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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-03
CLOSE OF THE YEAR
FINDS WALL STREET
IN CHEERFUL MOOD

New York, Jan. 1.-The final day
of the year found the financial
community in a more cheerful
frame of mind than at any time in
the last four weeks. There were no
traces of the recent severe liquida-
tion and the low price levels seem to
attract considerable public interest.
This was reflected in an active and
strong stock market, many issues at
midday showing gains at to 5
points from yesterdays closing and
from to almost 20 points over re-
cent low records.
The bond market also was active,
suggesting the revival Of invest
ment buying in anticipation of the
release of heavy January interest
and dividend payments.
The money market was easy de-
spite the shifting of funds inciden-
tai to this period Of the year.
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TRADE WITH GERMANY
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
MONTH BY MONTH
Exports Last Month Were $35,061,-
009-How Trade With Other
Countries is Progressing

Washington, Jan. 1.-American
Grade with Germany continues to
improve the monthly statement of
The Department of Commerce today
showing exports last month of
$35,O61,O ,O09 as compared with $685.
044,142 in the same month year
ago and imports from Germany of
$7,577,686 as compared with S3,-
212,831 in November, 1919.
Both exports and imports general
iy showed a falling off last month
as compared with those of the cor
responding month year ago, but
there were increases in exports to
South and Central America, Mexi-
60, Cuba, Spain and The Neither
bands.
Exports to Japan dropped from
$34,439,9OO in November 1919; to
$9,2O3, ,O03, last month, while i'm
ports from Japan fell from $51,
s73,133 last month.
Exports To France
Exports to France last month
we're 59,009,746 as against $72,-
479,499 in November, 1919. I'm
ports dropped from $19,511,465 a
year ago to $11, 716,546 last No
vember.
Italy took only $26,ss6,773 of
American goods last month as COM
pared with $37,199,s51 a year ago
while imports from that country
fell from $1O,926,S27 to $780,
452.
The Netherlands bought goods
valued at $3,S45,6O2 while a year
sgo the total was $1O,s2s,554. I'M
ports from the Netherlands last
month were s6,791,s37, and a
year ago they were $6,7O1,3s6.
American exports to Great Bri-
sain dropped nearly $115,oO0,o0o
the total in November, 1919, being
1920, ,146261 while last. month it
was only $125,O60,s72. Imports
from Great Britain also fell from
$46,306,863 to $26,823,574.
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MOB LAW PUT FEWER
TO DEATH IN 1920

Tuskegee, Ala, Jan. 1.-Lynchings
were less numerous during 1920 than
in 1919, records compiled at Tuske-
gee institute show. SiXty-one persons
including eight white men, were put
to death by mobs this year, as COM
pared with 93 last year and Ga in
1918.
The report shows Sc instances in
which officers of the law prevented
lynchings during 1920, and that 46
of these instances were in southern
states. Armed force was used to re-
pei would-be lynchers on IA occa-
sions and in four of these the mobs
were fired upon and seven of the at
tackers were killed and number
wounded. In AZ cases prisoners were
removed or the guards were augment
ed or other precautions taken.
Of the 81 persons lynched, the re-
port says, So were in the south and
nine in the north and west. One of
those put to death was a negro
woman. Eighteen of those lynched
were charged with attacks or at
tempted attacks on women; three
were burned to death, one of whom
was charged with attacking and muir
dering a woman and two for killing
landlords during disputes, the report
says. The offenses charged against
the white men were: :.
Murder, s.; insulting women, 1;
"no charge except being foreigner
/; killing officer of the law, /.
Charges Against Negroes.
Offenses charged against the ne
groes lynched the report lists as fol-
lows:
Murder, 5; attempted murder, 4;
killing officers of the law, 5; killing
landlord during dispute, 6; attack
upon women, Is; attempted attack 8,
assisting fugitive to escape, 8; wound
ing another, 2; insulting woman, q;
knocking down guard, Escaping from
chaingang and then returning and
surrendering," 2; and one each of the
following:
Jumping labor contract, threaten
ing to kill man, cutting man in fight
"for receiving stay of death sentence
because another confessed} crime,"
peeping through window at woman;
insisting on voting:."
The lynchings by states were:
Texas, 1O;; Georgia, 9; Mississippi,
Alabama and Florida, each; Min
nesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma
and California, each; Arkansas,
Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri
Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia and
West Virginia, one each.
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OLDEST MAN IN THE
WORLD ILL FOR FIRST :.
TIME IN 146 YEARS

