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SOUTH CAROLINA SPoRTSMEN
NEE TAT COLUMBIA

Summerville, Oct. 11.-A call for
the first BUSINESS meeting Of the
sportsmen's Association of South
Carolina has been issued by Mr.. L..
w. Boykin, Chairman Temporary
advisory board. The meeting will be
held in Columbia, October 10Th.
Headquarters for all Sportsmen at
tending will be at the Jefferson Ho-
tel, whose management has extended
to the Association the courtesy OF
using their spacious parlors for the
business session, which will be called
to order promptly at 1.3O P. M. At
this meeting officers will be elected,
an executive board selected and@the
various committees appointed and
the permanent organization Of the
Association completed.
Every Sportsman in this section
and throughout the entire State is
urged to not only attend this meet
ing but to bring as many Sportsmen
friends as possible. Reports coming
in every day indicate now that 1t Will
be only a matter of few weeks un-
til the Association will have a MEM
bership of three thousand. Any
Sportsman in this section who has not
been enrolled should send his name
at once to E. C. Adamson, Acting
Secretary, Summerville, S. c.
ABNORMAL DEATH RATE IN 1918
The rate of mortality the life In
surance companies had to meet In
1918 was about 80 per cent greater
than in 1917 and IA per cent greater
than the average death rate for a
score of years. This great advance
was due mainly to the influenza cpl
demic, the ravages of which con-
rinued during several months of the
current year. Thirty-eight life in
surance companies reporting to the
.,cw lor;k Insurance Department
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XNKS CAN LEND
MORE ON COTTON

The passage by congress this week
f a bill permitting national banks to
lend rs per cent. of their capital and
urplus to one customer on warehouse
ceipts for cotton stored in ware
Buses under either state or federal
cntrol is regarded as great victory
or the American Cotton Association
v officers of the latter. Incidentally,
is claimed by officials of the associ-
ton that the first suggestion of this
bange in the banking laws came in
le adoption of a resolution by the
outh Carolina Cotton association
arly last spring. Later the fight was
ken up by the American Cotton as
citation.
J, Skottowe Wannameker, presl-
ent of the American Cotton assocla-
on and also of the South Carolina
otton association yesterday made
ro following statement regarding
bill:
'Tt is now universally conceded
that the greatest piece of constructive
LEGISLATION enacted into law in the
last so years was the federal reserve
system. This great banking system
has revolutionized the entire business
interests of the nation, and, during
the world war, probably contributed
more than any other source to the
shortening of the war and thus saved,
to this nation, and to the world, a
sacrifice of lives and billions in pro-
perty.
"a result of a change in the ma
tional banking laws which has just
been effected, the result Of long and
strenuous work Of the American Cot
ton association, under the able lead
ership of Congressman W. F. Steven
son of South Carolina, who deserves
great credit for the brilliant service
he rendered, the national banks can
now lend rs per cent. of their capt.
tai and surplus to one customer on
warehouse receipts for cotton stored
in warehouses under either state or
federal control. This will result IN
tremendous change of the entire
banking interest system of the South.
Banks throughout the South will join
the federal reserve system, realizing
! the great advantage to be gained un-
der this new legislation. Most import
ant of all, the result Of this new
legislation will save millions upon
| millions to the South. The matter of
distress cotton, that is, cotton thrown
upon the depressed market regardless
of price because the holders can not
get it financed, will be largely re-
moved.
"This change in the national bank
:ng act/will prove the most beneficial
piece of legislation to the South that
has been put on the statute books in
the last quarter of a century. Bank
ers, merchants, and business men
should Immediately take steps to
bring their banks under the federal
reserve banking system, so as to en+
able them to render larger service
% the entire business interest"
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Paris Will Sell Food
j To Her Own People

ut
PARIS, Feb. 14-Municipal bar
racks stores will be erected shortly
throughout Paris in which foodstuffs
will be sold direct by the city to con-
sumers. M. Clemenceau, the Premier,
told delegation which called on him
today to discuss the question of the
high cost of living that goods would
be sold at prices fixed by the Food
Ministry. He also promised to have
the work of the demolition of the
ancient Notifications surrounding
Paris commenced as soon Dis possible,
thereby ameliorating the unemploy-
ment situation.
1t developed during the discussion
that the salaries of municipal workers
have been raised so often during the
war that a further rise is impossible
to cope with the increased cost of
living, and that prices must come
down. AS an instance, it was cited
that women street cleaners who be-
fore the war earned S240 annually
and now are obtaining $500 are ask
ing for $1,000.
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Telephone Officers From
Boston Here In
Full
DISCUSSION
Full Report of Commissions Work
Cannot be Determined Until
Tomorrow

