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THE ST7MTER WATCHMAX, Est a CONSOLIDATED AU<5. 2,1 COLLEGE ! Ill REPORT President Riggs Says the Session of 1920 . 21 Was the Best ini Ten Years Clemson College Jan. 17?"Inj all but its financial aspects, the ses- , ston of 1920-21 stands out as one of j . the best, if not the best, during the j ten years I have been in the pres- j ident's office." says Dr. W. M. Riggs, j president of Clemson College, in bis . annual report just made public. "Ij have never seen better conduct or ] better spirit ,on the part of the; corps of cadets than we have , had | this entire session. The same state- ! ment might he. made with equal j emphasis with regard to the fac ulty. Everybody and everything seems to have worked in harmony for the best interest of the -col lege." "Following is. a summary of the! chief features of the year's work: | The enrollment reached 847, the. Third largest figure ir/the -history , of the college.- This total included j 102 vocational students not in col- j Jege classes. A striking feature was j the persistence, of attendance, thej losses during the session bein& only one-half of the past eleven-year av erage. The summer school attend ance of 234 was also the largest 2n. the'history of the college. The ckiss work was very much j above the average as shown by the! following percentages, of students. ] who at the end of the season were j not promoted to the . next higher class: Freshmen. 5.5 per cent* Sophomores, .5 per cent; Juniors, 2.2 percent. The 1921 graduates numbered 124. rn respect to loyalty, earnest ness, and other good qualities, J* was onfe of the best classes in ! the history of the college. Under its wise and good president, Cadet-. Captain G. .G. Gilmer, this class nad a full share in all of the good i things which were brought about during the session of 1920-2\. The 1921 Summer School reach ed an attendance of 301 students. thi3 being also the largest in our history. * The Discipline ..Record of. the corps was as goo<T'as"w:\S'!W class record. During the entire session, only two students were dismissed and three suspended. For the session the average num ber of men per . term * to receive no demerits was approximately 32.1 percent of the totaUcorps, and the uumber who received 20 demerits j tor. less, thereby earning eligibility for the honor roll, 64.2 if percent: Eleven only exceeded the term and sessional limits of demerits and were required" to withdraw. * During the session the discipline committee handled only ten cases. Six were found gulity and* four wer" acquitted. Of the six found guilty, two were dismissed, three were suspended, and one was giy- ] en a local punishment. During the! third term the discipline committee did not try a single case. Under these excellent conditions it is not surprising that the col-} lege had \he honor of being "one of the four colleges in " the Fourth Corps Area rated by the war de-i partment as * "distinguished col lege." The bther1 three were the Citadel, Georgia Tech, and,Au-| burn. . " - ? The "Student Activity Fee," giv- . ing i>articipatJon to? all students in I athletics, the i\ M. C. A. and oth- j er student activities, has had the i marked effect of democratizing this j important side of college life in 1 stimulating college spirit, and add- ! ing to the zest and pleasure of college life. The health of the student body has been exceptionally good. For the first session in many years we have escaped any kind of epidemic, although there have been cases of mumps, measles, and influenza on the campus and in barracks. Al though we have.had three or four serious cases of illness, fhere have i neen no deaths among the stu dents at college. I regret to report, however, that Cadet J. R. Inman. one of the brightest students of the freshmen class, and ->ni' of the finest young men in college, went home sick at the end of the. ses-1 sion and died at his home In ! Charleston on Jane 18. Among the material additions to! the college plant in the year cover ed by this report might be named ' the three hundred acres added to j the Coast Experiment Station for' beef cattle experiments on coastal | plain grass la/.ds. ihr final com- j pletijn of the small calf and hog"; barns; completion of the Jifty-fo.>t j addition to the cast wing of tin** engineering building; the enlarge ment of the postoffioe; the new tilt- j tloor in the messhall, and the new j improved kitchen, rebuilt alter its paitial destruction by fire in .Jan uary. I In the matter of organization, thej creation of the new department of j student affairs, with Prof. I>. H. j Henry in charge, filled well a long- ' felt want. We had the good for tune to select in ('apt. J. D. Ilar eombe. ? splendid mess officer. The legislature at its session in j February made appropriations for Clemson*s Public Servfee of SL'-i:.