The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 19, 1922, Page PAGE 4, Image 4

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ATAMANfOF " C?SMCKS IS : Pt?T IN JAIL * ^.Gen. Sen??pli* Former ?nti iTaander, Fail Bond in Ne^Ydrk "WlEl 13.?Gen. Greg: man of the Cos fo^iv^?. up in Ludlow street jail tonight after a day of frantic efforts by several lawyers to get a bondsman who would give 425,000 ;-bsSl to^feriff Nagle. Sem enoff, wai>viiTe\tea last week on a civil warraiy^and freed on bail but his originar^o^dsmen refused to continue as security. " The generar>8&ve- himself un to Sheriff Na^le-. im.the latter's office at'2:30 o^clock'"in the afternoon and from *a?h ^jfntil 4 o'clock sat watching* with ^gager eyes every person who enijered the door. But "as each newvper^on turned out to be any bw^sa^-rfujospective bonds man the Cossack's countenance fell. "Even '"tfiec Tnm'tary moustaches which adornL&is: face seemed to droop as the time drew near for him to entert .sheriff's automobile ^for his trip. tQJ^he jail. Mme. Semehoff, his young wife., was cou>ra-geo*afc'3d uring the after noon. She hedged the sheriff to take her jewelsTitor the bond. But ho couldn't, ^e ?cplained, although sh-a could offer them* to a bonding -sompany as collateral. This motgr?g the general went to .Jt^^ IavWye^K^ag^ and found there -^ar-t?pr^s^^?!M?. the surety com pany whi??5&?fc?2rhished his bail. He Vas JohL^ttnt because of the -notoriety SfifnfejW l*ad brought and "Ueeause c&mlSW officials thought it Tihpatribnc "tcr act as bc.tdsman for a man charged with atrocities ? against ? A?nr^mmo. "soidiers,. they were_ going to surrender him at noon. ? Just befoa^ovon Col. George Kroupsky,?who was SemenofTs chief aid in,,Russia, and is now helping him here, was stopped by a policeman on Broadway and search ed. Kroupsik>^Jrja-d a revolver and narrowly, escaped,going to jail, un til he finally showed a permit. Just after .o'clock General Semenoff and two. or three friends, lawyers and in,t^prefers started for Sheriff Nagle's office. M. M, Bech er, counsel, for the surety company, was there and a^te-r Mme. Semenoff - had counted he??hain of pearls and _ her diamonds, ^which had been held as collateral, he turned the general over to l'the sheriff Meanwhile. ihef. proceedings Drought against^ Semenoff by <:he trustee for^the v> Yoroviet,a Home and Foreign, company, a New York .^concern, wefe*called before Peter *B. diney, "'referee in bankruptcy, and David"WTGlaze, a Semenoft! at " torney, was' cbmpeiled to ask an adjournment':?ecause Semenoff was, held by the-sheriff. The hearmg^Ii go on tomorrow ? afternoon. .,. no S? The general- was worried about ' Madame Semenoff, he said, because \ - she has been ilLr. ^When Colonel Kroupsky, who j ? had been .busy-all afternoon show- I ,ing the permit-to carry a revolver to every deputy* .sheriff in the office, promised to. carl* for his, wife, the general smiled^again and said he! was ready .and .sorted for his cell, j MANY MIL-' LIONS DYING Russians Starving to Death, Says -Report Genoa, ApriL.4^-?From six mil lion to seven .minion Russians will have died ;of-, faitnine before the next crops are. harvested, accord ing to a report received from Capt. Quisling, repjqejse^ting the Internat ional Relief Organization, headed by Dr. Fidtjoff.. Nansen. Capt. Quisling estimates the number of . sufferers on 3JLa^ 1. at 300.000, in the region ok Odessa and at 1,000, 000 in each of- the foreign-affected regions: , Xichoiaieff, Ekaterino adav,.DonfO.it? ?J?arkof, Krement choug and ?Boft&xo.. WOULD FIGHT THE JEWS Jerusalem,'April 14?Open ad vice to the Arabs is being given by Palestine, the leading Arabic daily, to copy the Egyptian example and; organize real attacks so as to com pel the British government to abol ish the Balfour dec-aration making Palestine a national homeland for the Jews. This, coupled' 'with Lord North- j Cliffe's assertion made while he was in this country tha* there was bound to be an upheaval in Pales tine soon.' is causing great dis quietude in Jewish circles. Easter time always has been an anxious period in Palestine. Even in Turkish days special troops had to be concentrated in th<j large cities to guard against disorders among the Christians and Moslems. Sow that the Christians and fol lowers of'Mohammed are politically united against tile Jews, however, the latter find themselves in grave danger. They , still remember that the Jerusalem .disturbance and the troubles at Jaffa, took place during J Easter week. T.he proposed reduc- j tion of British "officials serving in j the Palestine ^administration and! their substitution by Jewish ofli- j cials also is helping to aggravate; matters. "Every British official removed from Palestine,". asserts tne Belt Li Makdes, a .Jerusalem Arabic I daily, "means the tightening of the,' siK' igle hold oSilionists among our government. W-e must resist such a move with force. Even with the last drop of.Arab blood. f ? ? Theatre goers, who grow weary of ?evstuff>should think what t.he recording angel has to put up with. Philadelphia man has just learn ed Wilson isn't president. Won der if he has fcftdrd about the war? FARM BLOCK FOR MUSCLE SHOALS Senator Capper Makes An nouncement That May Have Deciding' Influence Washington, April 13.?The sen ate farm bloc was recorded today by Senator Capper of Kansas, its chairman, as favoring the develop ment of the Muscle Shoals project. In a brief reference to the power and nitrate projects on the Ten nessee river, made in a speech on the floor, the senator declared his belief that the nation's fertilizer bill coul? be reduced "by one-half if we carry out the Muscle Shoals project." "Another measure favored by the farm bloc which will contribute to. a permanent and prosperous system of agriculture," Senator Capper said, "is the development of the Muscle * Shoals project. We should resume work immediately on the Tennessee river. The nation's fertilizer bill is now about $25,-, 000,000 annually. I believe it is! possible to reduce this one-half if] we carry out the Muscle Shoals project." I The Kansas senator's declaration j was made several hours after the/ senate agriculture committee, of i which he is a member, had closed for the day its hearings on the I Muscle Shoals properties. Maj. W. H. Burns of the war depart ment's ordnance bureau had testi fied on various phases of the pow er and nitrate developments at the shoals. Major Burn3 reiterated his be lief that the government was mor ally bound to execute in- good faith the contracts between the war de partment, the Alabama Power company and the American Cyan imid company, giving the latter companies exclusive purchase rights on the Gorgas steam plant md nitrate plant No. 2, at Mus cle Shoals, in the event those units were ever disposed of to private enterprise. He declared that as long as Henry Ford included the two .projects in his proposal con gress could not very well accept it in view of the arrangement made t>y the department with the two companies. The witness made it clear, how ever, that the acting judge advo cate reneral of the army had given in opinion holding the contracts bo.be non-enforceable, null and void. Despite the ruling of the chief law officer of the war depart ment, the major testified, it was [he .conviction of the ordnance bu reau officials that the government, should redeem its written promises made to the two concerns when they constructed the plants involv- j sd. Chairman Kahn announced to- j ?ay that the,house military com mittee would evolve probably with in two days a rough draft from I which it was hoped a report could [>e fashioned soon for presentation to the, house . The intercomrnittee discussions which have been progressing every, lay thie week, he said, were, ap proaching a basis on which it might be possible to begin drafting the committee's recommendation j for the house, covering the four private offers for development of, the- shoals properties. ? d> oil <b COTTON LINTER PULP Valuable in Manufacture of Paper, Says Speaker ^Cew York. April 13.?The value: >f cotton linter pulp in the manu-j Jacture of paper was emphasized j :oday by S. E. Seaman, of Hope-1 wreli, Va., in an address before] :he technical association of the I pulp and paper industry which ifi i n convention here with various! >ther papermaking organizations, j He i explained that the linter i from, which the pulp is made is the j residue of lint that clings to eot :on seed after the usual gjnning process, and that 250,000 tons of t are now available from the 11. )00 cottonseed oil mills in the country. Tests made with this pulp, he said, have been found to compare favorably with the pulp made from rags and that when used in the proportion of 25 per :ent with new rags would save :he manufacturer from 5 to 10 ients a pot:^d on tine paper. George E. Williamson, of Mit- j tineague, Mass.. president of the! ^sociation, and other officers were! reelected. ? ? m insurance Agent Absconds Columbia. April 14. ? W.