Constantinople, Jan. 1.-For the
first time in his life of LAG years
Fora Mehmed, who is said to be the
eldest man in the world is ill.
He is suffering from indigestion,
for which he blames a set of false
teeth.
All his working life Fora has
been a carrier of heavy weights,
ranging from 200 to 1000 pounds.
During the Napoleonic wars he
had a bet that he could lift 500
pounds with his teeth, and he ruin
ed them in making the attempt. He
got along for some time without
my teeth, and then he obtained a
set which wore out.
! About twenty years ago he got
mother set, which, he says have al
ways given him indigestion and have
finally made him 60 to the hospital
for treatment of the complaint.
Fora was born in Turkish Ar
menia, as the birth record in the
mosque there shows, in 1774.
He has a son aged ninety and a
young daughter Of fifty. In appear
ace he is only about seventy.
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THIS BRIDE-TO-BE ISSUED
OWN MARRIAGE LICENSE

Bartlesville, Okla, Jan. 1.-Miss
Victoria Fournier, deputy county
clerk, issued her own marriage IL
cense yesterday. The party of the
second part is Warren Milligan, a
newspaper reporter. When the blank
was filed she directed Milligan to
raise his right hand and swear to the
truth of the statements. He obeyed.
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SPRAWLING MANNERS
Constance Duchess of Westminster
in the Continental Edition of the
Tonlon Mail

Constance Duchess of Westminster
in the Continental Edition of the
London Mail.)
Never in any period of our social
history has the young girl of every
class enjoyed so great a measure of
liberty as she does today. She comes
and goes without restraint, she en-
tertains her friends of her own Sc
lection, she has her latchkey and
pocket money, which is entirely un-
der her own control.
The latter is, I am convinced an
excellent training for her, much bet
ter than the old method of allowing
a girl to grow up in entire ignorance
of money values with the consequ-
ence that when she came to control
large amounts she expended the mo-
ney foolishly.
We are suffering from an INVASION
of strange manners hitherto un-
known in good society. Young girls
come home alone from dances with a
masculine friend, they go about en-
'tirely unchaperoned, and with friend
probably unknown to their guardians
or parents. All this leads to an ap-
palling laxity perhaps not of conduct
since girls and men come safely
through experiences: which would
have been calamitous to their Vic
torian prototypes-but of manners.
: So far as young men are concerned
bad manners are not new complaint
They were already bad. before the
war, and we women used to be told
by men who had learned their polite
ness in finer school that we were to
blame for the increasing rudeness of
youths, because we put up with it
without protest. No woman should
have to protest, but some of us occa-
sionally are moved to administer a
rebuke when, for example, a young
man remains sprawling in his chair
without rising when lady enters
the room, and other things which
are uncourteous and show either laz-
mess or lack of chivalry.
Nowadays when girls, too, exhibit
surprisingly bad manners, we are be-
coming more tolerant of this modern
phase which makes young people
treat one another casually and with
an entire lack Of Difference, hostess
es little consideration.
At one time to leave an invitation
unanswered was a social crime, and
to bring along party of unlimited
strangers to friend's-heuse was un-
known, yet nowadays these rudeness-
es seem to be quite as frequent as the
desertion of an engagement is some
amusement more entertaining turns
up.
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shipped to the United States from
Chile. If the manufacture of fer
tilizers in this country had been en-
couraged, Mr.. Salmon continued, i'm
portations could have been curtailed
and payment of the tax avoided.
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TALK OF NITRATE
AS YEAR CLOSES
Flood of Debate on Muscle Shoals
Republicans Determined Not to
Yield Although Cry of Sec
tional;sm is Heard.

