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National Guard Association Meeting Held in Columbia in In terest of Organization Columbia. May 2'?. ? Initial steps for the reorganization of rhe South Onra \ lina National Guard were undertaken here today with the formation of the .South Carolina National Guard Asso ciation, which immediately went on vieeord as favoring a strong ofuzoa soldiery for the State. Governor Cooper and other speak ers familiar with conditions in South Carolina were urgent in their belie" that, during this transition period. .South Carolina as perhaps never be fore in her history is in need of a strong National Guard. Whit - not pessimistic nor alarming in their talk. ?Weach of the speakers stated that a ^sfspirit of unrest is abroad throughout "the land and a well organized lor- e should be ready to uphold the Sta-'e government in any crisis whieh might arise. - Major John D. Frost, of Columbia, assistant adjutant general, was ???< e( ed permanent president of the associa tion. .Col. Holmes R. Springs, of ? Georgetown, commander of the 105*n ammunition train, later Commander of .trains and acting quartermaster for the Thirtieth Division, was elected first vice president, and Col. Peter K. McCully. of Anderson, commander of the 219th infantry. Thirtieth Division. ' second vice p esident. Major J. D. Meyers, of Charleston, was ejected secretary, and Major A. C. Doyle, of ! Columbia, treasurer. Today's meeting, which was attend ed by veterans of the great war. members of former National Guard units and officers and enlisted men of the State reserve militia, was called by W .W. Moore, the Adjutant Gen eral; at the instance of Governor Cooper, as commander-in-chief Of the South Carolina militia. The delegates were welcomed to Columbia by William . .. A. Coleman. ; mayor pro tern, which'was responded ? to by Major P. J. Drew of Barnwell. Governor Cooper, in stating the rea- I sons why he called the convention.1 sai^ that South Carolina's most urg- ! enf heed at this time was a well or- [ ganized National Guard. He said that there'was a tension in the atmos phere which might become active in . the future and the executive depart ment felt that it should have some force ready to. meet any emergency or any crisis which might arise. Among the other military men speaking, each advocating the imme diate reorganization of the National Guard", were Capt. Simeon Hyde, of; Charleston: Capt. Morris C. Lumpkin. ;of Columbia; Col. Holmes D. Springs. Georgetown: Col Peter K. McCully. of Anderson, and Col. J. Monroe . Johnson of Marion., Major Frost read ; a number of letters from various. prominent men of the State who were i keot away because of business and other reasons, among them being Col. j Julius E. Cogswell, of Charleston. I commander of the State reserve militia, who announced that he would j retire- from the service when the peace treaty is signed and there is no fur ther need for his services. Gen. Moore read the resolutions adopted bv flu National Guard convention at St. \ Louis, which later in the proceed ings were adopted by the South Car -olina convention. Game Warden Frank Rrunson has ? issued a general warning to ?shermon i that tishing in bream and trout beds, or in any other manner interfering: with game fish by nets or traps is forbidden by law and offenders will be prosecuted. Professed ignorance of j the law is no excuse ;md will not ; serve as a defense in court. The talk of organizing a semi-pro-: fessional baseball league in this sec- ? tion of the Suite seems to have died j out. i Cotton Market Soars .July Contracts Advance More Than Three Dollars Per Hale I Now York. May 19.?The cotton j market shewed great strength and activity early today with all deliveries [ making new high records. July con tracts touched 29. making an advance of more than $3 per bale, from trie closing pric< of Saturday, Reactions followed der hea,v> r< .? 112mg with July soiiins t>M" to 28.50. but there was continued trade buying and the tnar ? ket ciosed steady at 28.79 for that de livery' and with the general iisr show ing a net advance of 27 to ?! I points. The market opened i .*; to 17 points higher on the strong Liverpool cables, reports of showers ?nd unsettled Weather it: the South and very bullish \adviecs from the goods market, which were described as phenomenally strong and active. Trade interests wer?