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Ifold Cotton For Price Statement by American Cotton Association Shows That Sup ply is Short and Prices High Then Since the Civil War Will Prevail Columbia, July 8.?That it will re quire at ieast 12,000,000 bales Gf cot ton, to supply the demand from Aug ust 1, 1919 to August 1, 1920 is the estimate made by the committee on Supply and demand at the meeting of the directors of the American Cot ton Association in New Orleans on Thursday. The report declares that the amount of cotton produced in Ahierica the last four years lacked 3, 000,000 bales of supplying the demand by. the mills. It is declared by the committee that Europe consumed nearly 16,000,000 lesa balea of cotton during the last . fear years than she consumed in the previous four years and that Europe is today shorter of raw cotton a ad manufactured cotton goods than in a. the last fifty years. The committee, says that financial arrangements will be made that will enable Europe to purchase sufficient cotton to supply her pressing needs. Japan is said to be . making plans to xx$?ke ?n increase in the handling . of American cotton. The report of the committee as giv en out at the. headquarters of the American Cotton Association herej Saturday follows in full: 'The committee on supply and de mand beg. leave to report as follows: "As result of a most thorough in vestigation we beg . leave to report that the amount of cotton produced - in. America in the last four years; lacks three million bales of supplying the amount consumed by the mills. ""We beg leave to further report that after investigation cf European, conditions we ?nd that Europe con sumed nearly sixteen million bales of| cotton in the last four years, less than! she consumed in the previous four years, practically one million bales of cotton, including raw cotton and cotton goods, was sunk or destroyed by the war, in.other ways; that an wjfenormous amount of cotton was con sumed for raw material, that Europe j is today shorter of raw cotton and. manufactured cotton goods than in the last fifty years. We unhesitatingly state as result of confidential informa tion secured by using our investiga tion in. Europe that financial arrange ments w?i be made which will enable Europe to purchase sufficient cotton l??to supply her pressing needs. It hasj been eittimated by those who are j ' handling the situation that it will re quiret;at leajBt twelve million bales of j .cotton from August 1, 1919 to August | 1, "19-29 to supply these needs. "We further find that Japan is pre paring to make an increase in the ha'iidling of American cotton and that af;~a ^result of a thorough investiga ?on we are convinced that Japan will Use from August 1, 19r$ to August 1, around a million and a-half . bales of cotton, provided she can get ? this quantity. "We further find that the American mills, regardless of the fact that they showed, stupendous earnings during the war period, are facing even a greater period of prosperity, and that their -needs for raw cotton for the year commencing August 1, 1919 and closing August 1, 1920, will exceed any record of the past. "As result of these conditions and . as result of investigation by leading experts, we find that there will be an enormous shortage of raw cotton; that in addition to the enormous deman . and the short supply, the infiationvtJf the currency will play^a>j^r?l?fSnaous ^^Pa^i^lWirfS?^ price of cotton ; tne same as it has done for other commodities We also find that raw cotton today . Is being purchased far below a reasonable price based on the price of the manufactured pro ducts, and based on above condi tions. It is the unanimous opinion of both our committee and the board of experts that as result of above condi tions raw cotton will sell for a price . .. above ihej.highest price it has reached since., the commencement of the war and probably as high as any price it has ever touched since the War Be tween the States. "We further urge that the Ameri can Cotton Association use every ef fort to induce the producer to ware -.house his cotton and protect it against damage, and urge that, under no con dition, he dispose of a pound of his cotton until it has reached the price justified by above conditions." Spartanburg Discusses Strike Situation Speakers at Public Meeting Criti cise Position of Street Rail way Company Spartanburg, July 9.?A crowd esti mated at. 1,500 people tonight gather ed on the plaza in Spartanburg to hear public men of Spartanburg dis cuss the street car strike which ha? been in operation here for one we^k TThe strikers are demanding shorter hours, better pay and recognition of the union, all of whicb is refused by %th~e South Carolina Light, Power and %Railwaj Company. At tonight's meeting address were delivered by Horace L. Bomar, Ira C. Blackwood, solicitor of the Seventh Judicial Circuit; M. Devereaux Turner and H. E. Jones, the latter be ing national union organizer. All the speakers scored the street railway ' company and the solicitor declare.! that if there is no existing law force the company to give seo'1?