Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-09-08

coal operators" he has not gone
so far as TO defend the miners
in their defiance of constituted
authority. Vice President Murray
of the mine workers went to the scene
of disturbance to try to Induce the
insurgents to return home. Other
union officials had been attempting
this for several weeks without avail.
All the nations invited to take part
in the Washington conference on dis
armament and Far Eastern questions
have agreed to send delegations, the
acceptance Of Italy having been re-
celved last week 1t will be comfort
ing to the representatives Of those
nations at the meeting to learn that
they will probably be accorded the
same privileges as extended to duly ac-
credited foreign diplomats, and that
therefore they will be permitted to
bring alcoholic beverages with them.
Our government will do nothing In the
way Of prohibition enforcement that
might embarrass the conference.
President Harding, speaking at the
fall term of the war college on Thurs
day, expressed the belief that the time
was coming when the burdens Of arma-
ment could be diminished. but de-
clared that mo matter where the best
aspirations Of the world lead us, there
never may be a time without the
necessity for armed forces"
Despite the objections Of railroad
men, the interstate commerce commis-'
sion authorized western and south
western railroads to reduce SIX cents
a hundred pounds the rates on grain
and grain products for export from
Missouri and Mississippi river points
and on grain from the territory be-
tween the rivers and from Illinois to
Gulf ports, Mobile to Galveston, in
elusive.
The commission also authorized the
railroads to publish on five days no
tice reductions on grain ranging from
| cent to 51h cents a hundred pounds
from the territory west Of the Mis-
souri, river in Nebraska, Kansas, Colo
RADIO and Oklahoma to Gulf ports.
The rates from Missouri and MiSsis-
sippi river points and territory be-
tween and Illinois may be published
by the railroads on less than the
usual 30-days' notice.
American food for the starving chill
dren of Russia is being unloaded at
Riga and Reval in immense quantities
and rushed by rail to Moscow. The
American relief administration has
declined to pool its work with the
general plan of the British, French,
Italians, Belgians and japanese on
the ground that the latter plan would
be too much in the control of the
soviets. The Socialist national eXecu-
tive committee Of America, running
true to form, has cautioned the men,
bers Of the party and other workers
against giving any support to the
Hoover relief organization, whose
agents, the Socialists assert, under
the guise Of assisting, the masses of
Hungary, used its machinery for
counter-revolutionary purposes"
The assassination Of Herr Erzber-
ger at the instance Of his political foes
has thrown Germany into ferment of
demonstrations and counter-demon-
strations, accompanied sometimes by
rather serious rioting. First the roy
alists took the field, at Potsdam, for
the ostensible purpose of celebrating
the victory of Tannenberg. The COM
munists and Independent socialists
from Berlin, some 10000 strong, en-
ragged by the Erzberger murder,
marched to the suburb and attacked
the royalists. The police were COM
pelled to intervene and killed several
persons. Next day representatives of
II 100000 organized workers assured
Chancellor Wirth that they were
ready to go to the front for the re-
public, and both the majority and in
dependent socialists demanded that
the government proceed fearlessly
against the elements responsible for
the anti-republlcan demonstrations
and the death of Erzhprger. At the
same time President Ebert Issued a
proclamation declaring the intention
OF the government to suppress with
thc iron hand" and with "unrelent-
ing severity" all opposition to the re-
public He threatened the nationalist
press with Suppressien and confiSca-
tion and prohibited meetings. demon
strationS and publications likely to en-
courage Seditious movements. On
Wednesday, the day the murdered eX-