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' I,' , } f ? * ' * ' . V. ' J I, * 'x)) I Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, August 5,1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. H. C. L MEN UP i BYU. S. CONGRESS ^ : f 3 Tuns to New Problem?Recess is b Called Off?Plan to Rush Work f For Adjournment Early in 5 Autumn?Treaties Now in Senate. , 1 jo Washington, August 3.?Speeding y up of legislation with high cost of 1; living and railroad employees' wages n demands as new and pressing prob- v lems. tonight appeared to be a prob- i? able reslut of President Wilson's re- t j [ quest of ecess plans. Leaders n begar. revision of their program, both t personal and legislative, and the n opinion spread that efforts now would e be concentrated towards rushing p through important matters in ^the. 1" 1 -? **.*-?4- ooflu n hope of a sine aie adjournment can, .. this fall of both houses to give mem^ o bers a rest before the regular Decern- t ber session. JI Consideration by the Senate of; c treaties and enactmnts of legislation, F leaders hoped, may be expedited, al- o though for the next fortnight, await-j c ing formulation of a solution to the, n high cost of living and railroad wage! questions, three day recesses mayj solve the disappointment of house j members denied the longer adjourn-j ment. j" Unpacking of trunks and obtaining, f of refunds on vacation tickets occu-|V pied many house members who laid P away today with their vacation cloth- j f es, all hope of mid-summer vacation. E Many members, however, are not in 3 nnH mav be reauired to re- t< turn, while a few insist that, regard-1 tl less of the annullment of the recess a they will leave for other points. t* Consideration of the German, C French and Colombian treaties large- K ly will occupy the attention of the senate while the house ,is engaged on high cost of living, railroad and other questions. The Colombian treaty will be V brought before the senate tomorrow P for consideration in open session, K thereby establishing a new precedent v expected forever to ban secret dis- w posal of treaties. Several senators plan to oppose the treaty but the opposition concedes its final ratification although the debate is expected to run over several days. ii / | F I Land Sales Made. ^ Monday was Sales Day and two tracts of land were sold at the Court * House. The first sale was made by v the master and was the case of S. t A. Graves, trading as the Acker y Building and Repair Co., vs. Mary priffin, a small plot of land on the Greenwood road being involved in This was bought in by Mr. Graves for $550. r The other sale was a tract containing 112 acres near Little Mountain, c known as the Jason Simpson land. ^ This tract was sold by the Probate I s Court to Dr. S. G. Thompson for $810. Will Attend U. S. Court. Sheriff Burts, U. S. Deputy Mar- * Sheriff Cann and; ^ IOIlai A91IAVV) Attorney R. H. Moore will leave this F week for Greenville to attend the 11 United States District court in ses- * sion there. 0 c Negro Woman Crazy. Sheriff Burts and Deputy Marshal Bruce captured a crazy negro woman j about two miles west of town Monday i r morning. The woman was violent j c and force had to be used to bring her j t back to the county jail where she c ? ?J nntil a liin?<?v commission i I Was JJIOVCU UIIVU v. can be called to sit in the case. Annual Picnic. The annual picnic at Cold Springs j t will be held Friday, August 15. An t interesting program has been ar-]c Ir. : crc;i. Ths public is invited to be \ present with baskets. j 1 VAR PROHIBITION IS HELD ! A INVALID BY ELIHU ROOT ^ Washington, August 3.?The war ime prohibition bill, .recently passed y the house' and now pending be?"? ? fniitii cnmmittop is unCOn ic a vv ? 1 p titutional, according to an opinion y Elihu Root, William D. Guthrie or the United States Brewers' asociation, made public today. j This opinion holds that until the Sth amendment becomes effective, n January 20, 1920, congress underj / ell settled rules of constitutional; aw, has no right to prohibit thej lanufacture and sale of beer,' ,-hether or not intoxicating". There 3 now no valid reason for the warime prohi,biton act, find there is | o evidence, they add, to support j he claim that the proposed enforce-, lent emasure is necessary or prop-,^ r to conserve the nation's food sup^ jy] ly. The opinion, an exhaustive docu-, ^ lent dealing with all legal phases j f the question, was sent to 'Chris-; ^ ian W. Feigenspan, president of the ^ brewers' association. The lawyers! ^ ontended that while District Judge land and the New York circuit court ^ ^ f appeals had held the w&r time act J . onstitutional, the decision would' i c< iOt apply to pending legislation. 