-' some law will be provided. Xf.i a passenger ?^ar has been operated by ' the street railway since the walkout and there is no indication that any re^ . lief is in sight, both sides standing firm. Marriage Licenses Whie?Frank Outlaw of Sumter to Carrie Walker of Sumter. S. C. Colored*. James Drayton of Sumter to Rosa Mitchell of Remini. Norman Mack of Brogdon to Grac? ' pixon of Brogdon, S. C. Terms of Treaty Assures Equality Taussig Explains America' Economic Rights. Summary By Baruch New York, July 8.?President Wil son on his return to the United States today brought with him the Ameri can draft of the German peace treaty (and several protocols which he will ? present to the senate Thursday. The ] German treaty makes 450 printed pages with French and English texts, side by side. It differs in many re spects from the original draft of the treaty, which was published in the United States, but in essentials it fol lows the original draft. The president also has with him the treaty by which the United States promises to assist France if she is at tacked by Germany which he may present with the treaty and the mes sage which he will read to congress. The message which the president wrote on the George Washington con tains about 5.000 words and deuls mainly with the broad general phase of the war and peace. The president, who left for Europe December 4, nearly seven "lonths ago. was accompanied on the George Washington by a member of economic and financial specialists, including Bernad Baruch, Vance McCormick, ?Norman Davis, Thomas W. Lamont and Professor Taussig of Harvard.. The supreme eceonomic council at ! Paris has virtually ended its activities, j although Herbert C. Hoover will re-1 main there until a final decision is reached. The American members felt ithat the council should dissolve but ! the British and French members fa- j j yored continuance of its work. The returning economists and ex perts bring much material and infor mation showing the economic phases of degenerated Europe growing out of ithe peace treaty. The effect of the German treaty on the United States memorandum bsr Professor Taussig says concerning customs duties and navigation: "The United States gets no special 1 advantage and incurs no disadvan vantages. We become asured in the inext five years of most favored na tion treatment as regards import du ties. "We become assured also of com pletely equal treatment, on the foot ing of German ships oe any other, for our shipping in' German ports. "A treaty wil have to be concluded for a permanent arrangement to take, effect when the five year period is over." One of the summaries made from Mr. Baruch reviews how the German treaty affects citizens of the United States in their industrial property j rights, such as patents and trade marks. Americans who were pre sented during the war from patent ing their inventions or registering trade marks in Germany or other sig natory countries may do so now. The treaty provides: that applications for patents in Germany may be mad ! within six months after the treaty i becomes effective. Patents may be v& [newed in Germany or any of the ether j signatory countries by fulfij?mg the [ requirements of the war ryeriod begin ning August 1, 1914. / Measures taken dtaring the war bv [the United States/to license or liqui date German /patents are recognized fas valid and/remain effective. Ger imany waives liability of the United States foj? infringement of patents in jeident to the prosecution of the war. but thjg right of Americans to sue for infringement during the war by thJ German government or German indi viduals is not waived. A memorandum by Mr. Baruch gives the effect of the German treaty on the treatment of citizens of the United States. These include the usual rights under commercial treaties for the cit izens or practice professions in the other country. The treaty also puts American and i other allied citizens on terms of equality with German citizens in matters of taxaiton. The provision as to citizenship takes the place of the former treaty provisions wjth the several German states, so that Ger mans, who become naturalized in the' United States cease to have a dual I nationality. Takes Liquor Still State Constable Discovers Out fit in York County Gaffney, July 8.?C. Y. Allison of Cherokee county, Stale constable, is still on the trail of the manufacturers of moonshine lhjuor. Yesterday h*3 brought to Gaffney a 50 gallon copper distillery which he and Charles Byers captured just over the line in York county Saturday night. The outfit had just been placed and no whiskey had been made. The officers also de stroyed a quantity of mash which had been made preparatory to the first run. Peace Treaty Presented To Senate _ Pres. Wilson Told Senators That a League of Free Nations Had Become a Practical Neces sity Washington. July 10.?President Wilson, in presenting the peace treaty) with Germany to the senate today de clared that "the league of free na- I tions had