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THE SUMTEtt WATC3?IAX, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 CONFERENCE WORKING ON SHANTUNG * Naval Treaty Has Been Practically Completed and Del egates Try to Ad < just Chinese Dis 'Washington; Jan. 13 (By. the As sociated Press).?"With the "naval i reaty virtually ? completed^ the , arms delegates are preparing to turn the conference spotligirt on Shantung, apparently in the hope that a settlement of that contro versy may make it easier to go ' ahead with other troublesome prob lems of the Far East It now is the expectation in conference circles that during the next few days, and probably, until it decision is reached, the Shan * tung negotiations will nave the right of way while discussions of j other Far Eastern, subject*-iv:>?in; at a standstill. So far the Shan-1 ^ tung exchanges have tak^n place | between the Japanese ana Chinese ] alone, with American and British ! observers present but the riext phase ,of the conference -program is expected at least to concentrate upon the problem of the friendly interest of all the governments represented here. At their meeting today the Jap anese and Chinese groups reported an agreement for opening up the! entire Kiachow leased territory *to " Sorign trade,-and tomorrow they are to take up others oi the col lateral questions involved in restor ation of the leasehold to. China. Their sessions ara expected to last throughout the daj' and will 'form the only >item appearing on tomor row's conference program. -In the naval negotiations only a few. details considered more .or less perfunctorily' remained to be ar ranged. An agreement has been reached regarding methods of scrapping, under which discarded^ battleships may be converted in ' some cases into airplane carriers. and training.ships, and a, final set tlement relating to Pacific fortified- j tions awaits a reply expected hour Iy from Tokyo. _ ... ....... If present plans develop, the linal draft of the naval treaty will be laid before the full naval com mittee early next week and will be publicly announced at a plenary session .of the conference a few ^ ^days later. ? One possible element of delay in concluding the naval convention * was eliminated today when the French delegation received instruc r tions'from President Miller^tnd to go ahead with its conference duties .regardless of the cabinet crisis.at Paris. Albert Sarraut, head of the French delegation, jmBcated that he interpreted the message as giv j ing him full power to sign the treaty unless some unexpected question of real importance ap ' pears in the negotiations. -iT Under the scrapping provisions, as finally agreed to, the, United States and Japan are understood to to authorized to change into air plane carriers some of the battle-' * ships now under. construction but which, under the original plan, would nave gone to the scrap heap, while France and Italy are to be-j permitted to, convert into training | V ships t.;e dreadnaughts of their j * feet which by the agreement are j to become obsolete in 1931. This decsion Vas formally re corded at a meeting of the ."Big ?Five** today, devoted mostly to ? recxamination of the treaty draft for technical legal revisions. The meeting of the Japanese and Chinese, resulting in an agreement for opening up Kiaochow to trade was regarded in some quarters as one of the most important;of the 1 sessions that have been in progress] on the Shantung, problem. The policy of an "open door" is to be applied in trade development of the territory, the two delegations-agree ing that all nations should have * equal economic privileges. In addi tion. China is to undertake to pro tect the vested foreign interests that may be installed there. Kiao chow is to be a free port. The decision to give the Shan iwrtg problem the right of way as 'details of the naval agreement! etear up was interpreted generally i as another evidence of the funda- I mental importance attached by i ,conference leaders to the question, of the long contested former Cor- j man leasehold. In American quarters p?rticu-; lariy there is apparent a bebet that j a final settlement of the Shantung j situation is almost indispensable to ( the program of readjustment un dertaken in the Far East by the conference. f In many ways Shantung is linked closely with other Chinese ques tions, and it is predicted that when * rt has been wiped off the slate oi troublesome Far Eastern problems i it will be found much easier to get j on with the issues remaining. -? Washington. Jan. 14.?President * Harding has removed from the I civil service requirmeents the office j of the deputy commissioner of in- - teirnal revenue, and it is