1 w Lyceum Course. t _ ! P( * : y< A Redpath Lyceum course, consist- , ' HI ig of five numbers, has been secured ?r Abbville for this fall. This course; n / ill consist of music, lectues and ! W lays. The proceeds will be used ' w or the Abbeville County Memorial ^ [ospital. It was made possible by 9 men subscribing ten, dollars each, ; staling $390.00, with which to buy, ^ de course. This will guarantee that ^ 11 the proceeds will go to the hospi-J il fund. The Opera House or the, lourt House will be used for the Fj edpath course. ^ in Off to Market. w Messrs. W. D. Wilson, W. H.|S1, I Ell Phite, Eugene Johnson and Lewis S errin left Monday afternoon for the ^ forth. In addition to buying the ^ ery best the market affords, they . IS riil take in the big sights. w Back Home. 1 di Mrs. J. M. Thorn and her family of 0 iteresting children, left Abbeville on m 'riday afternoon after an extended a isit to Mrs. W. D. Barksdale. Mrs. 'horn will visit in Anderson and Iva efore sroing to her home in Lexing- m cn, Ky. Mrs. Thorn's old friends m rere delighted to see her again and e< o know her manly boys arid pretty w oung daughter. ri Visitors From Norfolk. u . I t Mrs. Norborn Bacot and four child-! I a] en are here from Norfolk for a visit i ^ o Mrs. Rachael Minshall. Mrs. Ba-' ot visited in Abbeville some years k"1 ' ! go and old friends will be glad to ee her again. fi A Fishing Trip. U Mr. M. T. Coleman, Robert Cole- j aan, Jim Coleman, and Frank Hodges tj eft Monday for the mountains of forth Carolina where they expect to ^ iut in their time fishing. Jim Cole- ^ nan is to carry the ibait while Frank lodges is to be the big chief when it od^es to telling how many they aught. ^ d Putting on Style. jj fi Col. Herbert Allen is spending his noney with the reckless extravagance a if a poor man these days. His latest' " teine a handsome Oakland car. The] S :ar will carry five or six pretty girls. w t< ? e A Good Preacher. tl Vi Rev. Henry Pressly, who is "in Ab-j S >eville spending a while, preached in n he Associate Reformed Presbyterian n :hurch Sabbath. His sermons are al- g vays excellent and the congregation o istened to him with pleasure. j si STREETS OF F ARMIST apt. Hemphill Writes His Sister and ^ ! , Beats His Letter Home?Paris a*j Night?The Little Rich Girl a Poor r Dancer?Should Divorce Boston? c l he American Uirls Snub the L-ap- j tain?The French Girls Look Good % to the Colonel, Even in Sheets? c Lansing Chews Tobacco and the E President Smiles?Three Beers to V Make aNight of it?They Hate a ^ Taxi?The French Beg Tobacco. ] A Gay Night. \ Paris, France, June 25, 1919. t [y dear Sister Polly, Thanks for your charming letter. ; was awfully sweet of you to write. . his is the first opportunity I have . ad to answer it. My studies have een taking up quite a bit of my me. | So, you want to know something bout Paris and my life here. Well, ster dear, that's quite an order. I )uld write volumes on either but ^ hether it would be of interest to du I am sure I don't know. I sup- ^ ose, as usual, that anything I say ^ du will use against me when I get ^ jme. C Yes, I'll do it! I'll tell you about " ight before last. Think of it, one hole night, in detail! Remember hen you finish that you asked for it. ( Honestly, though Polly, it was* a c emorable night. Any one who was &re in the great City of Paris will , ave some memories to carry through ^ le rest of his life. c I spent the whole afternoon in tryg to improve my knowledge of the r rench language by reading "Sappho" the original. I had really forgot- ^ tn that it was the day the Boches . ere to say that they were going to ^ gn. I came down to dinner at c jout a quarter of seven. Mademoi- ^ die Berthe, our waitress, was in a { irrible hurry to get us served . . c jcause it was her dance night. She learning the American dances J hich she professes to be crazy about. 