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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER |s ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. i?-r ' Entered as second- Liass matter at tost office in Aobeville, S. C. M?? i 9 Tinu of Subscription i One Tear $2.0# Six months 91-09! Three months .59 Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION . , . MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1921 -U NO DIVISION ? if"'- ' The retiring District Attorney for ! this district, Col. J. William Thurmond, of Edgefield, has an article in : today's State in which he talks of sev ' eral things. Among them he discusses 1 the opposition to him by Senator Dial, 1 which opposition defeated his confir- < mation for reappointment, and de prived him of two years of service in 1 his office. He pays his respects to the < Laurens man, and thinks him the 1 y greatest political accident the state 1 has ever seen. He does not state 1 whether he had this opinion of Mr. 1 Dial when the latter was the guest of the former at aageneia "m ana during of' the campaign, but he has it now, and he speaks right out in the meeting about it. Perhaps if Mr. Dial ^ - had been good about the appointment, he would have been a "growed-up" I senator by this time, but let that'. i; CoL Thurmond does not think much i of ythe new converts to the republi-1 * can party in this state, and hopes , that there will be no division amongst . the white people of the state. The.^ Colonel can contribute very much! to that end, if he will have the next;. state democratic convention to a-jj mend its rules by providing that the E democratic party in South Carolina) be independent of every other party j on earth; that it is meant to run I ^ things in South Carolina, that it may jt by a decision of the white people, 1* support the candidate of the national r party which (promises something * worth while to this state, and leaves c the white people free to decide what 3 candidates they will support for con- c if gress and president, regardless of Jc the party to which they claim ad- J* herence. The people will not always, |r we think, allow a few politicians and c newspaper men, all of yrhom are will- s ing to accept office if offices are to;c be had, to shape the politics of this j * state, bind hand and foot every man 1 r 1 who votes for intendent of a town in a primary election, to vote for all v officers from president down whom these professional office-seekers name, 1 and who they think will serve their,s interests. There have been times, we | * think, when it would have been very ? much to the interest of the people of * the state to vote for the nominees of ^ the republican party for president; * there have been times when these v candidates offered most to the peo- ? pie of the state perhaps; and maybe 4 fc large niinority of the white people 2 would have preferred these candi- ? dates, certainly some of them would,1 have preferred them. Why, in such * case, should not the white people, 1 ;i? a white primary, if need be, be al- J lowed to express their preference as 1 between the candidates of the two;* great parties rather than have a few -politicians fix things to suit themselves. Such a course would be edu, national if nothing else. Ool. Thurmond and others should ""take notice that if the white people in South Carolina are not to be di,|Yided in politics, then the white man's -party in South Carolina, must be a party of the white men . of the state,' in which every man may express his views and submit all controversies to 4he people for decision, unhampered -by platforms of conventions made hy office-seekers. 1 The white man's party in South :Carolina, as a part of the democratic party of the nation, is nothing but the kite's tail, and yet we furnish all i -of the material out of which the kite ' -is made and the wind which carries I it. So far as we are concerned we ' do not care whether Southern men or 2 Northern men, democrats or republi- < cans hold office during either a demo 1 cratic or republican administration,', that is a minor consideration, if the office holders are competent but we j want free discussion fn South Caro-^' ' > - -- lina, and no longer the cry of thej "nigger in the wood pile" when J free discussion is approached. The| negro should be