- good buyers including houses with Liverpool connections and there was covering on the advance, widen carried May up to 30.40 ami October to 27.f.6 before the end of the morn ing, or about ."7 to t>5'points net high er. After tiie" close oi' Liv< rppol tie- de mand was less active and there were rather sharp reactions under profit taking while there may also have been selling for a reaction and scattered selling lor Southern account. Oe to>? r eased off to 26.94 and active, months lost aH but 10 or 15 points of thejr earlier gain, but demand im proved on a scale down and the mar ket was steady later. Reports fron; Xew liedford that mills there had closed owing to a strike appeared to attract little or no attention, nor was there much cont inent on reports of a threatened strike in the British mills. Reports that the shipping board had allocated twenty nine steamers for lumber and cotton may have helped the tone of the later market. One Tune That Failed) to Chrcr Doughboys. As a fighter the American doughboy forced the admiration of the whole; world and with the lighting done he j proved himself nothing but the whole some, clean-hearted young American j lie is. And ii is this very fact that j renders him particularly subject to gnawing homesickness as he waits the time he will be returned to his. loved ones. How great is this yearn- j ing is described by Reginald Wright Kauffman in "We Want to Go Home:*' In the June Xew Red Cross Maga zine, and in this he tells of the grim \ humor displayed by a battered music! box. leaving its effect to be imagined.! "At one of those gloomy barracks] in a French port." relates the writer.; "there were recently 6.000 American] soldiers. They had come of a sudden ] and therefore no recreation promot- i ers had preceded them. Throughout j the long, wet days and the still long er and wetter twilights. there was nothing for those men to do beyond j the now purely formal occupations! enforced by military routine. At last, when the gloom seemed about to be- i come unbearable, one man returned) from a nearby town with a trium phant Mud: he had managed to se-j eure a gramophone and a single rec ord for it. Trie gramophone was well j worn :?nd the name oi* the piece of music 'had been scratched off the record, but that mattered liule. The; machine was set up, the disk put in place, and the crank turned in the presence of .a great crowd of soldiers sick with nostalgi-e. "Then that gramophone started to j play its only tune, ?*it was ?Home, Sweet Home:'" The Methodis! churches of/Sumter; have largely exceeded their appor-j tienmcht of the Centenary Fund, and! the campaign has not been complet- 1 e<1. Trinity Church has subscribed $35,000 and ii is predicted that when; the drive closes that the amount; pledged will be approximately $50,-1 000. ?gj With inferior oil, or oil of incorrect grade or "body'* v ; for your motor, will show first signs on "heavy" reads, or ; i going up hill. Your engine gets red hot; expansion takes Sgl place; your engine busks, and. grunts and knocks like sin, <: , _ . and. you've got to "grind" up the hill in low gear. Then you "get sore" and say things, not found in reli ^ gious publications, and all the while the fault is primarily gggl ycurs; because you weren't specific or concerned in what 'J-' gH sort of motor oil you were using. JBI ^ If you'll always ''oil up" with "GREEN FLAG" you're I &m going to get the longest wear and the greatest service and 8$ the most pleasure out of your car. jH? J5j The following well-known and reliable dealers in this ||| county, are exclusive agents for "GREEN FLAG" MOTOR M OIL. It will pay you to go out of your way to reach ono jftfc of them, when you need motor oiL H MIKEL. SNEEDIN, PHARES COMPANY 1 Ireland Presents Claims Provisional Government of Irish Republic Asks Seat In Peace Conference Paris. April, 20 (Correspondence of The Associated Press) ? Hero are the eiahn:* '?? "The Provisional Cioverh mom of the Irish Republic" to the rigln to participate in tin- Peace Coh ;fcrencc and to join tin- League of Nations, as free and independent, laid [before the Conference in the form of ja memorial presented to Premier I Cleraenceau by Sean T. O'CealJaigh, the Sinn Fein delegate' of the "Re public" in Paris. . ,"Ireland is a nation which has ox < rcised the right of self-determiua jtion'in harmony with the principles [formulated by President Wilson and [accepted by the belligerents as the ?only sure foundation for a world j peace." read the memorial. "It is ; not only in the past that Ireland.! j generation after generation, has striv- j ! en by force of arms as well as by all j ? pacific means to regain her national j freedom. At the general election last j December, the issue, and the only is-! sue. placed before the'Irish people' was the independence of their coun- ? try, and by a majority of more than j j three to one the representatives elect ed by the constitutional machinery of! the ballot box are pledged to the abo-' iition of 'English rule in Ireland. "in none of the small nationalities i with which the Peace Conference has ? hitherto occupied itself is the unani- j mity of the people so great; in none! has the national desire for freedom | been asserted so unmistakably and J with so much emphasis. "Following upon the general olec-j lion, an Irish National Assembly hasi met; an Irish Republic has been con- i stituted and proclaimed to the world:! a president has been appointed and ; with him ministers to direct differ- i out doparments of stat<-: a prpgram ; of domestic policy has been issued and an appeal has been addressed to the nations of the world to recognize j the Tree Irish state that ha^ thus been j recalled to life. ; j But whiie the national will has been j declared and the mechanism "f free government is ready, th<- former is; being stifled ami the latter paralyzed j by England's ruthless exercise of mili- ? tary power. The president is a fugi- i tive; the Irish Parliament is forced i to conduct its business in secret: the; most elementary civil rights are abro gated; courts martini a?r silting .u ! every center: and the gaols are filled ; whh prisoners, victims of every bru- i tality and indignity whose only of- : fense is that they have sough; the. freedom of their native land. It is in these circumstances that the Irish j nation, through me, address?