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lajlm?aiiapolis Speech He Lays i : Bare Partisanship of 1 ? Senators ^4%?? OF NATIONS 4J WILL PREVENT WAR Challenges Lodge and Associ ates to Formulate, a Better ( "Ran For Permanent Peace i Indianapolis, Sept. 4.?"Put up or shit .up," was the advice given oppo nents of the league of nations by President Wilson here tonight in the second adress of his 10,000' mile tour of the United States. "If the critics of the league have something better to suggest," said the president, "I hope &e^: wiil hold their convention and \ -lie-said the league opponents could riot: hope to defeat the program ex ^epti by offering, something -better. W?son said the covenant "i3 the only conceivable arrangement which ?fm ' preyent our sending. our men abroad again, very soon. And if I in ay oise ? very common expression, I "Would: say, 'if it is not to be this ar raignment, what arrangement do you Suggest to secure the peace of the ymrld? It is a case of put up or shut fv*,Oppositie>n is not going to save th-?/vaorld; negotiations are not going tp construct the policies of mankind. A great plan is the' only thing that can-.defeat a great plan. Tjhe only triumphant idea in this world are the* ideas that are organized for battle. The. only thing that equals an organ ized, program is a better program. ? "It .this is not the way to' secure pe&ce, I beg that the way may be .pointed to you. If we must reject -tliis-way. the n I beg that-before I am sent to ask Germany to make a new itted* of peace with us, I should be &teeU) specific Instructions as to what kind of peace it is- to be." ? President Wilson told a crowd of several thousand here tonight that no believed the league of nations ?stfould .make all war-i impossible, but that he -expected ,it. to.make war **vio -$??^vim^prob?ble." ? ; /Ehe economic -and arbitration sec tJon>-cf^ the .?/covenant;' he asserted. *^g?ld keep^wajj >on the , outskirts" jtad-make it only -a-"last resort" - v. Qpjponen ts- of the league of ; nations, he- said,' "had discussed only three out articles of the covenant' The articles , which would .make. war im probable had been - overlooked. ,?.r ?.:$Thc-president said hfe'speaking trip ' spartfy; .to point out, h?yn :^abso ignbrarit" of- the contents ? of nant some'of those were who opposed the league. :' '%*ZM:'*ihey- read the English language at fall,'*: he. said, "they do not under ??a?id it .as I do." '^'^hp: president said fee wanted to forget and wanted the people to for ??&JfoaZ they were Republicans or i ;*^'jam American," he declared, "and *'champion of-the rights which Amer ica^; Relieves im" v;r. A&this the crowd cheered and there was , another outburst of cheering t . he. declared be had "not the test- doubt" what the verdict! of tfc><-pje*>pfe would be. >->Sjpine delegations, the president said catoe to the Paris conference with ;:. [ causes which were not considered . properly within the scope of the peace conference. . In that . connec tipn .he1 pointed out that under Ar JUgle-4i. any threat of war could be. investigated by the league. ^ '.?*;.^At present" said he, "we have to .mind our own business, but under ,. -the.'- covenant and the league we can mind other peoples business. *. J5There was not an oppressed people .:; anywhere, he said, that could not get attention for its case under the leagv e. JjfiS.'jctid not mention any oppressed people by name, but many of his -hearers remarked that they thought he spoke of the case of Ireland. ? deferring to the Shantung settte niebt' the president pointed out that Japan, repeatedly had promised to re turn the peninsula to China. He did not go into the subject at length. ho^teyer, but mentioned it in em phasizing that the covenant would refuse- to recognize the validity of secret treaties. ; :*Bhe president said he could look The? mothers of the country in the ?ace-,proudIy because he had kept iila.promise to do all he could to pre sent any more wars, v,i'This.league," he said, "is the only conceivable arrangement which will .-prevent our sending our men, abroad again \*ery soon." ?. James P. Goodrich. Republican gov ernor of Indiana, in a brief address welcoming the president, said every OBsj wanted a better understanding among the nations, but that every .true American citizen also favored a strong nationalism. He pleaded for ' aH parties to lay aside partisanship in deciding the issues of the peace treaty., ? When the governor mentioned that ^th^e,meeting was to hear the president, Wre.crowd cheered for several minutes and the governor could only stop them by presenting Mr. Wilson. 2 It was ten minutes before the crowd was quieted and the president proceeded. He traced the incidents . from which the great war started, "Baying1, the significant circumstances ?hfras that Austria and Germany did not dare to discuss "the dwnnnd made or Servia." It generally was admitted abroad, he asserted, that if there had befen discussion there would have j^eejC no war. This fact, he said, recalled that the *?*&ft'of tire league of nations cove fa&*r*" *he agreement not to go to i&wP&r1 nine months ?after a contro i^gjtay became acute, had not T.