defranchised, and when the South enters the political field again, as it did before the war, with men at liberty to express and urge their views, the negro will cease to be a consideration by either party. If he cannot be disfranchised in one way he <will be in another. The people in the North do not care more for the negro than we do, we think, and all right thinking people, North and South, are ready to get hrm out of politics. It has not been the history in other Southern states where there is a republican party that the negro cuts much figure in the elections and we think the time is fast approaching when he will cut no figure at all. He belongs to an inferior race; he should be treated properly, be allowed to 1 Live in peace, be protected in his ' property rights, but as a race the ' negro should have no place in shaping the destiny of the country. v He will cease to have here when we have < two parties in Soutti tiaroi na witn 4 ?ood men at the head of each, (and j sach will have its best men at the head when there are two parties) or when a white man in South. Carolina j :an, inside the white man's party, ] rote for the man and the platform ] which most nearly represent his own views and which promise most to the vhole country. ' < - I SQUANDER CHICKENS 1 Congress is shocked at Secretary ^ Hellon's warning that unless the r economy axe again goes d >ep the j jrovemjgent's v spendings this year ire liable to approximate four and i half billions of dollars. But Con1 i ^resp can scarcely doubt that the areful and accurate head of the Treasury Department knows what he 8 talking about . It was congress, is The New York Herald feared and aid at the time, which did not realze on what a spending career it was aunch:ng the Government when it vas making the appropriations. The trouble was then, as The New fork Herald took pains to explain^, he trouble is now and long will be, hat there is a colossal heritage of annual bill paying handed down from he war Administration. There is a lebt service running, all told, at the rearly rate of about a billion and a luarter of dollars, and it cannot be lodged or deferred. There is a Ship- 1 >ing Board operating deficit which ? night go as high as half a billion of 5 lollars, and the Government, until it * ells, gives away or sinks the ships, 1 :annot get out of it. There is a }anama Canal loss, figured as a business proposition, which sucks up pub- ^ ic funds as desert sands suck up * rater. \ 1 The army and the navy, even on he rcdi$ced scales, will consume ^ carcely less than three-quarters of a >illion of'dollars and on the army ind navy bills there can be no default. The Go verm en t owes hun- , Ireds of millions to the railroads and hese moneys are contract obligations ^ vhich cannot be repudiated without v in indelible stain on the name of he United States Government. There ( ire on file other claims incalculable tnd in adjustment accounts innunerable which, however remote the , :irfl and final settlements, are in part i constant drain on the public funds. And after all. those billions for he most part having little or nothing ;o do with the present conduct of the jfovernment, there are the regular iay to day expenses of the various md varied deprtments, bureaus and :ommiss:ons which never before in ;ime of peace were so heavily manned vith salary drawing office holders ind never before were so lavishly, ^ ;xtravagantly and wastefully financed by Congress itself. ' -Congress can be shocked now at the things it did not* know it was doing when the appropriations were being roted. But Congress can be shocked is well at the things it did with its eyes wide open. And, with the squanier chickens of Congress itself come 1 home to roost, the American people are shocked, they are outraged, at the new squander proposals. Only the I sternest executive ana legislative guardians of the national purse can restrain .the CongTess spendthrifts from rushing headlong to seize every jpportunity to introduce and vote for bills to shovel more money out of the A.mercan public's pocket. The way for Congress to save is to stop the spending. And even then there is the hard, cold fact to face 1 ! ' V V V HITS BY HAL t M V ^ vWVVVVVVWVVVVN E. t If you want to make a hit, get out and git. re . se No. no, H. H. No broken heart is . w ever past re-paixmg. yc