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ruuti ESTABLISHED 1844 i The Press and Barmen i ABBEVILLE, S. C. I 1 < H. G. CLARK, Editor. j ?-? 9 J The Press and Banner Co. Pnblished Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. j i < ? ( Entered as second-class mail mat-j ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. ( 11 ' i Terms of Subscription: I One vear ?2.00 1 \ , Six months 1.00, _ Throe months .50,1 j Payable invariably in advance. js ^ FRIDAy. AUGUST 8, 1919 i 1 PLAYING FOR MATCHES |1 There seems to be no limit to the * C "little game of bluff" being played by H. C. L., labor and the poor sala-j ried man. But the last has dropped | * out of the game long ago. He hasn't! . even enough of the "fifty-cent dollars! ' c now current to stay in the game. Hej * v- 1 j?, ( IS llK tne xnira inctn m (uiaw i with the other two "kicking" eachother and he compelled to "see"< * both raises to "stay". The man who' has been that third party can tell j you how nice that is. Draw poker is by no means ur^j known to the average college, bvJf cash sometimes is. So in order to v satisfy that craving of the usual American to risk all (when there is no ^ all, even) an one turn of the cards) a game has been invented where in-1 r stead of cash, matches represent the. stakes. In such a game there is some' i \ mighty reckless raising and some! equally reckless "calling", because' there is a contempt for the stakes.1 It is so with money at the present' time. Labor is being paid unprecedent . wo f?nc Tlia nroducers. farmers and: TTagvo* X , manufacturers are receiving unusu-'8 ally large returns. Capital is making big money but it is not being al-j I v lowed to get uncomfortably fat.be-1 cause of taxes. The low salaried; man is the o^e who is suffering., be- ( ; cause his salary has not been com-J0 ' ^ mo.isurately increased when com-| ^ paired to the advance in living expenses. One of the big reckons why wages ^ do not keep pace with living expenses . is because the country ij on a spend-: I n ing jag. People have had more mon-1 ey than they knew what to do with I and have spent it for all sorts of things, for which they had little use and which they could have done with- ^ out. It has made money cheap and it has worked untold hardships onj the salaried man. We will havej trouble until the people who have had , too much money come to have a f s proper respect for a dollar and quit spending their money foolishly. And the salaried man, who is the n g. chief sufferer is the last man to ? g make an "articulate" kick. Because s he is unorganized. Labor has been making big money, but labor wants ^ more money or a reduction in pntes., There seems to be no limit to the up- 0 0 ward trend of prices ajud labor has a legitimate kick unless wages and prices come somewhere near balancmg. J One soluton that we would suggest is that people quit buying recklessly,! ^ save more and stop treating the dollar, like a poor relation?to be gotten rid !r are piaymg witn. The question has reached a crisis1 now; something must be done, and it I is foolish to keep on raising wages! I 0 and expect prices to remain the same. It's a no-limit game that will bring ~ untold disaster in the end. j1 : * THE NEGRO IN CHICAGO 11 I A good many people have been curious to know what line the Chica-j go Tribune would take in dealing with] the race riots in Chicago; the Tribune' having long been'one of the most j a bitter critics of the South. Its pres- c ent attitude being set forth in the t following leading editorial article in c its issue of last Sunday: c White and Black "in Chicago. t It is possible for negroes and whites to live in peace in Chicago, s They have done so for years, in nor- f ' nal conditions and in lorman times.1 They have managed to live without j nuch prejudice. There has been^ jood feeling. The negro has had po-^ itical equality. There has been an xttempt to give him a fair representa-( ;ion in public affairs and not to resent ( lis presence there. We admit frankly that if political, equality had meant the election of iegro mayors, judges and a majority, )f negroes in the city council the, whites would not have tolerated it. ( irVe do not believe that the whites of Chicago would be any different from ;he whites in the south in this respect. We have been able to extend the ;ssentials of citizenship to negroes' ?reely because the whites are domi-^ lant in numbers. All the assentials; ire