%en (EFFORT TOAVERT STEEL STRIKE President Wilson Will Arrange Conference Between Work ers and Officers GOMPERS IS WORKING FOR AN ADJUSTMENT Men Representing Twenty-four Unions Will Take Part in the Conference Washington, Sept. 5.?President Wilson has agreed to bring about a conference between representatives of the steel workers and the officials of the United States Steel Corporation in an effort to avert the threatened strike. Samuel Gompers sent the president a telegram asking him to arange a conference before next Tuesday when the presidents of twen ty-four international unions in the steel industry will meet here to act on the controversy. PRICE REACTION 1 IS BEGINNING Federal Reserve Board Reports Decline in Commodities Washington, Sept. 5.?The federal reserve board's review of business conditions in August said that a re action from high price levels estab lished during the war has already set in, and declines are noted in the prices of foodstuffs, wearing apparel and shoes.. Confidence is expressed in the satisfactory solution of the wages and price problems. COTTON CONVEN TION TO BE IN N. O. * Si*' " V-* Those Who Expect to Attend Should Leave Tomorrow Columbia, Sept. 5.?All'South Car olinians who expect to-attend the big cotton convention in ? New Orleans next'week are urged by J. S. W'an namaker to lecvc tomorrow afternoon for New Orleans. Those from the middle and lower part of the State are urged to leave Columbia at four o'clock by the Southern xlailway train for Spartanburg, and will leave Spar tanburg tomorrow night. Those from the upper part of the State can take this train at Spartanburg, Greenville or Seneca. Indications point to a large-attendance from South Carolina. The campaign for members is pro gressing splendidly in this State, ac cording to officials of the South Car olina Cotton Association. Most en couraging reports continu- to come in from all over South Carolina. In dicatiops point to a tremendous membership in the State. SUGAR SHORTAGE COMES TO END One Hundred Boats On Their Way From Cuba Chicago, Sept. 5.?The sugar short age which has been, felt all over the country during the past eight weeks is practically at an end and normal con ditions will be resumed within 10 days according to an announcement made here today by Henry H. Rolaph. chair man of the food administration's su gar distribution committee. "The government now has 3 00 boats bringing raw sugar from Cu ba," Mr. Rolaph said. ? ??^mmm r considered at all by those who criti cised the league. **If there had been nine days." said the president, "Germany would not have gone to war." It was a solemn pledge to those who fought the war,, said the presi-1 dent, that there should be such an arrangement to prevent future wars, j "The act which was characteristic j of the beginning of this war was the violation of the territorial integrity of Bcigiu-m," he continued, adding that one of the primary provisions of the league covenant was to prevent violation of territorial integrity. This provision, he pointed out, was contained in the much discussed Ar ticle 10. "Article 10." declared the president, "speaks the conscience of the world. It goes to the heart of this whole bad business." It was true, Mr. Wilson said, that every man surrendered part of his sovereignty whenever he promised to respect the rights of his neighbors: but he declared he could see no harm nevertheless in making' such a promise for the common good. Pointing out that decisions by the league council must be unanimous the president said that whatever judgment j was passed upon the United States by ! the council must have the concurrence of the United States. He added that of course the American delegates on the council would not act without in structions from his government. Referring to the economic pressure | that would be brought to bear on covenant breakers, the president said economic pressure would preclude the need of force. Referring to the economic sections. Mr. Wilson said that if he did wrong he would rather be shot than be stood j up for the judgment of mankind. Explaining how the treaty freed many small peoples, the president said j that Poland, for example, had been given "a unity she could not have won j and an independence she can not maintain." without aid from the great powers * * Senator Underwood Urges Leg islation Against Strikes and Lockouts AMERICANS ADOPTING EUROPEAN METHODS Senator Williams Says Threat of General Strike is No Less Than Treason Washington, Sept. 4.?Means of preventing strikes of railroad em ployees were discussed today in the senate.v with Senator Borah, Republi can, of Idaho', challenging the power j of congress to prohibit strikes or lock-J outs as proposed in the Cummins rail- I road reorganization bill. j Senator Underwood, Democrat, ofi Alabama, opened the debate by urg ing the establishment of a govern mental commission with powers to fix both wages and transportation rates. He did not discuss directly the plan in the Cummins measure relat ing to strikes but said the men would j not strike "against the just decisions (of the government." j Only under proof that the strikes j were for the purpose of impeding in terstate commerce could congress j force arbitration or make strikes l criminally illegal. Senator Borah said, [adding that such a purpose would be (difficult to prove. He doubted that congress could do more than foster agreements between employees and j employers unless it should become necessary to see that labor had a larger and more direct interest in the