0 wonder. If you ever tried to mce with one of the real French soe ety girls you'd appreciate that reiark. We've been invited to quite numbfer of entertainments given by le French Home Society. I went 1 several. One in particular I relember. It was at the home of a ^ unition manufacturer. He operati nine munition plants during the ? ar. His daughter, whom some of ( ie fellows called the "Poor little . ch girl" has a marriage dowry of . ie trifling sum of two million francs i fi. at for all tnat sne can t uautc.i c here's a reason for it too. They ^ Iways dance on carpeted floors to ^ le ihusic of a piano played by some lan or woman who has no more conjption of what "time" means than' ^ salmon knows about salted peanuts. We were leisurely eating our five ^ anc Y. M. C. A. dinner and the] eutenant remarked that this was j ^ le day they had to sign. Personal-j. r I was pretty well convinced that | ley would not sign. So much so lat I had made a bet with Madame - * x. c [oussu, our Frencn teacner ai u.?- c lliance Francaise, of three beers ? \ ainst three roses and a pound of su- ^ ar that they wouldn't sign and was ^ ) sure of it that I went ahead and . rank the three beers in advance. One of my best friends here is a ^ eutenant from Boston. It's rather jnny that we should be friends too ^ ecause he is still a rabid Bostonian ( nd I certainly hold up South Carona's pjtrt of the Civil war. We arue like two Irish washerwomen but * f 'hen I tell him that Boston has butintn evervthinp- that ever happen- , """ ? " - - 11 d and that in my opinion the best! ling for the whole United States rould be to divorce the New England tates from the rest of the states and . lake Boston the capitol and then love all the negroes up there, he j ets peeved because when he came . s ver here they very appropriately as-j gned him to a negro regiment and ?AR/S AT ICE SIGNING _ / f ie had ample opportunity to observe he "poor misused and abused" ne :ro at his beat. Then all of a sudden we heard the annon fir.ng and we knew that the 3oche had signified their intention tc iccept the peace terms. As we came >ut of the dining room we met twe mgineer officers, who suggested thai ve walk down town and see the peo )le and sit down at one of the sidevalk cafes and perhaps drink a beer Everybody was agreeable so we start >d out. The subject of conversatior vas how much each one of us hatec o leave Paris and return to the Unitid States where there wouldn't b( tny more beer and where if yoiimiled at a pretty girl they'll put yot n jail for life almost. For instance n Atlanta, where they soak you foi >50.75 if you sc much as look at z ;irl. A Second Army Aviator Lieu enant joined us on the Champs Ely iees and notwithstanding all this bunl :rom the A. E. F. about wanting tc jet home at once it may interest yov ,o know that of the five of us not one eally wanted to go home except thf Boston lieutenant. He said that iJ te weren^t married he would nol eave for anything. It's the same iverywhere over here. They all saj hey want to go home but talk to an5 ?ne of them who has just received his ravel orders and you'll hear him say 'Well, after all is said and done 1 ertainly hate to leave". You see, cherie, it Is really a wonlerful place. And at this season oJ he year it is simply beautiful. You an also say what you please about ur superiority in manufactures and ailroads and our hustle and ability o handle big jobs and get things lone in a huiry and all that sort ol unk but after all is said and dont hey've got us lashed to the mast it ine thing and that is how to live and e hanny. No one who ihas ever been iver here and taken the trouble to observe a wee (bit will contradict the tatement that real happiness and >ure joy of living (as well as the pei apita wealth of the nation) is more ivenly distributed here than any otht place on earth. Our French teach;r says that it is a matter of pride ind good manners of the Parisient [and particularly the Parisiennes! rhich of course is the female of the pecie) to show the happier side ol heir life to the stranger within the rates. But we have been here long tnough to see both sides and my owr ibservation is that "the