The town is filled today with scores
of out-of-town people, drawn here to
attend the hearing of the Public Ser
vice Commission over whether or not
the telephone company shall be allow
ed to make changes in their service,
and raise their rates.
The hearing is being held at the
Armory and a full account will be
printed in tomorrow's paper as it is
too early yet to forecast what the
outcome of the hearing is going to
be.
Representing the phone company is
President Matt B. Jones of Boston,
L. N. Whitney, the General CONNER
cial superintendent, H. F. Moses,
the Traffic Engineer, H. D. Reed, F..
E. Moore, auditor George R. Grant,
counsel, J. F. Hall, Rutland, Division
Commercial superintendent, Charles
Brown of Newport and G. g. Merrill
of the local exchange.
The Public Service Commission is
here in full, Judge w. A. ,Dutton, Eli
Porter and Neil Clauson hearing the
complaints of the local people and
protests against the proposed chang
es. The complainants are represent
ed by Judge David Porter and E. A.
Cook The state is represented by
States Attorney Archibald of Man
chester and James Campbell, the dis
trict attorney.
The morning was given over to a
hearing of the charges and the fling
of an answer to the complaint by the
phone company's counsel. The meet
ing was then opened for a general
discussion It will continue this after
noon.
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MORE DISCUSSION ABOUT
WOMAN ON SCHOOL BOARD

To the Editor of the Caledonian:-
Yesterday, in the columns of your
paper it was suggested that all ought
to agree on the desirability of a
woman member on the school board.
To my mind, this is not at all fore
gone conclusion 1t does not seem
to me either good business or com
mon sense to turn down man who
has made ar efficient director, simply
to have the female sex represented
on the Board.
Furthermore, as a mother of four
children, and a former teacher, in
my opinion whoever is on the Board
whether man~ or woman, should be a
parent, who has had an opportunity
of dealing with children's problems
in his own family before attempting
to settle those Of the community.
Why not leave well enough alone?
PARENT.
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PRESIDENT STARTS
HOME TODAY WITH
DRAFT OF LEAGUE
George Washington Also
Bringing Thousands of
Yarlk Soldiers

PARIS, Feb. 14-The preliminary
sessio n OF the Peace Conference to
be held this afternoon, may mark the
conclusion of the first and possibly
the greatest phase of the work in the
worlds greatest international gather
ing.
A draft of the society of nations is
under consideration by the various
governments preliminary to final
vote by the conference, on the sub
jects involved. The League of Ma
tions, therefore, is growing into a
concrete reality.
AS soon as the conference has re-
heved itself of this important piece
of work, and incorporated it in the
peace treaty, along with the various
commissions work, it is expected to
adjourn, inc die, perhaps about the
first of June.
President Wilson will leave Paris
tonight, hcmeward bound. He will
sail tomorrow on the George Wash
ington, the ship which carried him to
FRANCE, dAu dll tAe space HoC Occu-
pied by the presidential party will be
filed by several thousand Yankee
soldiers.
An agreement on constitution -fo1
society of nations by the committee
which has had this important work
in charge, was effected on the 18th
of the month, the Presidents lucky
day, and there are twice thirteen
articles in the draft. It will be made
public in Europe this afternoon. The
President will present it before leav-
ing France, this afternoon or night.
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GERMANY TRYING
1EOOL ALLIES
ON ANkRuPTcY
NO BIG CASH PAYMENT
All Should Prevent Huns
From Declaring State
InsOlvent
Former French Minister of Justice
Gives Views on Teuton
Indemnities
NO BIG CASH PAYMENT

PARIS, Feb. 14-(Associated
Press)-Germany is making utmost
efforts to have the Allies believe that
she is nearing bankruptcy, said Raoul
Peret, chairman of the Budget Com
mission of the Chamber Of Deputies
and former Minister of Justice, in
discussing today the financial prob
lens facing the Peace Conference.
The first measures. of the conference
along financial lines, he said, should
be to take measures to prevent Ger
many from declaring herself an in
solvent debtor or a bankrupt state. 3
"Then," he said 1--WE should imme-
diately fix the amount of our account
against Germany, which she must
be made to pay to the full limit of
her financial ability without consider
alton for her feelings. It will be
time enough then to decide about
method of payment. She may pay
either in capital Immediately or in
yearly ins.allments.
s'I do not believe that Germany a.
the present time is in a position to
pay large amount in cash. We
must not demand from her a too
heavy payment now, so as not to
place her in a position where she
might argue that we are strangling
her and killing the goose that is to
lay the golden eggs.
whether the instalments we shall
demand from Germany be twenty,
thirty, or fifty billions of francs year
ly depends entirely upon our decision
after an Investigation, as to what
amount Germany will be able to pay.
These payments would be guaranteed
by customs tariffs decided upon at
the conference, reserving for our
selves the right to raise such tariffs
should Germany fail to meet her OBJ
legations.
"This would act as a means of eoer-
cion, because l do not believe that
we should occupy Germany with a
(N0pfio11od on paCa Fai1rN 49,
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WATERWORKS TOPIC
ENGAGES ATTENTION
OFLECISLATORS
Four Speakers Talked for
Twenty Minutes
Each
MAY PASS 100000 BILL
Barge Terminal at Burlington Would
Benefit Whole Vermont
State
MAY PASS 100000 BILL

