University of South Carolina Libraries
The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Published Every Wednesday by THE PRESS AND BANNER CO. WM. P. GREENE, Editor WEDNESDAY AUG. 18, 1915. LETHE. Last Thursday we visited Lethe. We had been there before. It is a magnificent estate. It was given to the poor children of Abbeville District by a generous benefactor long- years before the day of free schools. It has done a great work in its time, but the free schools have crippled it to some extent. It is still, however, a valuable estate and much good will come from it, if it be properly managed and looked after. The trustees now have a good man at the head of the school, and it is doing a good work. Twenty-four children, twelve girls and twelve boys, are being helped along life's journey through this institution. . It is believed, however, that the purposes UJL txic icoutivx tuuiu uc better carried out, and the benefits proposed for the children of this county made of more value, if the school were enlarged through a state appropriation, and by allowing a certain number of children from other counties to attend. There is ample land for an industrial school, and no doubt some scheme can be worked out that will make the school a great deal more beneficial to the public than the present school, and at the same time the scheme and desire of the testator may be carried to completion. We hope that some plan may sug- < gest itself to the Governor and Legislature by which the estate may be made of lasting benefit to poor children of this district?and, too, to tfco nnnr children nf nttipr ^nnnfipe But whatever is done should be as a monument to that noble Frenchman who came to live among us, and who left of his bounty this estate for the education and training of those most needy. GOOD ROADS. The road to Lethe and the Due West road are now in good shape except for a few washes due largely to recent rains. It is noticeable, though, even to the casual observer, ' that the roads are better where they ' have been widened than elsewhere; : and they have suffered less at these . points from washing. We trust that the Supervisor will : keep these facts in mind. The ; roads should be opened to a width , of forty feet at all points. If the j people along the roads will not give j this width, no work should be done * ( on their roads. It is a waste of the public money to pile dirt up in a narrow ridge to be washed away &t j the next rain. Most people are j learning the value of good roads, and will readily contribute the necessary lands; others will learn from observation that only wide roads are good roads. The value of a plantation is great- j ly enhanced to the owner who has produce to market or to the ( owner who wishes to sell, by a good road. You cannot sell lands with out goods roads; and a farmer who makes crops for sale must have the , roads to reach the market. Ten ^ miles of good roads are traveled at less expense than five miles of muddy and rough roads. As soon as we ^ appreciate these facts we shall make some progress. ===== I "OUR INSTITUTIONS." i The educational issue of the Asso- ] ciute Reformed Presbyterian gotten ( out week before last by Brother Gal- ( loway and his force of excellent prin- | ters is a creditable effort. The paper carries cuts of the institutions at j "TV ft" i 1 . " * .L>ue wesi ana 01 some 01 tne men at ( the head of these fine schools. ^ It has always been a source of re- j gret to us that the people of the . county have not appreciated the great advantages at their doors in j the^e institutions. On last Satur- ( day at Lethe, Senator Johnstone paid . a great tribute to Erskine College, , and to the men who have gone out , from it. We wish that our own people could learn the value of these j institutions of higher learning. The schools are denominational, it is j xrue, Dut tney are more than this, they are established for giving to all j who apply the benefits of a good edu- ( cation along with good moral train- } ing- , We hope that the fine issue of the Presbyterian may turn the footsteps , of more of our boys and girls towards Due West. It is a good place to go. PORTER ON PROHIBITION Our prohibition issue last week ] pleased a great many of our readers; 1 some it did not please. We are i sorry for this. But we do not always agree on these subjects. Every man is entitled to his own opinion when reached by proper deduction from the arguments and facts before him. Nevertheless, we are thankful that a great many good men have commended the effort we have made, and the words we have spoken, in a cause we are convinced is right. In today's issue is an earnest letter from Mr. Porter, of Willington. Mr. Porter is a young man of deep convictions on this subject. He is a logical thinker, and a good writer. You should read what he has to say. It is to the point; and Porter points to prohibition. He is right. A NEW EDITOR. Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville, has become associate editor of The Greenville Piedmont. Mr. Parker will add much to a paper already readable, as well as one of the best prJi+orl nonorc in -fVia Qfa+A VViiVVU VI kj AAi. Vl&V UVU WV* The wide business experience of Mr. Parker, his intercourse and association with men of affairs, his expensive reading and learning, coupled with his just judgment and sound common sense, make him well qualified for the duties of editor of a wide-awake daily . paper. That he will seek to educate his readers, and lead them aright, goes without saying. The Press and Banner will watch his journalistic career with interest, and we shall look forward each evening, more than ever, to the pleasure of reading The Piedmont. FUNNY PICTURES. Some of our exchanges have profited by reading the Press and Banner. In order to please their readers they have adopted the "FUNWV PTPTTTPVC ?? oo ? kl * A *V/A W IV&JUj UO TT t VIIV* VTllCIl w c commenced to operate this paper. The Elberton Star is one of these papers adopting the pictures. But this good paper does not buy "Mutt and Jeff," nor '"Get the Hook;" it prefers to amuse the children of that community with pictures of some of its own industry, and accordingly the children are enjoying the likenesses of some of Elberton's prominent men. Last week they laughed at Dr. A. S. Hawes. LIQUOR SALES. According to reports from the fifteen counties of the State operating dispensaries, there was sold by these institutions in the month of July liquors to the amount of a quarter of a million of dollars. Considering the amount of liquor shipped into these counties to blind tigers and to individuals, and the amount shipped into the dry counties of the state to Diina tigers and individuals, the amount of liquors consumed by the people of this state during the last month will hardly be less than a half million of dollars. In the course of the year the. amount consumed, calculating at the same rate, will amount to six millions of dollars, enough, we. believe, to pay the bonded indebtedness af the state in a single year. From these sales the fifteen counties of the state operating dispensaries claim to be receiving revenue; a small amount of money these counties, no doubt, do receive, but they are reaping, too, revenue in the shape if crime, lawlessness, drunkenness, and disorder. Surely the people of the state are lot nearly bankrupt when they are J iviiiing to give one hundred and fifty thousand bales of cotton (one-sixth 3f this year's crop) for an article, lot only useless, but positively harmful. And shall the people of this state icknowledge, at this late day, that ;hey cannot raise revenue sufficient :o run the state and county governnents without selling to the citizens )f this commonwealth six millions of lollars of intoxicating drink, where>y the women and children, in many :ases, are robbed of all comfort and lappiness in life, and ofttimes of iven the necessities of life? And 'or how long will an enlightened pubic sentiment allow the serpent to lie it the door of this people? The people of this state will have ;he opportunity at the approach elec:ion to strike a blow at liquor selling ind liquor drinking. The people of ;his state are strongly for prohibiten; but it should not be taken for granted that the election will cai'ry ;n favor of prohibition. The forces in the other side will be busy; do not forget that. It is the duty of svery man who is interested in making South Carolina free of rum to go io the polls early and vote. And remind your neighbor that he, too, should vote. TALKING IT OVER" IN ANDERSON DAILY MAIL. Wyatt Aiken, Jr., the 18-year-old son of Congressman Wyatt Aiken, of Abbeville, is on a trip to the San Francisco exposition. He is making the trip alone and on money that he made himself. When it was an nounced several years ago that the NC exposition would be held in San FC Francisco in 1915 young Aiken made up his mind that he would go and he C01 has been getting ready for it ever ajc since. He began working at every Ur odd job' that he could get, during rrn school and between terms, and every c^: dollar that he made he put in the ur bank. He denied himself all luxu- tn< ries and extravagances and devel- Ba oped into almost a miser. Some Ho months ago he began studying rail- mi road schedules and mapped out his ^ itinerary for every day that he would wj be gone. He travels almost entire- ini ly in day time, and if he travels at a night he rides in a day coach. He W( says it was too hard to make his money to spend any of it on Pull- po man cars. He stops off at nearly tr< every large town on the way and p? spends his nights in that way. He na is taking plenty of time and is se?