happier side" s not much different from the othei lise. Let me tell you a little story. One lay I was passing the Champs Elyseej netro (subway) station. Most always when you come out of a metre tation you are confused a bit to gel rour bearings. There were severa] American girls who had come oui is I passed, I saw that they were nomentarily lost as it were, so 1 .topped, saluted, and asked if I mighl lelp them. For my trouble, I got an cy stare and a curt "Most assuredls lot." Needless to say, I didn't vol mteer any further assistance. I was cutting across town towards the Gart 3t. Lazare where there were no subvay or surface lines. Paris, you enow, is* a difficult place to get a ound in on account of the irregularty of the streets. I got mixed a litle bit and was standing on the cornel vith my pocket map out trying tc trient myself when two well-dressed French women of the better class [I know that because they were leither rouged nor powdered) stop)ed "and asked me where I wanted tc ,'o and instead of telling me wher$ i1 vas, insisted on walking a block witlj ne and pointing out the place. The wo incidents coming so close together left a rather vivid impression on ne. I cannot account for it unless t is that some of the true-to-life itories published in some of our pub ications have produced the impresiion on some of our dear young girls (Continued on Page Two) | NEGROES KILL RALPH CHILES j THEN GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL I j Bob and Dave Alexander are being | held in the county jail charged with | the murder of Ralph Chiles at Flat| ! Church, near Martin's Mill, Sunday !j afternoon. Davje used a pistol, shoot' ing Chiles through the stomach, and Bob used a plank. After the killing the two Alexanders went to a negro j ! ( church at Antreville, where they at1 tended Sunday School and were ar1 rested there by Sheriff Burts and > .Deputy Sheriff Cann. Coroner Cox tj held the inquest over Chiles' body on "i Monday. ! Miss Magill Resigns. 1 Miss Saidee Magill, who has been 1 i the teacher of history in the city high "j school for the past several years has '! notified the board of trustees that f 1, she will not be able to -teach again 1 next year on ,account of continued ! illness. Miss Magill was out of the : school several times during the past li session on accotfnt of illness, but im ' j proved later in the year. She had "'misgivings about accepting work for : j the next year, but finally cosented to 'ido so believing that with the vacaI j tion's rest she would grow strnger. ' | She is now advised /by he physician 51 not to undertake the work, bence \,her resignation. The trustees of the school regret to lose the services of Miss Magill,1 r, who is an experienced and thoroughly! r, capable teacher. Her work in the ' 'l school room has been "most satisfactory, and her place will be difficult1 C, to fill. ! During I ; II There were no services in the As-j :i sociate Reformed Presbyterian church 1 Sunday night, the congregation and rj the preacher are taking a hot^weath-1 sr rest. M 'l REDUCE PRICES OR RAISE WAGES j ? ' J Washington, Aug. 1.?The alteraa-^ j tive of government action to force. | down the corft of living or of a . deJ mand by the railroad engineers of | J the country for another increase in wages was presented to President j Wilson today by Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and members of the Brotherhood's advisory board. ' Detailing conclusions reached by , by advisory board at its recent meet[ ing in Cleveland, Mr. Stone, in a 'f prepared statement, read to the 'j President,, declared that, while the ,1 engineers found themselves "obliged I tn a coin remipot an increase to meet! ?V - "1 ? the mounting cost of living," they were of the opinion that "the true remedy for the situation, and one that will result in lifting the burden under which the whole people is . j strugglnig, is for the government to .'