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Established 1844. The Press and Banner Abbeville, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and. Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Termi of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1920. THE ABBEVILLE SCHOOLS. The people of Abbeville will be in terested to know that the Depart ment of Education in Columbia has allowed the graduates of the High School credit for seventeen units,' two more than is necessary to enter,1 unconditioned, any of the Institutions of learning in the State. ' The proper support of the schools, ^ j here Is requiring a considerable out"! lay of money, but we are persuaded I that the people who pay the taxes will not complain when they know that we are getting proper results.} There is no reason why Abbeville's i schools should be second to the schools in any other town or city in the state. We boast of being an edu-j cated people, and we should have enough, interest in the cause of edu-J cation to see that our schools do not occupy second place anywhere. Much of the credit for the1 standing of the schools is due to the ef-, ficient organization work of the present Superintendent; much is due to the splendid teaching force which' I he has employed; and a great deal to those who have supported him loyally. And we should remember that no man can do his in one year. The schools will be strengthened in 4CUnZ-rn oris) llCflPlllriflCQ in tills bUCU UVia pnu >. community in proportion 'o the sup-) jiort and encouragement given the superintendent in his efforts to strengthen the teaching force and broaden the work the schools are now doing. ' The schools here have been regarded in the past as not altogehter creditable to us. But that is no reason now why we should not make them the most highly regarded In the state. We can if we will. And we will if we stand behind Major Fulp. | PLAYING POLITICS. Governor Cooper, in his address at TTv^l-iri A Prwllotro TnpcHnv- qnnkp of the republicans in the United States' playing politics. There is no doubt that the indictment which he drew^1 ^ was true, and he knows from expe- : rience how to draw an indictment, j But why conriuj ns i.viiclr. int to the republican party? Why lay all(: the blame on that party? Why did he^! not tell his audience that the demo- ' crats, too, have been playing pol>( 1 tics? Why did he not tell the people that the representatives sent to congress (to the House and Senate t alike) mdo little but play politics. Why 5 I did he not tell his audience that these < so-called reDresentatives no longer ] seek to serve the country,, but seek 1 only to serve their party m the next ] i election? Why did he not tell the ] people that the man in congress ] now-a-days who votes his convictions ? I on any subject, and does not take j 4 , dictation from a dictator, or a cau- i cus as the case may be, is branded < as a traitor and as unworthy to1; serve the country? 4|' Governor Cooper might have told 1 his audience that the South would be better off we^e it to quit the demo- j i \ cratic party for an independent par-' | ty of its own, to which any white man in good standing might belong j < and in which he or any representative i of the people might advocate any i i measure, or oppose any measure ac- i cordn.rly as he believed it to be for the betterment of the country on the oife hand, or against the interests of fch'e country on the other. He might I have told his hearers that we have I played the game of politics for the benefit of a few people who want Federal appointments or influence ' , , , ' I measure, or oppose any measure ac with the administration long enough The game hasn't netted us much, w think, and it never will. h CONCERNING SUBSCRIBERS. ^ Several years ago the present own r er bought the Press and Benner * from the former owners. The form 1 er owners had a large list of sub i * seribers most of whom were in ar ' rears, the newspaper business bein . conducted then on the subscribe-in the-spring- pay-in-the-fall-when-I-sel i cotton plan. A large number of the( subscribers (?) who appeared on the', lists had been storing their.cotton for!, a number of years, we suppose, and 1 for that reason their names appeared with ancient dates opposite them. ;' .b or convenience we1 unuertooK 10 > make collection of these previous 1 accounts. Some paid up, some disputed the accounts, and some said < nothing. Quite a number said they 1 had subscribed for onry a year and j that the publishers kept sending the j paper without tl(eir authority when it i I should have been stopped at the end^ 1 of the year and declined to pay for < the paper. 11 That is what happened to a busi-*, ness run on the old plan. For quite , a while we have been running the'^ paper on a new plan. It is called the)2 cash-in-advance plan. Last week a \ I subscriber whose time had expired C and who had not renewed his sub-| c scription and consequently had been's missing the latest news, met us on' the street and didn't want to speak to us. As he had always appeared most friendly before, even being willing to take a drink of Candler's Ale, or smoke a cigar with us, we wondered what had happened. (You see we had given the instructions about the subscribers, but we did not know when this particular subscriber's time was out.) We finally ascer | tained that our former friend was mad because we had stopped his pa-' per. j But, if he is mad ye:, we would have him vent his wrath on the peri son responsible for his unfortunate s condition?that is, upon himself ! c _ ^ l When he subscribed ror tms paper, ? he made a contract. H? agreed to pay 'c and paid, two dollars for the privil- 1 ' v ege of receiving the paper for twelve months, while we agreed to send him 7 the paper for twelve wonths. When the twelve months was up, our con- . 