under-; 'stood that this will J>e the first step! in the general reorganization in} the internal revenue bureau planned ? by the administration to obtain! greater efficiency by the appoint ment of experts. iblishcd April, 1850. .881. THE PEOPLE ARE SEEING THOUGHT Republicans Are Not Making Good on Campaign Prom ises and 'Are Plac ing Politics By Wallace Bassford. (Special News Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 14.?The saving is very steadily toward the Democrats, with increasing mo mentum. A survey of the news paper field shows the Democratic i r .ess aggressive and full of intel I ligent criticism of the shortcom ings of the administration, while the independent papers in large numbers are in similar attitude The old conservative Republican organs, mostly owned by the big rich. are?on the defensive. Speak ing of these organs, it is interesting to noie that the DuPonts have boughi, up all the papers in Dela ; ware of any size excepting two; (?they can not get those for the very ! good reason that a staunch and j able ' Democrat owns them?no : other than Willard Saulsbury. who ! will probably return to the Senate as the result of the election next i November. AH of the Hearst papers?about a dozen big ones? f are attacking the administration livery day. The extensive string of I Scripps-McRae papers ? penny j dailies?are frankly criticising the Republicans. - The New York Telegraph. 3 Re publican . paper, refers to the fact that .President Wilson predicted a Democratic victory next Novem ber, and adds: "President Wilson J.s a great man. but it doesn't re quire a great man to discover the I present drift of public sentirvmt.'* The Republicans are trying to work their courage up to the point I of enacting a sales tax. Such a tax has some advantages; among them I are these: You can't dodge it. Y?/? ! pay it every time you reach yeyr hand" into your pocket, no mairter ! what you buy. You don't have to bother about i savings account, for^ j this tax will not allow you to save anything except old trousers and iyour integrity to heaven. It v?l i be easy to collect, because it wni jcome Off of tnose who have >he I hast ,infi-:?.-i>*3 2t Washington ?'? the plain ?cople. Better than all j it forces th j soldier to pay his own I bonus; he should be happy { for he I not only ?ets the bonus but has the j privilege.of naying it himself. The I only drawback is the name, but tire j Republicans will doubtless [name for it that will make it I^jK [like a eh-ck from L*a<i Uidn*-. j $?ej e-er make robbery sound good by calling it "Protection'.' * Speaking of protection, the tariff [bill is to reserve the."Home Mar l.ket" for Americans. The sponsors' jof the high tariff frankly sav that ithey want to keep out all European j manufacturers. Of course thy first effect is to cut off that com pet i ! tion and cut off the taxes that i would flow into the Treasury from jthe importations; the second ef j-fect is to allow American manu facturers to raise-them prices on l all consumers. Then when Europe ! can't ship manufactures here, what happens? They are shipped elsewhere, to Canada, the Argen tine. India. South Africa. China. \ .*nd so on. Ship routes are divert led to countries where goods can be sold. Of course, those ships must l?arry cargoes both ways cr lose money . They will carry back to i Europe the wheat of Canada,^ the wheat, beef and mutton of the Ar gentine, the lumber of Brazil, the V'heat! a.nd oil of Russia, the farm products of our own. Speaking of I Russian oil. there ?s the greatest t field in the world/The surface oil (was burning there when Alexander I the Great paused*to watch it while U>n his road to India, before the birth of . .e Christ. But going back ! :o wheat. Argentina lias 750*004 bushels left of the old crop 'and a j new on-* hi the making, soon ready for sale. The American farmer j will be left with a surplus for which he has no market. That petals his ability to buy and makes an end of the Home .Market dream. And here is the completion of the > icious circ le in the failure of the treat manufacturing concerns and a collapse such as has follov ed every attempt on the part of the r2Republicans to create an artificial prosperity for the fellows who fi nanced th< ir campaign. Their [great trouble is thai they can't [abrogate the natural law of cause and cffcC Probably the chief reason why the Republicans won in 1920 was that the people thought the League of Nations a ; an "entangling alli ance"" in the synse George Wash - ingtoti had in mind. The Harding admin ist ra: on came in on false pretenses: if the people had thought that Harding, within ten months after taking power, would have aJJ xik ?ed up a treaty of alli ance "ith England. Prance and Japan-- :-, trcnty that obligates us to ! ? v. on the side -f the Japs in case t?