The State thinks a sAldiers' bonus in bill would be a boner. x pi ___ te Many a girl thinks she's elected when she's only nominated. It's doubtful if Henry could a-iFotd Muscle Shoals, anyway. or Last week the paragraphers were ^ saying fat men should take up girth ^ contral. This week he should try ye mirth control. , St Some nut says love makes the world go round. A lot of folks who he ion't knw any better think it has ne always ibeen round. hi) * ho Arnold Bennett claims to be glad is to see tfie passing of the 'love Pr> natch." Yes, there does seem to ibe a ^e [ot of duds that won't strike. no \ An ad in a well known paper read: Cs 'John iBlank makes artificial legs ;hat are guaranteed to give satisfac- j| ;ion as good as any legs made." < The mystics claim already tx> have >een in communication with Caruso. w} rhey called their gathering a seance wj jut it must have been a hearance. Lena Clark, the Palm Beach post- fou nisrfrresR who. eonfeses to stealine 550,000, is said to be a mystic. Sort 3ej )? now it's here; presto, it's gone ^ nysticism. di< ga Yet, It'* Gone. na Like the mist on the mountain, Like the dew on the grass; a Was the money we've spent, On our flivver for gas.?Jefferson OGe.) FepoTter. Like the foam on the sea, . Like the ?dge on an ax,, . j|j Is the money we've spent As an income tax. I ? I "Women are determined that in | he future there, shall be a more even ] listribution of the sweets of life,'' [ tays Arnold Bennett. Change one Qf [ J ;he e's to an a and the men are for f 1 *f! " NinetjwSix postmasters held for > Embezzlement."?Abbeville ( S. C.) . i*ress and Banner?No, Helen, J Jiere are not that many, Ninety-Six s a town in South Carolina."?Jef- | erson, (Ca.) iReporter. Come, now. l tfone o' that The s is yours. .I Says the Anderson Daily Mail: . ? "Two tourists passed through A1>- [ jevilie one day last week, having J wandered off the National Highway |j jetween Atlanta and Anderson and f law that Abbeville ibunch is talking? i 'new tourist hotel for our fair ' 3ity to beat the band." ' L If Abbeville talks a "tourist hotel" j? is long as Anderson has been talking 'any kind of hotel" the tourists will I ill be dead before it is built. Be- [ sides, Abbeville has a hotel. H l ! Like the Dodo. g Boston Transcript. J "Yes," remarked the highbrow." mller, "I rather pride myself on the I liscovery of another hypothesis." |t "Indeed!" returned Mrs. Newrich, I i little doubtfully. '*1 had an idea { :hey were quite extinct." ij ?1? ?j&il that unless Congress lays new taxejfcj-i [ nonest taxes, rational taxes and PjttMf luctive taxes?to take the place of | those which are no longer sufferable ? &r fruitful the Treasury revenues will run dry and the United States ? Government cannot pay its bills.? New York Herald. ? [ W. A. HARRIS FUNERAL SUPPLIE8 EMBALMING and Auto Hearse Service PHONES Day 395 Nigbt 134 ' ' ' ft ASKS OF ARMSTRONGS ra. Southworth Wants Information Of Old Family. iitor Press and Banner:? I am anxious to get information garding the Armstrong family who ttled in Abbeville District about f35, I think, and was connected ith the Calhoun family. ' Thinking that possibly some of lur subscribers might have some formation on this line I should ap eciate your bringing it to their atntion. Mrs. I. Southworth, Andover, Mass. ' I J. L. STEWART.*. Mr. J. L. Stewart, who lived alone l Mrs. Chapman's farm in the Long ine section, was found dead in his id this morning. He was about 52 ars old and had no relatives other an two nephews, Andrew and John one. Mr. Stewart apparently died of art failure. Yesterday afternoon, j ighbors say, he was apparently in 3 usual good health. This morning, wever, he was found dead and it not known at what hour he died exactly what the cause was. He pt bachelor quarters and there was one else in the house at the time, i The funeral will be 'held at Long ine tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock ilS THIEF STOLE A WHOLE FRUIT ORCHARD Hamilton, 0., Aug.- 6.?The man 10 stole a baas dram and got away th it, Was gone one better today. Hamilton police are looking for a ief, who stole a fruit orchard, one ndred and fifty trees. They were new trees, however just t out a day or so ago. The farmer io had an orchard yesterday and i not have one today lives in Morn township an refuses to let his me be used. The only clues police have are criss-cross of footprints in the ice where the saplings were. Watch the label on your paper i BIG RE TWO I The Stark V some Money, ! 