11 tract was fulfilled. We had no more | right to send him the paper for an- \ other twelve months than one of hi3 tenants would have to rent his land c for twelve months and at the end of "v i the term undertake to stay another r 11 twelve months without speaking to ! |the owner about it. We thought i T enough of our former subscriber to, ' 1 l!? * ?* maii'aao orlrinr? Kim tft ' senu nun l?u uum.w i?6 < ^ renew, thus showing that we wanted I C to stay on good terms with him, but v if he wanted the paper he did not say, p so, not even when we twice urged e him to continue on our list. The fault u is all his, as any reasonable person will readily see. J ^ All of which leads us to declare i again that this paper is run on a ? strictly cash-in-advance basis. We pay lash in advance for the paper we i print the news on, and it takes the. ivhole subscription to pay for the ! (? paper itself, to say nothing of the j xi printing. We carry nobody over when' ^ iie fails to renew. "We cut every per-' ;on off at the same time. We play no e favorites. If the label on your paper f is May '20, your time is out, and you s will not receive another paper, unless t fou subscribe anew before ? Monday | o The plan may not suit some people v but it is working fairly well with us | v I C We stai*ted with less than 20 paid-in | advance subscribers, and we have , i ~it grown each year. We have now a' very large list of paid-in-aavance- Q subscribers which continues to grow f every day. We have won them on'n merit, we suppose. We have tried no t contests, and resorted to no schemes I , to boost circulation. We are just <printing a newspaper. j c It is our desire that as many sub-ls 2 scribers as will renew their subscrip-l 6 11 tions. We hope that all will. But we will not change our way of doing t business for the way of any other y person. , a GOING DOWN? ? ? According to precept and experi:nce, the cost of living ought to tave begun to fall long ago. The :urve always upward in war time, vent down, after the two previous greatest wars of modern history, al- \ nost immediately after the cessa-* \ icn of hostilities. In England, fol- j owing the long struggle against j Mapoleon, it fell steadily for four | iecades until it reached a point a j ;hird below the - pre-war level. I Prices in this country more than Joubled "during the civil war, but j jegan to fall a few months after Lee's surrender, and fell steadily ivith few interruptions until 1896, reaching their pre-war level be- j ;ween 1880 and 1885. As our war "has been accompanied ay revolutionary upheavals which paralyzed production, by a decline n the morale of labor which limited iutput, and by the complete exnaustion of important industrial j ireas, a more serious , effect on vorld pv,>es had to be expected, j But prices could not be kept up j forever after the principal uplift j ng cause had subsided. We have j >een passing through a . period of [ iredit and currency inflation. Dur- j ng the past year, as a banking pub- j ication recently pointed out, "the j oans of the twelve Federal Reserve j 3anks have increased about $75,^- j >00,000, and the loans of member j ind non-member banks probably j >etween $2,000,000,000 and $3,)00,000,000 but the volume of pro- 1 luction has not increased corre- ' pondingly." It is a matter of simple arithme- ) ic to show that if the supply of ; M nvoflit 1vKl(>Vl tnkofi tllll ^ IIUUC^ Vi UX viwuiv; II U<VI4 )lace of money, increased without * in increase in the supply of goods, { he price of goods, measured in 1 noney, must increase. That- is vhat has happened. It has led, in(vitably, to speculation and to the aking by retailers of protective jrofits-?that is, of profits which vould insure them against a pos- ' lible decline in the wholesale prices. There is no doubt that retail stocks lave been accumulating of late; hat he demand for the higher 1 iriced goods has fallen off and that 1 vholesale prices in many lines have ' lagged. The result has been b de- * :line in the credit value of stocks, a 1 :ontraction of loans by the banks, 1 ind a rush to sell. The present sell- 1 ng movement, however, it may 1 tave been exaggerated by the ] rntural excitemeht over any down- 1 vard fluctuation in the price of 1 inything, is now extensive enough ' ,o be measured in terms of trade 1 endency rather than of individual 1 'oresight of benevolence. The downward movement may be orrected by the feverish buying < hich has set in. Low prices will J lot be permanent, at any rate, un- i ess production increases. There is 1 lu reason IU anitii;patc a pamv. [*he crash which was to follow the < :nd of the war has been discounted t o thoroughly that it is likely to orae as a gradual settling down, ( rhich will mean hardship to many } teople but disaster to few. And j ven this is not yet certainly upon < :s.?The Globe. * . j x VEATHER FOR WEEK s BETTER FOR COTTON t 1 )rop Makes Fairly Satisfactory Pro s gress, Says Government Bulle- ? tin From Department. a Washington, June 3.?With the ex j ( eption of certain arfas in the^morej^ lastern districts and the extreme1 . . i e forthwestern portion of the belt,1^ reather