* the I Peace Conference. ?"Ireland manifestly comes within : the scope of the*principles that have! been endorsed, by civilized nations, j and it is for the application of these principles that the Peace Conference! is now sitting. Ireland is weak: Eng*j land is strong. . Ireland in every pos-1 sible way has asserted her right to freedom, which England, by sheer! militarism, is intent now as always in the past t<? destroy. It is only by . the exercise of tyrannical power than Ireland's right to freedom can be de nied. It is to the great principle of national freedom, represented in the Peace Conference, that Ireland, ex- j hausted by the cruelties of English i rule, her population annihilated byi one-half within living memory, her in-' dustries destroyed, her natural re sources wasted, her civil liberties end-, cd. her chosen leaders proscribed and ' treated ar; felons. now makes her ap-! peal. "Article Ten of Ilm draft covenant; of the League of Nations is framed to I secure national independence against aggression of an externa! power. Its; terms arc as follows: The high contracting powers tin-j ?lertake to respect and preserve asi against external aggression the ter ritorial integrity .nod existing politi- j cal independence of all states mem bers of the League. In case of any ; such aggression the Executive Conn- j eil shall advise upon the means l>y j which this obligation shall be fulfil-; led." Ireland as a nation that has de? : olarfcd IIs independence and is pled- j ;-e.l to the principles of freedom.] justice and peace, desires to subscribe! to th<- Covenant of the League and to claim as against England the protec tion of Article Ten. I submit to the. conference with profound respect that Ireland's claim is clear and cannot j with any shadow of justice be refus- j ed. Should it be rejected the cohse- j quences would be as follows: "I. Ireland henceforth must rely j for her deliverance wholly upon her own efforts. No such rule has been laid down with regard to any other of the j smaller nationalities whose emanci-j pation has been made the eure of the j conference. 'L'. Nations which never have de nied the righi of Ireland to freedom will deprive themselves for tin- future j of the power of countenancing her claim and will in consequence bei bound for the first time in history. ! to leave her unaided to her own re sources as indicated in the preceding! paragraph. ??'!. Article Ten will impose upon all nations, as a condition of member ship of the League, the obligation to guarantee to Great Britain a title to ; the possession of Ireland and domi nion over the Irish people. j "Against the imposition of such slavery upon Ireland, and especially against tin- giving of stub a guaran tee of title to Croat Britain. I enter "ii behalf of the people of Ireland, in whose name 1 have the honor to speak, the most emphatic protest. Great Britain's :it!?- to Ireland rests solely upon the military power of ;< nation to determine the fortunes of a people over whom they have no right "f force. The combined guar antee id" such a title against the de-; dared protest o( Ireland would con stitute a definite denial of the princi ple of justice to pooplos ?and na tionalities and tln-ir right to live on e'pial terms of liberty and safety with j one another, whether strong or weak.1 All kinds of Plumbing for Country Homes. We Install Bath Rooms, Ceptic Tanks The Lalley Light Lighting Plants for Country Homes Estimates Furnished on Work Anywhere in the Country Free of Charge King Plumbing Company Sumter, 5. .C. and without the acceptance of that principle no part of the structure of internationa" jusice can stand. "The guarantee of such a title would be subversive of the reign of law Itased upon the consent "f the gov erned and sustained by the organi zed opinion of mankind. The guaran tee of such a title would constitute recognition <>f tin- right of the strong to serve its own material interest and advantage through the exercise of its' influence and mastery. The guarantee of such a title would give Great Bri tain a warrant i<> make ,-i nation weaker than herself subject to he; purposes ami interests: it would eon firm tin- claim of Great Britain i< rule and dominate the people of Iro UUi i even in their own internal af fairs by arbitrary and irresponsible force. Any guarantee, under Article Ten of territorial integrity and -politi cal independence as affecting Ire land, can rightly endure only to the benefit of the people of Ireland them selves. "Tn the name therefore of the peo ple of