become practically a neces- j sity" to whieh the framers of the ? treaty felt obliged to turn '"as an in dispensable instrumentality for main tenance of the new order it has been j their purpose to set up in tin- world." "What had seemed a counsel of per fection," said the president, "had <-ome to seem the plain counsel of necessity. ! The league of nations was practically ! the statesman-? hop*-* of success in \ many of most difficult things he wa^; attempting." A league of nations, h*1! added, was "not merely an instrument j to adjust and remedy old wrongs un-' der a new treaty of peace: it was the only hope of mankind." PLAN PROPOSED TO MAKE LIMIT ! I . - j Kansas Man Would Keep The I President of the United States At Home ! _ : CRITICISM OF i i I WOODROW WILSON i i _______ i ! Representative Campbell Doesi Not Think Chief Executive Should Leave United States . Washing-ton, July 9.?The president of the United States would not oe permitted, during his term of office to leave the country or to perform the duties of his office except at Wash ington, under a bill introduced today by Representative Campbell, of Kan sas, chairman of the house rules com mittee reading as follows: "He it enacted by the senate and j house of representatives of the United ] States of America, in congress assem bled, Section 7. that from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for the, president of the United States, during the term of his office, to absent himself from the ter ritorial jurisdiction of the Unit-id i States or to perform the duties of his! office at any ether place than at the I seat of government established by the! act for establishment of rhe tempor ?ry and permanent seat of govern-j 'ment of the United States, approved July 16, 1790, to which this act is an amendment." Representative Campbell had pre pared a lengthy address on his bill in which he sharply criticized Presi 1 dent Wilson for going to Europe for the peace conference, but unanimous consent for its immediate delivery was refused by Representative Blanton, j Democrat, Texas. Mr. Campbell then made it public in the form of a statement. "The president's arrival in Europe was marked jwith the usual attentions that have ever been given to princes of. the royal blood, or to emperors with imperial power. In Paris, inTLon den, in Rome, every art of the f-fhter tainer was exhausted upon the presi dent. He was flattered with every at ? tehtipn that mankind can -give to man. f He'liked it alL i "Diplomats and international states men constantly attended him and paid him homage. If. he had vanity, it was I encouraged. Northing that could please him was omitted from the prelimi naries that marked the .approach to the peace-'tables. The statesmen.uf other l&iids, intent upon the . welfare of th&ir countries, artfully led him tO/.see their countries' needs. He was .easily beguiled into assuming the role that had been carefully created for him. The government and peopie of the United States are to pay for ai! these honored attentions in the years to come. "The president wanted a league of nations?it was given him. Those who sat with him at the peace table wanted to add more territory to their do mains; wanted more friendly harbors at the doors of teeming millions at the ends of the paths they controlled on the seas; wanted dominion and control over smaller and weaker na tions; wanted indemnity for the loss they sustained in the war; wanted security and prestige for their govern ment and people for future wars, and wanted the United States to share the burden of policing Europe and maintaining the boundaries of their nation, and they got what they want ed. "The peace conference ended a part of it* work a few days ago, and the president left Europe amid the si lence of the multitude and without even the honor of attention from his former flatterers. If Wood row Wilson only were concerned, the affair would pass without serious comment. But every returned travelf-r and uncen sored report tell from Europe the story of American unpopularity in every country overseas. The cordial feeling for the government and the people of the United States that exist ed six months ago. is wanting now. Civilized and Christian people covet the good opinion of mankind. The president's presence in Europe, his absence from his own country has left the people of the United States without that good opinion." I "No country can safely permit its j chief executive to intrude himself into the domestic affairs of another coun try. When the president of the ! United States, in England and in I Italy, mistook the royal reception he I had received from those in high places and the applause that was given him by the multitude for an in vitation to become their political mas ter, he lost his own prestige and that of his country. It will require the work of years to restore the govern ment and the people of the United States to their former cordial and congenial relationships with the other countries of the world and with tho.s^ people with whom the president ha* recently come in contact. Navy Recruiting Officer C oming to Sumter. A navy recruiting officer from tht-; Recruiting Station at Florence will.be j in Sumter for two days next week j (Wednesday and Thursday. July 16 j and 17) for the purpose of enlisting young men for the navy. The navy offers many opportunities j to a young man which can not )>?