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WX HARRIS W?l Be Below Eleven Million t MATERIAL (AMINE 7+ ' PtderaJ Reterve Board Re? ble For Slump in Price ^ fiept, lt.?Commissioner ? trtty much encouraged over outlook for the suit of cotton. He IddOdT the Montgomery conference [ taUUi that Lb ?if? trereSet In mo [here that will help the eouth. Ha several reasons therefor, orep tea a beautiful appearance sections, he say a but it la all l.'aaf the Insect* seem more r?v thaa ever. There Is no hope ?w *bnr*r crop, tsan last year's. With perfect waather conditions. Hier new high cotton will go. will be from 100.too to 1.000,000 left in the field*, for the high of ginning sud the low price of wlQ make It unprofitable the bumble bee and dogtall a. Statement Commissioner Harris: ;M little lean than a year ago pr. A. Tedd and other Kngllsh ex eu?ud**? the world's cotton i?seile hi' New Orleans. Insisted las world needed a lS.O0l.t0t ia?can crop I? It 10. That was repeated over and over >?'.tn.chey went back to Bng Xbty bald that there was a rotten fa aims already in sight. gbd the south to raise ?t bale* this year. A few weeks Ted4 mad* the dolorous suts b Mane bestes paper that the sited this year and would if years raise a crop ot tie Is that thbe crop this d bd 4j.S4t.tot short of the 1i - it tlau fpsjuU he aeedrd. v If* Jd dag* Ago eottoo said for Today the tamo cotton la .at are and tt cent a it is a fact world realisml that we hare jbb' Jfc uU taw material, and the rlp/ritft that che consumption trill be greater next year year. Ws know that cat* ? a*re net daoreaaed in **U Oettot. shifts that enee sold art now brio gm? tt.lt to and the amount of cotton In hy wetgbt li worth about ten fitrt than formerly, ffbsft hi aosaetbing radically [t KTbat It It? There la no far it In the world hut the p* ocessee of the fed board. Thts has made it Tor the cotton buyers In Eu 4 in this country. The bear **H??*r* using, the opportunity created and are driving cotton ? dews below lbs cost of pro Hp****: ' is ao doubt that the action rtal reserve board Is respon i.fos tbt great slump in cotton /ba* beew Pointed out very clearly the editor of The Manufacturers I ajrd hy Senator Owen of Okla wbb was one of the authors of tatlew vreattng the board. - *?fhO ?pOli*l*lors have planned well agsmd and are expecting the farmers Itjer *a*n* thins; they have been _ fe* the last 4 0 year*?to ruth least three-fourths of the cotton It's saarkft In the first three or ths Wb?m prices .have been a lew level by the sJugtrnes* ^B^Atrs to cash In and get rid rtbete dents. Thea, after the farm hsife liquidated at prices below rast of production, the bear g*m ?.arbo tasa have the cotton In aeasaioa. advance the price* u|rt a marvelous profit at the Of the man who has worked months in the year to make product, i, with the Inbilllgence and the ktiea ib*t the farmers now 1 do not believe they will fall the trap sad do the same old rwr this Is the most over estl tbfcdbd crop that I hart known In 40 Mfr ObdsrratiOn . flm my article on oat ten last week. I maiid that 41. t would bo nearer I tffbt fee the condition, and I am now[ p*epnr*J to bollere that the Heptsm beg report, Lf anyways near correct, I Ml be er should" be II per cent. Never id my life bare I ?*** a crop deterior hi the entire belt as this one has. 1 predicted It to days ago. We I b lot about a big Texas crop, kf no troth In that ?Ute. I in particularly of the Texas dele m bo to crop coadttlon*. Theyl "too mach rain, weevlla and rtnu' ^fl atf just in receipt of a letter I treu? my sou la Denton. Texas, snd he1 sbdra that in many fields whers he has bdbb lH to It acres would not make sV tsUe of cotton, on account of the srevvU and the boll worm. * ?'I waut the cotton producers of the ?tum to get k out of their heads that *t are going to raakw a big crop this4 I**r. * Qet off of the bear side of cot brp and bo a bull, a big bull with a hump on your bock, ? "411 the cotton plates except two orere represented at Montgomery, Art and Oklahoma being absent. The rt srad unanimous from all the that deterioration was greater bad over been known and that fts'etameat estimate was too high, to toy to the cotton farmers and in theo* who have lilt c uton, */Ju*t ait steady In th* boat ant' you wilt tod cotton go very much higher