in the possession of the negro, rle is not Jim Crowed by law. A line, s drawn by usage. The law in factj rorbids what actually is done. It is jeen an illegal, nonlegal, or extra le-j >tinct. Legally a negro has a right to ser-^ /ice anywhere the public generally isf ;erved. He does not get it. Wisely j ie does not ask for it. There has >een an illegal, nonlegal or extra lejal adjustment founded upon comnon sense which has worked in thei )ast and wiii work in the future. The fact is that so long.as this city; ^ dominated by whites whether be- j :ause of their numbers without force, >r by force if they were in the mi-j lority there will be some limitations! >laced upon the black people. They: vill be limitations which will not! vork an injustice to the black people j vho have a right to their own devel-j spment. There is no objcetion to economic 'quality. There is a decided objecion to the exploitation of black labor During the war many negroes were >rought from the South. Thousands: )t' them went into the stockyards, j The war shut off the supply of com-j non labor. The South supplied the j vant. ^ . Thus the population of the blacks, loubled during the war times. Con-| :erns which brought the negro here to sxploit him damaged the community >y throwing the race question upon' t. Concerns which needed the negro tnd put him upon an equal basis with^ he whites, without importing cheap abor to take the palce of whites, j vere legitimately supplying their teed for labor. \ - i xne race issue m v/wuviuia gitnj iut of the fact that the Japanese vhite labor. That will produce race: roubles as quickly as anything. Concerns may have been derelict in lot considering the house problem. The imported negroes could not live j n the streets or vacant lots. They) iad to get under a roof and in getting) inder roof they suddenly established | iew contact with white neighbor-1 ioods. In this change there was bound to j >e trouble unless precautions were! aken. In the present case there isj n evidence of nrecaution and some i >f provocation. It is possible for) hat question to adjust itself. Such ealty movements cannot take place! irithout friction, but the friction need iot lead to riots. The city is steadily hifting in residential character. !ome of the people affected by the hifts do not like it, but in normal imes the readjustment is not disurbing to the community. A spread t' factories may change the charactr of a section. A spread of negroes nay do the same thing. A writer once summed up the ne;ro question by saying "the North j ias the principles and the South has: ho nofrrnos " Wp are comine to I iave the negroes and we want to keep! he principles so far as they are ap-j ilicable. Industrial radicalism, expressed in! he I. W. W. propaganda among thej legroes will not help us to keep' hem. A rebellion by the negroes a^ainst facts which exist and will per;ist will not help us to keep them, >ut we are confident that the situaion in Chicago is susceptible of being landled in the fashion it has always' >eert handled. v i SMALL CROP CERTAIN ! ? i Columbia, August b.?Answering in inquiry from Percell's Magazine >f New York as to the cotton situaion, J. Skottowe Wanamaker, Presilent of the American Cotton Asso-i :iation, has sent out the following! e leg-ram: "The consumer fails to realize the teriousness of the situation he' is acing. In only two years of the last * REPORT ON ABBEVILLE g COUNTY ALMSHOUSE E r?!r. Wister Haddon? Superintendent he Visited July 5, 1919, by Assistant H Secretary Boyles. Inmates, 10 g| negroes and three whites, a total' raj population of 13. which is about'PB the average. ^ In common wijth ;practically all El almshouses in the State we foundI Eg things in this institution rather run|ji down because of the great scarcity H|j of labor. The crops have demanded ths entire attention of the hands able' Kjj to work on the place for some weeks, 'D but even under these difficulties the.gffl superintendent had the buildings in j$| in about as fair condition as theijwB state of repair allows. The floors'? have sunk and the ceilings have buck-} Hi led, and both under the floors andljj over the ceiling the' vermin of the 9 place gathers. The "superintendent Hj does everything in his power to keep H bugs off the beds of the inmates, but I as fast as he gets rid of them they H return .from the walls. The only B| solution seems to be to relay the R floors, putting down concrete as a K base with the planking laid over it W and to tear down the ceilings, proper- m ly disinfect the rafters and put the R planks up again. The superitendent H informs us that the plans are in mak- V ing to install a shower bath in the H building, and to put up additional,Uj screening, but the floors and ceilings H need first attention.. It is a pity H that the building was not built on the H ground plan of the houses in Green- V Vine, anu ai> sumc lutuic uai?