<v I.e. etue involved m a wir-with Germany or Russia ? t:.? p i'rid'ng would be a! this moment conducting his little news !?:?!>. i- i i'i in M' rion, free from the cares <?:' gt.lf and croquet. The four power treaty doesn't :uit Senator Ia>rah a little hit: he is too good an American for that. "Be Just and Fear CONFERENCE I AWAITING JAP j PLEASURE i_ [Delegates Are Mark ! ing Time With ! ' Study of Far East s ern Question* fWashington. Jan. IC.?The arms conference is studying the Far Eastern and Pacific questions while awaiting Tokio instructions to the Japanese delegation regarding the naval limitation treaty. Unemployed Miners Seek Government Aid Committee* Calling on Presi ' dent Sav Situation is Acute i " ?? f Washington. Jan. *1 C.?Dorothy ! ?nd JIallie Underwood, aged ten j and twelve years are members of ! the committee calling on Presi | dent Harding to seek government j aid for West Virginia unemployed miners. The mother said the evic tion order will be issued Wednes day and no other house was a vail - i able. The sons were blacklisted j by the companies and *her six chil ; dren now face starvation. i ? im m Hoover Resumes Conferences Effort Being Made to Elimi-' nate Labor Disagreements I Washington. Jan. 1G.?Confer i ehces between railroad executives : and the unions have been resumed ! under Secretary Hoover to elimi | nate disagreements. [ But is the Senator entitled to much ; of sympathy in his disgruntle Jment? The partisanship in him caused him to try to steal the in itiative in the matter of disarma i meat from the Democrats. When j he introduced the resolution pro i viding for the calling of the con : ference he was aware that it had already been fully and completely provided for by the Hensley Reso lution, "the work' of a Missouri Democrat who ought to be back in Congress,- which Champ Clark helped to make a part of the Naval Appropriation Act of 1916. That legislation even appropriated $200, 000 for the expense of the con ference and it was lying in the ? treasury, unusued when Borah in troduced his resolution. Now thht 1 the conference has hashed togeth jer a treaty hateful to the Senator, j i;. must give him pain to see his own feather on the arrow that has Kpicrced him. Old Mr. Retribution j is still handing back to us the same kind of stuff we hand out. Congressan Begg of Ohio. Re j publican, said on page 1257 of the j Congressional Record (Jan. 11) j "I say to you men. seriously, ? the ? Republican party- is pledged to a platform ?>? economy, to cut down j expenses. Everybody the world over is cutting down expenses cx l? ept this Congress, and we bring in ! bill after bill to raise salaries when the farmers are compelled to xut down or fe'o into the bankruptcy court.'" Honest truthful Mr. Bejersf* Will someone kindly page Dio i genes'; ? ! Massachusetts is still talking in j hushed voices of the Governor's ; banquet and the terrible sp'i)] j which occurred. Just picture the scene: There in the staid old city of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the home of Whittier. Daniel the Codlike. Ga j maliel Bradford; and the Puritan j colony were gathered together the great elders of the Republican par- , j ty. the party of correct living and jthe New England conscience. No wicked wine gave its color in the I cup nor strong drink which rageth I?leastwise, not on the banquet [?able. Nor did champagne sparkle ;in the glass-ei. that is, at least, not I exactly or the table. Of course j i not?hadn't the country gone dry j |and aren't all the blue-ribboners in the State endowed with the !\ote? Of course not?at least, not I right there in the public gaze. But j just across the corridor and a few jsteps down to the left, or was ?t i just t<> the right"/ Anv way. it was there?hootch, booze, quanti fies <?f it. The popping of corks' almost drowned the oratory across khe hall. ;ind tin- banqueters, by twos and threes and singly, came ? s?nd went, and waxed happier and [more care-free. Hut. hark* what is that discordant and blatant I sound that smacks of the rude and j j plebian. breaking in on the joy j 'of this latter-day Bclshazzar's : feast? Has a hand come out upon i :ih?- wall and writ as if on sand - I jthe fingers of a hand, a solitary j I hand? And is some Daniel come j to read to tin- trembling creatures ithose letters-of fire? Is tin- Mode at tin- gate and the Persian on the j throne of dear old Doston? No. the new mayor is an Irishman 'named Jim Curiey, peace to his [ashes when he has any. No. it is [ worse than the Mode and the Per sian ail put together: it's the dry enforcement gang of rough-necks, land all the blessed while the Chief i Enforcement officer sits pale [cheeked on tin- right of Governon Cox! But how could such an ncci dem occur? it took the IJos [tonese, shocked beyond expression. Not?Let all the cuds Thou Aims't a Sumter, S. C.? Wednesd; - 1.JL_.