The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-08-30


The threat Of the !. w. w. to tie ND
the industries Of the West, including
the harvest. II their leaders were not
released was met promptly by the ar
rest or lot more Of the gang, and the
great strike fiZZlcd out miserably. No
sooner was this trouble passed than the
machiniStS and boilcrmakers employed
in the Atlantic coast shipyards, were
! called on to quit. This Of course would
put stop TO vast amounts Of govern
I ihent naval work, and the United
! states nediatOrs got busy ut once. Sew.
cral thousand men stopped work, but
/ most OF them either pledged Secretary
Daniels that they would not quit. or
delayed action until a vote could he
! taken.
President Cuts Coal Prices.
Having started Mr.. Hoover well on
the food conservation campaign. Pres
ldent Wilson last week turned TO the
almost equally pressing coal problem,
which for several weeks had been ex-
ercising the wits of various state ad-
ministrations. Having studied the pro-
auction cost figures supplied him by
the trade commission, the president is
sued All executive order fixing q tenta-
tive scale Of prices for bitumnous coal
ut the mines in nearly all coal produc.
ing districts Of the country. These
prices in some instances are more than
81 ton below the voluntary prices
ilXed at the conference last June. The
scale Is subject to change when meth
od Of administering the fuel supplies
! OF the country has been determined
and put into operation.
Later In the week the president
named DR.. Harry Garfield fuel admin
lstrator, fixed anthracite prices for
producers and jobbers and set n limit
on profits to be made by bituminous
wholesalers.
The senate spent most of the week
in consideration Of the revenue bill.
Among other things it increased the
finance committees income tax pro-
visions by total return to the treas
ury Of $73 100000, adopting unanimous
~ the Gerry amendment, which adds
$4O.OOO,00O to the returns from in
comes Of half q million and over.
Japan's Mission in Washington.
The imperial Japanese mission was
formally received in Washington by
Secretary Lansing and other govern
ment officials on Wednesday. Its head,
Viscount Ishii, made 1t clear that tfe
mission has come not on comlnercl"'
or political errnnd, but to declde OH
how the two nations can best coop
crate. in both military ana an eco
nomic sense, in carrying on the "ar.
The neutral countries OF Europe-so-
called, though no country there IS any
longer really neutral-are still trying
TO got around the American embargo
that is so painful to their poc"e.pookS
and their stOmnchs; nut lhe 'huic"
tions are that unless they quit supply
ing Germany with foodstuifs' the'r SUI.
fering will only Increase S"it"erla'iu
and Holland, which depend on ger
| many for coal, have contracted 10 iehu
the kaiser large sums In return for tne
nr,vlepe of continuing to buy their fuel
| from his country.
hungary took real step toward
domocratizatlon and freedom from Ger
| mon md Austrian influence IN the al,-
| no,ntment of DR.. Alexander Wekerle
os Hungarian premier, to succeed Es-
terhozy. The new premier Is popular,
democratic, financial genius and is
| known to be no friend Of Germany.
The new nationalist movement In Hun
| oory has attained great strength, and IL
| "a said King Charles Is in complete har-
mony with the desires Of the nation.
German avintOrs distinguished them
selves last week by another raid on
English const towns In which / per-
| sons were killed, and by deliberately
bombing two French hospitals behind
the Vcrdun lines and then shooting
down the doctors and nurses, who wero
trying to rescue the wounded soldiers
from the resulting conflngration. 1t
would seem that the chivaIry Of avi-
ntors Is onc-slded.
Negro soldiers OF the Twcnty-fourth
United States infantry, stationed Mt
Houston, Tox., as guards during the
construction OF Camp Logan started
serious race riot, In which Il dozen
white civilians, police officers and Ma
n0nal Guardsmen, and n number Of ne
groes were killed, and more than Il
score wounded. Among tho dead was
Capt. ]. w. Mates, Battery A, Second
Illinois field artillery, who was trying
to restore order.