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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24

American Cotton Association, has
been delegated to work out the de.
tails of the plan.
The resolution adopted by the
South Carolina Division Of the Am
erican Cotton Association follows.
"Our attention has been called to
the urgent md immediate need Of
the thousands Of children and wo-
men in the Near East including Ga
licia, Lthunia, Poland, Russia,
Palestine and Armenia.
"The American Jewish Relief
Committee and the Near East Relief
are associations collecting funds to
save these unfortunate from cold,
hunger and annihilation.
"At this time the South and West
are without money so that we can
not render financial aid such as we
would like, and still their cry for
help should not fall on deaf ears.
"The South and West are rich in
the products of their several Sec
tions. Being inclined to render such
aid as lies within our power, we the
South Carolina Division Of the Am
erican Cotton Association, in con-
vention assembled, call upon the
people of the South and West to con
tribute from our products, material
for food and clothing to protect
these distressed people.
Therefore, be it resolved that
we delegate Mr.. ]. S. Wannamaker
president of the American Cotton
Association to communicate with
the grain growers of the West urg-
ing them to contribute agriculture
products amounting to $25O,0O0
and that he urge the American Cot
ton Association to join in with the
American Jewish Relief Committee
and the Near East Relief to contri-
butte cotton equal in value to like
sum S25O,OO0 from Southern
States"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24
TEXTILE WAGES
MUCH REDUCED
Decided Reduction Made in New
England-Notiees are Posted

Boston, Dec. 14.--A reduction OF
about % 1-2 per cent in the wages
of approximately one-third of the
100000 textile workers in New
England was announced today. The
notices were posted in Lawrence,
Lowell, New Bedford and other cen
ters of the industry in Maine and
Rhode Island. For the most part
they applied to mills making cotton
goods, but in few instances opera
tives on worsteds were involved.
Other cotton manufacturers have
indicated that they would fall into
line, but whether the woolen and
worsted mills will take similar &C.
ton at this time is uncertain. Will
liam M. Wood, president of the A
merican Woolen company, said he
had no word to add to his statement
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24
FARMERS ASKED TO DONATE
COTTON AND GRAIN FOR
NEAR EAST RELIEF
Western Farmers Urged To Donate
$2So,ooO Worth Of Grain South
Asked For $780, 900 Worth
OF Cotton

Columbia. Dec. 15.-A plan for
the people Of the South and West
to contribute to their agricultural
products to the relief of the Near
East sufferers and the Polish people
is being worked upon by the Amer
can Cotton Association. The plan
was evolved by Louis I. Guion, OF
Lugoff, member Of the executive
committee of the South Carolina
Cotton Association and was endors-
ed by the South Carolina Cotton AS
sociation at its annual meeting last
Wednesday.
The plan calls for contribution
of cotton equal in value to $250,OOo
by the people of the West. J. Skot-
towe Wannamaker, president Of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24

on December 90 and 22 1-2 per
cent wage reduction. announced to-
day in Lawrence, Lowell and New
Bedford and in many smaller New
England mill centers. The reduc-
ton. will apply to about 100000
operatives.
The posting of notices of reduc-
tion at the largest cotton mills in
Lawrence today was duplicated in a
large number of Massachusetts,,
Maine and Rhode Island cities. In
some instances the amount of the
reduction was not specified, but it
was understood that it would be ap-
proxinately the same in all cases.
The Amoskeag mills of Manchester,
N. H., one of the largest cotton and
worsted manufacturing plants in
the country, and other mills in New
Hampshire have not yet made any.
announcement as to a reduction. At
Fall River, one of the principal tex
tile centers, manufacturers and un-
ion labor leaders are conducting ne
gotiations regarding wages.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24
CAPPER MEASURE
PASSES HOUSE
Exempts Farmer From Sherman
Antitrust Laws