-. Takes Own Life j at Fountain Inm [C. Brooks Huff of Sumter1 Fires Bullet into Temple at *| Wife's Parents' Place Greenville. Jan. 13..?C. Broods s Huff of Sumter shot and almost in [stantly killed himself this morning: about s o'clock at the home of Mr; I and Mrs. J. H. Taylor, his wife's j parents, at Fountain Inn. this coun-; ty. Mr. Huff used a calibre pis-] tol. The bullet entered his right: temple and passed entirely through . his head. Mr. Huff was for a long time'.' book-keeper for the Fountain Inn j Oil company.' He married Missj Lidia%Taylor of that place, then j moved to Sumter. where he was.; cashier of the Sumter Bank and J Trust Company. He was alos eon- ; neeted with an automobile business I there: it,, is understood here. Mr. and Mrs. Huff were at Foun-I tain Inn lor a visit to the hitter's! parents for a few days. This morn- j ing while Mr. Huff ?was washing, his face fur breakfast, his wife j answered a ring at the door. While j she waVi gone she heard a pistol j shot and upon returning found her' husband lying on the bed dead. Find Dead Body j of Man in Box I Search by Greenville Officers j Brought to Close Greenville. Van. \o.?Concealed j in a nice box In his pressing club on the Parker rotfd. near Mona j ghan Mill, the dead body of Oscar Hagood. 35-year-old negro, was found early this morning by Dcpu ty'Sheriff J. L. Gharl. The dlscov-'j ery brought to an end a search ' extending over twenty-eight hours ! foi the man. Five negroes, one 1 a woman, have been placed under ; arrest pending results of the cor- j oner's investigation. A long gash in the back of the j negro's head told the story of mur-'; der. Officers believe that the! murder occurred probably Wed- j nesday night, as the negro had been ; missed by his friends since that ! time. The live negroes held are I thought to have been in the press- j ing club on that night. They all j stoutly deny any knowledge of thoj affair. ? . ? Prospect of Shan tung Agreement Washington, Jan. 14.?The ox-, change of views between the Chi- | nese and Japanese arms delegates j ?nd iheir governments is believed to have strengthened the chances, for an early settlement of the: Shantung question. The indications . today were that the good offices of Secretary Hughes and Mr. Bal- j four were having effect. - Canners Improve Canning Process Louisville, Jan. IG.?Members of ; the National Canners' Association j in convention here declared that j they had succeeded in eradicating j botulinus. especially from canned j ripe olives, and often food poison ing is caused by improper diet and I careless handling by consumers. -?~*^? DETROIT PRISONERS BREAK JAIL; Detroit. Jan. IG.?Four prison- ; ??rs escaped today from the house I of detention by tearing away the; bars and dodging a fusillade of bul- ! lets. a full week to learn all about how ; it happened. It turned, out that j the chief enforcement officer had i a lieutenant who had a grudge; -:: and this man selected well his I hour for revenge of his chief, and. i incidentally, on the whole Pa-pub- | lican outfit of the State. The ban- j queters were not pinched, but .a truck-load ol hootch was confis- [ cated; and then* are those who do! say that it may have been hootch ! that had ho<-n confiscated once he- j fore from sundry other persons. ' mere bootleggers and such. Past master General Hays, who , always buys a child's size hat. is; arranging to take the finger prints' of all depositors at postal savings, banks. He has already begun-us-( ing the system with postal em ployes. Up to this time the sys tem has only been in use to identi fy crooks and is used at all our' best penientiaries. Bill should write ! a brochure on Innovations Calcu- j iated to Popularize Administration.! It's easy to be a great organizer j when you have all the campaign! fund and all lie landslide on your: side, but when it comes t<> holding ' a job requiring some horse sense., it's another thing altogether. Speaking of finger prints. it wouldn't be a bad idea t?. hold con ventions every few years t<> see how far we have become removed from being a free people. The Postmaster General is try-! ing t<> get Congress to assume the. responsibility for stopping free de- ; livery at third class offices, for cutting off special delivery service, ;n connection with parcel post j packages, and for establishing a j surety bond division in the l>e-: partment. This last is to compete