Washington, Jan. 1.-The old year
closed in the house last night with a
flood of talk on the ups and downs
of Muscle Shoals.
Working through to the eve of the
new year discussing $10,000,000
appropriation for completion of the
Wilson dam, part of the governments
big wartime nitrate project, the
house adjourned with lines sharply
drawn for a fresh fight Monday and
determination on the part of Re-
publicans opposing further aid not
to yield, even in the face of cry of
sectionalism.
All day long the dam project was
bitterly attacked and warmly de-
Tended. 1t remained, however, for
Chairman Graham of the investigat-
ing committee, which went over the
ground, to turn loose the guns upon
the little Alabama settlement into
which, he declared, there had been
dumped with reckless disregard for
the future enough money to erect
half of the public buildings in Wash
.ington.
The other side Of the picture was
presented by Representative Gar
rett,, Democrat, Tennessee, himself a
member Of the investigating body,
who pleaded for funds with which to
go ahead with construction of the
dam named for the president, and
which he insisted would be avital cog
in the American machinery of war.
. The charge by Mr.. Garrett that the
people of the South could see in the
opposition to the measure no ground
except sectionalism was vigorously
denied by Chairman Graham, who
said dam like that now being con-
structed in the Tennessee river never
had been built in the history of the
world, and probably never would.
From the proposal advanced by
Southern representative that the
house put into. the sundry civil bill
the $1O,OOO,OOO stricken out by the
committee, the debate jumped from
the dam itself to nitrate plants two
miles away, involving. the policy of
the government in selecting Muscle
Shoals as site and building. there a
project costing upward of $1O0,000,-
600.
Mr.. Garrett declared that to stop
work now on the undertaking, 80 per
cent. complete and for which ST.
100000 had been expended, not only
would bring great loss to the gov
ernment, but would be "the height
of folly" when nitrate establishments
ranked as the most vital assets in
time of war. Mr.. Graham, on the
other hand, contended that congress
Should not go deeper into the hole"
until it had decided on a different.
policy as to disposal of the plant.
There was decided opposition from
some quarters to a bill now pending
which would convert the Alabama
plant into fertilizer factories, men,
bers processing to see the spectre of
government ownership.
Representative Bankhead, Demo-
crat, Alabama, declared experts had
stated that Muscle Shoals could be
successfully operated as CONNER
cial plant. Completion of the dam,
he argued, was necessary as part of
the nitrate plant machinery, big
enough to serve American farmers
trying for cheaper products needed
for the yield of bountiful crops.
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The Liberal Adviser Is dispensing
Free Advice from his Windy Cave Of
Wisdom and Experience but 1t falls on
Deaf Ears, for Advice Is quoted at
OOM These Days, with No Takers. He
tells the Farmers how to Farm, the
Banker how to Bank and the Editor
BOW to Edit, hence these few Protest
Ag Lines.
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4 new rubber playing ball has
Been patented which can be inflated
and Debated at will.
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1t is not always the one who speaks
longest that says the most.
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SAVANNAH MAY LOSE
SHRINE CONVENTION

Savannah, Ga. Jan. Refusal of
the Pullman Palace Car Company to
permit the parking of its cars here
during the proposed imperial conven-
tion of Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
next summer, may lose Savannah
this convention.
The city had presumed that sever
al thousand visitors could be accom-
modated in parked sleeping cars and
unless they can be obtained it is not
likely Savannah would be able to
care for the visitors. Advices received
by prominent Shriners are to the ef-
feet that the Pullman Company, be-
cause of a shortage of cars, would
rot consent to the parking of any
number of them here during the time
of the convention. If this decision
is adhered to it probably means the
abandonment of the idea of holding
the meeting at Savannahr
1t required the use of 100000
100000 cards to record the popula-
lation of the United States in MAX
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Washington, Dec. Charges that
the farmers of the United States have
been "robbed by the Chilean nitrate
trust which, he declared, was op-
posing the development of the gov
ernment nitrate plant at Muscle
Shoals, Ala, were made today in the
house by Representative Almon,
Democrat, in whose district the plant
is located.
The representative during debate
on the sundry civil bills, asserted that
American farmers because of their
inability to obtain nitrates for fer
tilizer in sufficient quantities, had
been obliged to pay the Chilean gov
ernment since 1879 a total of $685.
900, 900 as export duty on nitrates
Evening star., 1921-04-07
MUSIC ASKED TO OPEN
SESSIONS OF CONGRESS
M. Philips Appeals to President
for Strains of Harmony
in States, Too.