- th ing all the country? He went by the te: southern route, by way of New Or- ^ leans, and his plan is to come back j"j by the northern route, by way of jn the Grand Canyon, Chicago and Cin- wl cinnati. He is about half through an WAW /J loff AWP vnnAitrn/4 flfl Liic uip iivw auu icitcio a*tu from him say he is getting along .1 splendidly. He has not had an aci- ^ dent nor any trouble of any kind. ru His father did not at first like the pl< idea of a boy of his age undertaking er; such a trip alone, but finally decided that as he had made the money himself, it would be too cruel not to let jt him spend it as he had his heart set er1 on spending it pe ofl kii ARE THE CHAIN GANGS WISE? lie r SOI (The News* and Courier.) PI The Abbeville Press and ?Banner bo raises a point which needs to be con- ^i sidered when it urges that the county ^ could save money and secure larger pe, and more satisfactory results if it coi would abandon once and for all the a ! present plan of trying to keep the ^ public highways in condition by ta< means of convicts. jon There are no doubts on The Press or. and Banner's part as to the sound- m ness jof the view it takes as to this matter. "The people had as well realize," it says, "that the county dr chain gang with its numerous bosses ga and guards *lust go, or the county ^ will be bankrupt. The expenses of maintaining this institution so far Dr out-measure the visible results that fill a thoughtful business man should ha abandon the enterprise. It takes too much money to guard these con- toi victs, and too much to feed, clothe, sh< and maintain them; too much to fo keep the organisation going to make C?J it anything except a constant drain mi upon the resources of this county. At least half the time the roads are not in condition to be worked; and :fai the convicts are idle in so far as ow doing effective work is concerned. But during this time the salaries of ^ the guards and bosses, the meat bills, and the bread bills, the feed for stock no and other expenses, all these, like Interest, go on?go on night and day and on Sundays." ' |?? This is a strong presentation of the case against the county chain gang, fai and we are inclined to believe that it The Press and Banner knows what it y? is talking about. If not, it would be an well worth while to hear to the con-1 trary. _ i hit Of rnnrsf? t.h#? nnint. mnv rni.cpH lr?r that something has to be done with ap the convicts and that this is the best use which can be made of them. That ^ is a matter which ought to be taken Ces into consideration, of course, but if wo the average county is losing money evi on its chain gang then it would seem to follow that some better plan of > providing for offenders ought to be discovered. The mere fact that labor is free ^ does not make it cheap; and it is time this assumption were dismissed and the whole question brought for- j ward by our Abbeville contemporary, Ed made the subject of a comprehensive ] study on the part of the citizenship rec of each county. re? val MR. PORTER WRITES ON KING tat ALCOHOL. SMITE HIM! pla Willington, S. C., August 12, 1915 ' Editor Press and Banner:? ' Vmir prlitnrial in t.ViP i^np nf An- ^ pust 11th, deserves the hearty en- sel dorsement of every reader of your om paper. When you comment on Pro- jnp hibition you touch upon the cause that lies nearest and dearest to my ''; heart and a cause that vitally con- ^ cerns every man, woman and child in our land and should especially appeal to the wives and mothers of our UUUIILX^. For the life of me I cannot see ] how any fair minded man can favor Fa; the sale of whiskey in any shape or jng form. Viewed from any angle you frj( please to look from, it is an arch tur enemy. As a medicine it is a fail- pei ure, but as a destroyer of human to life and happiness it is a paramount to success, it has no equal. It is "Dou- tin: ble Distilled Damnation." tuc From a religious standpoint it is, shc as expressed by "Bob" Ingersoll, r God's worst enemy and the Devil's bes best friend. Many passages of scrip- wa; ture can be quoted where its use is of severely criticised and condemned in oni emphatic language. "Wine is a be mocker, strong drink is raging and ] whosoever is deceived thereby is lat< )T WISE." Are we going to be >OLS any longer? From an economical standpoint it nstitutes the greatest drain upon r nation. The money spent for oholic liquors last year in the lited States would build six panai canals; it would educate every ild; it would more than pay the tional debt and if I have the figes correct it would more than pay e capital stock of all the Nationl inks and have seven hundred miln dollars left. We spent several llions (I haven't the exact figures) it year for foreign missions but len that amount is compared with i^t we spent for alcohol it pales to insignificance. It would build fine macadamized road around the >rld twelve times. From a humanitarian standpoint is painful to discuss. It brings verty, suffering, insanity, disease, 5uble, sorrow, heartaches, death, struction and HELL. What more inful sight, heartrending in its ture can your imagination picture an to see a mother on a cold winr night hovering over a few coals th her darling little children wait? for the return of a drunken husnd who is spending his substance riotous living while his dear wife, 10m he has sworn to love, protect d cherish, is suffering for support d companionship. Oh! how terris to think of, yet it is a common tfit. Oh, what will pay for a jther's broken heart. Nothing can in a wife's happiness more comJtely than her husband's debauch y. - % That old argument about prohibi>n taking away a man's personal erty, is the greatest farce I know, does not take away personal libty but on the other hand, restores rsonal liberty. When as is too ben the case a man will make any id of promise, tell any kind of a , spend his last dime yea, sell his al for a drink, WHERE IS