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Ghainnaxi. of Federal ^ Trade tamndss^^ Alleges Con spiracy By Packers SCHEME SUGGESTED TO DISCREDIT COMMISSIONER Arre/t*of Employees of Com liiissien as Radicals Part of ;J- the Plan H * -?? Washington, Jan. 9.?Charges that -^.rresis of federal trade commission L Employees, made in the recent depart ment of justice campaign against "freds," have been the result of "fraineups" designed to build the the ory that the commission is a 'hotbed oi; I^oishevism" >w*re madex today by ?^'S. Colver of that body before the senate agriculture committee. ?Colver left the intimation that the larger Chicago packing concerns had contrived in some degree to attain that restdt'Jftnd involved Ludwig C. A. K. Raitens, self-styled ambassador of the ^Russian" soviet republic to* the United States, and S. Xuorteva, Mar tens' secretary, in his account of in stances to 'prove the point. Given a whole day before the committee, ^ftiiOh tonight announced its hearings ended. Colver likewise voiced a vigor ous demand for legislation to regulate the industry, need of which was-prov e&* be said, by the recent agreement bfitween the packers and the depart N ntent of justice in settlement of the - aijfti-trust proceedings. T*p this testimony the commissioner added a critical Analysis of state ments and motives of witnesses whO| Sri&iv.ff opposed packer regulation dur ing the prolonged hearings of the ag riculture committee on the Kenyon aid Kendrick bills last year, conclud iriST: with the assertion' that in the meat industry "competition is continu ity^ to lessen and monoply to increase ^vi?n .though we exhaust the powers ^ present federal laws intended to re ?sira|a it" The first instance, the commission er said, of the "frame-up" had result ed in the arrest of Rafael Mallen, a former clerk of the tra^le commission. in raids directed last week at Chi cago communist centers xby the de partment of justice. H. J. C. Clay baugh, head of the secret' service at Chicago, and his assistant, "a man named/ Barry." ^Colver -saidV both of vfchom have since resigned, were re sponsible, and Barry now was a "spe ciaL agent" for Swift ?& Company. Hairefn was later released. ^ ? \ John X. Ohsol. another employee of t&e commission. Colver said, was ar rested in a Was-hmVfcon hotel during: ttt? .present week while :oh a visit to r Si Kfb ort eva, "having been pointed "out t?. police officers as Martens, who is beittj sought ? by the secret service, heading an alleged claim of Xuorteva and Martens that purchase of large meat supplies from an unnamed Chi a^go packer had been arranged with tHe"-object of getting it into Russia through the allied blockade, Colver *said- he considered this connection be tween meat packers and. the soviet representatives "significant" as it con -e^rned Ohsol's arrest since the latter , h5ftd been taken into custody when ne'-carae to see Xuorteva in answer to a ^specific telephone call. . Reverting to the agreement prepar ed, by Attorney General Falmer in con cluding the Sherman law prosecu tions against the packers. Colver said that- merely settled the "Sherman law Phase of the matter." "Separation of the packers from their.grocery holdings, however, as in tlfce case of the transfer by Wilson & Company of its grocery business to Austin Nichols & Company of New York, a wholesale grocery, he assert ed, ^merely means that the stock holders of Wilson & Company have | added the Austin-NiehoJls concern to tfteir holdings. >3>ealing with persons who have dis cussed regulative legislation before tile committee since the Kenyon and Keendrick bills were advanced. Colvr ?4tid that out of 181 heard. T4 4 had opposed any federal control of the industry, many, he said, because they had been influenced by propaganda from, packers' institutions. . To show that the consumer was not getting any benefit from lower live stock prices, Colver presented a diagram showing that on August 1. when live hogs sold at 23 cents a pond, pork loins sold in Boston for 34. 1-2 cents, while on October 23, when live hogs sold at 12 1-2 e<-nts, loins sold at 37 1-2 eents in Boston. J a new bulletin .j on Peanuts j Clemson- College, Jan. 8.?To meet the-jdemand for a publication on the subject of peanuts as a cash crop to #erve as one substitute for cotton in the boll weevil area of the State, the Extension Service has issued' Exten sion; Bulletin 45, "Peanuts*" The j bulletin is written by Prof. C. I*. f?arikwell. Agronomist, and takes the p&Ce of Extension Bulletin 21. which has-been entirely exhausted. The new publication discusses! Wiiv&y and simply such topics, as. ; a#feat-can be expected of the peanut j id South Carolina, varieties; soils, in- j oculation of lantl, seed required per; acre, planting, time of planting, cul-j tivation. harvesting, stacking and cur ing, picking arvl threshing, care aft?