Music, with its sublime power. will
make statesmen gain their aspfra-
tions, surrender their monotonous feel
ing and supplant it with braveness
and responsibility. So believes NJ. Philips.
secretary of the Columbia Grafonola Re
tail Dealers Association, of Washing
ton. who has written to President
Harding urging him to have the Sen
ate and House and the state legtsla
lures open their sessions with the
strains of music.
This will create a new institution
for the betterment of our people in
harmony in life-a new spiritual at
mosphere will be born as usefui.
beneficial factor in our daily life,
said Mr. Philips in his communication
to the President.
Mr.. Philips has written to Miss
Cecil B. Norton. general secretary OF
the community center department OF
the public schools, commencing ner
organization for it's proposal to have
latter part of May. Plans for the
music week" will be discussed at a
meeting of representatives Of musical
clubs, fraternal organizations. civic
associations. trade and labor bodies.
in the Thomson Community Center
tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock. All
persons interested in promoting music
are invited to attend.
Music should be national institu-
ton. with means provided by our
federal government" said Mr.. Philips.
II wish to live to the day when the
American banner will bear this In
scription: America. the Land Of Art,
Science and Music"
Evening star., 1921-04-07
NJ. D. BERLITz DEAD.
Language Expert Had Established
System of Teaching.

NEW YORK. April 7.-Maximilian
D. Berlitz. originator of the Berlitz
system of teaching languages. died
suddenly at his home here yesterday.
He was born in Germany in 1852. but
came to this country when a child.
Mr.. Berlitz had scarcely learned to
speak German when his. parents
moved to America, and 1t was while
trying to learn his lessons in English
in the public schools of Boston that
the idea of a language school came to
him.
The principle taught by his schools
involves elimination entirely from
conversation. and as far as possible
from thought, the native language of
the student.
The first Berlitz school was opened
in Providence, r. l., in 1873. and the
second in Washington two years
later. At present therc are 300 Ber-
litz schools throughout this country
and Europe.
Mr.. Berlitz was recognized as one
of the leading language authorities
in Europe. He was made an officer
de la Legion d'Honneur and otficier
d'Academie Francois and commander
de la Ordeur Civil de Alfonso XII of
Spain.
Evening star., 1921-04-07
BIG SISTERS TO MEET.
First Public Gathering Will Be
Held Tomorrow Evening

The Catholic Big Sisters will hold its
first public meeting in the rooms of
the Christ Child Society, Sd street and
Indiana avenue, tomorrow evening at
8 o'clock. All the Catholic pastors of
Washington have been invited. It is
expected that about two hundred
Catholic women will attend
Rt. Rev. Mgr. C. F. Thomas and Rev.
John NJ. Cooper will speak on the ma
ture and purpose Of the Catholic Big
Sister movement in Washington. The
purposes of the organization are to
aid in finding homes and employment
for women and girls and to cooper
ate with the Juvenile Court and other
organizations in caring for girls on
probation. The Big Sisters have al
ready established a girls club at Sd
street and Indiana avenue Mgr.
Thomas is president Of the organize
ton.
Evening star., 1921-04-07
LEAGUE WOMEN ELECT.
Miss Ethel M. Smith Is Made Trade
Union Chairman.

The Washington committee of the
National Women's Trade Union League
last night chose Miss Ethel NJ Smith
as chairman for the ensuing year Other
officers elected are: Miss Mary Endicott
vice president; Miss Mary Burr, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Laura Halsey treas
urer; board of directors, Miss Ger
trude McNally. Miss Mamie T. Daniel
Mrs +. c. Paul. Miss Florence Thorne,
Miss Nora James, Miss Louise Endi-
colt and Miss Florence Smith; dele
gates to the Central Labor Union
Miss Matilda Lindsey, Miss May Nor
gan, Mrs. Sallie Boyle. Miss Eliza beth
Hayden and Miss Florence Smith.
Miss Nora James was elected dele
gate to the Maryland State and Dis
trict Federation OF Labor convention
and Miss Florence Smith. alternate.
Miss Mary Anderson and Miss Ethel
NJ Smith were elected delegates to the
convention of the National Womens
Trade Union League, which meets at
Waukeegan, H., in June.
Evening star., 1921-04-07
salvation ARMY
MEETING OPENS
More Than 800 Members of
Organization Attending
q Convention Here.