with the bonding companies. And ! vet the president pledged himself to divorce the government from business. t be tliy Country's. Thy God's and ay, January 18, 1922_ THE SHANTUNG DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED Concensus ot Opinion in All Quarters is That China and Ja pan Can Reach Amicable Agree ment ._, i Washington. Jan. IT,.?By the Associated Press).?It the Shan tung conversations make the pro gress hoped for by conference lead ers during the next two or three days, the end of the coming week may see all of the issues raised in the Washington negotiations well on the way towards solution. Confidence that the Shantung problem is ncaring a sett lenient was apparent in most^ouartcrs tonight the delegates feeling that with the otiter Far Eastern questions in abeyance the separate exchanges between the Chinese and Japanese over the former German leasehold would be pressed forward rapidly. Neither of the two groups direct' interested was prepared to sa> that an agreement was in sight but tin " evidenced a hope that fresh in structions from Tokyo aud Peking, expected hourly, might help mater ially-to clear up the situation. As soon as Shantung is out of the way and perhaps sooner, the conference Far Eastern committee will resume its considerations of other prob lems. On most of the remaining issues the delegates have informed themselves thoroughly regarding thetviews of ether groups and the prospect for un agreement. The naval negotiations .seems also to be as good as completed, the treaty text" agreed to by the "big live" b? ing regarded as virtually certain to meet with approval, suc cesiivolv. of the full naval commit *. . . tec and of the conference itself, sitting in plenary session. Both of these meetings probably will be held during the coming week, leaders' planning to set the confer ence machinery, in motion for final approval of the treaty as soon as Tokyo sends formal approval of the article dealing with Pacific for tifications. . .: -Settlement-*of the ShauUmg ques tion still rests Largely,in the hands ?of Arthur J. Balfour and Secre tary Hughes, ni the opinion of Chinese spokesmen. * Both the Chinese, and Japanese delegations tonight were waiting for instructions from their govern ments as to the attitude they must take-on the Hughes-Balfour com promise suggestions designed to af ford a basis for agreement on both of the phases of the problem which up to n[ow have Fcemcd' insoluble. These phases touch upon the meth od of payment for the Tsingato Tsinganfu railroad and the nation ality of the men who will hold the positions of traffic manager and chief accountant for the railroad after its transfer. Whether the Japanese and Chi nese delegates can get together this week was said to be dependent on the nature of tin* instruction to their respective delegations from the Peking and Tokyo governments. While the Chinese delegation has been in almost daily communica tion with Peking during the last few days, cables from the Chinese government have been in the 71a ture of inquiries concerning pos sible obscure features of the pro posals. Tin- Chinese government, how-; ever, it is understood, has notified j its delegation of the difficulty of compromising on either question. ] The Balfour-Hughes compromise I ?uggestions are said to he based i ?on various combinations of these questions in a form that might per- ' mit either the Japanese and Chi-1 nese to give in on one and retain j the other, or might enable China! by sacrificing the chief accountancy position, to obtain a concession fort payment in cash or installments | fur the road, at the same time as suring Chinese control over the road through ;i Chinese traffic man ager. At the Chinese delegation head quart* rs there was said to be ?'hope j without optimism." that the Shan-I tung question will be settled through tin- Japanese giving in on j the railway phase of the dispute. j In no other way, the Chinese; say. can a settlement satisfactory to! the Chinese he reached. There is' no inclination, it uns said by the Chinese, to acccpl a compromise! concerning the question of ;i loan and China could not agree to any j settlement which would not assure' China undivided physical cent tad of the railway. The Chinese dele gation, it was asserted, would -'stand pat*' < the question of. management and would insist on ;j Chinese trallic chief and account ant! Tin- Chinese declare tin y IK,r in the position to recede on the' question of the principle involved ? tad that there is nohting for them to do but w in the hope I hat M r Balfour and Secretary Hughe,; will he able to affect a settlement through the Japanese. Both Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour, one