- K. Sease, who for a number of years has been prominent in Columbia insurance circles, as agenc lor the Peninsular Fire nsuranee company, of Grand Rapids: the Liberty Fire Insurance Co.. of St. Louis, and the Guardian Fire Insurance Co.. of Salt Lake City, has disappeared, according to a statement issued yesterday by State Insurance Com missioner McMahan. He has fjone west, and a letter to one of the clerks in his. office, written on Chicago hotel stationery but mailed on a west-bound train, stated that as he was so heavily involved, he would not return to Columbia. Of ficers of the insurance companies and re presentatives of the bonding company that had him bonded, arc in Columbia checking up his office. It is stated by the insurance com missioner that numerous policies have been found in Mr. Sease's office which had not been forward ed to the home offices of the com panies he represented. However, it is stated that the companies will protect all losses under policies which Mr. Sense had not sent to headquarters. The whereabouts of Mr. Sease aro unknown. What final action will be taken by the insurance companies with regard to him will depend <>n the report of the * * 111 ? eials who are at work checking his office. iJOHN GARY EVANS MAY BE IN RACE Friends Said to Have Launch ed Campaign as Guberna torial Candidate Greenwood. April 13.?What is believed by those in close touch with the political situation in this state to be an authentic report reached Greenwood today that former Governor John Gary Evans of Spartanburg will be a candi date for governor in the approach ing campaign. It is reported that friends of Mr. Evans definitely launched his campaign at a private meeting in Columbia last night and that Joe Sparks, a veteran newspa per man, would have charge of his campaign. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE AT NORFOLK More Than Hundred Houses Destroyed Wednesday Norfolk, April 13.?Berkley, a suburb of Norfolk, was swept by fire this afternoon which destroyed more; than 100 houses covering an area one mile in le^crth and aver aged from two to four blocks in width. Five* hundred families are estimated to have been made home less and the damage will run to nearly $1,000,000.. . The blaze originated in the Tunni lumber mills, on the southern branch of the Elizabeth river, late this.-afternoon. A woman, whose husband is a watchman at the Tu nis, docks, discovered the-fire from a house. boat -in which they live. Within 40 yards of the docks where the fire started are the' St. Helena Oil company docks. Three steam ers in the river were burned, catching fire from sparks, i The fire quickly spread to the j north, the sparks being carried 100 yards or more. Most of the houses in the path were negro homes and were dry as tinder and a few sparks only were required to set them afire. At one time there were nine fires blazing in different places simultaneously. Although the fire departments, both civilian and navy, from all the cities and towns in the vicinity of Berkeley were called into ser vice they were helpless against the spreading flames which soon reached Liberty street, one of the oldest business streets in the town. One block on Liberty street was completely wiped out. A ne gro church was destroyed. For a time it appeared that a large gas tank owned by the municipal gas plant was doomed but the gas was ' turned off by means of safety / valves. After four hours the fire appeared to have reached its cli max, although it was stlil blazing stubbornly in parts of the town. Included.among the .-buildings de stroyed were several stores, two negro churches, two river steamers of the Buxton line, a schooner, a houseboat and a small factory. Hundreds of negroes, men, wo men and children, are sleeping to night in the open air upon beds, mattresses and pieces of bed clothing salvaged from their burn ing, homes. Many of them, how ever, have been housed by the city j j in a negro school building. Prep i arations have been made to register ! all refugees thoughout the night so j that the city may provide housing j and food for them until they can find homes. The Political Pot Columbia, April 14.?The state Democratic convention will be held i in Columbia this year. May 17. General Wylie Jones, of Columbia, acting chairman, since the eleva tion of Hon. Thos. P. Cothran to j the supreme bench, and Harry X. i Edmunds, secretary of the state Democratic executive committee, -have sent out calls fur the setting up of the Democratic organization machinery of the state. The local Democratic clubs arc to meet on April 22. These are to elect delegates to the county con ventions, which meet on May 1. The county conventions will elect delegates to the state convention, which will be held in the Capitol here on May 17. The matter of uppermost im portance for the state convention will be the election of officers of the Democratic party in the state. Hon. Thomas Cothran's successor as chairman of the state commit tee is to be chosen. It is likely that women will sit in the state convention for the first time this year. Some of the local clubs and also some of the coun ty conventions will likely elect wo men delegates. The state convention next month will be called to order by j Genei'al Jones, and immediately j will so into the election of a tern j porary president and then a per : manent president. SUMTER WINS | j FROM FLORENCE iSumter Now Has Record of Six Victories and Only One I Defeat A record crowd was well pleased i with a fast exhibition of baseball in Florence Friday afternoon. i Sumter scored in the first inning by a walk, a bum and a hit. Flor (ence scored twice in tiiis inning) due to loose pitching and playing. From the second inning through : th<- ninth, Sumter played air tight: baseball, keeping Florence seore-l less and ai the same nine tallving seven runs. Ldwards pitching and Wheeler's three base and two base hits were tlx- outstanding features j of t li<- game. This spring fever some people ( are kicking about is the sanifl ?.