-rj threshing, peanut bay. rotations for peanuts, pasturing with hogs, pcanul ; machinery, etc. Tt'is now ready for distribution and is free to fcitizens of the State. Al< cs$?%i addressed to The Extension s S^rvkire swfcmg for Extension Bulle- ' tin 45. "Peanuts," will get prompt at- : isntion. i \ Several Million People Said to Be Facing Starvation and Exposure I APPEAL FOR ASSITANCE IS MADE TO AMERICA * t . Unless Relief js Promptly Forth coming Death and' Anarchy Will Prevail ' Washington. Jan. y (3By the Asso ciated Press).?An appeal to the American people to extend aid to 7, j 000.OO? Austrians threatened by an arcry and death by starvation during the winter has been forwarded to i Washington by Baron Eiehoff who is head of the Austrian peace delegation. "The representatives of the allied and associated "powers in Paris are fully aware of the terrible distress by which Austria is actually afflicted." says Baron Eichoff's appeal. It re sulted from, the plain figures which have been laid before . the repara ! lions committee with ghastly evi jdence, that on the end of the, present I month the Austrian people literally I will perish by cold, and starvation. This is a fact which nobody calls into question. *Tt has established by the delibera tions of the reparations committee and of the supreme council that Austria can only be saved by granting her the (necessary credits and solely the, hope that the powers would do so holds up yet- to a certain extent the morale of the suffering people. At the present I moment this situation has come to, a ! specially critical phase, the European j powers Having declared that they can not grant those credits and that j American cooperation offers the only (chance for saving Austria, j "It is, therefore, the sacred duty of every representative of the Austrian people and I might say of everybody knowing the utmost distress of this people, to address a most urgent ap peal for help to the whole population of the United States of America. The perishing under the eyes of the whole world of seven millions of human be ings who in the face of inevitable 'starvation would light each other in I utmost despair were \ catastropht unparalleled in history and everlasting stain on the civilization of the 20th century. ? "Confidently the Austrian people appeal to the feelings of justice and humanity of the American people not withstanding economic and political difficulties which might be opposed to the relief. The magnanimous Amer I ican hat ion /will not be '"deaf to the voice of commiseration. "It is impossible that a people of seven millions must die when a com partively slight effort of the Unite;' States could save them." CLOTHING ST?RE FOR ROCK HILL ? ._ Sumter Clothiers Will Be Con nected With New Mercan tile Enterprise (Rock Hill Herald.) Rock Hill is to have a clothing and gents' fu. nisning store in the near fu ture. Announcement was made yesterdaj afternoon that the deal had finall> been closed, whereby T. II. Parker, oj ! Sumter, and associates become th? j owners of that portion of the John T j Roddey building occupied by the R' ; Pv Boyd Drug company on the first I floor and the tailoring establishment j of I?. Kesterman on the second floor It was announced in the Evening Her-j aid sonn- weeks ago that Mr. Rod-1 dey had sold this portion of hi.*-! building, but he was not at that time ! at liberty to give the names of the j purchasers. Yesterday Mr. Parker who is a brother of J. E. Parker, and Mr. Smoak were here to formally j close the deal. While hen- they (Iis- j cussed with an architect the matter j of changing the front and making I other improvements on^he building It was announced that the floor of the building would be lowered t<> a l^vel with the sidewalks, a plate glass front, with double show windows, in stalled and other minor changes made. This work of improvement will begin as soon as the present oc cupants can secure a new location. J and the intention is to have; the im provements completed within a few months. A corporation composed of M'\ Parker. S. R. Smoak and W. A. Bry, arf. of Sumter. and others, will then be organized and this corporation will base the storeroom and will con duct a clothing and gents' furnishings business. Mr. Smoak, who will be the manager of the concern, has been in the clothing business for the past 12 years, being