tab a It has been yet. The great big bdbtod bears of th* world are now ttftthnr or-red' * fV?Oy know that th*rs wilt be no hsjr crop this year and they will soon run to cover. Just at this writing. I learn that cotton has advanced 200 estuta, iko limit allowed by law for ?ft* day a fluctuations. And the re aWsp stated thai there was none foi "New, just a word to those who nr* awillog their flsvt picking: if yotl will ITALY CALLS ONflOLETTI Country Menaced By the Spread of Bolsheviki Propaganda REDS SEIZING INDUSTRAL PLANTS Premier is Regarded as the Only Man in the Hingdom Who Can Handle the Situation Turin. Italy, Sept. 11.?All Italy has again turned to Premier Oioletti for a solution of difficulty In the in? dustrial crlsta Excitement ia intense here over the movement of the metal workars to occupy and operate indus? trial plants .throughout the country. Two hundred chemical plants were oc? cupied today And red flags were hoisted. Anderson Women ' Register More Than Thirteen Hundred QuaMfy?Additional Time Being Asked Anderson. Sept* lo.?The registra tlon of t|ftj women of Anderson couiv r/.ghows that they are alive to their duties and responsibilities, In the three daya 1.341 received their certi? orates. More than a thousand of these hod reglet'ered and given their age be i>rs receiving the opinion of Attorney Genera* Wolfa Siting that the women would only have tost atemfwypj m Wpuld ortlv havo to state that they were 21 of over. The committee in charge stated that they were glad ?hat they had not received this notice earlier,' tor they proved to the men test they would'vote even if they did have to te.ll their age. One woman, warn she woo asked If she told her correct gge. answered. "Why not, I have teen waiting 6a years for thl? privilege, und Why not say so?" f. Many applications have come to the county chairman. Mrs. C. McC. Patrick, asking t|uit the registration hoard he ?ent to towns it different sections, that many women who want? ed to register hut could not come all the way to Anderson to get their cer? tificate may yet qualify. Application has peen made to Governor Cooper with the endorsement of the Anderson county delegation stating that they ?rill OO&r the expenae, for extra time . Anderson county has more than doubled any other county in the reg* Istration of womenK according to-alt information received here. The com? mittee is very much gratified at the response the women made. Anderson mav also boast of one of the first women to vote In the state. Armed with her racentty acquired cer tttcate and tax receipts, Airs. Inez Callanan attended a meeting for the purpose of vot pig additional school tax in the Oak Chrove school district on Wednesday. Olive Thomas Dies in France Moving Picture Actress Victim of Slow Poison Taken By Mistake Paris, Sept. 10.?Olive Thomas, the American moving picture actress, died In the American hospital at Neuilly today. 8he was xaken to the institu? tion Hunday aulYertng from alow pois? on, which ahe awallowed by mistake, according to her physician. She came here with her husband. Jack Pick ford, and was suffering from nervous depression, it was said. hold It off the market, put it in a warehouae or Under ahelter, you will In * ahorf time get $30 a bale more for it. 'AM that we have to do this year to make the south Independently rich by obtaining for once a profit on cotton Is to adopt the method outlined by the American Cotton association at the Montgomery meeting. The price fixing committee recommended a price of 40 cents acallng the price upwards one cent a montn aiter the first of Octo? ber. "This committee weighed the situa? tion very carefully and viewed It from every angle and standpoint, and fixed the price according to the law of cost of production and supply and demand of raw cotton. We realised that this was going to be another very short crop, the sixth in succession. There will never he another crop as large as those we had prior to 1914. ?'The association recommended that :';> per cent of the best grades of the 1120 cotton crop he put aside and withheld from market for about a year. Also we recommended that one third of the cotton land planted In 1920 In cotton be sowed In grain and planted in food cropa. "A committee waa appointed to look Into the advisability of organising an export