<??: they have hud all winter 1 Swagger Nurs Even fashions for little tots' nig more frilly "Bffiie Burkes" are nov girlies, with .sprig-ged. dimity and materials. HIGH WATER AT NEW ORLEANS Levees Threatened by Record Breaking- Flood in . Mississippi Xew Orleans, April 14.?With the crest of the Mississippi within a few inches of the top of the levees here and a forecast by the weather bureau indicating an ad ditonal rise, every flood protective agency in the city was on the al ert today to cope with any emer gency. However, government engineers in charge of the levees, officials of the dock board and experienced river men were unanimous in de claring that there is no danger whatever threatening in the lower, reaches of the river. .. . Today's forecast that a stage of I 22.6 feet, six tenths of a foot high-1 er than the previous high record j established in 1916, will be reached here, caused no apprehension or alarm among the levee officials who insisted strain but preparations were made to meet any emer gency. Reports today from Placruemine. La., where a newly constructed section of levee had shown signs of weakening, stated that the en gineers had won their fight and no further trouble was anticipated. j . Gov. John M. Parker today sent! telegrams to the police officials in the river parishes asking them to give every assistance possible in helping to strengthen the levees during the emergency. The govern or also ordered that all live stock be kept off the embankments. The lower sections of Arkansas | City, Ark., were reported flooded I today to a depth of several feet.? The business section of the city is j above the backwater, however. Burdensome and Foolish Laws, i (Dillon Herald.) The Florence Daily Times says! several hundred Florence county! corporations are doing business il-: legally because they have failed to make the proper returns to the; clerk of the court. The same may be said of Dillon county and of the 4tf other counties in the state. The law requires that business as sociations, such as partnerships and i corporations, shall record their j charters and make annual returns I to the clerk of the court. Not one concern out ol* a thousand pays any ! attention to the law because it is a foolish law. It is like scores of i other foolish laws on the statute books. The demagogue singles out j the corporations as his special tar- j get. The federal statutes are full of foolish laws designed to regu late corporations. Scarcely a! month passes that a corporation does not have to make some kind j of report to the government.; Usually it must be accompanied by | a fee. There are so many laws' governing or misgoverning corpor-1 ations that it is impossible to keep' up with them. Many large cor-j porations employ a force of lawyers! whose duty it is to keep them out i of jail, but there are times when: even the corporation's legal de partment overlooks some law and' the corporation gets into trouble! What then can be expected of the smaller corporations that arc not '< able to employ expert counsel to; always be on the lookout? Fes. there are corporations and part- : nerships in Dillon county?plenty! of them?that have not made u return to the clerk of court. They are everywhere. U is not because they want to violate the alw. It is I because many of them do not knowj there is such a law. If they tried; to keep up with all the laws design- | ed to regulate partnerships and; corporations they would be poreingj ov'er law books all the time. A man who growls at everything leads a dog's life. ?