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THE SUMTER Estao Consolidated Aug. 2,1 A GOOD RISK! Governor of Federal Reserve1 Bank Opposed to Further i Credits OBJECTIONS TO THE WANNAMAKER PLAN* Cotton Conference at Atlanta; Discussed Plan to Finance j I Europe Atlanta. Sept. 17.?Extension of j additional government credits to Eu-j , rope urged upon President Wilson, by] . J. S. Wannamaker, president of the; American Cotton Association, was ad- j vised against by W. P. G. Harding.' governor of the federal reserve board ! in a short talfc^ here today to cotton j producers, bankers and merchants as- i sembled under the auspices of the | cotton 'association. j President Wannaraafcer disclosed in ! the course of his address that he had ! written President "Wilson asking him ! to call a conference of the great busi- j ess interests of the United States to arrange additional finanical credits abroad "to prevent suffering and im pending calamity. 7 What was taken as support of Pres ident Wannamaker by the associa tion members present was the voting down of a resolution offered by Wright Willingham of Rome, Ga., ?protesting against the action of Mr. Wannamaker. A large delegation of representative cotton men from nearly | every Southern ?_ate was present. Mr. -Harding spoke of the already j large debt of the United States and for ! the necessity of economy and increase j in production which he said was \e j only logical way to restore condi j J to normal. j 'He said.he did not wish to be un- j ?>rstood as minimizing the importance ! of maintaining and extending Ameri- J ca'sr* "legitimate export trade" and j ted to credits already arranged j an? those expected to be made ?os--t sihfe .under the Edge bill. *\ . Mry Wannatnaker explainedlhat he j?eairjetl the extension of European credit to. aid the sale of cotton and "* commodities;; \ 4*Ey>|* ety"^section of the country is rolling | in wealthy' he said, "except the cot- j ton producers." John B. Cannon of Spartanburg, SJ C,.Speaking at the afternoon session: advocated meetings of bankers in the ! near- future in cotton growing states, j to discuss means by which the bank ers can be of assistance in financing the cotton crop. Governor Harding, in addressing tho meeting tonight, asserted that the greatest problems confronting the! South at present are economical and : sociological rather than financial. He j again expressed doubt as to the wis- : dorn of the American government ex tending additional financial credits to foreign countries and stressed the j need of curtailing the export of lu>:-j uries and non-essentials to European I countries, already greatly in debt j to the United States. Cotton and i other essentials instead should be ; shipped to such nations without stint, he continued. The meeting adopted unanimously a : resolution introduced by John B. Can-! non, president of the Spartanburg (S. j C) County Cotton Association calling or; the banks of the South to take; immediate steps to assure the main taining of the minimum price of cot ton recommended at meting of the American Cotton Association. BOLL WEEVIL AHEAD OF TIME - i Clemson Entomologist Discov- \ ers Cotton Pest on Orange Burg County Farms _ _ Orange burg. Sept. IT.?The boll | weevil has reached Orangeburg coun ty a year ahead of the time expected. I J. K. Easley. entomologist of Cl-am s?h College, announced tonight after | an inspection of the fields here. This is the farthest East the pest has ever reached, it is said her*. Orangeburg county is one of the larg est cotton producing counties in the : cotton belt. Xo great damage to the | staple is expected before next season, the insects not being in great num-' hers as yet. LEAGUE LEAVES AMERICA FREE ? - League of Nations Does Not Control United States San Francisco. Sept. 1??President Wilson declared today that England could not out vote the United States, in the league of nations, that foreign governments could not order Ameri can troops abroad, chat the league would have a powerful influence to ward the restoration of Shantung to China, and that the United States could not be obligated to aid England in suppressing revolt in Ireland. The president is getting an enthus iastic welcome in his tour of Oalifor-j *ked April, 1340. 