- j 147.1"?, this representing the full! amount that was asked for tick ( eradication, agricultural research, i livestock sanitary work. etc. None j of this appropriation is availal.de J of course for any college purpose. I iWished April, 1850. 881. RECOMMENDS RETENTION OF CAMPS Gen. Pershing Favors Using Camp Jack son Among Others as Training Centers For National Guard Washington. Jan. 18.?General' Porshins: has recommended to the house committee the retention of nine of ihe main training: centers, cno in each corps area including: MoCleallan. Alabama, and the re tention of supplementary camps tor the training of national guards. Lee. Virginia, antl Jackson, South Carolina. The war department plans to consolidate at Garirfp rtragg. North Carolina, all field artillery schools east of the Missi ssippi river. Two Criminals in Death House Columbia, Jan. IS.?Two electro cutions are scheduled to take place February 3. and one of the crimi nals, Curtis Franklin, of Aiken, was lodged in the prison Tuesday afternoon, to spend his remaining seventeen days in the death house. Franklin, is to pay the penalty for avcriminal attack on a young wo man who liyes near Aiken. The other criminal is Abraham Williams, an aged negro from Or angebtrg county, who was con6 victed of attempted criminal as sault on a young white girl under fifteen years of age. The old man's sentence has twice been postponed by the governor, acting on pe tition of Orangeburg county citi zens. The old negro claims that he ".s merely playing with the girl, who it is said is not of sound mind. The*e is said to be some talk of the governor's postponing this exe cution again. Asks $72,000 For Charleston Yard Denby Wants Authority to Proceed With Work Washington. Jan. 17?Secretary of the Navy Denby today sent a letter to Congress urgently recom mending the introduction and pas sage of a bill authorizing him to proceed with various public works at navy yards and stations among the items being two of $30,000 each at the Charleston yard, one of them ' to continue dredging and the other to provide a magazine for war heads at the naval ammunition depot. The Secretary says that these items have been approved by the president and are included in the budget. Cleveland. Jan. IS?Unemploy ment may be eliminated and busi ness booms and depressions con trolled by the consolidation of man agement in industry, J. Parke Channing, of New York, told the association of general contractors in an address. The $30.000 for agricultural re search included in the above liter ally saved the life of our experi ment station, which was languish ing on the small and inadequate federal appropriation of $30,000 from the Hatch and Adams funds. Among the improvements not visible to the eye were the inaug uration of the new eurriculums. whereby the college courses were greatly extended and enriched: greater co-operation on the part of the cadetVofficers in maintain ing discipline; and a growing sen timent among student leaders that the inauguration of a thorough going formal honor system is the most important thing that the stu dent body can do for Clemson. A record of the achievements of the past 'session would be incom plete without mention of the home coming last summer, and the re organization of the Alumni As sociation, the election of Mr. Folger as its secretary, antl the promise which this movement holds for the good of ^athletics, increased at tendance, and the promotion of all other college movements in which an Alumni Association can properly ass; st .N In (dosing this epitome of last session I regret to report so small amount -.??reived from the fertiliz er tax as $7,503.16?the smallest income from this source in any year, hut one (1014-15). during the past fifteen years. But for a re servt fund saved Tip to meet just such an emergency, and at the ex pense of many needed things, we would not have been able to com plete the year without the use of borrowed n*oney. As it was the college went through 1.020-21 on the basis of an irreducible mini mum of expenditure and had to give up many hoped-for items of equipment find improvement. I:' our resources for operating Clem son as a college only this past ses sion an compared on :i basts of attendance with those <>f any agri cultural and mechanical college in the land, or any statt- college for men in South Carolina, the serious strain through which we have pass ed can he readily appreciated. Let us hope that the good work Clem son is doing may not be so hamp ered again by mere lack of money. '?Be Jnst ami Fear I COLUMBIA i I LEGISLATIVE ! HAPPENINGS I General Assembly Re- j elects Seven Circuit j Judges and Other Officers. Debate Inheritance Tax Bill Special to The Daily item. . Columbia. Jan. IS. ? E. T. Hughes, member of the house of representatives or Marion, and one of the floor leaders of the lower branch of the legislature, .is being urged for congress to enter the race this year against Congressman P. H. Stoll, of Kingstree. Mr. Hughes when asked about the matter today said that he had no statement to make, but