Washington, Dec. 16.-The Cap
per-Hersmann bill exempting far
mers' cooperative marketing asso-
Citations from the provision of the
Sherman antitrust law was passed
today by the Senate without a re-
cord vote.
The bill now goes to conference
for consideration of the Senate
amendment providing that the Fed
eral Trade Commission instead OF
the Secretary of Agriculture shall
pass on complaints against any CO.
operative association.
Other amendments added by the
Senate provide that complaints
against the cooperative associations
shall be heard in the federal judi.
cial district in which the principal
office of the association is located
and that any attempt to create 8
monopoly or resort to unfair me-
thods, of competition in commerce
shall make the association liable to
prosecutions under the antitrust
laws and the Clayton act.
Associations formed under the
measure must operate for the mu.
tual benefit of the members. Nc
member is permitted to have more
than one vote regardless Of the
amount of stock or Membership
capital and dividends are limited to
8 per cent Of the capital stock.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24
BIG BANKING COMPANY
FORMED FOR SOUTH
Subscribed Stock of Seven Million
Dollars Reported-Directors
Named; Will Be Con.
firmed

New Orleans, Dec. 1S.-The Feo-
eral International Banking COM
pany, with subscribed stock Of ST.
100000 was formally launched
here today at meeting of the cam
paign committee. Fifteen members
of the board of directors were nomi-
; mated at tonight's conference and
will be presented to a meeting of
the stockholders to be held here
January Z for confirmation.
Following the confirmation of
the board of directors by the stock
holders, officers of the new institu-
tion will be elected by the board
and the bank will begin to function
under the privisons of the Edge act
and under a charter from the fed
eral reserve board.
The conference held here today
was attended by bankers from nine
Southern states, the banks Of which
have participated in the preliminary
organization and subscribed the
capital stock. A canvass Of the stock
4sq4 psAoqs Gspo4 suopduasqns
total Of $7,ooo,ooo has been SUBJ
scribed, making it possible for the
corporation to begin with a capital
of $1,0o0,000 in excess Of the
amount originally agreed upon.
Stock in the corporation will be
divided into 10000 shares at par
value of 800 each and in view of
the oversubscription, it was decided
to hold the stock subscription books
open and instruct the campaign
committee to solicit subscriptions
with a view to increasing the capital
stock to s1o,ooo,o0o.
At the meeting Of the stockhold-
ers in this city on January z the
banks making subscriptions to the
capital stock will actually pay in the
tresaury rs per cent. of their SUBJ
scriptions, making it possible for
the organization to begin to func-
ton Immediately.
Subscriptions by states so far ac-
tually recorded, as announced today
are as follows: Arkansas, $427,000;
Alabama, $543,675; Florida, $112,-
600; Georgia, $1,4oo,oO0; Louisi-
, ana, s1,719,725; Mississippi $780,
900; South Carolina, $225,6o0;
Tennessee $622,500; Texas, ST.
$50, ,O0O-total, 100000.
Among those named on the
board of directors are: Mills B.
Lane, president Citizens and Sou
thern bank of Savannah; Robert F.
Maddox, president. Atlanta Nation
al bank of Atlanta; John X. Ottley;
president Fourth National bank Of
Atlanta; ]. Pope Matthews, presi-
dent Palmetto National bank of Co.
lumbia, S. c., and Arthur F. Perry,
president Florida National bank of
Jacksonville.
Under the plan Of organization,
the bank will assist Southern pro-
ducers in marketing their surplus
products abroad by furnishings the !
means of extending credit to those |
countries desiring it for the pur-
chase of Southern supplies. .,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

A special meeting of the stock
holders of the Planters Bank is here
by called by the directors to meet in
the office of the president of said
bank at ~ o'clock noon Thursday
December 30th, to consider a resolu
ton adopted by the directors to in
crease the capital stock from $4,000
to an amount not exceeding 100000
and to transact any other business
that shall come before it.
OTTO BRISTOW, Cashier.
4t-12, 8, 13, 20, 9th.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24

of several days that the directors OF
that company, which operates SO
mills, had not yet considered the
matter.
The reduction, which is made ef-
fective in most places next Monday
in effect cancels two increases made
during the past year and restores
prices approximately to the figures
that obtained before a IL 1-2 per-
cent increase last year.
The manufacturers of Lowell an
nounced that the average wage of
the mill worker there under the
new schedule would be s21a week.
The question Of reducing wages
in the extensive cotton mills at Fall
River is under negotiations by man.
ufacturers and labor leaders. Most
of the other centers Of the industry
in this section were represented in
the announcement of today.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24