- du- I plicated in <ivil life. A trip aroun? the world is planned for the' near tu I ture. an opportunity that will not be offered again soon, to see that great piece of work, the Panama Canal, j Then to Japan, China, all the South American countries and the w^tj CO?St Of our own United States. ? < i Anrore wishing lO enlist or desiring ? information call at T. M. C. A. Sumrsr on Wpdn^sday or Thursday. Jxfcy 16-17 or applvat_Navy Recruiting Sts?? tion, Tlorend^^<2^r^^^^ih^j J Federal Aid for Bridge Thirty Thousand to Bridge the Edisto at Jacksonboro Columbia, July 8.?The request sub mitted by Charleston and Colleton counties for federal aid in building a bridge across the Edisto at Jackson boro. was approved by the State Highway Commission at the monthly meeting tonight. Federal aid to the amount of $30,000 was granted on the project. Other projects approved for federal aid by the commission tonight and amount of federal aid involved in eaeh case were: Greenwood $20,ono, Oeonee $31,000, Darlington $20,000, Chester field $24,000, Marlboro $27,000. VVOODROW WILSON' AT WHITE HOUSE President Returns to Washington Home?Four Months Absence. Washington. July 8.?President Wilson returned to Washington at midight after an absence of four months at Paris peace conference. He wa- accompanied by Mr.*- Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson, and by Vice President. Marshall and most of the members of his cabinet who greeted him on his arrival today at New York. The presidential party was greeted at the station by a crowd of several thousand persons who had waited for several hours. After brief welcoming ceremonies, the president and Mrs. Wilson drove directly to the White House. Welcoming the chief executive were representatives of the Xon-Paritsan League of Nations, the War Camp Community Service and the Centra; Labor Union and committee of Wash ingto citizens headed by Commis sioner Brownlow. who extended greetings on behalf of the city. As the president and Mrs. Wilson left the train shed they walked be neath a bower of flowers arid passed on to a waiting automobinie between long lines of girls representing her alds while the marme band played. Plans to strew ros-Cs in front of the presidential party- at the station were disapproved by -the police.. At the city postoffice .adjoining thf union station, a tableaux of Columbia welcoming the presidents was illumi nated by searchlights. A battalion of yeowomtn in white uniiforms "also were present to greet their command er in chief. . Washington, July 8.?President Wil son returning to Washington at mid night tonight after an absence of four months at the Paris peace conference; told a throng of many thousand Wash ington citizens who greeted him at the union station, that'he came home "confident that the people of the United States were for the' league of nations." The welcome he received here, he said, was particularly peas ing because it was ?"immediate assur ance" of his feeling. ? Despite the late hour of arrival due to delay in docking the presidential transport George Washington at New York, a crowd estimated by Major Pullman, chief of police and other of ficials at 100,000 was at the station. It included District of Columbia officials, members of congress and representa tives of the army and navy. Imme diately after the welcoming cere monies. President and Mrs. Wilson went to the White House. As they passed down Pennsylvania Avenue they were welcomed by thousands and a large crowd greeted them in front of the "White House. Responding to an. address of wel come from J. H. Ralston, head of the district citizens' committee, the pres ident said: "This very beautiful reception ha.? taken me entirely by surprise. It is a very gratifying surprise and it makes be very grateful to you all. The very generous words in which you have greeted me are especially gratifying to me. "I came home confident that tht people of the United States were for the league of nations, but to receive this immediate assurance of it is particularly pleasing to me. It makes my home coming just that much the more delightful. I have never been quite so eager to get home as I was this time and everything I have seen since I sighted land until now has made me gladder and gladder that 1 am home. No country can possibly look so good as this country had looked to me and I am sure.that I an expressing the sentiments of Mrs. Wilson and of all who are with me in saying that your gracious receptioi has made our homecoming all the more pleasurable." The trip from New York to Wash ington was made without incident i the presidential train arriving here a few minutes before midnight. No stop* were made until Washington