that he would give the j matter careful consideration. It j is thought that he will '" be in the I race. The general assembly Wednesday re-elected seven circuit judges and numerous other officers, and for I the ftrsr lime in history elected a ! woman to an office heretofore held by men/* Mrs. VY. L. 1 aniel. of Sa luda. was elected a trustee of Win thro;1. College, of which institu tion she is graduate. The other .trustees elected were: .!. A. Mc rDonald and D. W. MeLaurin. j A contest arose in connection j with the election of a trustee of j Clemson College. Robert M. Coop j er, of Wisacky. was elected as new [trustee in the place of B. H: Rawl, i of Lexington, who resigned recent j ly. I. M. Mauldin. of Columbia, [and J. J. Evans, of Rennettsville, I were re-elected. j The circuit judges re-elected ! were: Judges Ernest Moore, of the First circuit: H. F. vRice, of the Second circuit: John E. Wilson, of .the Third: Edward Mclver, of the j Fourth; Ernest Moore, of the < Sixth; Frank P.: Clary, of the i Eighth; T. J. Mauldin, of the i Thirteenth* } Senator J. K. Marion, of Ches ter., who was last week elected as sociate justice of the supreme court, j to SI! a term expiring this year, j was elected for the term following I the unexpired term. A term is ten j years. .. J. J. McMahan. of Co lumbia, was re-elected state insur ance commissioner. J. C. Rivers, of Columbia, was re-elected warehouse commission | er. I The senate today referred the ?inheritance tax bill, which passed I the house last year and -which is 1 now on third reading on the senate j j to the judiciary-committee of the! j senate to consider various amend ?ments offered and to iron out legal j technicalities in the measure. The ; senate spent more than three ! hours last night and another hour ! this morning in spirited debate, j The discussion took a wide range, j hringing in a general debate' on t the tax situation in general, the j boll weevil, the business depression I and various other angles. The vote j to send the bill to the committee j was unanimous. It will not lose j its regular place on the calendar. ? Representative McDavid of j Creenville opened the debate j against the bill. He took the po i sition that to put the proceeds of j tIV* motor licenses in the hands of j the county supervisor- would be a ? step hackward in highway pro i gress. ; Representative McMillan mad.- a ! warm speech in opposition to the j bill and in defense of the state j highway department he argued that the licensing fof cars by the i counties would increase the cost of j county government ami he opposed any step which would hinder-the j work of tlie state highway depart - j ment. j Representatives Hilliard, oft j Ceorgetown. Representative Wnn namaker of Cnestorfield and Repre sentative F. C Harris, of Spartan burg spoke against the hill ami in defense of the state highway de partment. Representative Brown, of Barn well, said he thought the bill should be thoroughly digested and made the motion to continue debate i to next Tuesday night. De Valera Stirring Up Trouble London Times Has Reports of Unrest in Southern Ireland London. .Ian. IS.?Unrest pre vails in Southern Ireland, accord ing to reports to tin- London Times, intimating thai De Vaiera may be stimulating disturbances. INFATUATED YOUNG WOMAN TO BE DEPORTED! Philadelphia, .Ian. 1S.?Beatrice j Herbert, a young Canadian steno-I i", idn-r. who has been three times tleportert becauso <?!' infatuation for J William Xinsej the tourist agency 1 manager, faces :i fourth deportation { for coming i<; Philadelphia to )>e near Zinser. ? ? ? Moscow, Jan. I* Leon Trotsky, soviet war im n ist er. says the (lenoa i conference will l>e :i failure uuiess the United Sffites enters it with a I hoa*, y hand. 1 le said he hoped i the united States would ? hange h j attitude towards RusFia. ( I \ot?Let all {he ends Thou Aims't a _Sumler. S. C, Saturd CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO KEEP PRICES UP The Big Three Tobac-j ' co Manufacturers Said to Be in League With Jobbers' Asso-j ciations , Washington. Jan. IS.- Three, principal tobacco - manufacturers, < American Toh.acco Company. P. j LoriUard Compan> and Liggett and j Myers are charged with conspiring wiiii jobbers associations to keep! up prices in a report sent to the : Senate by the Federal Trade Cora- J mission. -<v ,? ? CANADA DE- * PORTS NEGROj liamrlton. Ontario, Jan. IS.?A: negro here has been ordered de- ? ported. SOUTHERN^ RAILWAY SELLS BONDS Issue of Thirty Million j Dollars Largely Over Subscribed New York, Jan. 17?J. P. Mor-j gan & Co., tod y opened and im- j mediately closed the subscription j books for thirty million dollar de- j velopment and general mortgage bonds issue of the Southern Rail- j way. bearing six and one-half per j cent interest, the issue being heav- | ilv oversubscribed, ? " ? ? ? Coal Miners Make Demands ? International President Lewis ; Determined That No Re- J duetion in Wages Shall Be