connected with the D. J. Chandler Clothing company, of Sumter. Just as soon as he can se cure a residence; Mr. Smoak will re move his family to Kock F?ll. With in a few days he will go north to buy his spring and summer stock. Selma. Akt.. Jan. 12.?The famous! Confederate arsenal here which in late) years has been used :is ;i cotton ! warehouse was destroyed by lire last ni.srht. During the war i; was one! of the most important sources <>f ord-j nance strength of tin' Confederacy. Washington. Jan. li'. Soft coal miners will accept unreservedly any decision made by the president's coal commission in settlement of tin- e<>al >trik<\ Acting President Lewis of the Cnited Mine Workers declared today it The opening of the first i>? i)>ii<- hear ings of the commission. ' J Leaders of Great Industries Served Government Loyally Without Profit WASHBURN TELLS OF NITRATE PLANTS Government Spent Millions on Great Plants That Are Now Lying Idle New York. Jan. :? ?A story of how many capitalists spent vast sums without expectation of return or profit to aid the government in its efforts to supply explosives for the war was told here today to members of the house committee on expenditures I in the war department. Incidentally it developed that the same men had put at the service of their country valua ble secrets learned from the Germans \for the extraction of nitrogen from the air. The committee met to open an investigation into the expenditures of $84,000,000 for two nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. Frank S. Washburn. president of the American Cyanamid company which built one of the plants at Mus cle Shoals, informed the committee that the company had made no profit on over $$9,000,000 worth of-war work it had done for the government. The plant cost the government $62. 000,000. had produced 1.500 tons of ammonium nitrate when the armistice was signed, and then ceased operat ing. ~> Mr. ."Washburn said that his com pany had acquired the American rights to the cyanamid process of get ting nitrogen from the air from the German inventors in 1907 with the in tention of using it in connection with extensive hydro electric developments he had promoted in Alabama. When the United States was about to enter the war. he said,' he offered the ser vices of the company to the govern ment but they were not accepted until after the government had started work on another air nitrate plant at Sheffield. Ala., to use another pro cess. This plant, according to mem bers of the committee, cost $22,000, 000 and was abandoned after it had produced 50 tons of ammonium sul phate. 1 Mr. Washburn said the Muscle ?shoals plant would have extraordinary economic "usefulness for the cuumry ?rventually. LAW"IS PASSED AGAINST ANARCHY Senate Passes Anti-Sedition Bill to Suppress Socialists Washington. Jan. 1 o.?An anti-se lition bill prescribing severe penalties "or acts or propaganda advocating >verthrow of the governmcnt by force >:r violence, was passed by the senate '.(?day* without a record vote. Tlie rensure now goes to the house. 1 Maximum "penalties fixed in the bill ire a fine, of $5.000 and five years' imprisonment, applying to all acts or ?irculation of literature in furtherance >f foreil:4e overthrow of the govern ment. The bill also bars from the mails any matter advocating force or sabotage. ^ Principal attack on the bill was limed ;it the mail exclusion section, vhich opponents declared would con fer press censorship puwtfr on the postmaster general. Advocates of the measure, however, denied that the hill would limit constitutional rights of free speech or assemblage. Under an lmendment by Senator Borah, Repub lican. Idaho, accepted by the senate, persons against whom this clause is invoked can appeal to federal courts. The bill prohibits persons from ad vocating or advising-by speech; writ iig or printing, the forcible overthrow if the United States or all govern^ ment or by physical injury to person or property. It also would penalize ittempts or* acte hindering execution of laws, or federal agent's in their du ies. . Another section prohibits display of "lags, banners or emblems intended to ?symbolize advocacy of force against the government. .Miens violating the net would be subject to deportation and permaneni exclusion after serving the imprison ment provided. The bill, drawn by Senator Sterling. Republican. South Dakota, has been heralded as a measure against "reds" \nd their propaganda. THJJKK PI {KM I Kits TO MEET. Paris. aJn. S.?The British prinn minister, Mr. Lloyd George, and the Italian premier. Signer Xitti. who will confer with Premier