Mount Fuji in Japan has heat
enough in some Of its steaming fis-
sures to permit eggs to boil.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24

Wealthy English children, in the
eighteenth century, had toys of
solid silver.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-24

Boston, Dec. 14.-All of the tex
tile mills of Maine and virtually all
in Rhode Island will put into effect
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
The Woman and the Mouse

The Western Union Telegraph Company should be made to pay heavily for the damage claimed by a woman, former employe result of being chased around by fellow employe holding a live by the tail- The company of course not morally to blame for that lapse the joker, but it should be allowed to evade responsibility for the of it's agent-the mouse holder.
 There is a peculiar enormity involved in his duct He must have known that and ele plants share in equal degrees mortal superstitous terror of mice. If he did know that he did know enough to be large. He is the kind joker who would touch off bomb under the chair of friend for the fun of watching the ascension for the enjoyment of the surprised remarks Of victim his return earth
 What substantial bodily injuries the woman this case suffered do know. The Associ.tei Press dispatch records It presents only tai fact of the escape the mouse we all know and we doubt whether in all this land a jury could be found so dense not know before hand. the sensibilities of the plaintiff lacerated as they could have been by other form of atrocty.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
Those Ancient Bonds

When we are reminded, as we yesterday, py dispatch from Prescott of the 4o-year- railroad bonds which Maricopa Pima, Yavapai and Coconno counties will have pay are not scrupulous against handing obligations peserity provided send along with them something of value to be received. part of these bonds represents noth- ing Arizona the time any time after their issue and should never have been put into position to be paid.
 AIaricopa's share is of just debt cover ing some benefit O county The share of Yava- and Coconino just debt; at rate, it Is result of arrangement entered into in good faith both sides The bonds issued to finance building of Bullock from selgman to Prescott. built and operated, but was forced out of business by the Santa Fe Prescott < Phoenix road in the early ninetes.
 But no more brazen steal was ever perpetvated than that represented the issuance and delivery Of Pima so-called Lewis bonds authorized by the [ legislature encourage the construction of road Tucson Globe. There probably never intention to construct that road short stretch consisted of a line of thrown-up earth spoken of colloquialiy as grade" this laid streaks of rust which the polite and enthusiastic citizens of Tucson then referred to rails. The equipment wheezy discarded locomotive and old construction cars The line believe two miles in length. Tho northern terminus mesquite against which the contractors damned the right Of way and could any rate did get past that obstruc-
 
 The delivery of the bonds supposed to be e-guarded by a condition that they should be turned to the contractors in installments; each the completion of a certain unit. But the bords disappeared night from the in the office of supervisors. presumably stolen by attache of the office.
 They next appeared the possession of man named brought by him his successors interest to compel payment. The case reached the United States supreme in 1894 and the Pima bonds held be invalid.
 question had been raised regarding the precise status Maricopa and Yavapa bonds. though there disposition to repudate them The territorial legislature Of 1895 adopted memcr iaI to congress urging legislation to establish the validity of those bonds the following such an act passed Whether by careessness or de- sign the found be sufficiently broad to cover and revvify Pima bonds which subsequently, held by the United States court 10 have been validated.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
Prohibition and the Democrats

