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League to Enforce Peace Calls j 'On Senate to Ratify the Treaty j THE PUBLIC WILL NOT STAND FOR ACTION! V \- :X.-"Ji ? " ?' : ? ??? ??. i - ?. , \ ? t _______ i - ' ? " , . ! Delay in Concluding Peace Pro-j longs and Aggravates Social; Unrest ' f . New York. No. 23.?Settlement of j differences over the peace treaty to { permit/its ratification as soon as pos-' sible after the senate "reconvenes is urged in a statement issued today by the League to Enforce Peace, at the Conclusion of a specia? meeting of the j executive committee. ' 1 Former President William H. Taft.! president of the league, presided. | Among others at the meeting were Edward A. Filene. Henry ,W. Taft, ?erbert S. Poston, Oscar Straus and Herbert C. Hoover. The league's statement follows: 'The defeat of ratification has been received by the country with surprise! and indigination. The people want peace. Whose name it bears, which j party brand it wears, they care not j at* all. They longed for and expected j ? ratification before adojournmeVn of ihe senate. ??The-, making: of peace is no more a party question than was the making of war. The American people ' with out regard zo> party .stood behind the war until the dawn of victory. With like unanimity they-now stand behind; the tretay. Shall the small > minority who op-1 pose a league of nations in any form defeat ratification? Shall 15 senators decide where America shall stand in this world crisis? Eighty senators have shown by their votes that they favor the great principles of the league of nations. The fate of the treaty rests in their hands. They have the votes. They have the pbw- j er. Theirs is the responsibility; They must get together. "The failure to ratify the peace .treaty has encouraged social unrest both at home and abroad. Europe must have supplies or it will face star vation and anarchy this winter. Our farmers, cotton planters, live stock raisers and manufacturers hav.e large j surplus production which they canj market only in Europe. The rates; of exchange already demonstrate the! collapse of any national credits. These credits, resting- upon commerce and | international securities. are the foundation of our continued prosper ity and are vital to the maintenance Of order and life in Europe. "Men and women of America, this is your problem. Your interests, your welfare, the honor and the future of your country are involved. Your will is the supreme command for the men in Washington entrusted by your votes with guiding the nation along the paths of peace and viatory. ?The allied nations established dur ing the war a practical union which is being succeeded by the league 01* nations. To refuse to join this league is to lose numberless benefits and to invite the development of a league that will be hostile to us in feeling and policy. The league of na tions gives the promise of a world cooperating for the purpose of peace and protecting itself by concerted ac tion against war and the threat of war. The ideal is American. "The men and women who gladly dedicated their sons and their sub stance .to the cause of obtaining peace through the defeat of the Ger man menace refuse to believe that they ''made an empty sacrifice. They demand that the senators harmonize their differences. Refusal to do so. will defy and betray the people of this 'country by whom 'they were elected and to whom they must an swer*. "The treaty should be ratified .at the earliest possible moment after the senate reconverts on December 1. In the name of thousands of Americans who have died to bring peace and end war, of millions of Americans who have toiled and sacrificed to that end, we en 11 upon the senate to for get prejudice and partJnsanship and agree upon a resolution of ratifica tion couched in terms that will per mit the. other signatories of the treaty to acquiesce in the conditions of our ratification." Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Moses, who spent their honeymoon in Cana da, arrived home Sunday. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF ? No. 10666. - Reserve District No. r> The National Bank of South Carolina, At Snmief in the State of South Carolina, at the Close of Business on November 17, 1M9. RESOURCES: 1. a "Loans and discounts, including redisco u n t s, ; (except those shown in b and c)... ?.$1,361,566.8S Total loans.I ..1,361 566.88 Deduct: d Notes and bills rediscounted . 1 (other than bank acceptances sold) (see Item 55a)..........-r.?.. .9.08-2.42 1,352.484.46 2. Overdrafts, secured, none; unsecured ., 5,680.96 5. I". S. Government securities owned: a Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. bonds par value). 200 000.aft . VbT Pledged to secure U. S;- deposits (pa r value).. .'.27.000.iV>. \\t{ Owned and unpledged .. .V52.093.-lo \ Total V. S. Government'securities. 380,693.10 6. Other bonds, securities, etc: e Securities, other than U. S. bonds (not including stocks), owned and unpledged.64,379.SI ~: Total bonds, securities, etc.. other than U. S. .. 64,379.Si. 8. Stock of Federal Reserve Rank ? (50 per cent of subscription). 11,250.00 9. a Value of banking house. ? owned and unin cumbered., .. /. 34.800.00 b Equity in banking house. .. .. 3J.S00.00 10. Furniture and fixtures . . 3.592.50 12. Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank .. tf7,863.ll 13. Items with Federal Reserve Bank in process of collection (not available as reserve). s 37.372.21 3 4. Cash in vault and net. amounts, due from nat ?' ional banks ....?. i:,2,666.99 15. Net amounts due from banks, bankers and trust companies (other than included in Items 12, .13, or 14). 1,583.41 27. Checks on other banks in the same city or town as-reporting bank (other than Item 16). 23.5S9.27 -Total of Items 13, .14v .15.,. 1.6, and 17 .. ..215/211.91 i*. Checks on banks located outside or city or town of reporting bank and other cash items .. 3,052.34 19.s Redemption fund with U. S, Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer. 10,000.00 Total.:.$2,147,008.19 LIABILITIES:. 22/ Capital stock paid in. $200,000.00 22: Surplus fund. 175.000.00 2L . a Undivided profits.$99.038.25 I.ess current expenses, interest and taxes paid. 70.922.38 28,115.87 2Z^ Interest and discount collected or credited, in advance of maturity and not earned (ap|u*?jrj-. mate). .. 22.872.8S 2;:. < Circulating ? notes outstanding. hr9,9&5.o0 Amount due to Federal Reserve Rank. 1-9,996.50 SO. Net amounts due to National banks. 15.S03.53 31. Net amounts due to banks, bankers, and trust companies (other than included in Items 29 or 30>.f. 39.445.3S 32. Certified checks outstanding.? 57.18 Z'Zi Cashiers checks on own bank outstanding 10,732.36 Total of Items 30, 31, 32. and 33.66.03S.45 D inand deposits (other than bank deposits) sub ject to Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days): 24. Individual deposits subject to check. 743,720.57 35. Certificates of deposit due in iesa than 30 , days (other than for money bet rowed). 19.000.00 :2C Dividends unpaid. CO.00 Total of demand deposits (other than bank de posits) subject to Reserve, tterrs :^4, 35. 26, .''.?, ::S. and 29 .. .76-7*0.57 Tone deposits sobject to Reserve (payable after 20 days, or subjert to 20 days or rnoiv notice, and t.ostal savings): 40 Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed;. 257,508.19 42. Other time deposits. 253.384.94 Total of time deposits subject to reserve, Items 40. 41. 42. and 42 .610,893.13 I. Tnifed States deposits (other than postal savings): a War loan d.>p'?sit account.r,I,2l4.S2 61.314.82 _ Total.$2,1 17.OOS. 11? ; a Liabilities for rediscounts, including those with Federal Reserve Rank (see item Id) .. .. ft.0S3.r2 fota! contingent liabilities (35 a, b. and (-.).. .. 