Made i Shamokin. Pa.. Jan. 17 (Ry the I Associated Press).?John LVJLewis. j international ^president of the I'nii ed Mine Workers, today told the anthracite miners' wage convention that then- must be no backward steps in their attitude toward the j demand of coal companies to re duce wages. Delivering what the delegates in the convention re- ? garded as a keynote speech for the! organized miners of the country,j Mr. Lewis declared: "When I say that we will take no! backward step. I say if with an ap preciation of what that policy j means, and if it requires an Indus- j trial conflict to avoid taking aj backward step then the industrial conflict must * omc." Mr. Lewis is presiding at the; hard coal miners' convention which ! will formulate wage and other de- 1 mands to be presented to the coal; operators before March ?l when' the present contract expires. Wage! agreements in the soft coal fields j expire at the same time for the; first time in many years. Predic- j lions have been made by hard coal! miners that instead of agreeing to; a wage reduction the anthracite j men will demand increases, among' other things. After the convention adjourned . until tomorrow a representative of: the general committee of anthra cite operators gave out a statement J "that full t ilne operations of the j anthracite mines on the scale so far! maintained will not be possible in ? [the coming year without adjust-; ments which will permit reducing"! the price to the consume!-." "The conclusion is unavoidable." i I the statement said, "that full time i production can not be inaintained unless wages are reduced." After stating that there are. more than 2.0,000 men in the bitu minous mining industry who are' entirely deprive'' ??f the oppor-j j.runity ot employment and that the j great majority of the remaining in dustries are working broken time,] President Lewis said the talk of! reducing the wages of men in the industry who are now enduring the ; privations of poverty and destitu- i lion is idle. "The minus of the business men and statesmen of America." he con tinued, "must devise some other j method of curing the evils in the bituminous mining industry." -? ? Influenza Epidemic Now in Paris Paris'. Jan. IS.- Influenza is ??]?] demic in Paris. There have been sixfy-liv- <!?:iilis t Iiis month. -? ? ? Chicago; .Tan. IS.?Search is i>< - ir.;; made for Rev, William P. Tay lor, who has been missing since j Saturday when he left the dinner' table m his shirt sleeves. I Nashville. Jan/ IS?Thirty mil-j lion one hundred and sixty thou-! sand dollars were raised in the Baptist campaign, the campaign chairman announced. I it be thy Country's. Thy God's and ay, January 21, 1922 VIRGINIA CITIES COMPLETELY TIED UP Only a Few Cars Ope rated in, Richmond and None in Ports mouth-Violence in Norfolk Richmond. Va.. Jam. 17?Trac tion officials said that fourteen cars were operate-; today compared ?\vith six yesterday, as the result of the employees strike over the wage cut. Portsmouth reported that not ac ar had been operated up to noon. At Norfolk the iirst vio lence was reported when a conduc tor was injured by flying glass, when chunks of cement were thrown through the car windows. Cross ties were found on the tracks in the suburbs. It is reported that fewer ears were operated in Nor folk today than yesterday. TOIMWATSON'S INVESTIGATIONS UNCOMPLETED New Witnesses Con tradict Testimony . of Those Heretofore Heard Washington, Jan! 17?Former service men on duty with the Am erican graves registration service in Prance denied before the sen ate that bodies of soldiers legally hanged in France were buried with a biece of rope around their necks and a black cap as charged by a former witness. John R. Flynn, of Cambridge, Mass., testified that he was confident; Benjamin Xing, of Wilmington, N. C. was killed in battle and not lynched, as charged, as frbey were comrades in France. Poiacare Sends Friendly Messages French Premier Communi cates With Premier Lloyd George and Secretary Hughes London, Jan. 17 ( P.y the Associ ated Press i.?Raymond Poincare, i the new French premier, has sent a message to Premier Lloyd George expressing the desire in behalf of the French government to repeat assurances already given privately tnat France is eager to resume "cordial examination of the vari ous questions at issue between the two countries." He is convinced that the two people, "who have been so closely allied on the. field of battle should he able, with com mon interest to maintain peace in Europe and to assure execution cd' the treaties signed and the repara tions damages caused by the inva sion." The message, together with the reply of Mr. Lloyd George, was given out by the foreign office to day. ?