Clemenccau. reached Paris at A o'clock this after noon. The yare accompanied by Earl Ounion, Andrew Bonar Law. the Ital ian foreign minister. Signer Scialioa. and others and were received by Pre mier ?'Jcmenccan. Minister of .Marine Beygues and the Earl of Derby, the British ambassador. Tin- three pre miers conversed for a brief period in the reception hall of the station. Paris, Jan. 8. I 1 lavas). The | French. British and Italian premiers] had a conference this evening. It is] announced that diplomatic relations! will be resumed with Germany on i Sunday when the French charge de affaires will leave for Berlin. La ion von Lersner. the German representa tive will present Iiis credentials to President Poinca re. _. J Ftub-My-Tism is a great pain killer.: It relieves pain and soreness caused by Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Sprains, etc. Advu LUMBER Lumber 3 ^ Floorings Ceiling, Siding, Casing, Mouldings, Framing; Lumber, Red Cedar Shingles, Pine and Cypress Shingles, Material Plaster, Pire Brick, Fire Clay, Sewer Pipe. Stove Flue, Metal and Composition Shingles, Terra Cotta Thimbles Doors. Sash and Blinds, Mortar Colors and Stains Porch Columns and Ballasters, Water Proofing Mineral, "Beaver Id?ard, Corrugated Metal Roofing, Valley Tin and Ridge Roll. Asbetos and Composition Roofing. Locks, Hinges, - - ? Nails, Hardware? Grates, ? Saws, Hatchets, Hammers, Door Hangers, Carpenter's Tools, / : Paint Brushes, Fja&nts and Oils, Inside Decorations, Calsomines and Cold Water Paints, Paints, WIRE FEXCIXG, IROX AND WOOD POSTS EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE Booth & McLeodL Inc. SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA M'ADOO ASSAILS RECORD OF G. O. P. Non Constructive, Humanitarian j or Statesmanlike Act . Re vealed in Nine Months of Leadership rl '_ ! Washington. Jan. b.-r-In a telegram (from Wichita "Falls. Texas, read to j night at the Jackson day banquet, ! William G. MvAdoo assailed the work lot the Republican congress as a "sor : fry record of dismal failure," and de I dared the success of Democracy in i the presidential' election was inevi : j table if leadership was wise, vision uri : distorted and sympathy with the mass ? es preserved. "Republican leadership has demon strated .startling incapacity to deal with the great problems confronting America and the world," Mr. McAduo': message read; "Nine months of Re ! publican leadership disclose no con 'structive, humanitarian or statesman ! like act. "Peace defeated, war prolonged andj hundreds of thousands of needless > deaths inflicted upon helpless chil-1 (Iren, women and men in Europe?a ghastly toll to exact for. patrisau po j lilical ends.1 { "The railroad problem bimgled? and j no promise of a real or permanent so I It?liorx through bills now in confer i ; once. The i>ublic interest is not pro tected, while increased rafes, inedi \ cient transportation und general dis jappointment'will result.. ??War taxes have not been, reduced j as they should have been if Republi I can leadership had proved equal to the task. "The gVeat problems of interna- ! tional finance have not been grasped. | In consequence serious peril to our! foreign trade and to our domestic | prosperity is rapidly approaching. "The important questions of social j justice which cry aloud for attention ! lind no spokesman or champion 1 (among the Republican leaders. "We must keep up the tight for the f prompt restoration of peace through i out the world. We must stand for the ; relief of human suffering everywhere, in the lands of our allies, as well as in the lands of pur late enemies. Dem ocratic leadership must seek to Joring about reduction of war taxes, effec i live treatment of pressing internat ional financial economic questions. ! sympathetic and vigorous considera ! lion of the problems (if social justice, j constructive effort to improve rela tions between labor and capital, i "We must strive earnestly to pro ] mote the welfare of our soldiers and j sailors, whose valor and patriotism saved the tuition and we must not" stop ( until equal civil and political riglist j are secured for American women in i every State. "Democracy must, permit no in fringement of the constitutional right of freedom of speech and freedom of the press in times of peace. Advocacy of doctrines or ueforms through the bullet is not jfrcedoiu of speech?it is crime. Such crime must be prose^ ?cuted. remorselessly. "Conscienceless profiteering must be j resisted by every lawful means. We j must adhere to the democratic prin ciple o? the largest measure of gov ernmental non interference in the le gitimate affairs of the people. "We must stand for the vigorous ' protection of the just rights of Amer ican citizens in every foreign land." HERBERT HOOVER j BOOM STARTED i , - ; Portland. Orgeon. Jan. 9.?Demo crats exhibited interest today in a tel egram read last night :it banquet here in which James \V. Gerard declared that there are plenty of good men for [the Democratic nomination for the j,presidency from which the party could make a choice, and added, "Herbert Hoover is one of them." \^ Red Cvnss Meeting. I? The annual meeting of the Sumterj, ??hupter .