-? ? ?? Thes< winds that have been com ing from the north all winter feelj better on their way back. ? ? ? The itch for office is usually a. ? seven year's itch. Jn Paris they wear garters with bells. The men look to see where' the noise comes from. Earthquake shocks reported in Tennessee may lia\<- been the boll weevils arriving. -? ?? ? You can't call our war veterans] soldiers of fortune. i 2ry Nighties htgowns change. Pajamas.and the r competing for the favor of little crepe proving , the most popular TRUCK GROW ERS SUFFER Vegetables Sent to New York Sell For Freight Charges New York, April 14.?Carloads of radishes, lettuce, spinach and other vegetables sent here for the pre Easter trade have arrived in such poor condition that the jobbers re fused to accept them and the rail roads have been forced to sell the shipments for less than freight charges in an effort to reduce the losses, according to a statement by the state department of farms and I markets today. The warm weather e'arly ia tkz week was blamed. Radishes from Virginia sold for from 25 to 75 cents per five-peck hampers con taining from three to five dozen bunches, more than half going at prices below freight charges, which averaged about 45 cents a hamper. Lettuce, of which the south sent about twenty-three carloads and California eight, had more than 50 per cent of the shipments rejected. Freight charges averaged 50 cents, while prices ranged from 40 to 50 cents a hamper contain ing three to live dozen heads. Spinach and peas also from the south suffered in price declines. About 60 per cent of the receipts; were damaged by the rise in tern- ; perature. The produce dealers are greatly disappointed at the lack of activity ir the wholesale market, the depaitment stated. FAVORS TARIFF BEFORE BONUS: _. i Washington. April 14.?President! Harding was declared today at the White House to be of the opinion that tariff legislation should be giv en precedence in the senate over the soldier bonus. Although it was made clear that the president had received no re nnest from Republican leaders in tin; senate for advice as to which measure should be taken up first, it is understood that the views of both the chief executive and the sena torial leaders coinc.de in this re- ; <pect. Under present plans the tariff! will l>e taken up in the senate, next Thursday while the finance committee takes up the bonus bill; with the possibility that it may) make radical changes in it as it was passed by the house. When the hon us measure has been reported to the senate it will be taken up for consideration during lulls in the tariff debate. The bonus bill is ex pected to be ready for senate con sideration in about a fortnight. Benjamin C. Marsh, managing director of the Farmers' National council, declared in a statement tonighl that the tariff bill report ed by the senate finance commit tee was "the worst of the many sold bricks handed farmers by tho present administration." "The whole scheme of the tariff! bill as reported to the senate." he ! added, "is evidently to permit high- | ly protected manufacturers to eon- j tinue the same profiteering which j they carried on during the war. Whatever the text of the tariff bill it is clear that the duties levied on! manufactured products are on the! American 'oasis cost of production! whip' those levied on agricultural j products are on the basis of for-1 eign cost of production." FAST TIME IN PLANE From Chicago to Washington! in Few Hours Washington. April 14.? E. Ham-j ilton Leo piloted one of the big all j mail machines tho 7 1."? miles from I Chicago to Washington yesterday in six hours and two minutes, an iverage spe?*d of 119 miles an hour. . to have it equipped with radio: ?ii tiding and receiving telephones, it ivas made known today. Lee's fdane is the first of the transcon tinental airships to he equipped ] k\irh the wireless telephone outfit.! which i! is planned to install on ill the mail machines. The ap paratus will have a radius of 2<?0 miles to give the pilot constant! contact with the station just left diu the one just ahead of him., Range finders also will be pro vided to enable the pilots in foggy.) ind stormy weather find the sin lions toward which they are fly-I ?S- ._ . - ^iurAatt ! POWDER EXPLOSION AT CHARLESTON Foreman of Salvage Company Blown to Atoms When Eight Hundred Kegs Exploded Charleston, April 13.?O. L. Hill, white, foreman for tlie Columbia Salvage corporation, was blown into bits about 11:30 o'clock this morning when an explosion of 20, 000 pounds of black powder oc curred in an ammunition salvage magazine near the ordnance depot, north Charleston. More than 30 box cars were damaged and track age wrecked. It will never be known what caused the terrific blast. Fragments of Hill's body were collected over a considerable area and placed in a coffin for inter ment. His cap was found about two hundred yards from the mag azine, the walls of which were made with boxes filled with sand with a canvas roof. Hill and three negro laborers were seen about the magazine just before the explosion. It is said that the negroes were practically unhurt. For many miles around the explosion was felt. Glass was shattered in plants in the suburbs of Charleston. For sometime the salvage com pany has been taking black