THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2, ] TOBACCO MARKE ASSOCIATION Reports Coming to Headquarters i n Florence Encourag ing Leaders Florence* Nov. 10.?Events of to day have given the Tri-State Tobac co Growers' Cooperative Marketing association the greatest impetus in South Carolina that it has "had since the campaign was opened one week ago, headquarters of the associa tion announced tonight. The list ?f events include the biggest single contract yet signed, indorsement of the biggest gathering of business and professional men yet called to learn of this movement, the con tracting of one of the biggest ware housemen in the state, and the sign ing up of several influential persons who have been regarded as poten tial impediments in the progress of the campaign.v _L. M. Lawson of Darlington this afternoon signed a contract for ?155,0v'0 pounds, the largest single ?contract yet prewired. W. H. McElveen of Timmonsivlle, one of the biggest warehousemen of [the South Carolina belt and key man in the belt, signed np 40,000 pounds. His contract is the first se cured from a warehouseman. W. D. Coggeshall of Darlington, ?ig planter-merchant, signed for 5.000 pounds. He had been re led as doubtful, but now ex presses himself wholeheartedly for the association. Nearly 150 busi ness and professional men of Dar lington county, at dinner under the auspices of the Kiwanis club to day, both indorsed the cooperative marketing association and pledged their personal efforts in soliciting contracts. The meeting was the greatest gathering of men of this flass in this cause that has been held yet during the campaign. Three very influential and s?b ttial planters of Olanta have l been contracted. They are S. i Chandler, vice president of the National bank, E. J. Tomlin son -and M. D. Myers. Net results of half a dozen signa tures today are approximately i ,^-?0sMMMM5ounds -added- to the con- I tracted amount. , The campaign will be opene^ to- j morrow morning in Dillon county j with'-a mass meeting in Dillon, be-I ginning at 10 o'clock in the court j house. .The campaign w-as opened ! [ay in Horry county with a mass leeting in Conway, which has not sported yet more than to say the leetinjg was successful. Lynchburg, center of the tobac :o industry in Lee county, wi22 i.ve a conference Monday morn ing. Manning will have a rally Tuesday morning for all Clarendon county, beginning at 11 o'clock Is the court house. The same day Wilh'amsburg county will convene for the.same purpose at Kingstree, which is providing a big barbecue. ? The small community of Oates in Darlington county last night signed up 15O.0Q0 pounds of tobacco and 600 bales of cotton. During the day they reported having signed up xls much more produce under the cooperative marketing contract. Charleston is Vicious Town Chaplain of Destroyer F*eet ^ Says He Has Never Seen ^ Worse Conditions Columbia, Nov. 10.?Charleston's moral situation is bad, according to, a -Teport made to Governor CoopeV, in a letter received by the chief magistrate today from Rev. Walter Mitchell, rector of Porter Military Academy, on behalf of the Ministerial Union of Charleston. Rev. Mitchell quotes" Chaplain Daw senior chaplain of the navy, who 1? in Charleston in connection with the destroyer fleet now stationed in the Charleston harbor, to the ef fect that he has never seen con ditions worse in any city where he has been stationed. Mr. Mitchell quotes Chaplain Day as saying that last Saturday night he saw at least two hundred drunk men on the streets of Charleston. He describ ejL^he.kind of whiskey which the Then are drinking, and says that it is of such mean quality as to make the men who get drunk on it dangerous. Mr. Mitchell's letter to the gov ernor was written, following a meeting of the Charleston minis ters, when the chaplain made his complaint*of conditions. Chaplain Day referred to a statement made some time ago by Admiral Ander son, to the effect that unless the Christian r-.en of Charleston saw to it that the city was cleaned up the fleet would be taken awav More Work in Detroit Laboring Force Increased Over Four Thousand Last Week Detroit. Nov. 12.?Improvement in unemployment conditions here was shown in the weekly report of the Employers' Association. Sev enty-nine firms during the week added forty-four hundred workers to their forces. THE WORLD SiTS AT THE PMCETABLE Disarmament Confer-j ence Which Holds! the Fate of the! World in It's Hands Opened at Wash ington To-day Washington, Nov. 12. ? With the soldier dead fresh in mind, the conference on limitation of arma ments held its first session to seek ' "a ruler under which reason and ! righteousness shall prevail." States men and diplomats of the five great j powers and representatives of j four others gathered in the me morial hall of the Daughters of the American revolution to organize and find a way through which they hope to remove the causes which j might lead to war and thereby re