corporation that they might be able to get some of these low grades of cotton Into the markets of the world, aa needed. "It was urged to market this crop very alowly. According to the law of supply and demand, by the withhold? ing of thla crop from the market we are bound In a very short time to sea cotton very much higher. ? "The spinners of the world have very short atocka and are obliged to have cotton. We sre going to make, them deliver the goods. Even If cot? ton ahould go to 50 centa, cotton gooda could aell off from present prices and yet leave a handsome profit for the millf. The farmers APS not profiteers. They do not wish to extort from the public, but they do resent having the world told that the idgh price of cot? ton causes the high prices of fabrics, when this is absolutely untrue." MUNSEY GIVEN QUICK REBUFF Senate Committee Refuses To Summon Gov. Cox as Witness on Slush Fund HIS REPRESENTATIVE SUFFICIENT Millionaire Republican Who Butt in on Investigation of Cam? paign Fund Turned Down Chicago, Sept. ll.-r?A refusal to summon Governor Cox before the sen? ate campaign expenditures investigat? ing committee was* announced today by Senator Kenyon, In a telegram re? plying to the demand by Frank Mun sey. The reply said that Ktlmund Moore, Gov. Cox's personal represen? tative had appeared and that was suf? ficient. The committee haa completed its in? quiry here, and recessed to meet in either New York or Washington on September 22nd. , Report on Crop Conditions Corn Better While Potatoes Fall Off Columbia, Sept. 11.?Crop condi? tions in South Carolina on September 1 show several changes from August 1, according to flgure? of B. B. Hade, of Saluda. agricultural statlsti ean for the United States. Corn la given as 90 per, cent., an Increase of four over the August report. White potatoes are ??? per cent., or a de? crease of 2 from August. Other figures follow: ^ Sweet potatoes 83, same as August; tobacco 76, three points below Au? gust; rice 81, one point above August; sorghum 88, two below August; pea? nuts* 88, two less than August. Condition of other crops in South Carolina are reported as follows Apples, 76; millet, 88; cowpeas, 86; tomatoes. 84; cabbages, 78; onions, 88; peaches. 7s, grapes, 86; pears, 71. The average yield per acre of alfalfa in South Carolina Is 2.20 Urns, and 2.74 tons (or the United States. The number of hogs in South Caro? lina for fattening compared with the number about September 1 last, year is 98 per cent, a decrease of 2 per cent., while for the entire United States there Is a reduction of 8.9 per cent? L ' The present forecast indicate a re? duction in the Wheat crop of the Unit? ed States of about 171,000,000 bushels as compared v/ith last year, while there is a prospective increase in corn Of .about 213,000,000 bushels, an in? crease of 193,000,000 bushels of oats, a 6 5,f>00;000 bushel increase in Irish potatoes and a decrease of nearly 2, 000,000 bu8hsls of sweet potatoes. Tb?? eatimatea further show an lncease of approximately 11,000,000 pounds of tobacco over that of last year 6,000, 000 gallons -of syrup and 5,000,000 bushels of peanuts. Italy Has New Volcano Crater Opens in Top of Moun? tain in Northern Italy1 Rome, Sept. 10.?A volcanic crater opened in the top of Plzo Ducello, a mountain six thousand feet high, fol? lowing the earthquake, and it is emit? ting sulphuric fumes. No other de taila of yesterday's new ahock have been received from northern Italy. Baby Saves Woman Refused Admission to the Pen? itentiary Because She Had Infant - Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 10.?Mrs. Margaret Burlngton, who was con? victed of using the mails to defraud, was refused admission to the peni? tentiary because she had a six months old baby with her. Federal Judge will be asked for instructions. \ Peru Sells Provinces Long Standing Dispute With Chile Settled By Payment of Six Million Pounds Buenos Aires, Sept. 10.?