposition." he said ? festibes to the fact that the league in an international creation and rep resents a compromise between the Sifferent natons, all bent upon the same idea of preventing war." Outlook More Hopeful Bolsheviks Have Not Been Suc cessful in Austria Paris. April 2.?Reports received i jy the French foreign office that the Bolshevik government in German- i Austria is generally unsuccessful ate reassuring. This report is also re- ? reived from Hungary and officials now : xdieve it will be possible to resume i liplomatic delations with Hungary : ?a TnrtfcV THE TRUI Council of Four Decides to Neutralize Section of Ger man Territory FRENCH AND BELGIUM TROOPS FOR GARRISON United States Cannot Maintain Army in Europe After Peace is Declared and England Has Not Sufficient Troops. Paris, April 3.?The council "of "our has virtually decided; according j to information- from French sources, ! that the left bank of the Rhine shall : be neutralized until Germany has ! paid the indemnities fixed by the j peace conference. It is understood that French and Belgian troops will hold this territory, the United States j claiming that it is impossible to j leave troops in Europe after the peace j treaty has been signed and England i having insufficient effective troops to I maintain garrisons along the Rhine. -: j To Abolish Night Work (Chicago Bakers Demand the Ab olition of Night Work Chicago, April 3.?The baking in dustry in America may be complete | ly revolutionized if organized labor carries out its demands for abolition of night work, accordi2ig to leading master bakers. The national headquarters here oi !:h; Fakers' and Confectionary Work i ers' International Union of Americs ha.-: seni an address to every local ir the country urging that formal de mand for abolition of work betweer 11 P. M. and o A. M. be made wher wage scales for the year are present el (o employers on May 1. Each local will be permitted to take I such steps as it seems necessary tc i :n/orco tha d'-mands. j I:: vigorously opposing the de j rnands. master bakers assert that 7! j per cent of bakery goods is produc-jc fcfter midnight, that the public do mantis fresh bread each morning, anc hat the change would greatly reduei ?ulput or necessitate costly expansion :>i plants ana machinery. In eithei Ta.-ve, they say. the cost of the 1.503. 'caves of bread produced daily ir "'Vo'tg^ would be increased to th< consumer and that other cities prob . a iy wotdd follow the same course. I To this the union executive boarc ?replies that similar objections were f i.-ivanccd y:\ir~ ago when legislator j was sought abolishing cellar baker ies "Em movers thought they could not do without the dirty, underground n^kerks. hut now they would not think of returning to such conditions.'1 said A. A. Myrup. treasurer of the union. 'We ask abolition of night work as a matter of heahh and jus tice to our ZO,000 workers. The change is also in the interest of pub lic heahh. In large cities 70 to 9S j per cent of ihe population uses bak lery '.'read. Doctors say prevalence of i tuberculosis and nervous diseases j among our craft is due in large meas | ure to night work in high tempera | tures. Most accidents also occur at ! night when the workers are drowsy, i "Night work is prohibited in baker i ies of jltaiy. Sweden, England and ; other European countries. We ap ! preciate the importance of the change I and are willing that it be adopted gradually until night work is entirely eliminated. Put workers will insist that the demand be granted. They consider this issue more important than higher wages or shorter hours at present." Union executive's say night work was discontinued in San Francisco bakeries a year and a-half ago and that the plan since has been adopt ed by thirty smaller cities. The con troversy over night work was started twenty-five years ago. they declare. Mills Will Shut Down Manchester Spinners to be idle Fourteen Days Manchester. England. April 1? All mills in this region spinning Ameri can cotton will close down for four teen working days, from April 10 to April 28. This decision was reached between the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations, the Card-room Workers' Amalgamation and the OperaTivos' Spinners' Amal gamaton today. The shut-down w; s decided upon because oi bad trade. About 100.000 operatives are af fected by the decision. Covenant About Finished League of Nations Commission Will Hold Last Meeting Saturday Paris, April 3.?The drafting com mittee of the League of Nations :-ommission has finished its work, hut has not passed upon the French, tmendmcnts to articles S and 9. as ivell as the American and Japanese anrgestions as to the Monroe doctrine mil equality of nationalities. It ir; snecied the League of Nations com - mission will meet Saturday to adopt i he definite text of the covenant. 