. House and Senate turned momen-
tarily yesterday afternoon from the
tedious work of disposing of calendar
measures and gathered in joint as
sembly for an hour and a half to lis
ten to experts on waterways and
transportation terminals. There were
four speakers and each talked for
about twenty minutes, all being liber-
ally applauded and it would not be
surprising to have the present Leg
islature pass the barge terminal bill
bonding the state for 100000 so as
to improve the port of Burlington on
Lake Champlain. Those who spoke
were S. A. Thompson, secretary of
the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress, Washington, D.. G., John
N. Cole of Boston, chairman on
waters and public lands, former
speaker Of the Massachusetts, House
of Representatives, Capt Charles
Campbell 9of New York city, water
transport and terminal expert, and
R. H. Rogers of Schenectady, N. Y,
terminal engineer and manager of
General Electric Company, lighting
department.
All four speakers impressed upon
the members the fact that the con-
struction of barge terminal at Bur-
ington would not alone aid that city
but would be a tremendous asset to
the entire state and the nation. They
urged the Legislature to consider the
low freight rates it would mean, en-
abling the importation and exporta-
ton of materials in much greater
quantities.
The Senate worked until twilight
to dispose of its big calendar and the
House was m session when the lights
began to twinkle. The House adop.-
ed a motion early in the day to the
effect that it not adjourn until Sat
urday this week and meet as usual
Monday evening. This is the first
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Explains Much of Difficulty
Between Japan and
China
WANTS A FREE CHINA.
Japan Would Resent Being Compelled
to Follow Bidding of
Foreign Power

1t. Seeems to some of US Japanese
that China is now trying very hard
to make the most of the Peace Con-
ference in order to free herself from
all foreign dominance or influence.
According to the New York Times of
Jan. "a the Chinese agency in Wash
ington officially announced that China
is going to demand the revision of the
China-Japanese treaty of 1915, which,
she insists, is of the same nature as
those Of Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest,
because it was signed under duress
and coercion. Moreover, she is now
appealing very strongly to the pub
lie opinion of the United States to
have the rights of extra-territoriality
removed on the ground that her
courts of law, if not already equal
to those of western countries, can be
gradually improved, just as the Jap
anese. courts were.
Well, We are quite willing to re-
wise the treaty if there be in it any
terms which are real menace to the
independence of China, for Japan,
too, wants to have her neighbor as
an Independent state.
Tt is commonly held in Japan that
her policy toward China must be bas-
ed on principles Of fairness and JUS
tice and that the most desirable thing
of all is mutual aid and permanent
friendship between the two nations.
This conviction was well illustrated
when Viscount Uchida, her Minister
for Foreign Affairs, officially stated
that Japan would deal in a spirit, Of
justice and friendliness with all ques-
tions affecting Chinese interests
which might come up before the
Peace Confere
But, it must be emphasized, Japan
desires to do this of her own volition
because it is a matter between herself
and China We would resent being
compelled by any foreign power to
do that which we might otherwise
Continued on page SiX)
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CONQUERs HIS sHYNEss

"A certain surgeon who was very young and
at least fifty but frivolous enough for twenty. She
imagined herself very clever when making rude re-
marks. At dinner she asked the young surgeon to
carve a fowl, and not having done so before he
tailed lamentaby. Instead of trying to cover mis-
confusion the hostess called attention to it pointedy
by looking down the table and saying loudly:
Well, you may be a very clever surgeon, but il
wanted leg off should not to you to do it. p
No, madam" he replied politely, "but then, you
see, you are not a chicken"
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All Governments Should
Have Breathing Time