1 startling reduc price on all 1 during the m< I Xfly The 2 1-2 Ba The 23-4 B< The 2 1-2 CI The 2 3-4 1 The 2 1-2 T1 The 2 3-4 T1 THE ABOVE PRIC This will be your on very best Wagon on I The St bllJlLfUZJUHIEJliraJEm * THOUGHT NEPHEW . DEAD IN EUROPE W. Cobb Morris, Reported Killed in Germany, Writes to Cheater Relative*. Chester, Aug. 6.?Te ibe informed of the death of a nephew in an aeroplane accident in Gertnany nearly three years ago and to hear nothing to the contrary until just recently and then in reply to a letter to receive a very interesting communication from the nephew in question was the experience of C. H. Culp. His nephew, W. Cobb Morris, was often ^in Chester wh^n-a boy. When the United StAtes entered the waT young Morris Was working in Canada and just on the point of becom! ing a Canadian flyer, but returned to the States and volunteered in the] air service. After passing through the various stages in the training prescribed hy Uncle Sam for his | flyers, young Morris reached the front a few days after the signing of the armistice, and was assigned to patrol duty. It was the following winter that ^Lieutenant Morris , met with the accident that very nearly cost his life, and he was, in Hp reported dead, which information got to relatives in this country, and was accepted as authentic. Recently, however, Mr. Gulp, was informed by a friend from North Carolina that young Morris was still alive and well and a letter from Mr. Culp brought! a long and interesting reply, in which the young airmen gave a detailed account of his adventures, and promised to visit his Chester I relatives soon. He is now a first lieutenant in the air service and his headquarters are at Langiey Field, Va. BLOWS SMOKE OUT EARS ,-Boston Youth Has Hole Through Head That PuxjJes Science. Boston, Aug. 7.?Boston specialists are puzled over the strange case of Harry Shanley, American war veterans, who has an open passage in his head extending form ear to ear. The former soldier can pass as many as fifteen buttons through one earj DUCTICN ON iORSE W. ehicle Co. is ot U1XVI VilVUgii LI HI lion, we are goi Two Horse Wag Dnth of August. Lin was $155.00, now un was $160.00, now .... lattanooga was $14*5, no1 tattanooga was $150, no\ lornhill was $145, now .. lornhill was $150, now .. ES ARE FOR CASH 0 TION GUARANTEEI e opportunity to supply y earth and at a low price \ Yours to please. ark Vehi BmjEfETejEiinjzjiraj^i and out the other. He was in France / with the Canadian army, when a r German shell exploded over his head, deafening him. Although his vocal cords remain, physicians have told Shanley, he will eventually lose his , voice. Shanley can put a wad of paper ih his mouth nd remove the same from either ear. He is being treated at the Massachusetts Eye and, Ear Infirmary. 11 TO GIVE BARBECUE * TO CLEMSON MEN Florence, Aug. 5.?Clemson college men of Williamsburg, George J town and Florence counties will hold a big barbecue in Florence Monday night, August 8, beginning at 8 * o'clock. The affair will be held at the Pee Dee experiment station. Supt R. E. Currin -will be host to the visitors for the evening. AH graduates, undergraduates, students land prospective students of Clemson, | college are expected to be present, , No program has been arranged for the barbecue, other than to eat and > have a good time. Members of the club and their visitors may address the meeting as the spirit moves thefti/* Recently the Clemson men of these three counties held a Ibftg rally in Florence and formed anew their old college club. The officers are anxious to keep active and to increase the enthusiasm of the first meeting. Announcement! We wish to announce the arrival of the NEW VICTOR RECORDS for ' ; M ' AUGUST. , \ You are invited to come in and hear them. i--'. ' ' ' THE ECHO "Tli* Really Musical Spat ? Abbeville." '? v ; . t jnniiiuiLrErafHjgrarEJEranL } SALE I AGONS I diged to raise j| -? w> rt * r rt I _ 5 ill ay accm a jj ing to cut the {1 ;ons $25, each {! ! i t I jl .... $130.00 j I .... $135.00 11 w $120.00 [l " v $125.00 11 $120.00 I! .... $125.00 ; Jl ?NLY. SATISFACv !i 'our farm with the I! | i I icle Co. |i |