was reached, although there were crowds at the stations in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Deputy Sheriffs Guard Argo Plant Chicago, July 9.?"One hundred special deputy sheriffs tonight were patrolling the vicinity of the Corn Products Refining Company's plant at Argo, a suburb, where last night two men were killed and about 50 others wounded or injured in fights between armed guards and strike sympa thizers. One of the wounded men was reported in a dying condition tonight Today passed with comparative quiet but was marked by contradictory statements from officials "and union men. Possibility of further serious trou ble was guarded against by both sides. Protection of the plant was increased and Joseph Banks, president of the loral. union, announced no more demonstrations by union men would br encouraged. The only incident approaching vio lence reported today occurred when a number of strikers chased Edward Reeves, mayor of Argo and gyperin tendent of the company's machine shops. They accused him of attempt ing to stop their credit with local merchants. Mr. and Mrs. Jas Cuttino and lit tle daughter Portia left yesterday for StUuda, - ? ? ,,-??-:?r Methodists Plan For Exposition Columbus. Ohio. July 9.?Repeti tion of the .Methodist centenary ex position on a much Iarsrer scale was unanimously approved at a conference of the interchurch cabinet of secre taries and executive .staff which has been in meeting her*' for the last three days with Dr. S. Earl Taylor, director general of the exposition hero. Although any action which the staff here might take must be approved oy the executive committee at a meeting in New York two weeks from today, are practically assured, according to interchurch expositions for the future Dr. Fred B. Fisher, associate director. St. Petersburg, Fla., and Pasadena, Cal., both have asked that an inter church exposition be held there this winter. Chicago is being strongly favored by the cabinet Dr. Fisher said. The entire exposition may be given at one time, probably in 1921, or in a series of celebrations, according to i present plans. J An industrial relations department I was created at a meeting today which I will study industrial conditions inj Europe and Asia and America. A{ report probably will be made in the I fall, it was announced. Round figures amounting to $400. 000,000 were discussed at the meeting as the necessary sum to carry on great interchurch programs during the next ten years. Pan-American problems and pro gress received attention today with j Norman Bridges. New York capitalist. I and philanthropist. a* princioal speaker. ' Nations must trade vvi*h each other" declared Mr. Bridges in his appeal for Pan-American coun tries. "There are no longer any her mit nations. These countries also need practical educations, both gen eral and vocational. They need to be taught the habit, team work, im portance Of fair play and good sports manship practiced and taught in this country. And these people are teach able." What is thought to be the most elaborate plan yet arranged by repre sentatives of any single group of for eign countries will be carried out to morrow in connection with the East ern Asia celebration. Among the speakers who will discuss conditions in eastern Asia are David Yu:, nation al secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Chi na who is touring the United States in the interest of better relations be tween this country and China; Dr. I William Elliott Griffiths of Tokyo, for the past 30 years a missionary in Ja pan; Bishop Herbert Welch of Seoul ! Korea and Bishop William F. Mc ; Murray of St. Louis. Chinese, Koreans i and Japanese will vie with each other jin putting on "Oriental stunts, j Sergt. Alvin C. .York, "the world's ! greatest hero," will arrive in Colum j bus tomorrow accompanied by Goyer j nor Roberts of Tennessee. Sergeant York and Lieut. Comdr. A. C. Reed, of the NC-4, will speak at the centehr ary Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stoudemire lirft this evening in their car for Glenn Springs where they will spend ^ten I days before going to the mountains i of North Carolina. . . ; Date of Sale Aug; 31,1918 _. Sept. 10, 1918 _. Sept. 11, 1918 _. Sept. 13, 1918 _. Sept. 14, 1918 _. Oct. 1, 1918:. Oct. 9, 1918_ Nov. 19, 1918.. May 7, 1919_ Owner C. O. Dixon, Esq. Hv N. Singletary,Esq.? Durant, Horton & Floyd Mrs. Mary J. Harrell? J. D. Coker, Esq. F. L. & John Wilcox_ W. T. W?kms, Esq. York Real Estate Co.? Catawba Real Estate Co. South Carolina farms can be sold to better advantage now than ever before. Crop values in 1918 increased Ninety Mil lion Dollars. Money is plen-,] tiful. There is a demand for small farms. By subdividing your farm or idle land we can. sell it at auction for you quick- \ ly and profitably. Note the |j prices brought by these South. Carolina Farms sold through \ us* s> Location Am't Soli For Near Mullins, S. C_$42,999.1* u Lake City, S. C_66,72^ " Marking, S. C? 35,294.62 " Darlington, S. 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