-Peru has renounced its rights to the provinces of Iacna and Aryea in favor of Chile for six million pounds sterling, thus dispoaing of most serious men? ace to South American peace, accord? ing to a dispatch to La Nacion from Santiago. Turks JBesiege Tarsus Inhabitants of City and French Garrison Are Short of Food Constantinople, Sept. 10. ? The Turks are besieging Tarsus, the birth? place or St. Faul, and the city's twen? ty-five thousand Inhabitants and the French garrison are short of food. advl< es here say. A Dozen Mines Closed Strike of United Mine Workers Tie Up Alabama Coal District Birmingham. Sept. 10.?Reports today said that a dozen mines in the Alabama coal district were closed and many more are affected by the general strikt of the United mine workers. THE FUTURE OF EUROPE Bankrupt Nations Must Work Out Their Own Salvation OPINION ON BUDA? PEST ECONOMIST The United States With All Their \YTealth Cannot Recon? struct Europe By Loans Budapest, Sept. 10.--"The peoples of Europe are in a dark, deep pit and they must work themselves out of it," says Koland Hegedus, hank director and lecturer at the Bu :1apest Uni? versity. "The United State? Is richer than she knows but she cannot reconstruct Europe by loans. All the nations of Europe are beset with a succession of political und economic problems that are wellpigh insolvable. I "Russia is the key to .he situation and until some sort of consistent gov? ernment is established there, we can hope for little here. "What the United States can do, perhaps, is to work to ' secure free trade among th*\- * central European countries. No. e of us can do any business with tariff frontiers. "I believe thv? paper money situa? tion will force a revision of the peace treaties. All these little nations are living from hand to mouth, printing up money to keep going. Poland is hardly a year old nnd already she has a national debt of 1 30,000,000.000 marks, with a 40,000,004,000 deficit. The same is more or less true of Czcoho-Slovakia. of Hungary and of all of us. The armies are eating up half our incomes, yet each nation is afraid to disarm because, of possible attacks from neighbors. "With this paper money carnival, central Europe can not: trade with countries having better moneys, Aich as Spain, Holland and Switzerland. This situation also applies to Italy and France. "Meanwhile our civilization is go? ing by the board. Because of the ex? change, our universities and reading people can not afford to subscribe for science or law publicatlons of England or the United States. "For the same reason our educat? ed but Impoverished classes can not go abroad to find work, provided they could secure passports. "These conditions are not altogeth? er; the results of a hi* war but of a bad peace which has fallen harder on Hungary than any other country. God made her the cunt er of a geo? graphical unit and the peace frontiers ruin not only new Hungary but the parts taken away." Harding Soft Soaps Negroes Republican Candidate Tells Del? egation That America Will Not Fail Them Marion, Sept. 10.?Senator Hard? ing in a speech to a negro delegation today said America has not, and will not fail the American negro. He told his visitors that service was the measure of citizenship. He said ne? gro knows this truth and has met the test. TRUTH ABOUT |i SLUSH FUND Blair Tells Something of Repub- ] lican Efforts STATE WORKERS ON THE STAND -. ) Men From Ohio and Illinois Tell ' of Appointing Local Chairmen For Drive Chicago. Sept. ?.?.? Testimony hear? ing upon Governor <'ox's charge that a quota list of 51 cities had been sent out by the Republican national com? mittee was elicited at today's session of the senate committee investigating hearing. WhiKe Harry M. Blair, as? sistant to Fred W. Upham, national republican treasurer, was on the stand a document was issued which the wit? ness identified as a substitute for "form 101," the campaign plan which Blair drew up but which was rejected ty the national executive committee. Tliis substitute document stated that an intensive campaign was to be un? dertaken In 51 cities and it also indi cated that the national treasury was to appoint city chairmen of the ways and means committee. John A. Kelly and G. Deforrest Kin ney, state ways and means heads for Ohio and Illinois respectively, later said they appointed the local chairmen themselves and that the naional treasurer had nothing to do with these selections or with fixing quotas for the various counties. Mr. Kinney also added that he was concerned only with the campaign outside Chicago and Cook counties. In addition, Henry Owens, a pah! assistant to Mr. Blair and organizer for Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Indiana, testified that he had never heard of any plan to or? ganize cities as distinctive from the county organizations. He said fur? thermore that he never saw form 101 and knew nothing of its being locked in a safe after it had been rejected. Mr. Owen told Senator Spencer thut the whole Republican methtod of rais? ing funds was a "stock plan." ?'I can buy it for you in printed form for $25," he added. ? Where?" asked Senator Reed. "From the international committee of the Y. M. C. A." said the witness. "The plan is known to hundreds of men. It is 25 years old and anything but original with this drive." The committee held another night session, Chairman Kenyon explaining that they hoped to wind up the com mitt-ee hearings in this city by Sat? urday night. Other developments today included testimony by Mr. Kelly that he fixed the quotas of Ohio counties at just/ double what he expeett.J.to raise, but did not inform local chairmen of 'that fact. On that basis the workers in that state, it was brought out by Senator Pomerene. were striving to get $1,300.000. inst-ead of the $650, 000 which the national committee wanted. Dublin, Sept. ll.?Dublin Castle has had so much official mail for London intercepted by Sinn Feincrs that offi? cials are reported to be inaugurating a carrier pigeon service. A large con? signment of army pigeons has arrived in Dublin and more are expected. The iiight to London is roughly 500 miles. CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS Republicans Making Frantic Efforts to Stop Investigation of Slush Fund COX CHARGES CREATE PANIC IN G. O. P. Democratic Members of Senate Committee Propose to Sum? mon Chairman of Republican Finance Committee Chicago, Sept. 9.?The senate com? mittee investigating campaign ex? penditures tonight was divided on the question of put suing the investigation of Governor ('ox's charges that mil? lions are being sought by the Repub? lican national committee "to corrupt'* the electorate. Saturday the committee will com? plete its inquiry here, but after two confer* roes today the five senator* could reach no decision as to the neat step. The Republican attitude, as ex? pressed by Senator Edge, is thalevejy, lead offered by Governor Cox and his supporters has been pursued without proving any of what the New Jersey senator characterized as the "'sinister'* I counts in the Democratic presidential [nominee's charges. Senators Edge, j Kenyon and Spencer, Republicans, j propose that the committee drop toe fox charges and move to Pittsburgh to Investigate reports that the liquor Interests are taking an active part in the campaign. The Democratic view, however, aa expressed by Senators Reed and Pom erne, is that the Cox charges are be? ing proven and they desire to go to New York, subponea Col. William! Boyce Thompson, chairman of the Re? publican national ways and means committee; Reeve Schley, Eastern treasurer, and other Republican lead? ers arid pursue the investigation. The Chicago end of the present in? quiry will be practically complete to? morrow. Edmond H. Moore, of Youngstown, Ohio, Governor Cot's] personal representative, Who has been sitting on the sidelines far two days, coaching Senator Reed in tr' ques? tions to be asked witnesses, ill re? sume the stand to complete nls own i Interrupted testimony. Dlttle of the Moore testimony remains to be taken, it is believed, as the examination of witnesses in which he has participated has brought out most of the leads which he, as Governor Cox's represen? tative, had to offer. , C. W. Lee, eastern regioral director of the Republican ways and mean* committee, with jurisdiction over sev? en eastern states, and a few minor witnesses remain to be heard. ?Saturday the committee expects to examine neveral girls from the in? ternal revenue office at Grand Porks, N. D.. where Democrats are said to hav?e solicited $10 contributions from girl clerks. British Occupy Sheerban Mesopotamian Town Taken From the Turks Bagdad. Sept. 11.? The town od Sheerban has been occupied by Brit? ish forces. FOR SALE Two-story six-room house, barn and stables, garage, fruit trees with eight acres of land, all under fence, loca? ted three miles from Sumter. F. M. MOISE Sumter, S. C. 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