PARIS, Feb. !, ID ASSOCIATED
Press s).-Alvin w. Krech, President
of the Equitable Trust Company of
New York, who is visiting France to
study financial conditions, said to The
Associated Press today:
"The temporary suspension of liq-
uidation by the Governments to one
another ought to be one of the first
expedients Of intergovernment fl
nance. mean that for the present
we should have an international mo-
ratorium between the Governments
in order to give the nations breathing
time.
France owes England and Ameri-
ca; Belgium owes France, England,
and America; Italy owes America,
England, and France. The small ma
tions owe the big ones. No one of
them, large or small, can conveniently
pay at the moment Hence they all
need an international moratorium, to
afford time for reconstruction. Even
Germany must have time to make
payments.
"It seems to me that this is the
time that America, with infinite ad-
vantage to herself, may supplement
her military support, now that the
occasion for such support has prac-
tically disappeared, by becoming a
genuine factor in the establishment
of an intimate union with France for
the promotion of the material inter
ests of both countries"
WIENER, Feb. 14-Count Won
Bernstorff will not go to the Peace
Conference to represent Germany 20
hear the terms of peace which the al
lies will dictate to the vanqiishcd
Huns. Germany is planning a poo
pies army on a basis of general con
scription, but Germany at the sa~le
time will agree to complete disar1n-
ament of the old army and general
rehabilitation, according to a stat
ment made by President Ebert to tha
newspapermen, today.
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A LOGICAL LUNATIC

Lunatcs frequently return amusing answers"
says the superintendent Of great insane asylum.
Zone day keeper out walking with num-
Der of harmless inmates and the party met pedes-
Nowhere. We keep it here to run trains on"'
train, not far from the railroad tracks. With nod
toward the tracks the traveller asked one of the luna
tics
"Where does this railroad go to-"
"The unatic surveyed him scornfully for mo-
ment and then replied:
"sNowhere. We keep it here to run trains on ;"
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General w. S. Pierce
Is Decorated for Work

Especial to The Caledonian)
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BURLINGTON, Feb. 13-Gen. w.
S. Pierce of this city,, assistant chief
of ordance, was today decorated with
the Distinguished Service Medal,
along with eight other army officers
and three civilians. Secretary of War
Baker made the presentations. Gen.
Peirce wins the medal for his excep-
tional ability in increasing the output
of small arms at the Springfield,
Mass, arsenal.
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GERMANY WILL NOT
STAY WAGE SLAVE
OF HER ENEMIES
Heavy Indemnities Will
Mean Allies Keeping Up
ARMED Force

BERLIN, Feb. IA, ASSOCIATED
Press)-If the Allies persist in irnpos-
ing upon Germany demands which
will make this country the "wage
slave" of its enemies, the Allies must
keep Germany in subsection for de-
cades by armed force, against which
the Germans would rise at an oppor-
tune moment and again plunge the
world into war. Professor Hans Del
bruck, historian and publicist, declar-
ed to the correspondent today in a
discussion of the Paris Peace Con-
ference.
Professor Delbruck said: szE
'tThe question Of what constitutes
peace of justice can best be ans
wered by investigating the last sep
arate demands made, to see whether
it is calculated to light the fires of
war again at some future day OF
whether it serves the ideal of an en-
during peace. Let me single out
some OF CneSe questions.
,'It is proposed to impose upon
Germany a burden which it icannot
throw off in short time, but which
would make the country the wage
slave of it's enemies for decades. This
could be carried out only if Germany
were to be kept subdued by armed
force all this time. But there cannot
be any doubt that Germany would
rise against such slavery at the first
opportunity and the world would
again be plunged into war.
PARIS, Feb. 13-The terms for
the renewal of the arnaistice, which
win be presented to Germany on
Monday for acceptance, imposes two
new conditions. One is that Germany
shall suspend all military activity in
Posen against the Poles. The other
is that Germany shall demobolize her
military forces under arms down to
20 or 25 divisions. 5s.-s
Another important decision which
indicates that American ideas have
once more prevailed over the extreme
French desire to crush Germany is
that the blockade power is cited as a
potential reward to Germany for do
ing her share rather than as a men
ace of, further cutting. off her sup
plies Of food and raw materials.
When the discussion on the next
renewal of the arnistice on Feb. II
began, it was stated that, if Germany
did not do thus and SO, the block
ade would be stiffened beyond the rig
orous terms now imposed But
that proposition has been dropped,
Now Germany is to be told that, if
sh conforms to all the old and the
new armistice conditions, the block
ade will be slackened and she will be
helped to that extent in getting the
materials needed for the resumption
of normal industrial life. If she con-
tinues to evade the terms, the present
blockade conditions will continue.
Apparently there is nothing deter
mined upon as to making the block
ade more rigorous than at present.
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