'Be tun I 881. SU SAN FRANCISCO CHEERS WILSON Great Crowds of Cheering Peo ple Filled the Streets in Welcoming Wilson PRESIDENT WILSON IS GIVEN AN OVATION Californians Are Not All Fol lowers of Hiram Johnson and Eemies of President San Francisco, Sept. 17.?To an up roarious crowd in the Civic Audito rium here, President Wilson declared that in his trip across the continent he had become convinced that the treaty issue would be decided rightly by the people and "not by any private, purpose of their own." He repeated his declaration that the league of na tions was not the work of the Ver sailles conference but grew out of years of thought by men who did not devote any portion of their considera tion to politics. Some of the most constructive" minds of both parties, he asserted, had been devoted to the pro ject for a generation* There was much disorder in the hall during the address and the pres ident spoke with apparent difficulty against a hum of talk in the distant galleries. Once he stopped to ask for closer attention, but the crowd did not quiet down. When he left his hotel for the auditorium he was cheered by a crowd which had block ed the street for more than an hour.; On the way he passed along in a con tinuous roar of applause and when he and Mrs. Wilson entered the auditor ium the crowd stood up and shouted itself hoarse. When the cheering had been in progress for more than 13 minutes "The Star Spangled Banner" was played on a pipe organ but it Tailed to quiet the crowd. Mayor Rolph at last introduced i Chester Rowell, editor of the Fresno Republican .and Republican national iommitteeman in 1916, who presented the president in a single sentence while the crowd kept up its shouting. When Mr. Wilson took the platform ind held up his hand for silence, yells i'oh'tinued for more than live minutes; in the gallery, while some in the au- j lience shouted "put them out1' and others hissed. There was still much I noise when he began speaking and it! sontrnued while the address proceed-1 sd. j It was one of the largest halls in which the president has spoken, seat ing 12.009. it was packed, many standing. | Declaring the league opponents had j offered no substitute, Mr. Wilson dis-j cussed a;t length the objections made, j repeating many of his previous argu-! ments against changes. Virtually all; of the features under debate, now. he j declared, had been changed, once j along lb" line of suggestions by the j senate foreign relations committee. The right-".of witfulruAvai. Mr. Wil sen ars?!"ted. was virtually absolute! under the covenant in it:; present! form. Declared also that the Mon-! roe doctrine Is adequately safeguard-! ed and that such questions :ts immi-i gration and the tariff arc reserved for l national determination. FENCING OUT THE BOLL WEEVIL Clemson College, Sept. 18.?The dozen counties within thd boll weevil territory are going to. fence out the weevil with livestock pasture fencing. To lay plans for a campaign for the building of more and better fences and thus hasten the development of livestock as one means of fighting the boll weevil a preliminary meeting was held at Fairfax Friday. Septem ber 12. The meeting was attended by D. VV. Watkins, acting director of exten sion; F. L. Harkey, marketing agent; V. W. Lewis, extension animal hus bandman; A. B. Bryan, agricultural editor; editor; H. S. Johnson. A. A. McKeown and C. A. McFaddcn, dis trict agents; and county agents Rish er. Colleton; Briggs, Hamberg; Doyl ston. Barnwell; Robertson. Allendale; Kyzer, Aiken; Bruce,- Jasper; Baxter, Beaufort, Schilletter, Dorchester; Dightsey. Hampton. A tho^ou^h discussion was had concerning the importance of live stock in helping farmers turn from all-cottcn farming, the necessity of *rood fencing in permanent livestock industry, and the means of helping farmers get good fencing at once and at reasonable cost Arrangements are being made to aid farmers in buying fencing, material cooperatively in car lots at reduced prices. Local banks and merchants are gladly joining in this work, which will be a public benefaction because it will help the farmers win independence of the boll weevil and thereby bring greater prosperity to all. W. It. Mattoon. of the IT. S. For estry Service, was present and dis cussed fence posts, methods of creo soting. etc.. and gave valuable infor mation for use in