9.082.4- i C OF SOUTH CAROLINA, nmly if Snmter. ss: l t*. C. Rowland, presidem <-i the above-named bank, do solemnly I hfit the above statement a true t<? the best of my knowledge a:ul C. C. ROWLAND. President", ?ribed and cwe.rn to before me this 22nd day of NJov. I:?19'. j*f VaTrr .lr , Not.arv I'ublie. Correct-Ajtlest: W B. BT'RNS. MITCHELL LKVr, EARLE ROWLAND. ' SOVIET WAGES BLOODY WAR Moscow' Bolsheviks Claim Con tinuous Advances Against Denekine KOLCHACK FORCES ARE ALSO PUSHED BACK Lenine Communist Government Appears to Possess Great Strength in Central Russia London. Nov. 24.?Continuous ad vances against Cen. Denikinc*s an;! Admiral Kolchak's fovcos arc claimed in a Russian soviet communication re ceived by wireless today. A DISGRACEFUL HOAX IN ATLANTA Meeting Broken Up By Report of President Wilson's Death Atlanta, Ca., Nov. 22.?Through n hoax perpetrated by an unknown per son hero tonight an address by Vice President Marshall before an audience of several thousand persons at the au ditorium armory was broken up by [the false announcement that Presi dent Wilson was dead. An' unknown man, it war: said, tele phoned to the, otfic^ of the building and asked for the vice president. On being told Mr. Marshall was making I an address and could not come to the telephone, the voice replied, "Well, he'll come now for the president is i dead and Washington wants him on the long distance." j C. T. Christian, engineer of the [bu/lding. received the telephone call and a policeman carried the news to the stage and told it to Charles c. Haden, a prominent Atlanta business I man.. Coming as it did from the po liceman, Mr- Haden informed the vice president that "the president i.-' dead." Mr. Marshall bowed his head and j appeared overcome. Ot hers on the stage "heard ihe whispered words and i for a few moments a ll was silent. Then j recovering himself to a degree ihr j vice president told the audience what i had been told him. Ho could hardly j speak. Women broke into weeping ; and some one began to play "Nearer j My Cod tp Thee" off the immense or gan. ! As soon as he could the vice presi ! dent got to a telephone and called the Associated Press where he was as sured that there, was no truth in such a rumor. ?Thank God." ho replied in a; tremb ling voice. Meantime the andiene?- was disper sing arid th<' false report spread over the city. Telephones at the Associat ed Pressvpffice, and the local news papers were almost sw?mped with anxious inquiries. No reason for the hoax had been j advanced by local officials tonight but an immediate investigation was begun t<> try to trace the author or it. Cover nor Dorsey an noticed a re ward of $100 for evidence identifying the person who started the rumor. The governor and army officers from i camps around Atlanta were present at the address. Mr. Marshall came here to speak in behalf of a fraternal order and had not made more than half of his ad dress when the interruption came. He was paying a tribute to Washing ton and Lincoln as "men who are not dead/' when he was interrupted by the announcement. TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION Prof. Clinkscales Heads the Dry Forces in South Carolina Atlanta. Nov. 22.?Prof. J. C. Clinkscales of Wofford college, Rpar tanburg, today accepted the State chairmanship of the prohibition en forcement campaign, it was. announc ed by J. MeSwain Woods. State direc tor. The acceptance of the vice chair manship by the Rev. O. JO. 1 iuris, p. D., of tin- First Baptist church, Co lumbia, was announced. Prof. Clink scales was the* pioneer advocate of compulsory education in South Caro lina and is one of the best known Methodists in the State. Dr. Burts is one of the leading Baptist divines in South Carolina. Appointments of State executive com mit tee men will 1??- announced shortly" and tbe complete organization of the State Cor the movement will be effected as rapidly as possible. The-! South Carolina campaign is part of the y.<-n>-i-:ii Southeastern cam paign to enforce prohibition and to wage a campaign ??] education and Americanization. The campaign will cooperate with !>. .f.fJanti, recently ap pointed ).;. the govern men I to super vise (ho enforcement of prohibition in the Southeast. The necessity for such .i campaign Ins ber?n brought borne t > orohibhionisis of South Carolina by the increased activity of moonshiner0 and bootleggers rind by deaths from wood alcohol, sold as coi n liquor. Leaders of the drys declare thai the hardest fight for prfdnnitioii is just ahead nmi that ihe enfoveemeni of prohibition will be more difficult 11i.i11 11: enactment into law. The <:-?'