\. I?. C. was held in the Girls* L Fligh School auditorium Thursday!] night. January Nth. j f The following officers were reelect- ! ed: Mr. L. D. Jennings, chairman: L Mrs. A. C. Phelps. vice chairman: Mr. if Ii. L. Edmunds, treasurer and Miss t Annie Purdy. secretary. >} The report of the lt-d Cross chap-{?<?: tor for the past year was presented j j a nd o. dered published. I Kub-My-Tisni i-s a powerful aniisep-lj it kills the poison caused from in- , feeled cuts, eures old sot' ?*, t?*i.ter, etc. J n - Ad\ t. n Is Higher Education Worth While? uth Carolina Educator.) W.ln.i I was a boy back in the SO's it was very comnum to bear that a cer tain mail was "too highly educated to make a living," However, it was sup posed that ho had such intellectual en joyments that his physical discomforts were largely offset, and the individual generally was respected, and con tumely was heaped upon an ignorant and mereci ary world which did not provide such folk with all the com forts and pleasures of life. In these latter days I have heard the expression less frequently, and even when applied it has generally ben followed by the explanation that the individual was thoroughly "im practical." which was taken to mean that his ability to make a living was congenital, and the large education had not affected the matter. liut as I have passed along the way of life, the suspicion has grown with me that the general system of higher education docs affect the matter, and that the productivity of the larger number infected by it is lessened rath er than increased. Whether this les sens the enjoyment of life of these individuals is another matter. It is probable that they would not have I heir book learning less than it is. Even this is beside the mark. The riddle which I am trying to solve is the relative value of higher education, and this communication is written in the hope that some one wil help to lead me out of the^ale of uncertainty. I have pretty well come to the con clusion that the world and the indi viduals themselves would be better off if: three-fourths of the college gradu ates were put to work after their sec ond year in college. The1 principal reasons for this is that, in my opin ion, at least three-fourths of college graduates, in the last two or three years in college, form habits of in dolence which are difficult to break, and these, together with an imagined superiority of equipment over the man who has not had the advantages (?) of a colleg?- education, greatly de creases the value of the large ma jority of college graduates to the world. The reason why I say "put to work after the second year in college," is that I would give every man an op portunity to catch a vision of the accumulated wisdom of the ages, and of the unsolved problems of existence, but 1 would make him a worker, a worker after knowledge or a worker after "gear." It is work that makes the world better?mental work and physical work. And three-fourths of the men who come out of college cease to do real, intellectual work, and their imagined superiority makes it difficult for them to learn in the school of experience what the boys who have been at work in the world have al ready acquired . This, would be a sad world without preachers and college professors and other teachers to whom the world grudgingly doles meagre salaries. What I cannot satisfactorily deter mine is that, if mind is master over matter, why is it that these most high ly educated minds canot so impress their importance that they can dic tatc their recompense? Go into any business concern and it will be found that those in the more responsible po sitions do this. "When I look about me and see such a large proportion of the men who make the world go round to have been graduates from the school >!' hard knocks only, while so many] ?ollege graduates are playing on the side lines, i feel very much inclined o conclude that there is something ?adically wrong with the present and last systems of education. Eitz Hugh McMaster. Dec. .". 