the fencing cam paign. To furnish information about fence posts, fences, pastures, grazing crops, etc.. bulletins will be issued at oace for the campaign by the experiment station and the extension service. tnd Fear not?jDet All the ends Thon AI MTER, S. C, SATUKDi j?. S. THANKS I GEN. PERSHING | Joint Session of House and Sen ate Held For Purpose Today ' i l _ ! j SENATOR CUMMINS j SPEAKS FOR SENATE ! i ? ? ? i i ? i j Joint Resolution Was Presented j By Former House Speaker Champ Clark Washington, Sept. IS.?Gen. Persh ing received the thanks or congress I today for the services which he, his i officers and men rendered during the | world war, at a joint session of the I senate and house in the chamber of j the house of representatives. Senator Cummins, president pro tempore of the senate, spoke for that body, extending a hearty welcome to Gen. Pcrshing, and referring to the | entry of the American forces into j the war as "the most impressive j J spectacle in the annals of warfare.'' , I Speaker Gillett paid a tribute to the Americans killed in the war, also ' to the wounded. He said Gen. Per-j shing personified "the gallantry, high | purpose and unconquerable determi nation of our crusading army." The joint resolution of thanks was i offered by Former Speaker Clark. VAUGHN IS STILL AT LARGE [ _ 'Lumpkin Says Hospital Author i ities Are Blameless i _______ Columbia, Sept. 17.?At the request of J. Robert Martin, of Greenville, I solicitor of the Thirteenth judicial cir j cuit, the attorney general's office j made an investigation today into the I ! circumstances surrounding the escape i j of Thurston U. Vaughn, former su | pcrintendent of the Odd Fellows' j Home at Greenville, some time Tues j day night from the State Hospital forj ' the Insane, where he was confined for j observation. new light on the manner in which the fugitive, who was convicted-''in 1912 for criminal: assault on a girl' inmate at the home! while he was superintendent, was i found by Capt. Morris C. Lumpkin, | assistant attorney general, who made the investigation. Incidentally.. in connection with his visit, Capt. Lumpkin was positive, in his conversation with newspaper men that no possible blame could be at tached to the hospital authorities, as every reasonable precaution was taken to gruard Vaughn. The search for the fugitive has gone on unrelentingly since he made his escape, and every avenue through which he might travel has been i warned to be on the lookout. An order was handed down. >>y the court. a1 Greenville la~t Saturday re manding Vaughn to that cicy in the near future to be placed on trial for his sanity, with a view to resentencinc: ; him. It is believed that Vaughn ! found out in some way about this or-1 i der and decided to make his escape j before it was too iate. It is thought I that Vaughn, knowing a Greenville ! jury refused to accept the plea of | Bramlett that he wa.s insane when be j killed bis mother-in-law and shot his i sister-in-law, took the view that he would meet the same fate if he we: ! taken back to Greenville. i ! | FORECASTS CROP I BELOW 10,000,000; j - Average Condition For Septem ber 12 Placed at 51.6 Per Cent j St. Matthews, Sept. 15.?"Under ' present conditions, with even a late i : frost, a cotton crop of less than ten | million bales is a certainty." in the j opinion of J. S. Wannamaker. presi- : dent of the American Cotton Associa tion. I A statement given out by Mr. Wan- j namaker today for the association sets} out the crop prospects as extremely j gloomy. The average condition in the ! cotton belt for September 12 is placed ; at 54.6. The crop is from three to four! weeks late, it was declared; the fruit-! ing is very poor, the bolls under size j and opening prematurely us a result ' of adverse seasons and diseased root system. Tests at ginneries.moreover, have shown that the lint yield this j season is running considerably below normal. ('ontinuinpr. the statement assert"3! that insect damage, which continues with wide prevalence, has spread over the greatest area in history, and will show the greatest injury ever vxperi- j enced; that the acreage abandonment; will be the largest of any year. "Our record," Mr. Wannamnker s;iid. "show an acreage abandonment of 9.2"i per cent, not including abnn donment from boll weevil and