move the economic burden of prep aration. The delegates arrived be fore'the official opening at 10:30, Secretary Hughes called the meet i ing to order when President Hard !ing arrived at 10.33. Rev. W. S. j Abernathy of the Calvary Baptist ) church, the president's pastor then j offered prayer. The president im- [ mediately afterwards arose nad be- j gan a delivery of his address, which was concluded at 10:53. Arthur Balfour nominated S ec r e t a ry Hughes for chairman of the con ference. Secretary Hughes, who was ac claimed chairman, proposed a ten year naval construction holiday, be ginning three months after agree ment and that capital ships tonnage be reduced to approximately half a million for the United States, six i hundred thousand for Great Brit- j ain, three hundred thousand for i Japan, and that replacement be! limited by an -agreed maximum of j capital ship tonnage ?o half a mil- ; lion each for the United States and , Great Britain and three hundred J thousand for Japan, subject to the j ten year holiday. The capital ships I are to be replaced when twenty j years old and limited to thirty-five thousand tons each. Tonnage and i j replacements of ther ships to be I [fixed later. Jno. W. Garrett of Balti- j more was selected as secretary I general. The conference adjourned !at 12:22 until Tuesday. Secretary Hughes in his opening address, presented the American i plans, suggesting the abandonment { of all naval building programs, and i scrapping the older ships of the present navies. , Shaw Wins Case Against Hassler Verdict of ?15,000 For Breach of . Contract for State Agency - j - ! Columbia. Nov. 11.?The jury in the case of David C. Shaw of Co- ! lumbia vs. Robert H. Hassler, Inc. I of Indianapolis, Ind., et aL, which j has been on trial at the federal i court since last Tuesday, returned | a verdict yesterday morning, hold- | ing the defendant guilty of breach of contract and awarding the J plaintiff $13,000 actual damages, j Mr. Shaw sued for $175.000. The suit, the first cviil case to 1 be tried at this term of federal j court, grew out of an alleged ' breach of contract regarding the j state agency for automobile shock j absorbers, manufactured by the j Hassler company. The agency for j South Carolina. Mr. Shaw testified, j was given him by the Hassler com- j pany, which contracted with him, j he said, to give him exclusive dis tributing rights in the state for a ; period of not less than five years. Under this contract, Mr. Shaw said, he accepted and sold one car load of the shock absorbers, building up | at the same time a sales force j throughout the state. A second j car of the shock absorbers arrived, j Mr. Shaw testilied, and he was no tified that he was no longer sta e ! agent and the Columbia Compress j company, instructed not to deliver i the car to Mr. Shaw, refused to turn it over to him. The defend- j ant claimed the right to terminate - the contract and also set up the ? plea that Mr. Shaw by his alleged failure to pay for the car had in | effect cancelled the contract. This is the second time that the (case has been tried, the first hear-; j ing of the case, also at the Colum ! bia term of federal coutr, having resulted in a mistrial. i Mill Resumes Work Lumber Plant at Gable Starts Up Again Manning. Nov. LO.?The cypress timber mill, located on Black river, has resumed work a t ier several months Operation began today at the big mill at Gable with a full force of men. This company is one of the largest manufacturers of cypress timber in the state and the resumption of work Ls a forerunner of improved business conditions. Belgrade, .Cov. 14.- Jugo-Slavia cannot accept the decision of the a!Ii?-d council of ambassaors, de limiting the boundary between Jugo-Slavia and Albania, the cabi net decided Satur&ay. "Be Just and Fear ] PRESIDENT SPEAKS TO CONFERENCE President Harding as the Representative of the People of the United States Ap peal for World Peace Washington. Nov. 12.?Imme diately following the opening exer cises of the Disarmament Confer ence, summoned by him as the chief of the mightiest nation in the world, to consider ways and means to disarm the war burdened and war weary nations of the world. President Harding addressed the assembled delegates of the great powers. He spoke as follows: Mr. Secretary and Members of the Conference, Ladies and Gentle man : It is a great and happy privilege to bid the delegates to this confer ence a cordial welcome to the capi tal of the United States of America. It is not only satisfaction to greet you because we were lately partici pants in a common cause, in which shared sacrifices and sorrows and triumphs brought our nations more closely together; but it is gratify ing to address you as the spokes men for nations whose convictions and attending actions have so much to do with the weal or woe of all mankind. It is not possible to overappraise the importance of such a confer ence. It is no unseemly boast, no disparagement