The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 15, 1920, Image 6
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.
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