insect, damage. The department o<" agricul-j ture has notified us that it will pub- ; lish figures on the acrenjre abandon-j ment by October 2. With early frosts, j the report under this head will cer- J tainly be startling. Even with a late j frost a crop under ten million bales is 't certainty." i an mm*t at be thj Country'* Thy,,God's ? LY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1J BOSTON NOT YET OVE TROUBLE Local Unions Balloting on Gen eral Strike in Support of Policemen i - Igompers said to be backing unions I Policemen Planning to Take i Their Case Into the Courts j For Se element i ' _ I j Boston, Sept. 18.?The local unions I continued balloting today on the pro posal to supoprt the striking police men, who were said to be consider ing taking their case to the courts, following their discharge by .the po-J lice commissioner. The news that Samuel Gompers stood behind the strikers encouraged the unions to make a stand. The city was quiet today. [JAPAN OFFICIALLY j DENIES REPORT I United States Sent No Note to Tokyo _ i Tokyo, Sept, 17, (By the Associated/ Press.)?The. foreign office today de nied the report printed in the Japa nese newspaper that the United States government had sent a note to Japan concerning the financial consortium and Shantung question. Thvt impression prevails here that Jhe United States is consulting with Groat Britain and France regarding Japan's contention as to the exclusion of certain fields in South Manchuria and Eastern and inner Mongolia from tho sphere of the consortium. The party council will take up the peace treaty within a few days, and when it is ratified Japan is expected immeditaely to undertake negotia tions with China with regard to Shan tung. V THE PACKING PROPAGANDA Proposed Regulation of Meat Packers Effective?Would Put Burden of Proof on Monopoly The packers are trying to raise a fog ? concerning the Kenyort Bill ay making people think that it would establish a "license system." As a matter of act, no such system is in volved in the bill. Would requiring a reckless driver to give bond foi fu ture jrood conduct create a "bond ing system?" The idea is little short of absurd. Obviously, the bond would be required only of a dri/er who was reckless and would r.ot affect these who did not drive auto mobiles, nor those who did not drive them recklessly. The fact concerning the meat pack ing industry is that it has been found to be in the control of a monopoly. This fact has been found by the food administration and by the federal trade commission. Also, previous government investigation, long before :he federal trade commission wa3 es tablished, has proved the same fact. The question is, how can wc make the anti-trust laws effective in stamp ing out monopoly in the meat packing industry, and remove the menace of a great food trust? We do not want to destroy the meat packers, but they must be regulated. Past experience- shows that it has been almost impossible to convict the trust, and when, convicted the results have been small. Therefore, Senators Kenyon and Kendrick, in drawing their bills, which are now.before the senate committee on agriculture, have endeavored to put teeth in them? teeth which will be effective in check ing monopoly. They believe that the investigations of the food administration fand of the federal trade commission estab lish a prima facie case that monoply control exists. Therefore, these, bills shift the burden of proof to the meat packers. That means that when the secretary* of agricutlure shall . find that the meat packers are disobeying the law he may take prompt action against them, which action will be effective unless the packers can prove in the courts that the findings of the secretary of agriculture arc wrong. To accomplish this the bills provide that the packers n ..st c through the form of taking: out a license, in which they agree to live up to the anti-trust laws. If they are found to be in violation of these laws. th<- bills pro vide that the secretary of agriculture may either suspend or revoke the li cense. The meat packer may then appeal to the courts and have a full hearing before action is taken. Thus he is provided with his "day in court." This is not a "license system" like that enforced by the food administra tion, and which has come to be a bugbear to so many business men. Tt is not a precedent for other business es. It is merely a wise provision de signed- to make it possible to reach properly and effectively a proven mo uopnH. A4 Traars.? ?BJS TRUE )19. GREAT STRIKE BEGINS MONDAY Steel Workers Say They Are Determined to Quit Work on Next Monday I ?