enterprise in which it was engag ed. Senator Williams, Democrat, of Mississippi, declared American labor was comin gto European methods of strikes, adding that he had seen it stated that general strikes would be called to force passage of the Plumb plan bill for railroad reorganization. Such a project would be no less than treason, he declared. Characterizing the joint commission proposed in the Cummins bill to con trol railroad wages and working con ! ditions as "an industrial league of j'nations to keep the peace of the in | dustrial world," the Missisippi sena tor said congress was not seeking to prevent men from quitting work for good reason, but "to prevent their gigantic conspiracies." Without disclosing whether he fa vored the interstate commerce com mission as the proposed tribunal or discussing the Cummins bill plan to prohibit strikes and lockouts. Senator Underwood said the interests of the public, of capital and of railroad em ployees require such a plan. It is clearly within the right of, congress, he declared, to^create an agency to determine wages as well as rates. "Men will not strike" said the Ala bama senator, "against the just deci sions of the government. After a fair determinaton .of the controversy by an impartial tribunal, public senti ment will force the contending par ties to accept the verdict rendered as final. It must be done in the in terest of the men involved, the in dustry of the people and the peace of the nation." The tribunal he proposed, Senator Underwood continued, "must have the authority and power to protect the rights of the whole people against the recurrence of strikes and lockouts." Disturbance of transpor tation, he said, affects the whole pub t lie and therefore railroad employees (owe obligations in their action differ ent from those in private industry. "There is but one way out. in my judgment," he continued, "and that is to appoint a tribunal with the pow er to adjust these matters, which has the time to consider and the oppor tunity to know the facts. Such trib unal must not only have the power and be prepared to do what is "right and just by the labor employed on the j railroads, but must have authority and power to see that property is not confiscated by its decisions. For, should you confiscate the property of J 'the transportation oompanies you would break down the channels of transportation, break them down in a strike with the resultant injury to the people. A tribunal of this kind must also have the authority and op portunity to consider the rights of the shippers and travelers who in the last analysis will bear any increased burden that falls on .the carriage of property or persons over the trans portation lines. "If you want a final and just solu tion of such a controversy, you are practically driven to leaving the de cision to a governmental commission that has full and ample opportunity to investigate the rates of wages, the earning no wer of the transportation companies, the cost of living, the bur den that rests on the shipping public, and to determine: First, what is a fair, just and living wage for the men; second, how far this charge can be placed on the capital of the cor poration without breaking it down, destroying the value of its securities, j bankurpting its property and taking I away from the investing public a fair return for capital invested: third, how far an increased charge for la bor, interest or supplies can be handed down to the public without doing injustice to the shipper and traveler and without becoming a men ace to the development of industry. "It is essential that the board or commission lhat is given the power to adjust the wage scale of the men must also have the power to reflect '.ts findings in the rates charged for the transportation of persons and property over the railroads." Senator Underwood said the time h:i>- come when contests of "brute force" between capital and labor must cease und thai the right of labor It Emphasizes the Necessity of I Keeping Faith With the Allies DOCUMENT CARRIED BY I SIR GEORGE CLERK! New Note Says Entente Con sider Rumania Still as Their | Faithful Friend Paris, Sept. 5 (Havas)?The note) of the supreme council, which Sir I George R. Clerk, of the British, for I eign office, is carrying to Bucharest, is couched in firm hut cordial lari I guage, according to the Petit Pari | sien today. It says the communica tion recalls to the Rumanian cabinet i the engagements it had entered into and-sets forth tho necessity for their being kept. It is said by the journal that Sir George is taking with him the sev enty-five radiograms which the Ru manian delegation is reported to have declared were sent from Paris to the Rumanian government within the last two weeks .but none of which reached its destination. Rumania claiming a similar failure of the va rious allied notes to reach here. As to the new allied note, the jour nal says it declares the peace con ference considers Rumania as a faith ful friend, expresses the wish that its I government will not detach itself from the body of the allies, requests ex planations on various points, asks that Rumania evacuate Hungary speedily and meanwhile cease requisi tioning supplies', whilq putting the material already requisitioned at the disposal of the allies for the purpose of making a just division of it or its equivalent among the