? of i:. \\ Sugars against Rynum Lumber company resulted ::: a mistrial Mr. Segars was repre sented by lice & MoLse while L. D. Jennings- w:is cut ployed by the de fendants. LUMBER Lumber s Building ss\. Hardware, Flooring 3 f ..Brick, ^ ? <g ?g # Locks, ('(.?ill ii^-. Siding, Casing-. Plaster, Grates, .Mouldings. Tire Brick, ? A" ? ? 1 Saws, T> ^ ? Framing Rnmocr, Fire Clay, iYl3.TGll3.I Hatchets, Red Cedar Shingles. Sewer Pipe, Hammers, 1*1110 and Cypress Shingles. Stove Flue, Door Hangers, Metal and Composition Shingies,Terra Cotta Thimbles Carpenter's Tools, Doois. Sash and Blinds, Mortar Colors and Stains Paint Brushes, Porch Columns and Ballasters. Water Proofing Mineral, Paints and Oils, Boa vor Board, Corrugated Metal Roofing, Inside Decorations, Valley Tin and Ridge Roll. Asbetos and Composition Roofing. CaLsomines and Cold Water Paints, wirf fencing, iron and wood posts . EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE Booth & McLeod, Inc. SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA state memorial j A Statement and An Appeal Is sued By Gpv. Cooper and Former Gov. Manning Columbia. S. c, Nov. 21.?Various 3 cnmpais;ns for money-, a nacuraJ ro | action from the high tension of war [days, intense work duo ro transitional j conditions in, the .economic world, and j anxietyi over the cost of Jiving are I among the factor:: which have slowed ?! uv the Memorial campaign in this IState. We think it best to look these j conditions squarely in the fa.ee, so j that wc may know what is to be over I come. On the other hand. South Carolin ians have never before been so pros perous. In asking for voluntary do nations amounting to four hundred thousand dollars, the Memorial Com : mission,, created by the General As I sefnbly, is not asking for anything j unreasonable. And when on**, stops J to consider the purpose for which the campaign is being waged; the re J guest takes on ah aspect that is any I thing but unreasonable. The s<?ns and j daughters of this 5>?ate; who fought 1 and worked so w^-il f<?r the great ! pause of democracy must never be j forgotten; moreover, there musc.be I tangible, visible evidence of the State's { gratitude to them. The campaign I ivYll riot fai!, for South Carolinian? 1 have never yet. and never will be un ? apprecia i ivo of splendid services ren j Qered. j " Because the campaign for four i hundred thousand dollars, to suppl" i rnent the one hundred thousand njad. ; available by the General Assembly, j has been retarded, the Memorial Com > mission has decided to eoniihue the j rime for solicitation of subscriptions ! ui? i<> ibe convening or ?w? next ses s'on <??' the General Assembly. At j that Lime tin- Commission should bo j able to report full and complete suc j ecss. The impression has prevailed that j the proposed memorial building [ would, in effect, be but a college ? chapel on th?- University grounds: thi* i is incorrect. The proposed building I would be ;i historical museum fo; j South Carol inn. and its location, j while on the grounds held by the j University Trustees, would not in any j way hinder it? use by the genera* public. It would not bo in theory or ; in fact.' merely a part of the Uniyer I sity, but both in theory and fact, a [ State memorial. There also h::s been : an effort to have the type of memorial : changed to u hospital, but the sol ! fliers, through the American Legion, j have spoken d- cidedly against this ! proposition. ?? ? - ? ? ' ""?" ! ' WC appeal to the various counties I that have not yet raised their Quotas j to expedite the campaign. No com I muhity can have it said that when I the State was seeking to perpetuate j the memoiy. of her nobfc; sons and \ daughters. tAat it was indifferent. A I permanent memorial is necesary to I keep alive the facts, and to keep fresh the inspiration. ROBERT A. COOPER. > \ Chairman j RICHARD 1. MANNING,. * j Vice Chairman \ [dance hallTfire! i Heavy Loss