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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. Entered as second-'?iass matter ax post office in Aoheville, S. C. Terns of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 JUUDAX, JAIVUAKX 21, 1?Z1 PROHIBITION IN NEW YORK If there is one place in the United States \4here prohibition is not want ed it is fn New York City. In view of this a statement from any responsi ble source which would seem to jus tify the enactment -of the national prohibition amendment, or to prom ise the enforcement of laws made to carry out the provisions of the a mendment are interesting to those who would like to see liquor driven from the country. The statement is more than interesting, it is encourag ing. , The New York Herald has been investigating conditions under the prohibition laws and has % sought in formation from all parts of the coun try on the effects of the law. Strange _ --i. XI??4-V,_ as it may seem, must uj. uic ?wui ern and Western cities report that the law has been of great benefit, while the mayors of some of the Southern cities make a contrary re port. In Charleston, where nothing succeeds unless he, she or it, comes from Abbeville, Mayor Grace reports conditions very much worse than they would be with open bars. Perhaps in many cases the reports embody the individual opinions of those who make them, rather than furnish a correct statement of the real effects arising from an enforcement, or an attempted enforcement, of the law. However these things may be, we say it is encouraging to have the' judgment of a great newspaper like v , the' New York Herald that prohibi tion is doing good and that the law is going to be enforced. This is what the Herald says: "The New York. Herald published Sunday an illuminating account with facts and figures of our first year of national prohibition. While the rec ord is not all that the friends of pro hibition could wish, nevertheless it is perhaps quite as good in the situa tion as might have be$n expected by close thinkers. Conversely it is a record that will g've hope to the millions of surface tu.iikt s who fiTr. ji.i-.i'.y at war w:in national prohibition. It will encour age the vigorous and determined an ti-prohibition propaganda now of na tionwide scope that has the backing of unlimited money. In the opinion of The New York Herald, however, the opponents of i the Government in this fight against national prohibition are certain to be : beaten in the end. The Government, with its boundless resources, will compel obedience to its laws. ^Defy- 1 ing law of a State is one thing; defy ing the law of the national Govern- 1 ment is quite another. "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but grind ex ceeding fine," and so grind the mills of the national Government So long as national prohibition is ' embedded in the organic law of the land, just so long will America be 1 dry except as her laws are broken and defied by her citizens. And law breaking in the long run is a bad business for any one, especially bad if^jthe be a United States law. j-^The only way by which America cat again become legally wet is thru i afis amendment to the Constitution of V in: . the United States nullifying the Eighteenth Amendment which declar ed ; for national prohibition. And what do*s it mean to get through a constitutional amendment? It means that a bill setting forth the proposed amendment must be introduced in Congress and passed by two-thirds of both houses. This is the first step; ' the second is much more difficult. It requires the ratification of the meas ure by three-quarters of the States of the Union. Failing of such ratifica tion the measure falls by the way side. The framers of this Government wore most wise in making it difficult in the extreme to alter or amend our national Constitution. In view of | this very difficult process the wonder I is that the dry amendment was ever i put through. But now that we have i it, now that it is structurally a part i of the Constitution of the United ; States, now that the women of .the ] nation have the ballot and must be i reckoned with by State legislatures and by Congress, there is no chance i whatever that America will so com pletely reverse herself on the liquor 1 question within the span of a genera tion, if ever, as to put through an- < other constitutional amendment that ' will make, this country wet. J To be sure the Volstead act may be amended by Congress, but any ] amendment, says the Supreme Court : in effect, must hold true to the spirit < and intent of the Eighteenth Amend ment. Considered apart from this phase i of the matter ,however, and solely on the record of the first year of na- < tional prohibition The New York i Herald inclines to the belief that in the situation, with the application of a law so drastic and so revolutionary ?more drastic and more revolution ary than, perhaps, was wise as a first move in the process of eliminating ' alcoholic beverages?the Government 1 has by no ' means made a failure ' of its colossal undertaking. Indeed, with no tried men in the work of en- J forcing prohibition the wonder is, in calm, straight thinking, that the Gov ' ernment did as well as it did with many of its men unfaithful to th ( confidence placed in them and with- ' out the aid and cooperation of the 1 States of the Union in the work of 1 enforcing the dry law. Only two or three days ago The Vftrlr WorolH HionnccpH a A itnrn-*! ally the question of the cooperation of the States with the national Gov ernment, urging that through such cooperation alone could national pro hibition become substantially suc cessful 90 long as the rest of the Worfd remains wet. The States of the Union that voted for the Eighteenth Amendment* may well consider their responsibility in the outworking of the law which through their ratifica tion they made an organic part of the