cf other nations which, though net represented, are held in highest respect, to declare that the conclusions of this body will have a signal influence on all human progress?on the fortunes of the world. Here is a meeting, I can well be lieve, which is an earnest of the awakened conscience of twentieth century civilization. It is not a convention of remorse, nor a ses sion of sorrow. It is not the con ference of victors to define terms of settlement. Nor is it a council of nations seeking to remake hu mankind. It is rather a coming to gether, from all parts of the earth, to apply the better attributes of mankind to minimize the faults in our international lelationships. Speaking as official sponsor for the invitation. I thing I may say the call is not of the United States of America alone, it is rather the spoken word of a war-wearied } world, struggling for restoration, I hungering and thirsting for better j relationship: of humanity crying! for relief and craving assurances of lasting peace. It is easy to understand this j world-wide aspiration. The glory i of triumph, the r e j o i c i ng of j achievement, the love of # liberty, ; the devotion to country, the pangs I of sorrow, the burdens of debt, the j desolation of ruin?all these are I appraised alike in all lands. Here j in the United States we are but freshly turned from the burial of ! an unknown American soldier, when a nation sorrowed while pay ing him tribute. Whether it was spoken or not. a hundred millions of our people were' summarizing the inexcusable causes, the incal culable cost, the unspeakable sac rifices, and the unutterable sorrows, and there was the ever impelling i question: How can humanity jus tify or God forgive? Human hate I demands no such toll: ambition ? and greed must be denied it. If {misunderstanding must take the I blame, then let us banish it, and ! let understanding rule and make ! good will regnant everywhere. All { of us demand liberty and justice. ; There can not be one without the j other, and they must be held the unquestioned possession of all peo ples. Inherent rights are of God. and the tragedies of the world I originate in their attempted denial. I The world today is infringing their I enjoyment by arming to defend or deny, when simple sanitay calls j for their recognition through com } mon understanding. I Out of the cataclysm of the [ world war came new fellowships. : new convictions, new aspirations. It ! is ours to make the most of them. ; A world staggering with debt needs i its burden lifted. Humanity which j ; has been shocked by wanton de i struction would minimize the j I agencies of that destruction. Con ! tern plating the measureless cost of { war and the continuing burden of armament, all thoughtful peoples wish for real limitation of arma ; ment and would like war outlawed. ! In soberest reflection the world's ! hundreds of millions who pay in I peace and die in war wish their I statesmen t<> turn the expenditures for destruction into means of con struction, aimed at a higher state 1 for those who live and follow after. It is not alone that the world can not readjust itself and east asidt* tin- e? ess burdens without relief from the leaders of men. War : has grown progressively cruel and more destructive from first recorded conflict to tuis pregnant day. and the reverse order would more be I come our boasted civilization. Gentlemen of the Conference, j the United States welcomes you with unselfish hands. We harbor no fears: we have no sordid ends to serve: tve suspect n<> enemy: we contemplate or apprehend no con quest. Content with what we have, we seek nothing which is another's. We only wish to do with you that Not?Let ail the ends Thou Aims't Sumter, S. C, Wednesday ! Naval Construction Program Will Not Be Stopped Unless There is Interna tional Agreement Washington. Nov. 14.?The naval construction program which is progressing slowly because of re duced appropriations, will not be stopped unless an international agreement is reached or congress directs the Cessation of building, Secretary Denby asserted. -.? ?c? Ask Pardon For Traitors Veterans of World War to Present Petition to Presi dent Harding ? Washington, Nov. 14.?An en gagement has been made with Pres ident Harding by eight members of the World War Veterans' Associa tion and others who won congres sional medals of honor or distin guished service awards, to present memorials asking pardon for Eu gene V. Debs and one hundred atid forty others who were convict ed of obstructing the government's activities during the war. -? o Steamer Burn ing at Sea The San Francisco Fleeing Toward Bermuda With Raging Fire Aboard _ Xew York. Xov. 14.?The steam ship San Francisco, which caught tire yesterday a thousand miles southeast of New York is heading toward, the Bermuda islands with the flames spreading, said radio messages. The steamship Ramon' De Larrinaga is standing by. finer, nobler thing which no na tion can do alone. We