of Life at Ville j . Platte, Louisiana Ville, Platte, La.. Nov. 20.?Twenty i . j eight persons are dead here, vic . tims of fire and trampling feet* of a ! terror stricken mob. after a ball here Mast night which was suddenly stop-! pe?t by the alarm that the building! jl\yas burning below. At midnight to i ui--.!ii Mil had been accounted for ami the search in the debris >?:' the burn-i ? e<i two story building was stopped, j i ' fourteen were crushed to death i when tbe narrow stairway leading (?from the dance hall to the street col lapsed and tii,- frantic, fighting mob was bulled into the street. Fourteen. caught on the second fl.? in the! j dance ball, were burned to ?l. - -1; 11 ? Mini (heir charred bodies recovered.; (meeting of ex- I perts called] Conference in Paris to Consider I Postal Service ; Rome. Sunday. Nov. ?>\ n invme- j i uiat? meeting of ? scpV-i i from alll [????untries witn ih? vievs of nmcliorat-j in?.-. Hie situation relative to posts.! M?i?graphs and i< !??;? Ii??j ? was 11? -?-i? I ; 1 cii upon today by the supreme" eco j??irn'fc council. The rvoxl meeting I will be held in Paris in January. THE JAPANESE ARE PUZZLED Cannot Understand Irrational Action of Senate I - i i Tokyo. Xr.v. L*:;.--The adoption ofj ithe-Shantuns reservation by tfcte Unit-; : ed States senate caused some appre-] [ hehsion here as to how if it were em- j j bodied in ihe German peace treaty it j [would affect the Chinese situation.) I The foreign office has declined 10 comment on the question. It has re j iterated, however, its intention to en i deavor to open negotiations with j China on the Shantung question as jsoon as the general ratification of the! j treaty is announced in Paris. ! Representative Japanese are e? i pressing the fear that the recurring 'criticism of "everything Japan does." ias they put it, is likely to create the j impression that there is some basis for the idea of deliberate unfriend jliness. They say that any economic (advantages which Japan obtains in [Shantung are duplicated by other j countries in other parts of China. I: At a dinner given in honor of Vis j count Tshii. former ambassador to the [United States by tile. Japanese society and attended by a representative com ; pany, including American Ambassador I Morris, Viscount Ishii said he had 1 consistently endeavored to explain to i his countrymen something- regarding ! America and Americans. While ho j deplored the "indiscreet utterances" i of some American newspapers and i some Americans concerning Japan, he! ! had repeatedly warned the Japanese. ; especially the press, of the misehiev j ous effect which were likely to grow I out of hasty, inconsiderate criticisms of the United, States and especially 01 '. j its president. The .Japanese, he de-j 1 dared, deprecated nothing more! {strongly than the altogether undeserv-f ed' attacks that had bc=m made upon \ the personality of President Wilson. After congratulating Americans! upon the "remarkable and conspicuous I j part their illustrious president" had \ j played in the struggle for the world j j readjustment, the viscount expressed j regret that the Paris conference had I not incorporated some guarantee in j the league of nations covenant against ! racial discrimination. He believed! i that the omission of the just propo- j hsition made by Japan would affect; ! the prestige of the league, but hej was confident it would prevail ulti- ? mately and without undue delay. The former ambassador emphasiz ed his belief that all countries are cor. fron ted by a new and imminent danger, namely a war of the classes, or a war against the state and- other j established institutions. "The defense," he said, "should be common, as the danger is common to{ all countries. All petty and selfish considerations of a racial and econo mic character should be merged into the vaster consideration of this com mon defense." / Tuichi- Soyeda, former president of j the Japanese Industrial bank, who i has just returned from Europe, urged. I like Viscount Ishii. the necessity ofj j a united front to combat the world j I