various, nations having- claims against Hungary. The note is said to end by asking Ruma nia to cooperate with the allies in reestablishing order in Hungary. SHOOTS-UNCLE BY MISTAKE Regretable Tragedy Costs Mag istrate His Life Laurens. Sept. 5.?Alexander Aber crombie, magistrate of Youngs Town ship and one of the county's sturdy Citizens, met a tragic death last night at the hands of his nephew, Furman Abercrombie. who shot his uncle nn der^pcculiar circumstances. The shoot iiig occurred at the home of Furman Abercrombie's; mother, widow" of the late Frank Abercrombie, and, accord ing to the testimony of witnesses at the coroner's inquest this afternoon, it took place between midnight and 1" o'clock this morning. It seems that Magistrate Abercrom bie had spent some time last night at a country store in tho. community and is supposed to have been on his v^ay-'hoTi.'j when he stopped at the residence of Mrs. Frank Abercrombie. A younger brother of Furman Aber crombie, sleeping in an upstairs room, was aroused by some Strang noise and went to his brother's room on the lower floor and awoke him, telling him that something was disturbing the quiet of the night. Furman got his gun and about this time he saw a figure of a man through a side room jwindow. He called to know who it was. Getting no reply, he ordered the individual to get away. Receiving no response to this, the young man tired and the man fell dead in his tracks, shot through the head with a charge of small sized shot. After calling an other kinsman, who lives nearby, an investigation revealed the identity of a good citizen whose strange conduct cost him hi& death. It was supposed that possibly he called by the Aber crombie home to play a joke on the hoys by giving them a little scare. There was no misunderstanding be- J tween the two families, according to J witnesses. Magistrate ^bercrombie was 54 years old and had held o'f.ce for eight or ten years. lie is survived by eight children. Late this afternoon Fur man Abercrombie, who was brought "to the city after the inquest, was granted bail in the sum of ?500. MOWER AMPU j. TATES LAB'S LEG j [ Montmorenci Boy Suffers Seri-J ous Accident While at Work Aiken. Sept. ?4.?Monroe Woodward, the sixteen-year-old son of Mrs. Hat-j tie Woodward, of Montmorenci. had j his leg cut off this afternoon while' running a mowing machine on his I mother's plantation. He was hurried ' here to the Aiken Hospital, and is now resting quietly. The limb was cut off iiist above the ankle. Bordeaux. Sept. 6.?The corner j stone of the monument marking the landing of the first American troops in France and the point from which LaFayette sailed for America to aid in the revolution was laid today by President Poincare. Premier Clem-! menceau. Marshal Foch and others spoke. should be recognzed and protected by! law. as are those of property. Pres- j ent conditions, he said, "primitive" j and collective bargaining, he asserted, j can not be pursued against general public interest. Use of force in di minishing or increasing wages must end. he declared, adding. however. Wim he does not favor laws requiring labor by compulsion. LUMBER PAI5T ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD? We seU everything for any building BOOTH & McLEOD. Inc. BUILDING MATERIAL ' BUILDERS' HARDWARE REDHELD QUITS THE CABINET One More Break in President Wilson's Official Family Announced HIS ACTION IS RESULT OF THE STEEL PRICE ROW Secretary of Commerce Resents Dissolution of the Price Fix ing Board _ I Washington, Set. 5.?Secretary of j Commerce Redfield tendered his res I ignation, which was accepted by Pres ident Wilson, effective November 1st, it was announced officially today. , The announcement followed* ru mors that Secretary Redfield would resign following the controversy with Director General l-Iinc-s regarding prices for steel and the dissolution I of the price fixing board, of which he I was chairman. COTTON REPORTS ARE FURNISHED Cotton Marketing Association Receives Full Telegraphic Service At the headquarters of the govern ment cotton grader at No. 12 East Liberty Street. Sumter, arrangements have been completed for receiving telegraphic market reports every fifteen minutes of the market prices j of cotton. As soon as a telephone is j iput in, these reports will be phoned I to the various centers of Lee, Sum- j ter and Clarendon counties as these reports come in. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce which has been furnishing this infor mation will transfer this matter to the cotton grader's office as soon as the latter place gets a telephone installed. I Every bale should be sampled, grad-j ed, stapled, and recorded at the grad er's office.' What the cotton farmers! need noAV, and\ need worse than any- j thing else is to sell their cotton I through one agency. Cotton is now sold largely and almost entirely on "middling basis." The cotton grad er and his assistant Captain A. W. Suder are now fully prepared to tell 'every cotton seller not only what his cotton grades and the length of the cotton staple, and the grader and his assistant . can tell any farmer just what his cotton ought to sell for, by grades., But best of all. the thing for the farmers to do is not to sell a bale of cotton until after the American Cot-! ton Association fixes the minimum price to be accepted. The selling of