! take same adequate measure to re! duce the cost of the necessaries of '| life to a figure that the present wages r | and income of the people will meet." I The Brotherhood hoard outlined no '| plan of action for the government to! rj take beyond saying it was believed] that "this situation is brought about mainly by conscienceless profiteerng by the great interests, who have secured control of all of the necessaries of life." President Wilson, it was said at the! White House after the conference, which lasted more than an hour, was J much impressed with the statementj (I presei/;ed and promised to give ?ej! rious consideration and study to the question of what the government might be able to do. Previous to the conference with the President the Brotherhood officials conferred with Director General Hines, who expressed sympathy with their argument that the government force down living expenses. The President was told by the Bro tneruuuu uuaiu buuv ^ \ spirit of unrest exists among all ci^ooe^, especially among wage-earnj ers, whose wage will no longer proj vide adequate food, shelter and en! tc-rtainment for themselves and famj iiies.' | I TIE-UP OF ROADS NOT IMPROBABLE Local Shopmen Still at WoHc, But May Walk Out at Any Minute ; n.fl 1 ? T> ivaiiway jiiuauon Deconcs Acute Throughout Country, i It is reported that the two boilermakers at the local Seaboard Shops ! have responded to the call of the | shopmen to walk out. It was stated' | by railroad men here Monday that | is was possible that all the shopmen, I including machinists and helpers and i blacksmiths, would strike by Tuesday. I No confirmation of this could be obi tained from the employees of officials. Chicago, August 3.?A complete tieup of the railroads of the country is very probable, in the opinion of M. L. Hawver, president of the Chicago district council of the Federate Railway Shopmens' Union which called a strike of shop crafts Friday. He | returned from Washington today and I declared the strike is spreading rapidI ly and that the unrest among railway lfl in ?AnA1H\l fliof mAVn. vyui acis 10 au gcaciai buuu vuv wav?? I ment has overwhelmed the international officers of the various anions involved. I Advices today from Cleveland were that the executive hoard of the American Federation of Railway Workers with a membership of 26,000, chiefly unskilled labor in Cleeland and the East, had decided to strike tomorrow, according to Mr. Hawver. The Maintenance of' Way Men's Union is also preparing to strike it was said. BISHOP" ON STAND IN FORD ACTION I " Mount Clemens, Mich,, July 26.?An expert on theology was placed on the witness stand today in the Henry Ford-Chicago Tribune libel suit as a counterbalance to Professor Reeves * of the University of Michigan, who testified a few weeksk ago for The Tribune as an expert on politic*! science. Today's witness was Bishop Charles D. Williams, of Detroit, head of the Eastern Michigan diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and he\ startled his hearers by stating that ' Jesus Christ was a great user of half truths for rhetorical effect. The appearance of Bishop Williams in behalf of the plaintiff was to show. that while Professor Reeves had found that many of Mr. Ford's utterances agreed in sentiment with the writings of well recognized anarchists, these views were not pe- - ^ culiar to anarchists, but in effect "??? aV?QTH?/l V>i7 nrin-nv non-anarchists TTCib 0ii(Mvv? w j ?? ? w _ poets, such as Tennyson; philosophers such as Carlisle, and by the Scriptures. Attorney Lucking contended that no view of Mr. Ford's on pacifism, disarmament and Bimilar subjects could be said to be shared by anarchists alone. A statement attributed to Mr. Ford that he would abolish the Am- < erican army and navy (which Mr. Ford as a witness, greatly qualified) was read to Bishop Williams and he was asked if it wajr anarchistic. "Pretty strong language, but I have heard the same from others," said the witness. "I have heard it from pacifists and others who felt if the United States set the example there would be a general disarmament. I don't say that I agree with their argument. "I think it is rhetorical language such as orators use. such as every body has to use. When you state a half truth you state it stVongly in order to get it over. "Our Lord was the greatest exam pie of stating half truths with tremendous strength," the witness continued. Attorney Alfred Lucking asked if such views as attributed to Mr. Ford in magazine and newspaper articles were not followed, and preached by thousands and thousands otf Christians.