HIS JRSONAL LIBERTY? Is he not und hand and foot in the fetters of ng Alcohol? He has the same ftt to drink as any other man has use morphine or cocaine. Other ople's rights must be taken into nsideration also. A drunk man is menace to society, to his family, his friends land to the public genally and to all who come into con-. :t with him. Who wants to ride a train with a drunken engineer with a drunken dispatcher at the re? Not I, nor you either, nor even drunk man. You may say that it does not occur, but 4et me tell u, a drunkard is liable to get unk at any time, at any place, re rdless of what he has to do or to :e, if he can get the alcohol. He s an insane delusion that with a ink he can do most anything, unkenness is insanity. Alcohol is ing our asylums, penitentiaries, spitals, almshouses and graverds. Alcohol is the real cause of rd times, not the low price of coti. If the South had the money e has spent for liqours in the last w -years she could buy her entire tton crop and burn it up and not ss the money. Think of the many young lives it have been sacrificed to drink, ink of the broken hearted mothers, thers, and wives in our land who e their sad, unhappy condition ely to the use of whiskev bv their red ones. It did for Philip of icedon anrl A Iflvon/im- r>-?^ MIC UXCttt) I lat the armie3 of the world could t do. It has killed more men than the wars of the world The drunrds are dying fast, their ranks must filled. Fathers are you willing it your sons help fill the ranks? >! a thousand times No! Some thers and mothers and sons will do and if you do not want it to be urs you must work and work hard d untiring for prohibition. On September 14th let's see that >beville county goes splid for pro>ition. Alcohol has for a long, lg time been emperor of Russia d Germany, president of France, lg of England and Monarch of 2 United States, but his throne is ;tering and will scon fall. SucjS will soon be ours but we must rk and work hard for the forces of il are pressing hard. "At the t it biteth like a serpent and ngeth like an adder." itespecttully, J. Edwin Porter. >L. ROCHE QUITS THE GAME WITH A BUNCH OF TRUMPS ALL BALLED UP IN HIS HAND. itor Press arid Banner:? From several locals appearing1 in :ent issues of your paper, your iders would infer that I am cultiuing or trying to cultivate a repuion as a professional set-back iyer, this I wish to deny. A professional set-back player is nethine: to be dreaded by any cominity. Infatuated by the game himf he is continually wanting somee to play with him, thereby render: himself a nuisance. As I have no )iration on this line I have cut the .tiferous game out. Very truly, Pat Roche. ADVICE TO GARDENERS. People who are interested in a [1 garden are getting busy prepar; their ground and are asking their ends if it is the right time to plant nips. Take the advice of an ex t, and remember, it is too early plant turnips, but is a good time plan ruta bagas. It is also le to plant for a Fall crop of let 1 1- i- J? J --- I e anu ptsupie interested in ceiery tuld order their plants. rhe middle of September is the it time to plant turnips and alys be careful to plant in the dark the moon. Spinach, radishes, ons, beets and carrots should also planted in September. Beans planted now will come on e in the fall. ? jl fplii I Cleaned anc I 30 ce I Wehavebouj | Press for th< I Try 4 Abbeville Stea J ? ^ Phone ( %? ? Cigars *# Speed's Dr Phone Always [Ready t Stationery LowRound FOR EVERYBODY 01 Seaboard Air 2 "The Progressive Rai San Francisco and San Diego, C2 tional Exposition, and Panam: For specific rate, schedules r ' . call on Seaboard Agents, U. S. CUiMFTOJN. T. P. A., S. A. L. Ry. Atlanta, Ga. jglSISMSJSJSISJSISPSISJSJSISiSJSISISMSJSISISISJSJSJS CLEAN,, -DP- " 1 111 fact Everything: i IO. A. Milford I Phone fgj2J3J3?3M3MSJSJ3MSM3J3MBI3EOJSMSJ3MSf I HAVE A * SANDWICH SUPPER A. M. HILL & CO. J have an excellent line of goods for Sandwich Suppers. TRY i Shrimp, Lobster, Finney h Fish, Sardines, Salmon, Olives, Cheese, Peanut Butter, Pimentos. o Olive Oils, Wesson's Cooking Oil, Yacht Club . T) Dressing. ^ o Abbeville Baked Bread, | one day old, will cut well. The very best Blends of Tea. _ A. M. HILL & SONS Phone 126 ( ; i m i L Pressed | aits I oht a $250 f e purpose. | Us I .mLaundiy | >8-B * ^ , . <i.?. . w . i - " \ ??????? PlS Candy v , ug Store. , 18. o Serve You.' % Toilet Goods ' i .... , - ; ;-v I:? ?-?? Trip Rates PFERED BY THE Ane Railway lway of the South" ilif. Panama-Pacific Internal a-Cplifornia Exposition, 1915. Rflj ! or other information, H , or write M FRED GEISSLER, M Asst. Gen'i Passenger Agt. M Atlanta, Ga. M BUT YOUR I I nts, Oils, Stains, 11 irnishes, Liquid 8:1 Veneer, Etc. H in this Line from 11 Ar. nnmmnvil 107 r J JI SMSHSMSISlSJBISJSJSJSHSJSJSJSJSJSEIBJSIBr Hj MAXWELL S I MARKET J r. H. MAXWELL, Proprietor ALL PORK SAUSAGE 9| VIALL HAMS, KOAST PIG, H ?RESH FISH and OYSTERS M igliest Casli Prices Paid tor Cattle, -Hogs and Sheep, flB Green Salted Hides. 9H PHONE 298 Maxwell's Market H >R. W. E. MCCOKDH .... DENTIST . . . Bj over Dr. Speed's Drug Store |H Office Lone 242. Abbeville, S. C?H| SAM ADAMS - H ATTORNEY-AT-LAW fflfl )flice Second Floor City Hall