conditions during the week lv nding June 1 were more favorable ^ or cotton and the crop made fairlyj atisfactory progress, according to 5 he weekly weather iand crop bulletin J f the department of aprjculture. It /as too cool the first paH of the': ,'eek in the Eastern seetiin and tooc ool and wet in the Northwest. j ( "Growth was retarded In North E )arolina by cool nights and more 1: loisture is needed in that siate; but 1 , general improvement was reported t rom South Carolina although the s ights were too cool for best growth t he bulletin said. j " "Planting was nearly completed in c Jeorgia, and while progress of the t rop has been fair, the plants are e mall and the stands irregular. Pro:ress was fairly good in Alabama, but v he crop continued in only poor to r air condition in that state, while ex- a ensive replanting was reported in I Arkansas and the stands are gener- s ,lly good, while very goo<? advance I | MISTI Has arrived in Ab I cou: Come in and med mong your frienc Open a Savings J just as much as la week, and you wi nice substantial E We pay 5 Per Cen Quarterly. | Count SOUND was made in Louisiana. Cotton made'] >nly poor growth in Oklahoma on , ^ JA?f puneliinn or^ wof ICCUUIlt VI UCULlCiiU OUllOlllltW uitu tivm 1 soil but growth was fairly good in ^ Texas, where the condition continues >nly poor to fair. Much complaint of|j jrassy field was received from some!"' >f the Eastern Gulf States and weevil ire becoming numerous in southern Alabama and Georgia." SUFFRAGE LOSES DELAWARE FIGHT Legislature Adjourn* Without Taking Action?All Effort* Fail Dover, Del., June 3.?Despite the appeal of President Wilson and other national Democratic and Republican leaders for the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment, the Delaware legislature adjourned sine die today with the ratification resolution still in the house committee .of the whole, to which it was referred last Fridby. Shortly before adjournment a motion by Representative Lyon , majority floor leader ,to* force the house into :ommittee of the whole to consider the resolution was defeated 24 to LO. The legislature was called in spe:ial session by Bovernor Townsend March 22 to ratify the suffrage a-1 nendment, which action would Have given the women the right to /ote. There were many spirited :ontest during the ten weeks that ;he fight lasted. Early in the session the ratification resolution "was defeated by the louse. Undaunted by this setback, suffrage leaders started a statewide | campaign for a change of senti- I nent. Speakers were sent into' | learly every section of the state j tnd petitions were circuited urging I "avorable action. National political \ eaders and others threw their trength to the suffrage cause and ucceeded in obtaining favorable ction by the senate on May 5. g Leaders in the house opposed to I nffratto tnHair rflneivuH fplpcrrams I rom President Wilson urging ivery Democrat in the house to ote for the resolution, but this, as pell as the pleas of other leaders, net with failure. p \ ? ? .i SENATORS HOLD STORMY SESSION Washington, June . 3.?A fiery rpss table , clash between Attorney Jeneral Palmer and Eugene C. Jonniwell of Philadelphia, bristing with direct charges of the misise of federal power to let' down Ui* 14 /Mil /-?* V? o vc rliirmrr Ponn. lie I14UU1 urn o UUU115 vuv A vi??? I ylvania presidential primaries on I he one hand and of attempted character assassination" on the ither, marked senate investigation' oday or pre-convention campaign ' xpenditures. The attorney general appeared , inexpectedly in the committee j oom during the luncneon recess iter Mr. Bonniwell had launched a ! roadside of charges including a j weeping assertion that the whole j 'aimer campaign in Pennsylvania I R FIVE PER beville, and can be foui NTY SAVINGS BAN : him, it will pay you to i Is. Account To-day, (small < trgevones), increase the 11 be surprised how soon lank account.* t. on Savings Deposits, J y Savings SAFE ? bad befen a "ghastly and debasing degradation of law." Mr. Bonniwell was recalled to the stand to finish bis testimony and Mr. Palmer, the first candidate for a presidential HERE'S A PRAC PETTI / FITRITE Petticoats rial launder beautifv that silky effect. Trimmed in many al * ed effects, with shad front and back?thej be desired for street; MRS. JAS. S. I yiieieiiwmwmiinminMHiwimiWMiimtMimiHiiwmiiiiMiiKiiimimiiiimMiwOTWwmtnwiiinM ~ fai One is Cause, the othe not the only essential t but it is an essential, fact. Unless they wen : riches thrustupon the : pie of today haver b^e oaveu sysieiiicimjaii.y, matically. They had YOU will have to do 1 cidents, to attain the 1 nancial Success withii vise systematic deposi of a specified proporfc We pay 4 per cent, int Savings Accounts. NATIONAL BANK Abbeville CENT I | nd at the 1 * | LlLilll JUCJL 111111 a- ^ ' V ' 4 ones appreciated s amount each you will have a * ctII / . _ Compounded y : .: n v$S Bauik , pfl SERVICE 1 ' / .', jfii ?> .r;S nomination to appear at the inquiry took a seat across the table from J the witness who, it was brought out was a political enemy of long: standing. j V?|l ======^^ ti TICAL WHITE j| J COAT ?. I ' . ' ; ^ ||f|| lish Wash Satinette 'etticoats has the r >le advantage of jty and Economical I Hi : . ;' *>. "-J made of this mateilly and still retain btractive hemstitchow proof panels ; ^ i offer all that's to. and evening- wear. . COCHRAN i!' ? " ?m h^ TH I, , r Effect. 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