wish to sit with you at the table of international understand ing and good will. In good con science we are eager to meet you frankly, and invite and offer coop eration. The world demands a so ber contemplation of the existing order and the realization that there can be no cure without sacrifice, not by one of us, but by all of us. I do not mean surrendered rights, or narrowed freedom, or denied as pirations, or ignored national ne cessities. Our Republic would no more ask for these than it would give.' Xo pride need be humbled. [ no nationality submerged, but I j would have a mergence of minds ! committing all ol us to less prep aration for war and more enjoy ment of fortunate peace. The higher hopes come of the spirit of our coming together. It [ is but just to recognize varying I needs and p e c u 1 i a r positions, j Nothing can be accomplished in disregard of national apprehen sions. Rather, we should act to gether to remove the causes of ap j prehensions. This is not to be done in intrigue. Greater assur ance is found in the exchanges of simple honesty and directness, among men resolved to accomplish as becomes leaders among nations, when civilization itself has come to its crucial test. It is not to be challenged that government fails when the excess of its cost robs the people of the way to happiness and the oppor tunity to achieve. If the tiner sen timents were not urging, the cold, hard facts of excessive cost and the eloquence of economics would urge us to reduce our armaments. If the concept of a better order does not appeal, then let us ponder the burden and the blight of continued competition. It is not to be denied that the world has swung along throughout the ages without heeding this call from the kindlier hearts of men. But the same world never before was so tragically brought to reali zation of the utter futility of pas sion's sway win a reason and con science and fellowship point a nobl er way. I can speak officially only for our United States, our hundred mil lions frankly want less of arma ment and none < i war. \\ holly free from guile, sure in our own minds that we harbor no unworthy designs, we accredit the world with the same good intent. So I welcome yon. not alone in good will and high purpose, but with high faith. We are met for a service to man kind, fn all simplicity, in all hon esty and all honor, there may be written here the avowals of a world conscience refined by the consum ing fires of war, and made more sensitive by the anxious aftermath. I hope for that understanding which will emphasize the guaran tees of peace, and for commit ments to less burdens and a better oiiler which will tranquilize the world. In such an accomplish ment there will be added glory to your Hags and ours, and the re joicing of mankind will make the transcending music of -ill succeed ing time. ;it he thy Country's, Thy God's and 7, November 16, 1921 A RETURN TO POLiTICA i ; Election Results Last] Week Indicate That! People Are Turning! Against Republican Rule i i - i By WALLACE BRASSFOHD Washington, ?. C, Nov. 12?The i elections hold in Various states last ; Tuesday would indicate a good be ginning in the return to politcal normalcy. Such a decided drift, oc curring in a general Congressional election, or in the Presidential elec ! tion, would place the Democrats in : power. It is true that nut a great j [?deal was gained in the election in' the way of offices or new power,! but much is accomplished for the ' \ \\Mx\vi- by tlie heartening influence : j of decided victories in hah' a dozen? states, giving proof that it is easi-i I ly possible to turn the Republicans . I out of the IJouse of Representatives ? 'next fall. While the election in : I New York has attracted the great- ( j er attention, those in Virginia. Ken- : ituckey and Maryland were very im- I I portant as showing that the Repub j lican high tide of a year ago has j j been rolled back, and that all dan- \ (gor of breaking the solid Demo- ! I ( ratio South has again passed. Part ? j of this result can doubtless be trac- j ! ed to the President's blunder in go- ; J ing into the heart of the South as I the guest of the Southern white ? people and saying at Birmingham j '?Whether you like it or not. you I have to give the negro political and j economic equality." This came ; ? when Colonel Anderson, the Re- | j publican candidate for Governor of j i Virginia, was running on a plat- j ? form that called for the removal of j jail restrictions on negro suffrage in j the State. He was defeated by the | j largest mnlority ever rolled up in j the Old Dominion, evert the Slemp i district. Republican for years, go I ing Democratic. In a year from j now Sb-mp has t<> go before the i I people and overcome a 1.600 Dem- : ; ocratic majority in his District. If the result in Xew York means j ! anything, it means that the Dem- | j ocrats can look forward to the ; j election of a Governor and a full I State ticket next fall. A