*My colleagues and I received with great satisfaction your cordial reaifirmation in behalt! of the new French government of the/ assur ances we exchanged last Friday," says the prime minister, f Describing it as superfluous to repeat the British government view s.i recently published. Mr. Lloyd | George concludes: "We desire only j as we are too glad'to note you also desire, so to settle the outstanding] problems that nothing may impair the completeness of the entente between your people and ours, and thus carry the comradeship of tin* war into the higher task of bring ing tlie Furopean peoples together in a just ami abiding pact of peace." Paris, .Ian. 17 (P.y the Associated] Press) ?An official invitation to Fiance to attend the coming Oenoa I conference was received today from Premier Ronomi of Italy, ! who was charged by the supreme I council with the task of issuing the invitations. For the moment the! invitation has been placed on the table in awnii the first appearance of the cabinet of XI. Poincare he fore the chanvber of deputies. Men in political life close to tin new government say that France will not reply until the I'nited State ? government h:is informed Signer Ronomi whether the I'nited States will be represent at ed and i he French w ill he guided l?y t he action of America. One thing h:is been settled thnt Premier I'oinoare will not personally he present as a delegate. M Vi via nl alrerttly has Keen i?r??m in< til ly mentioned as a delegate in the event that France accepts rhe invitation. Paris, .tan. I .". Premier ivdn ?:?!<? today set;! ;i <ald<- niessage to Secretary Hughes expressing hisj "sincere desire to cooperate in the work of peace l>oin? carried on by the Washington conference." The tc\t of the message was not made public. Truth's.' WASHINGTON ; CONFERENCE KILLING TIME ______ ! Preliminary "Agree | ment in Principle" Seems to Have Had No Substantial Meaning j Washington. .Inn. 17 (By the As [ sociated Press).?An American j proposal to redefine the open i door policy in China and create an I international hoard to* examine j both existing and future conces sions which appear to conflict with ir was'debated without decision to ? day by the Far Eastern committee [of the Washington conference. The British ami .Italians accepted '.the plan in principle, but the ;French withheld assent to some of [its provisions and the Japanese re served judgment pending com munication with Tokyo. The sub ijeet will be taken up again to Imorrow, with.all signs pointing to ja long and interesting discussion. In brief, the American resolu tion would bind the United States, itJreat Britain. Japan. France, Italy. ! Belgium, Portugal and the Neth erlands nor to^eek special spheres 'of influence ;n China nor secure ?concessions or monopolies which ; would abridge the principle of equal economic and commercial opportunity. j *China. on her part, would agree 'to cooperate in maintaining that .equality, and the nine powers col lectively would authorize ostnb i lishment of a board of reference to review present and future conces sions to determine whether they .conflict with the open door thus I defined. Xo Great Activity. ! Except for another inconclusive session of the Shantung negotia tions and informal exchanges [among the naval "'big five" re garding the Pacific fortifications j agreement, the meeting of the Far i Eastern committee constituted the total of conference activities dur ing the day. At the Shantung con versations, the question of mines i was discussed with no apparent ! progress, and the fortifications i problem remained unsolved tonight j despite recoqrtr'hy Ijfie Japanese of I partial instructions from Tokyo. It was around the proposal for an inquiry into concessions now -established in China, as well as . those proposed in the future, that ! most of the debate in the Far East ern committee centered. By some iof the delegates it was understood I'that such an inquiry might open up jthe whole question of Japanese [holdings in .Manchuria, while in other quarters it was suggested ; that the resolution might, by indi rection, lead to a-review of the j board of .the famous "twenty-one j demands" controversy. In that connection it was pointed ? rut that whereas the board's duties in connection with future conces sions would be confined under the j terms of the resolution to "in !vestigation and report." it would be authorized to Inquire into ex isting concessions "for the purpose [of endeavoring to arrive at a satis-* I factory adjustment on equitable ; terms." Many Questions Asked. I .Many questions regarding the j meaning of tho resolution were i asked of Secretary Hughes and ianswered by him during the com ' mitte?? meeting, but there still was apparent among The delegates to i night a divergence of views as to jthe exact powers which might be [assumed by the new board, j In tin* Chinese delegation the I American plan was hailed as a long step in the direction of restor ed Chinese integrity. By American spokesmen a similar view was ex pressed, but' most of the other del legations withheld comment. The ? proposal had taken them by sur prise, and when they realized its possible extent they all indicated that a minute study of details would he necessary before, action i could be taken. So completely ua [expected was the proposal in fact that when Secretary Hughes had completed its reading at the com mittee meeting there was an iu | tcrim of silence which delegates said became embarrassing before il was broken. Atter the several delegations had waited for sor?