A pointer to the probability--one of many point ers-that the prohibition question is going to be an in the democratic national convention IS found in earlier returns of Literary Disests Of the 11,o0o.o0o post cards which had been all parts of the country 2500o have been returned and tabulated
 Governor Edwards of New Jersey who is known only opponent of prohibition stands second tn the list with 10s7 He led only by Governor respective states Governor Edwards long lead Governor Edwards received 339 votes from hls state. leaving 74s for him scattered among twenty-one other states. Deducted from the 1f23 for Governor Cox the 1o77 from his state of Ohio there left only 46 contributed by of other states.
 The showing previously made by Governor I1d- wards in the primaries of several western mid states where he would probably have been heard of but his opposition prohibition, indicates there considerable disposition n the democratic party to expression in the convention against
 Twenty thousand 100000 hardly be regarded representative that the plexion may be changed further returns ee;ved but it is evident that there is feeling that the liquor traffic has been erly disposed nothing is settled right.
 It appears from the tabulaton of the first returns from the that only the presidential candidates have far made perfect score; that that they received votes from state. They General Wood who is given 5S57 Herbert Hoover with ssss. General Wood leads his nearest two Hoover's mostly by democrats who at the time they made returns, had not learned that he would accept only republican nomination
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
FATHER AND SON

When young John D. Rockefeller talks about his father and mother he is human any human as democratic any s rich. once he tole his Sunday school class:
 There is no success great that of being the best father in the world your little son"
 And he added:
 Ihere IS no other wealth comparable that o believing you have the best father in the world"
 Botn arguments are sound to the core. Young Rockefeller never said in all his life anything of greater value to young peopIe-or old
 The other day, in Cleveland, the city of his birth. young Rockefeller spoke in the vein:
 T thank God for santed mother and for my revered father who taught love serve God-
 All you young people, you who have -aother CT father or both, with in the land of living have you spent q moment or two telling your father that he is the best father in world" or your motner that she Is the best mother?" Ie not do it now
 And you fathers: Can you conceive of any goal mgher than that of being the best father in the world in your sons eyes? course not, Fsut are you trying your utmost to be that father? If not' do It now The same advice goes to mothers al though as matter of fact, they need little of that sort of advice.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
SLUG EI'''|I| ' ' Y $:ij ;:::'j l.,,.,, WV i:'''''' I':::'''' ''; ' ]!

They have invented a new method of digging out the family skeleton at Liverpool. N. i. Does a Liverpoolite hurry himself to the divorce court and get action? He does not. He calls in the neighbors. And tells lem his troubles. That his wife is cross to him. pee wish. and throws rolling pins. They get an earful Of her story. That he won't mind the baby when she has to go to the sewing club. and doesn't come 50-50 on the income. The neighbors render a verdict. If they think the couple ought to apply for divorce they say so. If they think there ought to be a further trial of matrimonial letters hey say so.
 it works out like this:
 When father won't clean up the eel lar wife threatens to call in the neighbors to sit on him.
 When he stays out late of evenings sick friend stuff, you know--ne is apt to come home and find the parlor full of neighbors ripping him up the back
 And any poor fish of a husband would rather walk the straight and narrow than have his neighbors in duIge in tine pleasant pastime of haul inS out the family skeleton every so often.
 He didn't mind the judge of the oid- style divorce court so much for the judge wasn't in the habit of running round and telling everything he heard But those neighbors. They all ex- eel as conversationalists.
 Yes. admits Squire Abner Harping ton. this is a great day for leaving to a committee to decide.
 Once upon a time the boss bossed the plant.
 Now he leaves it to a committee of directors and workers.
 At one time the president used to make treaties with foreign powers
 Now he has to leave it to the senate
 Time was when you settled your own grievances. Now you leave it to jury
 And. by heck. you can't even die nowadays without somebody calling in young army Of doctors for q con sultation.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
QUESTIONS AND
 ANSWERS
o. What is>meant by crossing the

