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rAuci f vuu Established 1844. , THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-uass matter at tost office is Aobeville, S. C. Ten as of Subscriptions One Year $2.09 Al? *1 nft Biz mourns . Three months , Foreign Advertisng Representative :i AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION :, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1921 WHAT WE ARE ALL UP AGAINST Says the New York Herald: "Capi tal destruction during the recent war , ran higher by far than in any pre vious conflict in history. The amount of wealth wiped out has been estimat ed at much as $250,p00,000,00(h ' Only by long years of toil and thrift'" can this destroyed wealth be replace I . ed out of surplus production. Until* if 'is replaced the world cannot live | in Ihe comfort and enjoy the luxuries , it did before the war." '* *' ? W The case as thus stated would seem to be so clear and so convincing that it is scarcely possible for any man in senses to fail to grasp its mean ing. How any intelligent, reasoning person could ever have con61uded that the aftermath of such a war was to he a long period of unexampled pros perity for this country or any coun \x try, or all classes or any class, is be yond comprehension when the facts are soberly reviewed. . The world today may be compared to an agricultural community where 1 ail ine iarmers niuri^o^e uiien iauua v i _ and then have th<eir houses destroyed and their crops ruined by cyclone. Such a community can recover from a * blow like this only if its people in dividually and collectively work| harder'than they ever have worked) , and practice the sternest economy. Thus only did the South slowly em erge from the bankruptcy which was brought upon it by our great war. , . Thus only, as the Herald .says, can J the world now regain the comforts and the luxuries which had become., the distinguishing characteristics of modern civilization seven years ago. | In all parts of the world there are millions who still cling to the foolish' hope that in some miraculous way the; present wreckage of civilization is going to be straightened out in a lit-' tie while so that men ana women can take up their lives again where they left off in 1914, only in a larger se-j clarity with less work and more pleas- j . Tires. An unhappy awakening awaits all such dreamers. No such miracle ever has happened, or can happen. ! j l Work and thrift will save us. Work i and thrift will put the world once1 more on its feet. It will take time,! but it can be done. This is the way, to "normalcy," and there is no other.j -News and Courier. S. C. COTTON ASSOCIATION TO MEET NEXT WEEK! Columbia, April 28?Plans for the! ' formation of a co-operative market-j * ' association to sell the cotton crop South Carolina will be made public j T^he meeting of the South Carolina iVision of the American Cotton' sociatiomto be held in Columbia ati ( Craven Hall next Wednesday, May 4 at noon. Delegates have been ap-! pointed from every township in South; -Carolina and over two thousand rep-i resentative farmers of the state are expected to attend. The plans for the formation of the ' association will be drafted at a meet ing of the central committee on Tues-i day. This committee is composed of I twenty-four '.representative farmers}: chosen at regional meetings which; wtere held in the state. The number of i bales to be signed up before the pool-1 ing arrangements becomes effective and other details will be worked out! by ,th:s committee on Tuesday and. submitted to the convention on Wed-: j nesday. In North Carolina an effort! is being made to sign up 200,00 bales The number in this state may be lar-1 Eer. .] R. C. Hamer, president of the cotton [ association, yesterday received a telegram from Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, expressing} regret at his inability to attend the: .v1 meeting. .The meeting on next Wednesday will be strictly for business, said Mr.; Homer, yesterday, and there will be no oratorical displays. The business' before the body -will be the formation of a co-operative marketing associa tion and discussion of it will begin immediately after the convention opens. . . j President Hamer said yesterday that every farmer in South Carolina was invited to the meeting whether he had been appointed a delegate or not. .. THE MAYOR AND THE WOMEN 11 i ' ** "? i--j .mayor jnars nau. mo u^uuus clothes on Thursday morning and told in two minutes what he was go ing to do to the Press and Banner when he got iover to the office. When he did get to the office his courage "oozed,: out his finger tips" for he found ,a. bobbed hair maiden, a red headed madden and a veteran with grey hair which threw his bi? talk into the discard at once. The Mayor did not like our story of thepohce court of Wednesday irndi tails us that there was only a vaginancy charge against the two wihtae men who were made to move on wfclfo there was a charge of beat ing the^tftains against the negro who Was gives the thirty days on the gang: 'We'"' hasten to make public abends. . v " "S READ THE -ADVERTISEMENTS I I *? -qW T?0> &*?