powder out of defective or out of date ! shells, this powder being placed in metal kegd. The magazine was not j connected with the magazines of j the ordnance department, but was ! considerable distance from the j nearest. Where the salvage mag- j azine stood is a crater 20 feet: deep and more than 00 feet across. Nothing remains of the metal kegs except fragments. It is believed that one or two kegs of pov d^r were first detonat- j ed and that almost immediately all j the rest of the S00 kegs went off with terrible force. A burning brand I fell a short distance away among j a pile of TXT shells and among j those who appreciated the peri! j there was consternation. At the imminent risk of their lives, Chief Thompson of the government port terminals tire department and Lieut. A. L. Viloancey of the | quartermaster corps extinguished j the fire with chemicals. "While it is not known how the | explosion occurred, it is reported that Foreman Hill had borrowed a j steel cold chisel and it is believed that he was working with this on i the steel powder kegs, sparks caus- j ing the explosion. The regulations ! require that a brass implement be used, thus preventing sparks. On the Screen Again. (Columbia State.) The statement of the jury that acquitted Arbuckle of manslaugh- i ter is too closely linked in time j with the dispatch that the Arbuckle ; films in 30 days will be,.exhibited, j Already it has been said that the ! sum of $2,000.000 is invested in! these films. One may accept the verdict of the jury as just without conceding that Arbuckle is the manly and straightforward person that the jury describes him. The fact remains that however guilt less of manslaughter he be, he was mixed in a loathsome and infa mous affair in a hotel at San Fran cisco that openly set at defiance ail decency. Another fact remains that two juries refused to acquit him of manslaughter. Two mis trials were had in this case and it remains to be proved that the third jury was superior in wisdom and virtue to the others. Never theless, Arbuckle has never been convicted of manslaughter and has received a tardy and clumsy vin dication. The vindication had nothing to do with his general disbehavior. It clears him of the charge of man slaughter and leaves his record spotted with one of the dirtiest stories that has appeared in the American prints. Many a wretch has been a great artist, poet, novelist, sculptor or painter. What other art comes so close to the masses of the people j as that of the motion picture actor? I One may read "Childe Harold" and the personality of its writer may stay so far in the background as scarcely to be though of. May a little boy or girl see the face and antics of Arbuckle on the screen without associating him with the orgy that was followed by the death of a woman? The Arbuckle pictures will bo flaunted again. Would the screen industry be poorer were they ban ished from all theatrers to which the self-respecting public is invit ed? Much has been said about the influence that an ex-postmaster j general and national chairman of j the Republican party is to exert on : the form of amusement now most I popular in the United States. Let us hope that Will Hays at least will speak out. BUREAU TO ! RESUME WORK Government Engraving and Printing Plant Starts Today | i Washington. April 14.?The bu- J reau of engraving and priming willi resume operations tomorrow, it was! announced tonight at the treasury. The plant was closed Sunday by; Secretary Mellon for an inventory, of its stock valued at millions of dollars following the removal of James L. Wilmeth :is director and | other hi.^li officials by executive! order of President Harding. Mechanical work of the inven-1 tory, sach as counting the stock <>f, paper and plates, has been com pleted bj the inventory" committee, officials said, but it will probably' be a w?>?-k before the checking up j of the count is finished and a re-j P<>ri prepared. Clothes may net te... ih< men, ] but lack ?>! them make !.. men] look. SPLIT BETWEEN WILSON AND TUMULTY Former President Denies Au thorship of Message Deliv ered by His Former Secretary Now York. April 13.?The New York Times tonight made public a letter from Woodrow Wilson deny ing that he had sent or authorized anyone to convey a message to the Jefferson day dinner here last Sat urday night. A message read at the dinner by Mrs. Montgomery Hare, chairman of the woman's dinner committee, and attributed to the former president said: "Say to the Democrats of New York that 1 am ready to support any man who stands for the salva tion of America and the salvation of America is justice to all classes." ' Thomas E. Hush, chairman of] the dinner committee, said that' when he learned last Thursday' that Joseph P. Tumulty, former; secretary