^_ j REFUSE TO AWAIT 1 ' ! j LABOR CONFERENCE; j Union Leaders Expect to Tie Up Steel and Allied Industries By Striking Now j Pittsburgh, Pa. Sept. 17.?Wrhen j the national committee for organizing iron and steel workers, which met here tcday to consider matters in connection with the proposed strike of steel workers, adjourned tonight until tomorrow morning, John Fitz patrick, chairman of the committee,! made the unequivocal statement that j the walkout would take place next Monday morning; as already decided upon. He said no action was taken at today's meeting to postpone the strike, and that the decision reached at Washington last week would not be revoked. Mr. Fitzpatrick said a statement would be issued tomorrow afternoon. The meeting, primarily called to consider strike plans, dis cussed the question of postponing the walkout until after the industrial con ference in Washington beginning Oc tober 6, as requested by President Wilson. Arguments were made against postponement on the ground that the steel workers, having gone so far in their campaign for settlo jment of grievances by collective bar gaining, can not turn back. Few details of the meeting' were! permitted to leak out. Samuel Gomp ers, president of the American Fed j eration of Labor, .according to re jport is not unfavorable to a postpone ? ment if it will not work injury to the I steel workers. When Chairman Fitzpatrick made the positive statement that the strike would go into effect next Monday morning, he was asked if the strikers would picket the steel plants. "No, there will be no picketing; the men will go lishing." he said. "We wilr leave the mill guards and pro I fessional gunmen to run the plants." A letter from B. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corpora tion, to the presidents of subsidiary companies, made public here today, gives the reasons of the corporation for refusing to meet with the union leaders; to discuss the affairs of its employees. The letter added that "it js the settled determination of the United States Steel Corporation and its subsidiaries that the -wages and working conditions of their employees j shall compare fa vorably with the j highest standards of propriety and justice." j OFFICERS FIND A j STILL IN FLORENCE j Thirty Gallons of Wine Arc Al so Captured Florence, Sept. ltf.?Something of a sensation was created yesterday when officers raided the premises at 217 Griffin street here and captured a 25 ?gallon capacity still with 30 gallons j of wine. C. E. Grainger, an Atlantic j Coast Line freight conductor, was ar j rested and placed in the county jail j on federal and Stute warrants. He j j gave bond late this afternoon and j j was released. Officers taking part in j \ the raid were State Detective Eichel- j j berger. Revenue Officers Colman and j Kelly and Sheriff Burch. Later in the j j afternoon the officers discovered two j.stills on the Loop Road about one j mile from the city and destroyed both of them. Two negroes were arrested. ! Saturday afternoon on Sumtcr street j in the Northern, part of the city two complete stilling outfits were captured j and their operators lodged in jail. A ! j total of five stills in two days* work. ! ! three of them being right in the city | i of Florence, is considered pretty good I work for Mr. Eichelberger and his as-J I sistants. - ? - - ? i i DARING ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN ! Quebec. Sept. IS.?Five masked ! j men gaggged the mail clerks on the j I Ocean Limited Express train near! f Faralaka today and robbed the car: ! of seventy-five thousand dollars. DENOUNCES PO LICEMEN'S UNION _ i Washington. Sept. 18.?President; ?f'fTs'm in a telegram to the local city; government said the organization of the city police department for the purpose of bringing pressure against the public snould not be "countenanc ed or permitted." Paris, Sept. 17.?German newspap ers forecast Italian occxreatioa of Dalmatia following the capture of Fiume by D'Annunzio. The peace