underlying structure of ou^ national life." The Abbeville Press i and Banner ? informs us that "they are still mak ing liquor on Little River." When they stop making it, will be a sensa tional story.?Anderson Daily Mail. THE "MAN ON THE MONUMENT" GROWING OLD. Editor Abbeville Press and Banner: It may not be news to his family but the "Man on the Monument" is growing.qld fa^t; in fact his way of life has fallen into the sear, the yel low leaf; "he has shifted into the lean and .slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose, and his big manly voide, ;turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound." In yesterday's Medium the can tankerous old bird rails out at the poor little school children who in sist upon walking on the sidewr.lks .nstead of in the street. Will he undo all that the teachers have tried so hard to do? Will the poor old grouch with the marble dome have the little dears risk their bones and bodies by walking in the "big road" reserved oply for traffic and speedsters? Their teachers have spent hours in front 01 the school building after dismissal keeping the innocents on the side walks and out of the streets. But surely: "By education they have been misled; So they believe, because they were so bred j The teacher continues what the nurse began, And -thus^.the child imposes on the man." Mr. Dryden will certainly pardon us for a few substitutions in his verse from the Hind and, the. Panther es pecially when he understands it is directed at a Marble Man, who in one paragraph criticises a hostess for holding a Bridge party while a reviv al is in progress and in the next pra graph refers to the evangelistic sing er as "a drawing card" an expression iima/i if ult ^ + Vw 1v* f ft . iiiirgiwiuauscu 11 uy vsiucri wuau ? \ poker shark, and certainly not res pectful when used metaphorically to describe an evangelist's choir leader. j "Men are but children of a larger "growth; Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, i I And full as craving too, and full as' vain." | I So we suppose the teachers should instruct the children to either walk I in the streets the five or ten minutes each day they need to come to school and to return home from school, or probably if the speedsters object to such intrusion upon their right of way, that the teachers might teach the children to march in "goose step" two and two, as the precious little German children do. Such things as the proper attitude [>f respect when meeting Monumen tal Men on the sidewalks are funda mental principles of ethics and we >elieve it ta be more a duty of the parents to instruct their children in manners first, rather than the duty af hired teachers. i ne great man is ne wno aoes not lose his child's heart." How insignif icant must the Man on the Monument be! We do wish he were real so we could have him show the school chil dren how to walk. Juvenis et Junior. PLANT LESS COTTON Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 20?A reso lution indorsing the plan adopted at i recent meeting of cotton intrests jf the South at Memphis for feduc ;ion of cotton acreage, was adopted just before adjournment of a state wide conference <Jf farmers, mer chants and bankers here today. The action followed a heated dis cussion of the advisability of going )n record as favoring the Memphis Oon wmild nlpricrp fnrmpr<* Jiuiij nmva i? vmim |r>vv?bw ** * ?,.? lot to plant more than one-third of ;heir cultivated acreage in cotton. Dpponenla of the plan agreed that t was impractical and could not be jnforced. F ARMER WANTS TO EN. LIST SOME OF HIS SONS IN UNITED STATES ARMY Jan. 20.?Army recruiting cast a little ray of sunshine into the life of in Ozark farmer in Missouri with ;leven children to support on sixty icres of "rundown" land. Noting educational features of army life, the Vlissourian wrote Adjutant General 3arris for special permission to en ist the second oldest of nine sons ind a pair of twins, all just under ige. The hoys are large for their age.< in a will grade well up to the average .ountry boy in looks and intelligence' to said. I B. T. Prices For One We thing in ou $3.75 Overalls, $3.25 Overalls, 7c r\ n_ cpz../ j wverans, $3.50 Underwe; $1.75 Underwe. Dry Goods 50c Outing, nq 50c Ginghams, 35c Ginghams, i ii n i n All collars, bridles duced. We have for which we are We Offer Gr ALL PRICES Q c ft OUR - T HALF PI of Men's and Boys' Clot] and Underwear Started Somethii You are given an opporl ty to buy high class clot and underwear for a ? deal less than new price: new spring goods will be, lots of people are taking vantage of it. You can' ford to miss it. Every su men's and boys' clothing odd trousers and all w |j weight underwear is inch Ill Lllld oCLIC LUI 5pUL CCldJ one-half of original price Don't wait for something bigger to hi ?it can't. These are the lowest prices ; see this season here or anywhere else. < in today and get some of these rare bargi PARKER & RE) rf\rud ; V/V VIIIV/ n? You Can't Bei Afford to IV ek we are offering S] ir store.. For example 1 now . . $2.00 8 Lbs. now . $1.60 4 Lbs now . . $1.40 7 Lbs. ar, no^y . $1.75 11 Lb ar, now .90 2 Bars at Half Price 1 0 Lb: . .25 No. 2 now . . .25 i T'J 1 Gal. 1 1 o now i /; l-Z Uc pads, back-bands, traces ar just been instructed to reduo sole agents 20 per cent; also eat Reductions on Sib UOTED IN THIS AD.' AP EN" DAYS fUCESALE liing g tuni King preat 5 for and ad t af iil\of cirid inter icled h at ipi>en yoj'D Come ""* \ ft IN & CO. at anrl Pari't Ai?"U11U . VU11 %. 1iss. pecial Prices on every we are listing a few: Snowdrift. . . . $1.30 Snowdrift . . . .70 Roasted Coffee . $1.00 s. Rice .... $1.00 ; Large Octagon Soap .15 s. Granulated Sugar $1.00 Can Tomatoes . .j ..." .10 Can Karo Syrup . .85 il. Can Karo Syrup .45 I id farm implements greatly re e the price of Vulcan Plows, > on all repairs for these plows toes?Come in and see IE FOR THE SPOT CASH