1919. Editorial Comment. Mr. Fitz Hugh Mc?.Iasterrs article, ?rinted in another column, raises a ?ath?-r startling question. js higher education worth while? Startling lUestions do us good sometimes: they nay sting us (if our intellectual hide s penetrable^ into deciding whether >ur assumptions are to be abandoned ?]? mended or founded on something inner than indolent acquiescence, j tappy the business that is not too acred to be criticized! We agree with Mr. McMaster that he higher education of the present is j ar from being satisfactory if compar-i ? I with what it should be and. we ope, soon will But. in spite of its efects. we do n..t agree in denying s tremendous value. We shall not discuss the article ful c. though we invite correspondents , ? do so; inn vve call attention to one oini. Mr. McMaster's chief argu lent seems in 1>(. thai college-bred ' e il have net prospered. What are J the facts? Let us quote, as a sample among many, an already oft-quoted statement: An investigation of the educational advantages enjoyed by the eight thou i sand persons mentioned in '/Who's iWho in America,'" for the years 1899 11900 brought out the followir-" facts: I Out of the nearly five mi. n un j educated men and women in ^-.nerica, I only thirty-one have been sufficiently i successful in any kind of work to ob j tain a place among thev 8,u00 leaders i catalogued in this work. Out of thirty i three million people with as much as ? a comon school educa.tion, 808 were iable to win a place in the list; while ! out of only two million with high I school training. 1,245 have manifested j marked efficiency; and out of one mil j lion with college or university train [ ing o,T6$ have merited this distinC j tion. That is to say, only one. child j in on'e hundred and fifty thousand has j been able in America, without educa j tion, to become a notable factor in j the progress of his State, wfiile the - j children with common school educa ! tion have, in proportion to numbers, i accomplished this four times as often, j those with high school education 87 I times as often, and those with college ! training 800 times as often. . i (See "Does It Pay," by Reed Smith, or "The Money Value ofy an Educa tion." U. S. Bureau of Education, 1917, No. 22.) We are not disputing as to the.-.in : terpretation of the facts! we disagree on the fact itself. If things do not seem so to Mr. McMaster, let him not forget proportions; let him ask -'him self why -white sheep eat more than black sheep. To those of us who know him, Mr. McMaster is the refutation of his argu ment. He could not be to us the same delightful Fitz. but for the/very things that higher education has given him ?those cultured tastes, that broaden ! ed mind, those enlarged sympathies j?spiced by his cahrming fondness for paradox. HUNS ASK FOR NEW CROSSES Berlin. Dec. 9.?Many .returned German prisoners are applying to the military ^department for new Iron Crosses, saying the originals were taken from them by the Entente. Not a single prisoner so far as is known has admitted that he often and gladly sold his Iron Gross to the Ame rican soldiers or took a bag of tobac co for it with enthusiasm. The German government demands proof that the Crosses were actually taken. , 666 quickly relieves Colds and La Grippe, Constipation, Biliousness, Loss of Appetite and Headaches.? Advt. New York. Jan. 12.?The last con tingent of American troops quartered at the Brest military camp arrived today on the transport George Wash ington. 666 has proven it will cure Ma laria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Fe ver Colds and LaGrippe.?Advt. GO TO THIi RESCUE, Don't Wait 'till It s Too IaHc?Fol low the Example of a Sumter Cit izen. Rescue the aching back. If it keeps on aching, trouble may come. often it. indicates kidney weak ness. If you neglect the kidney's warn ing, J.ook out for urinary disorders. This Sumter citizen will show you how to go to the rescue. Mrs. L. L. Gage, 207 W. Oakland Avenue, says: "A short time ago I was troubled with pains in the small of my back. It felt as thourh some one were stickifig pins and needles . into me. Headaches and dizzy spells bothered me and specks seeiri :-d to Moat before me. My kidneys ;icted very irregularly and I was in bad shape. Doan's Kidney Pills had >een used in our family for years, so ! got some at DeLorme's Pharmacy. I certainly must say Doan's positive y relieved me of kidney trouble." Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't dmply ask for a kidney remedy?get >o:m*s Kidney Pills?the same that Urs. Gage had. Foster-Milburn Co., dfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y??Advt,-77v