^ iv would be "worth while for Abbeville H to consider seriously ,the possibility B of tearing down the: present plant I and using the material in it to build H two buildings on the plan of the ones Bj at the Greenville almshouse. ra Since our 1918 inspection the H quarters occupied by the white in- H mates have been screened, which has B raised the score of the institution for B this year, and we understand that the fl quarters of the negroes will be H screened very soon. These are com- I mendable improvements. H We should like to see the citizens of Abbeville become more interested H in the almshouse. The county has a11 good farm, and the superintendent of H the institution is a good man, alive to his duties and responsibilities, but the inmates lead a very ' ilull life, nnH cheer of everv kind. In!I addition an awakened interest in thejS place would encourage the authorities 10 to make the improvements In the I' buildings which ar6 so terribly need-|l ed. il (Signed) State Board of Charities I and Corrections. 1 G. Croft Williams, Sec. fifty has there been improvement in August condtions. That was in 1903 when the September report showed betterment for August of only 1.4 per cent., and in 1914 when August rose 1.6 only. "The department of agriculture states in its condition report that 'there is a large abandonment of acreage. However, they fail to make allowance for this, botn department and private estimators basing their I production estimate upon an acreage I of 33,960,000. From this should 1 be deducted an acreage abandonment I of 9.25 per cent. P "Even with ideal seasons, an ex- I tremely small crop, certainly not larg- J er than around 10,000,000 bales is an inevitable certainty. With adverse I seasons or insect damage we are fac- I ing a crop calamity. The plant, with I a diseased root system, sappy, poorly I fruited, is unable to kand reverses. I It is two or four weeks late and sub- I ject to calamity from insect damage. We are therefore facing the possi- I bility of the smallest crop grown in I the past fifty years. None of the 9.25 per cent, acreage abandonmerlt shown in our report can be reclaimed. The season is too late. "Cotton carried over on Auguust 1 includes, bollies, rotten and unspinable cotton. The total world's production in 1915 was 17,609,000. The figures for b 'waso Uinw In 1916 it was 18,095,000; in 1917 it was 17,410,000. The figures for 1918 have not yet been compiled." Washington Visitors. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Harvin and little Frances are here from Washington for their summer vacation and are spending the time with Mr. and I Mrs. Richard Snodley. Friends are I glad to see them and to know that I success and happiness attended them I in their new home. ? motorN quick ande r 4 Nash Trucks fo Nash Trucks are i ? the present day They have mar Features which a ance both in loi country and in 'se: One Ton Two Ton J XT ^ INew ^ua< Prices F. C Southern ABBEVILLE, S : NASH Kec The Nationo Keeping cool is not only a < mind. If you know you lc "KEEP-KOOL" Summer ? ored with substantiality of They won't spend more tin The national summer suit < Prices reduced fro m$3.50 Palm Beach Suits. " PARKE ASHtp ioiCAL t! PATIOM taiivii* r Long Range inusually suite transportation ly superior I issure their go ig range haul rvice within the Chassis J $ Chassis $ s \ 1 /?"1 Ai 1 Chassis $ ). B. Kenosha, Motor Car I. C. ALVIN ELLIS [ MOTOI f , ip Kool il Summer Suit for A 2ondition of the body, 10k cool, you'll feel co Suits are cut with the c much* heavier materi VkVZiOOCkV an 1KZ CLI U1IC/ pi V^UkJV/i tiiwiA of season and reason to $5.00 on all Mobai :R & REE *551 ' -' ' ^^mZSsA ?fA?V A A BE KANSrUK\ 1 Hauling. : d to solve | i problem, Mechanical II od perfor- pi ling across Ifl i city itself. il 1650 I 3250 II , Wis, / II j Co. 11 I, Agent II IS II Y\jH w -BH a9^ wjjn^ v m 4en but also a state of haracter and tail- H als. H on your back. 9h is 'KEEP-KOOL' | r, Cool Cloth and M H