-?e lime without any one volunteering ro open discussion. Senator Schan zer. head of the Italians. :*ose ami asked a question abettj the mean ir& of some of tit" pro 1-doris. Sec retary Hughes' rcn'v opened a general discussion which ontin i:. d with s..tue a n-??. ? i i >n for tb".> e hour.: Tribute To ' Italian Heroes Rome. Jan. 1$.?America paid tribute to :?n Italian unknown sol dier, with American soldiers par ticipating at the ceremony at the [omb. where Vnvbassador Child de livered a n ot a! ion. -? ?? More Testimony For Senate Committee Washington. Jan. IK?The Am erican government has intervened in tli.- controversy bet-we.cn Chile and Peru involving the execution of the Tacna-Arioa treat> by in viting those countries to send dele gates to Washington for a confer ence. Civile has accepted the invi tation THE TRUE SOU RESPECT FOR I TREATIES DEMANDED I Premier P o i n c a r e j Submits Platform to Chamber of Dep uties Propaganda I Denounced i Paris, Jan. 19.?Respect for. the . treaties that fixed the peace terms, I is Premier Poincare's platform, as j presented to the chamber of depu j ties, lie declares shameless prop I aganda is responsible for the opin ion abroad that France is tainted j with imperialistic madness, i ! Bank of Nations Is Now Suggested : United States to Be Majority Stock-holder?Dollar Sub stitut For Gold i New York. Jan. IS.?A hank of [nations, with the United States as j majority stockholder, an interna i tional trade "dollar" as a substi tute for gold and conduct of world business on a credit instead of a cash basis. were advocated by j United States Senator Ilitehcck, ; of Nebraska, in an address today before the American Manufac turers' Export Association here. Senator Hitchcock discussed a bill whieh he has introduced in the I Senate providing for establishing "stich a bank of nations, with $2, j 400,000,600 capital. The United iStates^he said, would hold $1.300, 000,000 of the stock and bankers. ; importers and exporters of this j country another $2.000,000.000 ! leaving the remaining $000.000.000 ! to bo purchased by the leading na tions of the world through the ; president. The United States by virtue of its stockholders, would choose thir I teen of the bank's twenty-four di rectors. Headquarters would.be at ! New York. The directors would 1 have power to issue currency to }>e known as the international dol ? lar, whieh would eliminate the con tinual shipment of gold between j countries, according to Senator Hitchcock sr plan. ; Asserting that "credit represents .the difference between the vast i business enterprises of civilized j man and the insignificant opera lions of primitive man." Senator I.Hitchcock told the association that I the practical collapse of national ; commerce is due to the fact that J nations are "trying to do business j tor cash." i Nations, within their own boun daries, conduct nine-tenths of their j business on credit, the Seator said, jfiddine that if the United States or any other nation suddenly was . compelled to do business for cash : there would he an enormous I shrinkage of business. P.usirtess be | tween this country and Europe, has j been slashed in half in a single year , he asserted because America de mands cash on delivery and Eu : rope can not pay. Speaking of the enormous I amount of gold now in United States banks. Senator Hitchcock said: ! "We ought to use it as a basis I for currency and seize this oppor . tunity to make the international doi'ar the money of the world, the 'medium of exchange between coun tries. If we do not do this our gathering of all the gold here in I the United States is worse than folly. Would be almost an intex j national crime. We are playing dog in the-manger with it. We have : drawn in here and we have very ! much, more than we are using." I Women and Girls Bring in Money Demonstration Club Members Add Nearly Four Millions to State's Wealth I Rock Hill. .Fan. 1S.?The total 'value "of material produced by ; home demonstration girls and wo I men of South Carolina during 1921 j is $;!,ln;;.sis,'l, The federal 'Smith-Rover appropriation for this [work is $30.613.32: $20.267.74 is the amount of the state Smith-Lev er appropriation and the county [appropriations for the past year amounted to $44.370. making a total of $3.033.794.09 earned by the state hone- demonstration depart ment. The sale of meat products by the elub women brought in the largest amount, this being $2.95S.1S6.03. 'Ph.- girls of the various demonstra tion clubs had the best success with the sale of their vegetables and fruit products, this amounting to $:ia ."'i7.". These figures are according to the report of Miss Christine X. South. ;;tai?