conference look for no further action considering the affair an Italian in ternal matter. The Italian govern ment continued the censorship over ?rW developments. - ! SOUTHRON, EtrtabiUbc? Jons, l*n VoLXLIX. No. 11. VETERAN PARADE IN WASHINGTON Famous Fighting First Division In Final Spectacle of the War . - M GENERAL PERSHING AT HEAD OF THE LINE Four Hundred Thousand Spec tators Line Pennsylvania Av enue j Washington, Sept. 17.?Four hun ! dred thousand Washingtonians and } visitors witnessed thev parade of Gen. j Pershing and the First Division, ! which received an enthusiastic wel-' come in the final spectacle of the. war. The city was gaily decorated and Pennsylvania Avenue /was packed with spectators along the whole line: of march from the capitol to the: White House. i Vice President Marshal and the secretaries of war and navy and ot&-' er high officials reviewed the famous fighting unit.i LABOR CONFER ENCE DELEGATES President Wilson Names Twen ty-Two Men .to Consider Problems San Francisco, Sept. 17.?President Wilson made public here tonight the names of the 22 men who will repre sent the general public in the national conference which is to'begin in Wash ington on October 6 to consider plans.-\ for a new relationship between em ployer and employee. . Twenty-two. representatives to sit in the confer ence will be selected later by organ ized labor, the leading agricultural \ associations, investments, bankers and manufacturers/ ? - On the president's list of those who: will represent, the pubUc. are. Berna^xL-^ M. Baruch of New York, former chairman of the war industry" boaf^r l Robert S. Brookings of St. Louis, . j former . chairman .of .the price fixing I committee of that organization, John D Rockefeller, Jr., 'Judge Elbert H. Gary of New York, Dr. Charles: W. Eliot, president-emeritus of Harvard, Charles Edward Russell of New York -.' and John Spargo of Vermont. The last two named are Socialist leaders. ':' j The others on the list are: O. E. j Bradfute, Xenia,. Ohio, president Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; Ward Bur gess, Nebraska; Fuller R Call?way, La Grange, Ga.. extensive cotton man ufacturer; Thomas L*. Chad bourne, New York; Charles G. Dawes, Chi cago; H. B. Endlcott, Milton, Mass.; Paul L. Feiss, Cleveland; Edwin F. Gay, Dean Graduate School of Busf I ness Administration Harvard Univer j sity; George R. James, Memphis, Tenn.; Thomas D. Jones, Chicago; A. A. Landon. Buffalo; E. T. Meredith, Des Moines, Iowa editor Successful Farming; Gavin 'McNab, San' Francis co; L D. Sweet, Carbondalc, Col., and Louis Titus, San Francisco, i To each of those selected the pres ident sent the following telegram: "I have called a conference at Washington for October o for the purpose of discussing the labor situa ! tion in the country and the possibility I of formulating plans'for the develop- . ! ment of a new relationship between capital and labor, t beg that you will accept appointment as one of the i representtaives of the g %ral public in that conference. TL will be 22 - representatives of the puu..o and an equivalent number of representatives j of various bodies of organized labor I and organized employers. I sincere ! ly hope that it will be possible for you I to undertake this very important ser vice." . BOLL WEEVIL MAP One-Fourth of the State is Al ready Covered - j Columbia. Sept. 18.?The South ! Carolina pest commission has issued a ! new boll weevil map for South Car olina which shows graphically the great invasion this pest is making in South Carolina. About one-fourth of the State has been covered. The line of territory already cover ed by the weevil extends from about 25 miles up the Atlantic seaboard above Charleston and strikes west ward near Monck's Corner, the city of Orangeburg and strikes the Geor gia line just north of Augusta. Counties already invaded include Charleston. Beaufort. Hampton. Al lendale, Barnwell, Jasper, Collcton. Dorchester. Berkeley, Orangeburg, Bamberg. Aiken and Edgefield. Corpus Christi. Sept. 18.?The total deaths from the tropical storm in this vicinity may be three hundred. Search ers continued bringing in bodies to day, while aviators flew over the de "-v-*pt.ed district locating the refugees. Relief workers warned the public to stay away from the city on account of the food problem.