strong.) j young Democratic candidate front; j up-states?such a man as Franklin | j Roosevelt or Peter G. Ten Eyck?1 j would appeal strongly to the politi- ; j cal logic of the situation. It is j : evident that Tammany, strongly in I trenched, is in position to give the j j best sort of account of the greater j I citv, while a strong campaigner of ! personal popularity up-state would J be able to crystalize to his own sup- j j port the growing dissatisfaction I with State and National administra j tions. Roosevelt's campaign as the j Democratic candidate for Vice j president made him many friends, : while Ten Eyck serving in Con gress from a district usually Re- j publican, showed fine vote-gettinj .' strength against the Harding land- i j slide last year. His home city, Al i bany. has just elected its first : Democratic mayor in 2 2 years. He is young, popular, a real Democrat, I conies of one of the old and leading families of the State with genera tions of clean records behind him and occupies a position of peculiar i and increasing possibilities. His j career will be worth watching. j The more one observes the m.an i euvers of the group of Republican J Senators known as the Agricultural i Rloc. the more one is forced to the j conclusion that it is, more thai: j anything else, a shrewd scheme to l hold in line and keep satisfied the i large voting population in the West I that cannot remain quiescent while ; their party seems under the domi | nation of the big eastern interests. The fight the Westren Senators are making in the Senate slants greatly in the direction of a hippodrome performance. If the Agricultural Rloc succeeds in holding the great j bulk of the Western Republican , voters in line until next fall, some I of the senators will save their own ' skins and remain in position to lead i * j their flocks up to the polls three years hence to vote for the re I election of an administration cou ? stantly under the control of the , big moneyed interests, the same I interests that Selected Mellon for j the Treasury portfolio ami which ? are now succeeding in securing I great reductions in the income sur 1 taxes, such as cutting almost half i j in two the taxes on incomes above ; one million dollars. It is apparent that the tax bill, when the weary j I public finally sits it enacted into law, will reduce taxes most for I those who need tin- reduction tin '. I leas;. .More and more are the old ' political observers in Washington J reminded b? administrations of j Harrison and Taft. Doth were I dominated by the money power. b..ili were repudiated at tin- Cor-j greswional elections in the rhTdcfle of their only term in office, and both were defeated for re-election. Tin- Springfield. Mass.. Republi can says thai Mr. Harding might : have truthfully said thai the South j offers the negro more of economic j opportunity than the North. Who remembers tie race riot at Springfield. III.. Lincoln's home town, whirh grew out of the ques- j tion of economic equality -the worst race riot ever known in the country'.' Ami Marion. <>hm. the Presi-i dents hone- town. w?-nt Demo cratic! Ruth's." DRASTIC I NAVAL REDUCTION I _. j American Proposal: Contemplates Teni Year Holiday in Building and Junk-; ing of Many Ships . Washington. Nov 12 (By the As-j sociated Press).?Mere drastic and far reaching than the most ardent advocate of disarmament dared to hbpe, America's proposals were j suddenly laid before the arms con- j ference today at its first session by Secretary Hughes. A ten year naval holiday is the proposal in short, and the United j States. Great Britain and Japan j shall scrap 66 capital ships aggre- j gating 1,878.043 tons. Within three months after the ; conclusion of an agreement, the : United States would have 18 capi- j tal ships: Great Britain, 22, and Ja pan, ten. The tonnage of the three nations, respectively, would under ; such a plan be 500,G50, 004,450 and j 299.700. Ships, when 20 years old, might ? be replaced under the plan, and the replacement scheme is 500.000 tons for the United States, 50 0.000 tons for Great -Britain and 300.000 tons for Japan. Xo replacement ship could exceed 35.000 tons. The United States would scrap 30 ? capital ships aggregating 843,740 i tons; Great Britain. 