- home demonstration agent. THE LEVIATHAN TO BE,MADE HEADY FOR SERVICE Washington. Jan. is.? a con tract reconditioning the Leviathan has been promised the Newport News Ship Lviiilding Company, ac cording to Representative Dalling I er. Massachusetts. TirRON, Established .June t, 1866. _VOL. LIL NO. 10 BONUS BILL ! TO BE PUSHED BY MAJORITY Allied Debt Refund ing Measure Only Thing Ahead of Soldier Relief Washington, Jan. IS.?senate Republicans voted today in parry conference to press the allied debt refunding bill and a soldier bonus bjll, in that order. There was a disagreement as to details of the two measures and the conference adjourned until tomorrow to con tinue that discussion. The vote to press the refunding bill was unanimous, but the con ference divided on the bonus meas ure, unofficial reports giving the result as 31 for and 2 against, with some opponents either abseht or withholding their votes. Repub lican leaders said, however, that the size of the majority Insured passage of a bonus bill at this ses sion. Whin? there was no division on the ailieu debt bill, it developed that the measure as reported by the finance committee met with some objection, inquiry being made es pecially as to. the reason for the elimination of the provision re quiring semi-annual payment of in-* terest on the refunded bonds of the debtor nations. It was under-' stood that Senator Borah, of Ida ho, and some other Republicans were ready to join with the Demo cratic senators in demanding that this- provision be retained in the measure. / "Official spokesmen for the con ference took pains to make it clear that the majority senators had de clared for a bonus bill and not the particular bill which was referred back to the senate finance commit tee last July on the recommenda tion of President Harding.- Some leaders said, however, that the measure to be reported to the sen ate' undoubtedly would be similar to that one in so far as the five ways for payment of adjusted com pensation were concerned. s Most of the discussion of the bonus centered around the means of providing t he ^necessary funds^ Some senators favored a measuro < carrying merely an obligation against the government with pay ments to be made out of current receipts as money* was available for the purpose but it was said that the preponderance of sentiment was for a specific pro\ ision that the financing be done with funds derived from the sale of refunded British bonds in the United States. This brought up the question of a sales tax or some other special form of taxation, proponents of a sales tax arguing that some such plan would be necsesary to bridge the gap between the time of the passage of the bonus legislation j and the time that funds from the I sale of threfunded Brirish bonds would be - jme available. They were understood to have argued that the money from the bonds might not be available for several months or a year after the bonus bill was passed as the refunding negotia tions might consume considerable time and some time might be nec essary for the sale ol" the bonds, A general speeding up of the work of the senate also was said to have been brought up with sug- - gestions for day and night sessions of the linance committee. Aside from the allied debt re funding bill and the bonus meas ure, the senate will have before it the four-power treaty, the tariff bill and all of the annual supply j measures as well as other impor ! tant matters. With a eongression jal election next November and a i warm campaign in prospect from the beginning of early summer, many members of congress wish to get away from Washington around June 1. To get through the work before it by that time, the senate, senators declared, must drive ahead With full steam from : this time on., Renters Have Friends j House Kills Bill to Regulate Parol Leases I - Columbia. Jan. r.i.?The House [of Representatives voted in favor j of the tenant Wednesday night, I when it killed a bill, introduced by i Representative .McMillan, of Char ' loston, which was described as a 1 measure to benefit the landlord, it was a bill to amend section 3501 and section C5t?l! of the code of 1912, relating to parol leases. so as to define the termination of such bases, the aim being to rec ognize renewal month by month (<:' such, leases*. A lengthy -deKate was waged over the : icasure. and I an effort to make amendments i was defeated. The bill was final ly killed. Tlie house also killed a bill, in trodjiced last year by Representa tives Bradford, of York, and Diok J son. of Andt-rson. to reduce ibe li ; censes fees charged .'i^ainst motor trucks. Opponents of the bill {staled that they believed such li | censes should be increased instead of reduced; as the heavy trucks are injuring the roads. Washington, Jan. 19.?Dr. Hugh i.M. Smith has resigned as United 'states commissioner of fishei iesi I after thirty-six years' service.