to the president, was to attend the dinner he called him on j the telephone and asked him to bring a message from former Pres ident Wilson if possible. The mes sage rea l at the dinner was given to him by Mr. Tumulty upon his arrival. Mr. Rush said. When doubt as to the authen ticity of the message first arose Mr. Tumulty made an explanation in Washington in which he said: "The message read at the ban quet came merely in a casual con versation with mo at Mr. Wilson's I home Friday lost, when he remark-1 ed that he would support any can- I didate who stood for justice for all. There was nothing unusual in this, and it was not significant in any way from a political standpoint. He sent no telegram. He simply gave a casual message to me in a casual manner. It had nothing to | do with any individual or any par- j ticular political situation." This statement h\ Mr. Tumulty appears in The Times, under the headline: "Doubt is cast on Wilson's mes- j sage to the Cox dinner." In his letter to The Times Mr. j Wilson said: | "I write to say that there need be no doubt about the matter. I ? did not sen dany message whatever j to that dinner nor authorize any j one to convey a inessage." V?'hen informed of Mr. Wilson's | letter by a Times representative in Washington tonight. Mr. Tumulty j gave out the following statement: j "If Mr. Wilson says the message was unauthorized then I can only say I deeply regret the misunder standing which has arisen between us. I certainly would not have given the message if I had not be lieved it to be authorized." ? ? ?p A Better Feeling. _ (News and Courier.) A day or so ago the News and I Courier reprinted from the Allen dale County Citizen a very cheerful article reviewing courageously and j optimistically the recovery of A1-! lendale county from the blow which! it received when the cotton indus- j try there was desiroyed by the boll weevil. The Bamberg Her ald in its current issue sounds the same note with respect to condi tions in Bamberg. "The most striking thing at tho present time." says The Herald, "is that the farmers have taken new heart. Other people will take new courage in the same degree j that the farmer does. This is an j agricultural county and the atti tude of the planter is very near the! attitude of all other people. Cot-1 ton is gone, apparently, for some j years anyway. Our farmers are not laying down on the job, but! are up and doinjc, finding new i methods of making tin- farm profit table. The old feeling of fear when \ mention was made of going into new fields of endeavor is fast being dissipated. The spirit of venture is.taking a grip on folks; they are | not afraid of trying out new crops, j Some of them wiil prove highly j profitable, others will probably be a failure. It is a joy to note the j products that are being shipped j daily from Hamberg and doubtless from othc r railroad s t a t i o n s j throughout the county. Inciden- j tally some good money is being | made from these ventures'. While our old standby, cotton, has gone j to the 'discard for the time, good j prices arc being had for oilier i farm products, and in This the! planter is fortunate. Market con-, ditions are favorable and folks are} getting cheerful again." The Bamberg Herald is not given! to whistling simply to keep its} courage up. <>ne of the most in-} teliigently edited county newspa-1 pers in the country, ii is given toi facing facts and dealing with the! situation as its exists. The bitter j feeling which it reports in Bam- j berg itas been noticeable, we be- j lieve, throughout the low country.] It is in evidence also in South ; Georgia. They have received a i blow in that bull weevil infested I section also and their view is that conditions there "have been worse! than in any other place in the south.*' but according to the Amcri- h cus Times-Recorder, "recovery hew has set in on scale that is remark able." and people are. in the Ian-,, guage a headline writer on .e > Columbus Enquirer-Sun. "en. ng j out of the storm ( "liar." ae j Americus newspaper puts the c <s j well when it says: "Prosperity ..tv j not be here on a great seal- but I good times are arriving f u the] hustlers." There wiil be m ood ; times soon for anybody eis bu&j after nil. are th.e other ?< onle > really entitled to good tinv i -? *? o The whole world shoul? e on j the square even if Nature d ci sake it round. ras^iiiir up the Real .b A nation u?at cannot convurt its. murderers nutkes a tine show legis- j latins the lenjrrh of a bathinc skirt. NORFOLK CARESFOR NEGROES Relief Committees Provide Shelter For Fifteen Hun dred Fire Victims '?f ' * i ? Norfolk. April 14.?With the break of day. this city is preparing to pat 0?tc. effect relief measures for fifteen hundred negroes who were reVidered homeless by the fire in Berkeley 'suburbs, last night, which : wiped out approximately thifee hundred hoir.es. Officials es timate'^he damage at three quar ters of ? million dollars. Tents from the navy yard have been set up on the St. Helena reservation to sheTtcTfilh$* victims. Boys playing ball 'are Relieved to have started the fire smoking cigarettes. Com rolling College Sports. (News and Courier.) Eleven r>f the smaller colleges of New V?