3 SOUTHRON, EettbBsM 9mm VoLXLVIII. No. 15 IEXECOINTHE LIE L Diaz Party Undertakes to Oy* throw Carranz? Government GEN. BLANQUET LEADS MOVE! He Was Minister oi Wi Huerta Administration. j New York, April 3.?General* I reiio Blanquet. Mexican minis i war during the Huerta ?dmi jtion and described as second: * ! man? to Felfcq Diaz, recently ? having undertaken revolul i movement against Carranza, h ! rived safely in Mexico, acc?ir?i : an announcement made here, ?by his secretary, Robert Gayon/ j The purpose of Blalguefs ret j Cayo.. said, was to reorganize : Diaz forces and overthrow the;* j ranza government. ! Shot on Dillon 3tr< I-' ; David Fass Fires Four Tunes; ; Well Known Merchant? ? Wounds Not Serious Dillon, April 2.?-This morrrd i about 9 o'clock David Pass. shot^rOT I severely wounded Isadore Blum m '?the streets of Diliion. Poiir^iMj ' I were fired, two of them taking efficw ' ! between the thigh and knetj, oneu ^ .''the balls breaking the large^b' I about eight inches above the * '; There has been bad blood b Lithe two men for some time' and 1; morning Isadore Blum, after maltia? ? a. deposit in the Bank of Dillon, waif! 1: ed towards the store of his brothe| '.in-iaw, A. Biumberg. and im medians ' : iy returning passed a door fros 'which Fass was coming.. ?; From the best information ob^ai? >: able, it seems that blows were strujaj and the two men grappled. Fa^'a3j ;: Glum in the scuffle got off tfc?3si#! > j walk into the street wht^jS^;'""" 1: three shots, one missing, two " ' > effect and the fourth.- went Q * j air. as Fass' arm was JixroYni ' '?? A. Tilumbefg, who reacliej/7|a^ 1 ;;:> he was about t0-4fefr4&!& shot c ?, into Blum asjMr'fey upon the gro ": F I um v.us felled by the second .auijj 1' third shots. Isadore Blum is one of Di?Onfj ' most successful mei-chants. He ha: lived in Dillon for the past 8 yeaia 1 and is highly esteemed. David Fees; J is another well known merchant oi 1, Dillon and is prominently connected ': here, being a brother of Morris Fas* i and Max Fass of Dilion. :| It is known here that the trOUbl? : arose between the two over persona] ; matters which for some tim? t^H ': been talked about here. A. Blurabergj ! who arrived in time to deflect t" ; fourth bullet from Blum's body ft who at first was thought to h&iii ' plicated in the trouble, was taken 1 jail at once, but later released with* out bail. ;j David Fass is now in the Dillon county jail and will remain there ?i??j til I. Blum's condition is better deters mined. In all probability he will ; bail in a few days, as Mr. Blum's dition is not thought to be so seri as to prove fatal. Blum was t&ke?j to Highsmith Infirmary jn Fayet&| ; ville, X. C, today. Uniform System of Chicago Man Deals With Possi bility in Address at New Orleans Meeting New Orleans, March 31.?Ad< es dealing with the possibility of development of a uniform bankii I system by Melvin A. Traylor, pi : dent of tho First Trust & Savii rank. Chicago, and with dollar change by David H. G. Penny, president of the National Bank Commerce, New York, featured tirst day's session here of the seveT annual convention of the Associate or' Reserve City Bankers. Mr. Penny told the bankers tl United States had displaced Englan< and all other pre-war creditor com tr'."s ir. supplying: Icmx time loans fc the financing of industry and trans portation. Mr. Penny's address was the only one made public, the bank-'' ers having decided that they coulc better discuss their problems in ex-? ccutive sessions. A nominating committee was a] pointed by the president, Thoi McAdams. vice president of the Mer-^ clirnts XaFonal Bank of Richmoi V.l.. to select two candidates for pres?* dent. : ;'? German Troops Moving ^ Spariacan Revolution in Frank fort Causing Disorder j j Cobienz. Anril 3.?The GermWn. troop:- opposite the Coblenz bridge-1 head 1-eean moving this morning to- *j ward Frankfort ? where a Spartacan revolt is causing disorder. Before entering Frankfort, which in the neutral zone beyond th< French bridgehead, based on May* >mo\ the German military authori*r Lies had to obtain permission from thftti French army.