Ireland, 1 ask that the Irish nation may lie invited tjo-give their adhesion to the Covenant of the Lea gue of Nations, and that a member ship of the League--;] 'membership available under article sieve.) even ip colonies who have freely find iegibt tively subscribed to the Supremacy of the English Imperial l&rliamen. shall not be denied to thej'government of a free independent Irish Republic. Bid Made for Ships St. Louis Would Charter Steel Vessels Washington. May 20.?.The first di rect bid the shipping board has re-' ceived for its steel vess&ls came to day from the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce and Mississippi Valley Trading and Navigation . Company, which asked to purchase or charter 20 ships of at least $.000 tons each to handle the movement of St. Louis oroducts to the markets of the- world: immediate action to supply the needs of the St. Louis district was taken by chairman Hurley after con ference with the board. The operating ilepartment and construction division were ordered lo put experts to work pi.i nning a suitable fleet for the re quirements of the industries to bei served. j Other cities are expected by the] hoard to follow the example set by St. Louis. Memphis capitalists are understood to be organizing a-com pany with resources of at least $1. ?ft^.'rtOO to purchase and opei*ate ship? from New < >rlea.ns. i Raynham Wrecks Plane Si. .Johns. X. F.. May 1'".?Frederick f. Kaynham. the British aviator whose intention to attempt the ocean flight simultaneously with Harry. Hawker believed to have been lost at] sea. came to grief when Iiis MartinsydCj plane was wrecked while running to j tin.- "'take off." announced today that Im was in the race again for the firs; non-stop ocean air cruise. Recovered;! sufficiently to leave his bed, Rayn-I ham said the machine could be rebuilt with spare parts at baud here, pro-] vided tin- motor is in working condi-j t ion. While tin- Hand ley-Page and Vtmy maehinists are assembling their huge machines for the Atlantic "'hop." the! brie Martinsyde will be taken to town for repairs. Despite tin- possibility that tin- Sop-j with exepedition went to its doom ni the g:.b- off Ireland, scene of the avia tion and wireless officials heal to the theory 'hat Hawker ami his naviga tor. Lieut. Oomndr. Mackenzie Griev, had fallen into tin- sea Pet wen New foundland ami the trans-Atlantic Steamship lam-. They supported their contention with tin- knowledge thai hone of the many vessels steaming across the Atlantic- had reported sighting the plane or hearing ifs wire less. C:ipt. < 'Paries v\ . I-'. Morgan. Rayn ham's navigator, will me l.?e Iiis pan m r in tie new trans-Atlantic flight he is planning. Morgan's physieians tonight told him his flying days ar< over and it mlglu take him two or three months to recover fr>?m th?* in juries be suffered Suudhj > llaynhaiM has no| un?ic.u?:r-*d a :?>ih sfitute for him. New York. May J::. David IT Greer. Protestant Kpiseopal bishop of New York aici here last night. Dove Hunters Pay Fines Ten Clarendon County Defen dants in Federal Court Charleston. .\i:ty 20.?The lirst case of its kind in this State, it is believed, was handled today by Judge ET. A. M. Smith in the federal court when ho imposed fines of >'?'. each, plus costs, upon ten defenda'nts from Clarendon county, who pleaded guilty of shoot ing mourning doves, in violation of the migratory bird treaty net. They suited thai they wore not aware they weer violating a federal law, and the [circumstances were extenuating ,enough to warrant light fines. Follow [ing arc the names of the defendants: I E. B. Brown. S. \v. Barron, H. H. i Bradham, Charles Thames, Jr.,' G. L. Dickson, J. I. Dickson, F. P. Burgess. I J. E. Davis. S. J. Smith and J. E .Wells. The charges were'brought on I information furnished by the district ! attorney. The birds shot were at tacking a crop on a farm.of one cf the defendants, who invited his neigh ; hors to help in getting rid of the iua ? rauders. In ignorance of the feder al protection law. they killed a num ber of th<- doves and later found charges lodged against them. The Three Great Vesta Triumphs Among: the various makes of storage batteries there is only one radically different and superior to the rest. This one Exceptional battery is the Vesta. Three great bat tery improvements make the Vesta different. These tri umphs give it double life: 1. VESTA IX DESTRUCTIBLE ISOLATOR?an ingenious device loch's the plates aparl and prevents short circuits. ?.. VESTA IMPREGSATE!>W<>( > I)EN MATS?prevent 'treeing" and its disastrous consequences. 2. TITANIUM?a rare mineral, enters into the lead places, har dening them and living them longer life. It .precipitates minerals and impurities in solution, thus increasing the efficiency of the bat tery. These remarkable features are covered by U. S. Basic Patents belonging to the Vesta. They cannot be used in any other battery. Vesta costs no more than ordinary batteries.. Vesta Service Station. Hatf ield & Cato 2<*? E. Libertv Si. Next to \V. B. Boyle Co. 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