danger of bolshevism and anarchy. He favored American and Japanese cooperation on the work of world re construction and the solution of un settled questions. Every nation, hej declared, must guard against falling into the same militaristic path asl that into which Germany had step ped. ! REBUKE SHIELDS I -? j, Tennessee Senator Called On to r Resign j Memphis, xov. 20.?The Memphis Cotton exchange :<c a called meeting late today adopted resolutions disap proving the action of Senator John K. Shields in voting against ratification of the peace treaty without amend ment and caling on him m resign so j "the governor of Tennessee may ap point ;i senator who will more truly reflect the sent?nent of the citizens of. Tennessee in 111 <* December scs-! sion <-! eonur' ss." Marriage Licenses. White- ? William Lane Raby, Ilo-; m?-r. Michigan. Lucy 1 hirst, Kings-; port. Tenn. j' 'Colored?-Willie Da vis. Snmler and j1 Sallie Givens. Sum re r: William Fuller,!1 FToratio. and Lahanah Miller, \{<.r.\.\ tio; lai.-;t<> Harriott. OswegO .and Mis-! siouri Singleton. DalzeU; r>u?selljj Kieames. Silver and Mealie Ann" Wil- p Isi'iis. Silv r: William Jackson. Sum- y ter and Mabel Dlocker, Sumtcr. ' LET THE PEO PLE DECIDE Controversy tVTll be Taken in^ Campaign Washington^ Nov. 22.-^^etUeY^ further compromise efforts. .s^KtOi'^j^:'^ made to ratify ,the'^.Tik^^^a^^^^^^ the w,hole controversy thxown^niiO- the 3 920 pi-esidential eampaign forJ.-? r<fe-'i eision. was the question which arous ed lively interest today ?ii official and political circles. Senator Lodge's statement that time for compromise had passed and he desired the major ity reservation plan carried into' -tb? campaign, was agreedeverywhere to' have advanced materially the move ment to leave the troaty. situation just as it is for the present -and give the people a chance to deC^e .the ;issue next year. PRINCE OF WALES SAYS GOODBYE British Prince Sailed for Halifax Today Now York.-'Nov. 22;?^rhe Prmce of Wales concluded his v^sit'to the Unit ed States toolay ??with' ?iiumiSrons^iare well receptions, sailing .on the British battleship Eonown, for JEIalffax??3 DENIKINE BREj RED LINES Anti-Bolshevik . Commander Claims to Have Won Victory Stockholm, Nov. 22.?General ?>enj kine, commander of the and-BoIs*he vik troops on the southern ' jEiass^sn front, claims to have broken ?u^^h the red lines between Oral and .Tion bov, sotttheast of Moscow and to have annihilated fifty thousand Bolshevik troops, according to a Helsingfors dispatch to the Svenska Dagbladt: COAL FOR THE OIL MILLS Special Permission Granted by Railroad Administration Washington, Nov. 22.?Special au?*~ thority to supply cottort seed crushers with coal for immediate needs^was given the regional coal committee" at Atlanta by the railroad admbr?se^Jte:: today. Applicants must show.'^fcalv un crushed'1 stock would be damaged" if held uncrushed.. ' """ PENSION FOR AGED Suggestions Made to Labor Con ference Washington, Nov. 21.?Considera tion of pensions for the aged and- in capacitated has been suggested to the International Labor Conference - by the. Umguyan delegate. There will be submitted with the proposal a copy of the law now in force in Uruguay, which he said, offered ample and liberal solution of the question. ? PROHI. INJUNCTION St. Louis.. Judge Holds Up En - v^k. forcemeht Law St. Louis. Nov. 21.?Federal Judge Pollock today granted a temporary injunction against district attorney xnd internal revenue collectors from mf ore vug the war time prohibition .an 'orcernent act, pending further litiga tion. INDUSTRY SUFFERS FOR COAL Plants in Central West Shutting Down Chicago. Nov. 22.?Closing of ad lit ional industrial plants, mainlym he central West, were in prosper oday as the striking bituminous mfn>~ ?rs began their fourth week of idle tess and the operators and miners vage scale conference at Washing on apparently remained deadlocked. London. Nov. 22.?The Lettish orces yesterday eapturod Mit.au, theV^ ?apitaI of Courland. according.to. ttto :: 4 .eitish legation here. The Lett3 corc inued their victorious advance.