1!) aggregating I 583,375 tons, and Japan, 17 aggre- i gating 448,1)28 tons. The figures include old ships to i be scrapped, ships building or for j which material has been assem- | bled. characterized by Baron Kato, the chief Japanese delegate, as "very drastic," but probably suitable as a basis for discussion, and by Mr. Balfour, head of the British dele gation, as "a statesmanlkie utter ance, pregnant with infinite possi bilities ana most hopeful of satis factory results" the American pro posal, concrete and detailed, fell on the opening moments of the great conference like a bombshell. The foreign delegates were stun ned. Xo other word describes their feelings. The principal features of the American plan proposed: That for not less than ten years competitive naval building cease as between Great Britain, the United States and Japan. That all capital ships building or planned be scrapped and a few re cently placed in the water be de stroyed within three months after ratification of the agreement. That the older ships of each fleet be also destroyed, reducing the British force to ?2 battleships, the American to 18 and the Japanese to ten, each ship to be retained be ing specifically named. That during the agreement no capital craft be laid down except under a detailed replacement scheme included in the proposal which would provide for ultimate equality of the British and Ameri can fleets and for a Japanese force at GO per cent, of the strength of either of the other two. That all other naval craft be sim ilarly provided for in the same ra tio, specific figures for aggregate tonnage in each class being laid down. That naval aircraft be disregard ed in the scaling down processes as a problem incapable of solution owing to the convertibility of com mercial aircraft for war purposes. That no naval building of any character be undertaken.in any of the three countries on foreign ac count during the life of the agree ment. That no capital ships hereafter laid down exceeded 35,000 tons. That the life of a battleship shall be fixed at 20 years and that ships to be replaced be destroyed before the replacement vessel is more than three months passed comple tion. That no battleship replacement whatever be undertaken for ten years from date of the agree ment. That no combat craft be acquir ed except by construction and none be so disposed of that it might be- ; come part of another navy. That regulations to govern con- j version of merchant craft for war | purposes be drawn up, because of the importance of the merchant ] marin.- "in inverse ratio to the size ] of naval armaments." Those are the outstanding fea tures of the sweeping challenge Sec retary Hughes presented to the j other naval powers. There was: complete detail covering every ; phase of the question, but the es sence of the proposal lay in this:1 thai the United States offered to! go far heyond what she asked Brit ain or Japan to d on 2xed tonnage for each powe/, to apply only after ten years of no building of any kind. Then, under the American proposal. Gr< at Britain would be allowed to r aintain up to 500,000 tons in capital ships, the United States the same and Japan 300,000. In other words, after ten years the British fleet must t > brought down to the same tonn: ?e basis as the American while th > J tpanese would remain substantially where it was at the time of the first_ re duction. Apparently it is expected that the British strength would be reduced sufficiently by a trition, the wearing out of ships, during the ten year period. Statistics as to the gun power of the three fleets to be retained'un der the reduction program show that the United States and Japan would have one ship each mounting eight 16-inch rifles. Great Britain would have ten ships carrying a to tal of eight 15-inch rifles, one car rying ten 14-inch guns, and her other seven ships would be armed with the British 13.5 guns, used by neither of the other powers. She would have 70 of these afloat. The United States, in addition to the 16-inch gun ships, the Mary land, just commissioned, would have eight ships carrying twelve 14-inch guns, four carrying ten 14 inch guns. each, two carrying twelve 12-inch guns each and four carrying ten 12-inch guns each. Ja pan, in addition to her one 16-inch gun shin, would have afloat 48 1.4 inch guns and twelve 12-inch guns on her battleships and 32 14-inch on her battle cruisers. The figures further illustrate that the British preponderance in the proposed immediate cut is em braced in her foiir battle cruisers, as the gun power of the two bat tleship fleets would be different in makeup but approximately the> same. There is little doubt, how ever, that American naval opinion would rank the American battle ship fleet as superior. In round terms, the American replacement proposal means that under the agreement outlined the fleets of the three powers in terms Of capital ships would stand ulti mately at approximately 14 each for Great Britain and the United States and eight for Japan. The American claim to full equality with Great Britain is made in the replacement suggestion and there is no hint that the British will op pose it. It seems also that Japan would stand thereafter at a fixed ratio of three to five in naval strength in comparison to the other two fleets. It was not clear tonight how that would finally be viewed by Japan. The American replacement plan proposes to limit future capital ships to 35,000 tons. Taken in con nection with the tonnage allot ments, that would mean main fleets of i -i capital craft each for GVeat Britain and the I nited States and eight for Japan, provided all are built up to the limit of size.