>rk and New England have just held a meeting at Springfield, Muss., and adopted resolutions Which, it is believed, will "help change completely the present sys tem of football coaching." The heads of the colleges represented at this meeting have organized an Association of College President? ro consider the best interests oi athletics in their respective insti tutions, and they have determined to urge the faculties that, begin ning with the fall of 1923, all r oaches be appointed in the same way as the members of the fac ulty and other officers of the insti tution, that these coaches be "paid by the college and only by the college," that they shall be "in residence throughout the year," shall 'have other duties in the phsical training department in ad dition to their coaching," shall be "paid at the same rates as the Etil er members of the faculty," shall have "the same permanence of ap pointment" and be "selected in the same way as other members of the faculty." , The institutions represented, at Lhe Springfield gathering included the presidents of Amherst, Bow 3oin. Colby. Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity. Tufts. Union. Vermont, Wesleyan and Williams colleges and President Gray, of Bates Col lege, who was unable to be present, sent word that his institution would join the association. The Springfield Republican says that it is confidently expected that the faculties and trustees of the col leges named will support their presidents in making the changes recommended. The . Republican speaks of the action taken on Mon day as "a broad and significant challenge to Harvard, Yale and Princeton." and says that "while the three larger institutions were discussing probable football changes through their daily publi cations, but doing Ititle or nothing otherwise." these smaller colleges have taken steps to meet the situa tion. . There was need that the situa tion should be met and not only in New England, but in other parts of the country also, including South Carolina and the south. The Green wood Index-Juornal in this state quoted a citizen of the Piedmont as saying last fall that what we needed in this country was a con ference for the limitation of col lege athletics, and there can be no question that this is the way a largo part of the public has come to feel. The trustees and alumni of tha'dif ferent colleges have been even more to blame than the student bodies for the absurd lengths to which football competition ? has been carried. Intercollegiate ri valry in football as in all other matters ought to be put back on a genuinely amateur basis and con ducted in that spirit of generosity and fair dealing which ought to govern always among amafeurs and college men. The resolutions adopted by the New England col lege presidents strike us as being eminently sensible and we hop* that the movement that has been started will prosper and that its b snefits" may be widely extended, so widely that we shall share them i? diese parts. -? o ? REDUCTION IN RATES Richmond Orders Change For Rediscount Washington, April 14.?Reduc tion of the rediscount rate by the federal reserve bank at Richmond makes the 4 1-2 per cent, rate ef fective in nine of the federal re serve districts. The 5 per cent, rate r< mains in effect in the Dallasr Minneapolis and Kansas City dis tricts: Whether further rediscount rate adjusl nents in these three districts was to be expected was not indicated by officials here but the impression was gained that there probably will be no further :?? dis< ount rate readjustments un less conditions in some of the east em districts should warrant a 4 per cent r.-ue. Marriage Ceremony Performed by Chester Minister While Sick Abed. Chester. April 15. ? A rather unique marriage was solemnized here* this wek ?-:n that the cere meny was performed by the Rev. :>. VV. Garvin, the popular minis ter of the Baldwin Baptist church, \\ ho is ill abed with Spanish in fluenza; The couple were $Iiss i.uia .May Thompson of Rock Hill and Arthur G. Austin of Chester. Mr. Austin is a veteran of the world war and was wounded white fighting. They have gone to Sum te v to make their home tempor arily, as Mr. Austin is engaged at present in the electrical business t lu re. ? o ? Genoa i> letting George do it. A woman can get more into a suit case than a man can into a trunk.