Chi nese official said tonight, under stand the difficulties the Chinese i facc in the existing situation at home, with the Chinese people on the verge of domestic turmoil over the Shantung delay. In the meantime, the Chinese and Japanese delegations expect to i Truth's." CAROLINA BANKS STOOD THE TEST i _ 'State Bank Examiner Craig Reviews the Financial Situation in This State ; Columbia. Jan. 15.? The- man ; mr in which the banks of the ?Slate have withstood the strain of : deflation and failing: crops has ! been nothing short of marvelous, [said James H. Craig. State Bank Examiner today in discussing the financial situation in South Caro Ina. Very few of the banks have : (dosed ther doors permanently, he [said commenting on the close co j operation of the people with their ? fiduciary institutions, many of i^io depositors agreeing to leave their ? money in banks for twelve months to insure their solvency. "Such embarassments as our j banks have experienced,'' he said. I' have been mainly due to inability ! to realize upon loans. While gen J erally speaking; these loans. I be ; lieve will be- collectible, many of j them are necessarily slow. Given [time, however, there is no reason j to be pessimistic of the outcome. Our people are inherently honest ?and they will meet changing agrl ; cultural condition's with new ze?l and determination and reestablish ? the financial status of our State as . comparatively first in agricultural ' production." Continuing, Mr. Craig said: ; ' That we .have passed through most of the depressing conditions j with our bunking institutions still ; praeteally intact, gives us strength [to begin'tin- struggle of the new ,jear. We m ed not shut our eyes .to the fact that the present year will be fraught with serious difli 1 culties. which will require all the ' skill and energy of our best finan I ciers to meet and overcome. Crop j diversification has at last been j.forced upon our agriculturalists, ?which will require the usual ex ! perimental periods of growing and i marketing untried crops, but in the ; end we will produce other paying [ crops than cotton and we will also j continue to produce cotton. This has been anticipated, and already j steps are being taken to bridge the [ necessary i>eriod or agricultural re j adjustment. The most potent fac ?'tor to this, end is the War Finance : Corporation. which operating ? through our banks is extending ; needed creidts. In this ?connection, : it should be added that cor i responding banks, within and with [out our States have been most lib ! eral in extending needed credits.. "In view of these facts, we look confidently to the future, with suc cesses of the past as an earnest of I what we can do by stint of un i flinching determination and a pub i lice spirit of cooperation. I "It should be added that banks I are just as strong as the confi jdeuce of their patrons make them, j Our problems arc not merely ; problems of the financiers, but are j as well., problems of the. people. jThe man who withholds his de j posits from the banks is working to his own detriment, as well as [the detriment of Iiis state. Con j fidence is the keynote of business, ?it is the substructure of banking, land banking is the soul of business. ! Destroy confidence and you de stroy banking and hence destroy ? business. The miser who hides I away his savings in a niche in the wall, not only robs business, but j-actually rob himself as he is with drawing from business that pro duction, which contributes to the 'prosperity of the whole. -9 *? ^ Mayor Starts Muni cipal Bread Shops Fight on Profiteers Being Made in Tiffin, Ohio Tiffin, Ohio. Jan. id:?For the purpose of tight ing food profiteers Mayor L'nger will establish three bread stores at fire stations, retail ing a pound loaf at six cents. De will use the profits for further in vest igations. ?> ? ? TV c Dead Men Washed \ shore Ltfloxi. Miss.. Jan. IG.?-Two men's bodies have been washed ashore here with their necks broken. The police claim the men were kliled in a fight aboard a liquor smug gling schooner anchored off the coast. Ten men were arrested. The schooner has disappeared. -?? ? ? French Cabinet Crisis Not Over Paris. Jan. IG.?The new cabinet under M. Pbincare has assumed power. Senator Dcsbancl. a form er president, has announced de mand for an Interpellation on the uo\? rniiM-nt's foreign policy. continue tomorrow their efforts to clean the slat*- of the colateral| questions involved in a complete settlement. The coal mines ad jacent to the railroad and more or less tied up with thai question and the ore fields are the first on the; program for tomorrow's meeting, and then the only remaining ques tions