With representatives from every
state east of the Mississippi in attend
anee.t the first joint convention OF
man and woman Salvation Army
workers ever held in the world opened
at the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church today.
More than 500 officers and privates
filled the prayer meeting hall ot the
church, and as the inspiring strains
of Jesus Is Real to Me" fioated
through the open windows little
groups of passers-by stopped in front
of the church and uncovered their
heads.
. Commissioner and Mrs. Thomas Es-
till. commanding officers Of 4 sect. on
comprising twenty-five states. ;he
largest Salvation Army section i'll the
world, presided. and others Oh the
platform included Col. and Mrs. Il f.
Holz. Col and Mrs f. J. Parker and
Col Margaret Bovill. secretary of the
women's department.
Radio From Gen. Booth.
Following the reading of a congrat-
ulatory wireless message from Gen.
Bramwell Booth, who is now on his
way to England. in which he prayed
Gods blessing on the assembly. Rev.
DIR. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the
church, welcomed The convocation on
behalf of his pariShioners-
DIR. Radcliffe recalled that ten Pres
idents of the United States had wor-
SHIPPED at the church. and related the
historical incident of Abraham Lin
coin quietly slipping into an outer
room. where he participated in pray
er meeting unbeknown to the rest of
the congregation. The pastor paid
tribute to work OF the Salvation Army
and wished them every success in
their present convention
At the suggestion of Commissioner
Estill wireless message of appre-
citation was sent 10 Gen Booth.
Brig. Miles Pickering sounded the
keynote of the convention IN his OPEN
ing prayer. when he thanked God
not only for what the Salvation
Army has done and is doing but what
II intends to do"
Papers to BE Read.
Important papers to be read at
later session today include .'The Ideal
Social Worker" by Maj. Edward I'm
derwood. district officer of the metro
politan district; Management of In
stitutions." by Maj. Henry UrcheI of
New York. and care of Discharged
Evening star., 1921-04-07
TEMPLE HOLDS ELECTION.
Lee Baumgarten Heads Hebrew
Congregation Again.

Election at the Washington He
brew Congregation. at the annual
meeting in the Eighth Street Tenn
pie, resulted in the election of Lee
Baumgarten president for the third
time. r. II. Lyon vice president and
Jacob Eisenmann. treasurer. Mr..
Eisenmann was presented with sill
yer service in honor of his twenty
fifth term in office.
Alexander Wolf. B. Rosenfeld. Mil
ton King. Stanley Fischer and A. NJ.
Fishel were elected members of the
board of directors and Leo Baum.
Adolph We'll and Jacob Brook were
elected trustees Simon Wolf was
elected an honorary member for life.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
authorized to build more commodious
rest rooms at the Washington He
brew Congregation cemetery.
Evening star., 1921-04-07
RITES FOR MRS. W0oLsE>
Funeral Services to Be Held To.
night,

Funeral services for Mrs. Julia A.
Woolsey. widow of Baron S. Woolsey,
who died here Tuesday, will be held
tonight at 8 o'clock at the residence
of her son-in-law, George w. Stearn
1886 Connecticut avenue northwest.
Rev. DR.. Charles S. Cole Of Iowa will
officiate. The body will be taken to
Iowa for interment.
Mrs. Woolsey assisted in the initial
drafting of the declaration of inde-
pendence for Czechoslovakia. which
was cabled to Paris and made public
October 10. 1918. She possessed a car
bon copy of the historic document
and also was the recipient of an auto
graphed copy of the declaration of
common aims of the Mid European
Union. She was present in the earlier
stages Of the organization of the
union.
Evening star., 1921-04-07
WILLIAM T. HEARST DIES.
Veteran Clerk of Adjutant Gen.
erals Office Succumbs.

William T. Hearst, a veteran clerk
of the adjutant generals Office. War
Department. who suffered a stroke
of paralysis a few weeks ago, died
at the family home, 1905 B street
northeast, Tuesday evening. Funeral
services were held this afternoon.
Mr.. Hearst, who was a citizen of
Kansas. was appointed a clerk in the
paymaster generals Office September
2, 1886. He served there four years
and then accepted a clerkship in the
adjutant generals Office in July,
1890. where he remained up to the
time NJ his death
Evening star., 1921-04-07
ARTISTS FETE TONIGHT.
Elaborate Carnival to Mark Fifth
Anniversary of Club.

Finishing touches are this after.
noon being given to the streets OF
Paris" in the rooms Of the Arts Club
which will celebrate it's fifth birthday
tonight with a spring carnival and
"beaux arts ball" The artists are
completing the painting Of the Latin
quarter scenes on the wallis and put
ting the awnings over the booths
that line the rooms.
One Of the surprise features Of the
carnival will be q great lack in the
box" under the direction Of Caleb
|OConnor. BY an ingenious use OF
materials the irremovable club furni-
ture has been masked and concealed
This carnival will be held to raise
funds for the redecoration Of the
house, which has been occupied for
the greater part OF the clubs exist
ence.