*** *?&% FREE PORTRAIT OF ,MR/ OE&ISOfCoQ ? ... > made famous portait etch { iing? of Lincoln and Roose f Telt, has just completed a .. refine etching of Mr. Edison as he looks today. We will be glad to give you a proof done on off-set paper, suit ; . able for framing size 12 x 19. This proof has a fac-si mile autograph of Mr. Edi -^v'son. Bring or mail the cou i. "v 'pon for it. THIS AD Ml Why not beni ing your phoi getting full en and let us exp mean to you? THE K "The Home of the ? A CLEAN CI1 ORDE1 ( PROCLAMATION CLEAN-UP WEEK Come on, let's put things in or der. Our whole City can and should be made as1 clean and orderly as its cleanest home. Then we will have a safer, happier, healthier City. Ambition in its highest conception is to dream big dreams and make them come true. The splendid ambi tion to have a clean City and beau tiful is soon to become a reality by the co-operation of all the people. Therefore, by virtue of the au thority visited in me as Mayor, and with the hearty approval of many far-seeing and zealous citizens, we h^Peby proclaim the week of MAY 9TH -14TH, 1921 AS Cle*a Up, P*fat Up, Keep Up Week Away with the rubbish piles? Banish the dirty spots?Clean up streets and alleys?Cut the weeds, mow the lawns and trim the hedges ?Repair and paint or whitewash al! buildings and fences that need it We need this thorough cleaning and renovation. It is the sensible s ? v? rtjs0*&0* 4t ^0 t&Jv w**^vo?' S'SStTc^ Jo-. "The Phon I at 1920 Convention FWih-Iijrht pbotofrmpb of aacUea ef Mid-Wnt CaevraUeo ot EAitoc dealerv il BkdUtoot Tbmtrt, CU c??O.Jt>l7lfaadl3,lM0. TolBtrrtmU the pcrfet raHio of tba Na? lAaaa, Thomu Cbalman, htoal biiUooe *f li>a Metrapffttaa Oprrm Compter. tang la durcl eoaptritce with taa New Edmxi'i Rt-CuuTtoM of bis voice, and ao diffmaee ccald be daiactad. This pbetofnph Ufcaa tmaadtttcljr after Mr. Ctnlaian bad completed nb eo?ip?riio<i. / Whot Did Edison Do War? sMs ?s:*& eht by the highly de\ nograph? Why not joyment out of your { --There will be no bi ;err furnih \ew Edison" Y?BY R OF MAYOR >? ' thing to do?for the health, safety, ; thrift, pride and happiness of all i our people. It is everybody's job. Let there be I no slackers. J. Moore Mars, Mayotr, City of Abbeville, S. C. ABBEVILLE'S NEEDS Since the orgarization of the hos pital auxiliary, where ever a few wo men are gathered together, the talk is sure to be of ths campaign to raise money. At a gosuip-feast this week one lady had had Dr. Rakestraw pointed out to her and she comment ed on his jaunty vralk, his spruced up appearance and his general good looks, which brought forth from an?r other lady the remark "well, that is what I like. When I get sick I want a 'prijnpie' man to come and see me. I don't get it, for Dr. Harrison is the only 'primpie' doctor in towivand he has quit practicing." Our doctors should join the "clean up and paint up" campaign and get to looking like Dr. Harrison. > 'ite l?Jk at tx*6euaea. It u lb* dtrotiom it tbe idtzYmn ofntdt. t of this bwiraw ?n rtoimXlj tfitotalmt aob in tbm itafing wordi to fab Ua; IToh are txptmtdM if 4 grvti mt, m wtt m dutribttart qf mercitcadm." ' am Medium, 'Arovgb tlx work tfBdbom Dtmlen, km itbel the Ed boo Pboitegnpli store to mew bdpiliK a, fjOtoaterrict to b mew dignity1, mdM4'moaaHmct? iD eloped Fdison service utilizs this service to i phonograph? Why n< Ldison and Edison S( lying obligation JRE COMPANY "The Phonograph With SERVICE AT COKESBURY Rev. James L. Martin, D. D., trill preach at Cokestmry Sunday at eleven o'clock. You are cordially Free Dem ol morara Given at our 3tor son next Friday April 29th We urge every one to stratioiL We can rea. MILLER ai : in choos aid you in >t come in srvice will 9 See the Spinsters Convert- . tion at the Opera House, Mon day night, May 9th. Laugh and grow fat. Under auspices of the Abbeville Chapter U. D. C. invited to attend . i ? ..... \ oridtration e by Miss Peter and Saturday, and 30th attend this demon ymmend this coffee. id EVANS ' i v.. * ? lison portrait coupon II 'ng or mail this coupon x Siri ' lease supply me with the U I bare checked. mnkiin Booth Portrait of son ooklet?What Edison as in Musk: < , ooklet?Edison and Music nlletin?What did Edison luring the War?