will be those relating to cer tain cables and the salt fields. Tin; TRUE sot" CONGRESS TO ACT ON FORDJ BILL War Department Will Not Make Decision I But Will Refer Pro position With Com ments of Secretary to Legislative Body j Washington, Jan. 13.?Henry '-.'Forte* offer for purchase and lease j of the government's nitrate and [ water power projects at Muscle j Shoals. Ala., will be referred to j congress for final decision, it was I announced today at the conclu ' sion of conferences between gov | ernment officials and Mr. Ford. Accompanying the 'Ford proposal j when it is transmitted, Secretary j Weeks said, probably would be the ; two offers received from Frederick Engst rum of Wilmington. N. C, .and C. ('. Tinkler of San Francis co. The decision to forward the ; three offers to the legislative j branch of the government, it was j stated, was reached after consid oration of the question by execu : tive officials lasting over a period I of more than six months. Under ;the laws regulating disposition of real estate and other properties 'owned Ty the federal government, i it was .said, the department officers : lacked authority to take final ?c j tion ann were compelled to refer i the Muscle Shoals offers to con gress for its consideration. ? Actual transmission of the pro I posaJs was not expected to take j plact fer at least two weeks. It j was explained that the Ford pro j posal first would be drafted in \ contract form by law officers of ? the war department and submitted j to Mr. Ford for his signature be fore it was submitted to congress. While (!??? legi; departments are ; working <??; the contract form, it I was stated. Secretary Weeks would ; prepare a report for congress con i tabling what "comments" he be ! lieyed its members should have j for their information. ! Explaining the action taken by j the conference, Secretary Weeks ! said he was disappointed in that 'Mr. Ford declined to agree to ccr j tain modifications of his plans 1 which were held desirable by his 1 conferees. One of these was .?known to be that affecting the re duction of the 100 year lease pe ! riod. The principal modification I agreed to by Mr. Ford was that j guaranteeing payment annually of j 4 per cent, interest on the 'cost of I maintenance of dams Xos. 2 and i 3. regardless of the cost, whereas at first he offered interest only on ? 2 8.000.000. Secretary Weeks' statement, ex plaining this agreement, follows: "Mr. Hoover and 1 have, had a long consultation with Mr. Ford I about his offer for Muscle Shoals ! .and have brought up for consider ation various phases of it. The only I modification which Mr. Ford is i willing to make is based on our ! request that there should be a [guarantee of the limitation of cost of building darns Xos. 2 and Z and I in that matter he has offered to i pay 4 per cent, interest on the cost !of the dams from the time of their 1 completion'to the expiration of the I contract. Tha?. of course, means the amount of money which has I not been returned to the govern - j ment through the amortization I plan made in the original pro ! posal. "The offer of Mr. Ford is going ! to be put in the form of a contract f and sent to congress." It was explained that Mr. I Ford's refusal to accept the mod- ; : ification proposed for reduction of! 'the 100 year term probably would' i givec ongress an added task in con- i j nection with it.-) consideration of the offer. Existing laws regulating ? lease of property possessed by tin federal government, it was ex plained, limit the period of maxi? ? mum lease to less than a century 'and congress probably would have ; to modify the statutes in the evem : lit de<ided to accept the Ford or- ! posal. Mr. F?-rd. however, was said t< ? have expressed an unwillingness t- . 'agree to a rhortor time on t' j j ground t'iai the fituihcial inv fment he would make would i - j t volve a grcat-cr amount of mo y ; than he was prepared to spend in- ! der any tt- .e riod less tha> I ??? j j ca rs. ! Severn 1 members of bot io , bouse and senate made no ??' rtj Itonight when informed that cj I contract would . submitted o j [ them to disguise their, fears at i both houses of congress would oe ] (divided on the question when it ! reached the stage of consideration en the rio< -. While the contract will be urg< 1 for acceptance by i many members from the South whose const it utencies are known to favor the Ford proposal, it was ! anticipated that no small numlw ? >*otn other sections of the country would oppose its adoption. Armenians Flee ing From Turks Geneva:. .Tan. 14. ? Paul Hymans. president of the council of the b-ague of nations, presented tele grams from Constantinople saying the entire Armenian