O. What is>meant by crossing the Rubicon? T. E. D.
 A. The Rubicon was the old name of a stream which separates Cisalpine crossing it in 49 B. C.. virtually de- ciared war against the republic. For this reason the expression carries the idea of taking an irrevocable step
 c. When was the first professional game of baseball played that resulted in 10 score? A. w. M.
 A on May 27, 1875, game was played in St. Louis, which ended with score of Chicago ', St. Louis 0.
 O. What are the pastoral epistes? D. Nj. |.
 A. These are q group in the collec- tion of new testament letters which in their several addresses claim to have been written by the Apostle Paul. They differ from his other writings in being specific charges concerning pas toral care of certain fields, and com prise First Timothy, Second Timothy and Titus
 O. How old is cIer,enceau? c. G. A..
 A. Georges. Benjamin Eugene Gle menceau was born in 1S41, and will therefore be 79 during this year.
 c. What is the derivation of the word diamond? N. O. O.
 A. The word is derived from q Greek word which means unconquer- able and unbreakable.
 c. What is the largest automobile factory in the world? l. A. M.
 A. The Ford Motor company is the largest concern of this kind, employing over 35,000 persons, and turning out about 5000 automobiles day.
 c. When was the night of the big wind in Ireland? Can it be compared with cyclones and tornadoes in this country? F. A. L.
 A On the night of January 6-7. 1899, a terrible tempest and hurricane prevailed. Limerick and Dublin suf- fered much damage, 200 houses were blown down. 20 persons killed and 100 drowned. Greater storms often visit the United States but this marks q date to the Irish, since Ireland is OK ceptionally free from wind storms.
 O. How did geometry originate? Nj. H.
 A. According to Herodotus. it arose from the need Of surveying the lands inundated by the Nile floods in Egypt.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23

the governorship after it had learned of his nseon respect funds.
 Even if Mir. Ferguson should not succeed to the presidency; though he might the party nomination, if he should rank s a serious contender for it he will have been thereby dragged out Of the somewhat dssraceful obscurity into which he had plunged.
 In ordinary circumstances would suppose the aspirations of the former governor to be hopeless. But the politics of the Lone Star State in a diton of Aux It would unreasonably stretch ling q point say that they chaotic and almost anything may be expected emerge from chaos.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
M-. Bryan and the Nebraskans

Though Mir Bryan succeeded nosing into tho Big Four in Nebraska democratic primary, he suffered in his opposition to United States senator Hitchcock which he had announced was the prohibition issue. We hardly think that to inc democratic voters of Nebraska that the main issue; they had other reasons why they pre- ferre1 Senator Hitchcock to Ross. the. candidase MT. Bryan.
 But supposing that the issue it is not tlie first time Mir Bryan has been defeated it in his own state. the loser in contest with former Mayor Dahlman Omaha that issue dozen years ago when he opposed the latters eau ddacy for membership in the national democratic committee Nebraska.
 The Nebraskans. no doubt proud of fellow citizen great eminence MT. Bryan, but evil dentIy they trust to his political leadership Their attitude toward him is such be man- taned toward a piece of rckety, antique furniture something to be exhibited judiciousIy. admired be- cause of it's historic association. but, used when there much other safer, more useful more comfortable furniture hand
 That the Nebraska democrats gave him and other member of ticket. places. though bottom ones the delegation at large is testimony to this attitude toward him. spite of the fact that in the Baltimore he disregarded the instructions of his party in favor of Champ Clark at critical moment when his obedience his instructions would have given MT. Clark the presidential nomination.
 The flimsiness of his pretext for deserting Clark when the latter clear maj jority. lacking only the necessary two-thrds, and the reward which came to MT. Bryan later-the foremost place ident Wilson's cabinet, convinced his fel- low, citizens that disobedence of instructions was in his own interest rather in that of the party the nation
 A man who can win a his peopIe after such incident as that must have sort of a hold not strong upon their affec-
Arizona republican., 1920-04-23
LAND DEPT. TAXES IN
 S100.0OO IN MARCH

amounted to more than S100,000 during the month of March, while this months receipts up to date are approximately S63.0O0.
 The largest single item in the March report was from the sale of land, the amount yielding to the state s59.196.97. Land rentals amounted to S15,145.S3, while. oil rentals were s1450. Fees, contract and timber sales and other sales and rentals increased the amount to the total of more than $1.000,000.