thousands of bales of cotton at this time is simply feeding the cotton mills, depressing the prices, and those who sell for less than a profit are causing those who are trying to hold to lose money also. MAKING PLANS AGAINST FLU I - Health Officers Consider Recur rence of Epidemic Raleigh, N. C.Sept. 5.?Health of ficers of Virginia. South Carolina and North Carolina, appointed , a special committee at the July meeting of the National and Provincial Health Offi cers' Association, held at Atlantic City, were in session here today con sidering the possible recurrence of an influenza epidemic this fall and win ter. \ The committee declined to issue any statement for the press. Dr. W. S. Rankin of North Carolina stated that a bulletin would be prepared dealing I with the situation as it appears to! them, containing suggestions, regula tions for combatting a recurrence of) the disease in epidemic form. The. other members of the com- > mittee besides Dr. Rankin arc Dr. Emmon S. Williams of Virginia and J Dr. James A. Hayne of South- ? Caro-1 lina. AUSTRIA ACCEPTS j PEACE TERMS Dr. Renner Announces That i, He Will Sign Peace Treaty I ii Vienna. Sept. 6.?Dr. Karl Renner, h the head of the Austrian peace dele-, nation, has announced that he would! return to St. Germain Sunday and j t sign the peace treaty. . jj The press here assailed the peace j terms as "bitter, spiteful, unjust and j ( impossible of fulfillment.*' \y PRICES MUST NOT BE RAISED Attorney General Palmer Is sues Circular to the Fair Price Committees CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROFITEERS OUTLINED Government Will Not Sanction , Increase in ^rice of Necessa | ries of Life i _ i ~? Washington, Sept. 4.?Fair pries ! commissions throughout the country 'were informed by Attorney General I Palmar today that their activities wece: j not expected in any way to include of i ficial ^sanction for raising prices j above present levels. < Reports that in a few places com j mit tees cooperating- with the depart j ment of justice in the government's I effort, to reduce the cost of living had j advanced charges to consumers cau's \ ed an official circular to be prepar-, ! ed making it clear that such a' step. j had no approval from Washington, j The purpose of this campaign is to reduce the cost of living not to ih j crease it," the circular said. "Fair i price committees should not at any J place or under any circumstances ih 1 crease prices. If in the judgment of j the committee a price is too low, it I should not be touched. It is only (prices which are too high with which we are concerned. Assistant Attorney Ames in charge of the administration of the food coh j trol law said there wero only a few i places where prices had been ad vanced. Mr. Palmer's circular, made public by Judge Ames, likewise gave instructions' as to the basis of cost to he used in determining fair prices. "In ascertaining what is a reasons able charge," the circular said, "the orginal cost is one factor to be con sidered, the replacement value is an other and all the facts and circum I stances surrounding the transactions ; are proper elements entering into the j problem. Fair price committees must I use their best judgment in such cases, j without narrowing the question to any j one factor." It was made clear in a memoran dum of the conference between Mr. Palmer and Mr. Ames and the com ! mitttee of governors that the jursdie tion of the fair price committee in I eludes fuel and wearing apparel as I well as foods and feeds. "Whether all these subjects shall be investigat ed," he said, "is^ a matter for each : local committee to determine for it ! self, although in the larger cities it is hoed that the activities of the com mittee will cover the entire subject" Dealers should be invited to accept the prices suggested by the commit tee and the consumers should be urg ed to insist upon these prices or re fuse to buy. OLD MAN SHOT FROM AMBUSH George Gladden, 70 Years Old, Killed and Robbed Near Camden v Gameten." Sept. 5.r-George Gladden, a 70 year old white man. was waylaid and murdered early Wednesday morn ing as he was going to his work at the Wateree Powr Dam in West Wa teree and his body was robbed of; a considerable sum of money. The old man is known to have car ried a large sum of money with him at all times and his relatives state that he was relieved of around $1. f)00 by the murderer. The crime oc curred just before daylight on a by road leading to the Hardaway Com pany's works, and two negroes fol lowing close behind Mr. Gladden state that they saw the revolver flashes and could hear the murderer as he made his way through the woods. The assassin evidently sat beside the rood and awaited his victim. Three shots were fired, two taking effect, one passing through the body enter ing from the back, causing instant death. Melton Danks, a white man, who worked alongside of the old man at the Hardaway works, was arrested soon after the crime was committed ad being a suspect. Berlin, Sept. 5.?A resolution has been introduced in the national as sembly requiring all army officers to immediately take the oath to the now republican constitution. Paris. Sept. 5.?It is understood hat the commisson of allied generals ?ecommended an American and Brit sh police force at Fiume, after the listurbances in which French soldiers Lvcro killed during rioting.