population had decided to evacuate the coun try and asking for ships to trans port a hundred and twenty thou sand persons. rilHOX. Established June 1, I860. VOL. LIL NO. 45 FOOTBALL BANQUET IN. COLUMBIA University Alurnni ? Entertains Mem bers of Legislature at Jefferson Hotel Banquet With Foot ball Squad as Guests of Honor Columbia. Jan. 13.?Rev. Hen ry D. Phillips, D. D.. president of the Southern IntercolIegj?tte Ath letic Association, known a<= the S. I. A. A., an organization of South ern Colleges in the interest of ath letics, was the chief speaker at what whs possibly the most elabor ate banquet ever held in Colum bia, held at the Jefferson Hotel last night, and attended by several hundred persons, with the members of the general assembly and of the 1921 football team of the Univer sity, as guests of honor. The ban quet was given by the alumni of the University, and took the place of the annual Founders' Day banquc. Dr. Phillips, the main speaker, is now pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church, this city. He spoke in a forceful way of the educational out look of the south and expressed his pleasure at being a South Carolin ian now. This was his first iiitro ; duction .o the people of the state, outside of his pulpit. I The banquet was attended also by a. large nnmber of University l alumni of Columbia and other parts j of the state. - Governor Cooper and I Lieut. Governor Harvey were among the speaker;'. Several oth er short talks were made, mostly in the interest of the University. To each member of the football team was presented a gold foot ball, a token of esteem for his ser vices during the past season in aid ing Carolina to make such a name for herself on the gridiron. Or-* chestra. music added life to the.oc casion, which was staged by the* [ University alumni in Columbia as a I welcome to Columbia for the legis | lators and also an expression of in terest in the University. Columbia, Jan. 13.?Kepresen- . tat;.ve Evans, of Marlboro, has in troduced in the house a bill to amend the constitution so as to permit pleas of "guilty" in all cases except capital felonies, and to em I power circuit judges to impose sen ken ces in such cases at chambers, dispensing with the necessity of grand jury presentment and indict - I ment. The general assembly h is adopt ed a resolution discha ,girg the special committee on economy and consolidation, which has rej>orted its findings from the inv .stigatioa made during HCl. There is a resolution on the cal endars of the two branches of the legislature endorsing the Smith amendment to the federi I reserve a<q of congress to author] :e pres ident to appoint a farmer on ths. federal reserve board the next time there is a vacancy. Representative Owens has intro duced a resolution in the house to cut the pay of J. "Wilson Gibbes, clerk, from $2,400 to $750, and; the pay of his assistant clerk, J. E. Hunter, from ?750 to $500. <? ? Pres. Griffith Takes Up His Burden . # Dublin. Jan. 13 (By the Associ ated Press).?Interest in the ^po litical situation tonight centers In the meeting which will be held, to morrow ;.?y the southern parlia ment f<>r i lie ratification of th * peace trea-y with Great Britain. Invitations i?i the session were i> sued today sighed by Arthur Griffith. They were directed t v all deputies elected for the -C southern counties. including Kamen De Valera and his ndher nts. Tt is not cxpe< ted. however, that Mr. De Valera or air. of his followers will attend.. The meeting wiil be le id in the oak room of Mansion House and unless some members opposed to the treaty decide at the kesi minute to attend, it pr.-mis* to be a some what perfunctorjc ceremony. A chairman will be elected, the treaty formally ratified and a pro visional government established. Mr. Griffith and tue members of tin- new cabinet, according.to pres ent plan, wiil comprise the pro visional government. With the establishing of the govern mentis the decks will be cleared for che complicated and laborious task of transferring au thority from the British to the Irish government. All the members < f the cabinet convened at Man sion House today discussed not. only tin- future duties and the re sponsibilities of the provisional government, but the immediate necessity for dealing with the threatened strike of the railway ?ten. Wash inert on. Jan. 13.?A de- ? crease of nearly one billion dollars iu the favorable trade balance of the United Slates during 1921 i" in dicated in the foreign trade sta tistics for December, issued by the commerce department. The re port attributed much of the reduc tion to the material decline of prices of commodities which made up the bulk of the country's foreign trade.