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JTAVVEf KVVn ~ ' ???1 1 g Established 1844. | TEE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. ^ The Press and Banner Company ' Published Tri-Weekly , i * ^ ' Monday, Wednesday and Friday. ^ Entered as second-liass matter ax tost office in Aobeville, S. C. 1 T?i\?i of Sabacription: ^ One Year .... $2.0? Six months $1.09 j Three months ... .54) mn i r 4 " "J Foreign Advertisng Representative . AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION i MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,-^921 ?? ? ? P Another "Fanneii'rMbT($^ent f ' n ' / S The letter of C. P. Hodges which appears in The State today is in*- j tended, one supposes, "to start some-, thing." That "something" appears 1 to be an imitation of the movement, or "move-ment," of 1890. Two years g - i after the more or less celebrated & - ' < "March Convention" of 1890, the an- I ti-Tillmanites, or Conservatives, socalled, held a convention to "suggest" a ticket and it was then, we ? believe, that the late Col. J. L. M. ? ' - 1 Irby, a lawyer whose remarkable t abilities were indispensable, to the success of "Reform," told the story t . ? of the <xLulu hand." A stranger in t ' v " a game of poker held four aces but, y 8 at the showdown, a man with a pair of fours raked in the fat jackpot. When the stranger remonstrated, the j "banker of the game pointed to t a placard on the well, saying thatjc 1 - in poker, as played in that house,. * a pair of fours was a "Lulu hand" c and beat anything. A little later the stranger held the "Lulu hand" c and) when about to take the pot, had t * Ihis attention turned to another siem 11 which read "a Lulu hand wins' but;t once in one night." The aptness of 1 tl^ story was confirmed by the re- j suit in 1892. !j Next year 32 years- will have i z passed since the first success of the j c . , "Fanners' Movement" and it may 1 be that Mr. Hodges reckons* that it j is time to open a brand" new game j i in which the "Lulu hands" will be v again recognized. 1 Of course The State does not sym- j jjathize with the unmitigated attack: c on the poor benighted lawyers. The;? State does not believe in class gov-jj erament. If the lawyers have had i v and have too large a part in shap-J ing legislation and administration; in South Carolina, they ought not: to be subjected . to,cruel' and un*'a usual punishment for it. Their whole company numbers 1,000 or 1,200 int^ ; South Carolina and not a few of them ^ < are saints of the Lord. One doubts' ?- a if any of them ought to be hanged i and, if there be two or three who I ought to be in jail, we are not pre- g nared to nrove it or to make an ac- a .... -- r -- -- ? | cusation. If 1,200 lawyers can out-j wit 200,000 men and women farmers, ju s whose is the fault and where is the j harm if the farmers must needs re- je ' duce taxes, must have a reformer c to lead them and would hire a pro-: 5 fessional "Reformer" from the ranks ^ x IT of the attorneys? That would be a ^ tribute to. the attorneys which no; generous person would grudge them.: Perhaps the farmers can not find a > Moges among themselves and perhaps j they would not agree upon him if i; 1, , they did find him. Lawyer politi-'t cians are among the greatest con- r ven^ences to farmers when they b&-' c come excited, especially about taxes,, ^ which are invariably imposed by the I "whi^e collar crowd." :j f If any of the farmers sympathize e ' with Mr. Hodges' proposal, The State' will be glad to hear from them and J . ; I print their letters, provided they write briefly and to the point. The | State will certainly not oppose an upright and capable man for gov- j ernor merely because he is a farmer. Nor would it oppose a man of that kind for no better reason than that he happened to be a "movie" actor or* lawyer.?The State. Potato "Cure" Returns Detroit News. , . Potaoes sold y^e other day in a .Michigan town at eighteen cents a' bushel. They will be back presently '< to a point where a fellow can afford j to resume carrying one in his pocket a for His rheumatism. < THE GRAY AND THE BLUE (By D. H. Magill, Richmond, Va.) ] The Southern smiles of peace now flow Triumphant over tears, j Announcing war shall ever go, i Dispelling rueful fears; < The direful days of Seven Pines, < Of Gaines' Mill, Frazier's Farm < And Malvern Hill, depart with lines Of cruel strife's alarm. ] ] mmottal brave, for whom we weep! i Unwavered was thy test, ; At quiet Hollywood some sleep, i At Oakwood others rest; rho' many lie, unrecognized, ] 1 Where courage was their shield, j rhey are asleep, immortalized, ] Who. fell on valor's field. i hf- t Ve chant sweet requiems for the > k.ray?? y \ C? *1 ' *Who ?ell for Southern rights, S^i^h.Carolina lilies wave, Virginia's rose unites; n 'peace we'll evermore abide, The .South, so brave and true, The North, in faith will stand beside ThpGray in living Blue. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED i~9 , i i Upliit Church Regrets Lots of the ' ' Rev. Louis J. Bristow. t The following: resolution was adoptd by the iqembers of the Abbeville \ baptist church upon the resignation t ecently of the Rev. Louis J. Bris- ] ow: * - ' "Whereas, The Rev. Louis J. Bris- 1 ow, who has been our beloved pas- < or, and under Shepherd for eig;ht ] ears, has tendered his resignation to 1 iccept the superintendence of a Bap- < ist hospital in Selma, Ala., and ? "Whereas, Since coming to us^ in J 910, for five years, and in 1918, for hree years, a new and modern house ' if wotship and parsonage have been 1 milt and paid for, and are now free f debt, apd # < "Whereas, The membership of the ' :hurch has grown from 167 to 466 ' he greater portion of this increase 1 jeing under his wise and enthusias1c leadership, and is now one of the 1 argest church in the city, and 1 "Whereas, The attendance at the 1 jreach'ng services, Sunday School ! tnd prayer meetings have shown won- j lerful growth a^na interest since nis ast pastorate with us, and all de- i jartments of the church are working : n harmony and good fellowship and vith enthusiasm, . 1 "Therefore be it resolved by the nembers of tne Abbeville Baptist 1 :hurch that his resignation was regretfully accepted believing that the 1 iall to Selma opens .up new field of isefulness to him. "That while fully appreciating his jreat work and usefulness, among is, we pray that under Divine guidance he may be the means not only >f healing the physical infirmities of nany, but that he may be enabled to tasten the coming of the kingdom in i larger measure than ever before. "That our beet wishes and prayers ( ;o with him and his family that anil -wise Providence may take care \ f them and guide them in all their , indertakings. i "That tnese resolutions be inscrib- t d on a page in the minutes of the v hurch, and be published in the local c apers and the Baptist Courier, and j hat a copy be sent to the Rev. Louis r . Br.'stow." ( GIRL INSTANTLY KILLED t Winston-Salem, N. ' C.?While i valking on the roof of the new t welve-story hotel here this after. 1 loon Miss Lillian Mitchell, 24 years >ld, daughter of Edgar Mitchell, of i Walnut Cove, fell from a high para- t jet to the roof of the ball room, ten c loors below, and was instantly kill- ] id. i At the croner's inquest one of the ( vitnesses said that Miss Mitchell had i isked her, "If you loved a man and 1 le loved you and you knew, that the i narriage could never take place, { vhat would you do?" The witness < stated that she advised Miss Mit- ] shell to continue and to trust to J i lope. "But," repied Miss Mitchell, i iccording to the witness, "suppose'j ] jvery future moment made tilings vorse?" At another time Miss Mitchell remarked to thfi witness, "I :ould scream until every one in the < juilding heard me," i Not being aible to arrive at a de- j :ision from the evidence the jury ad- < iourned until tomorrow, when it will j JAW 4-Vin nrtr] corilr f A nkf Qm 4 new tlic uuiiuxii^ auu otca IU uubuiit I >ther evidence. 1 BILLY SUNDAY SORRY Laemntc Plight of Fatty Arbuckle and Blames Booze Siouk City, Iowa, Sept. 18.?I feel j sorry for "Fatty" Arbuckle and doj lot see how any court in the . land j :ould convict the fallen idol for mur- j ier or for manslaughter. He has j suffered enough in my opinion. How can you punish Arbuckle unless you punish Mrs. Bambina Vlaude Delmont and the others who were his guests at the St Francis ind have told their story to ;Dis.rict Attorney Brady? I blame booze for the whole thing. 3ad there been no liquor at that party Virginia Rappe would not lave lost her life. But there were ntoxicants and I see by the papers ;hat fovty quarts of whisky and jibber, hard liquor were consumed by i!i|fatty" and his gqeste. t. . .. ' ."Arbuckle realizes that the way of ;he /transgressor is hard. He was the novies' best comedian. He was the favorite of old and young alike when ;hey went to the picture shows to jet a laugh. He drew because he was jood, because his plays were not suggestive of immorality. He did a ot of good in the world because he hade folks laugh and forget their :ares and sorrows. He was the sun ;hat shined on filmdom. Now his pictures are barred. And vhile they are banning his pictures ;hey should quit showing Miss [lappe's. Without a doubt she went to that jarty of her own free will and ac:ord. From what I gather from the papers, Miss Rappe also went into ;he bedroom with "Fatty" not because he forced her to go, for it seems that.he did not, but because she wanted to go in there with him. TIip iHrl Hied: hut I believe her ieath was caused by an accident and not by Roscoe Arbuckle. That party was as wild as any I jver heard of. There are many jthers going on that are just as wild, however, and that is because immorality is increasing. . And immorality will increase as long as people disregard laws, whether they be laws of the churches or of the government. At that, 1 con}ider prohibition has 'been successful. , V " How do I figure that prohibition is i success if immorality is increasing? yrou will ask. Well, the Volstead act has taken may the saloons, for one thing; and has made communities more prosperous. But as I have just said, ;here are violators of all laws; what ;he prohibition act needs is bigger :unds for its enforcement. That party of Arbuckle's was just * ???A /\^ ? mA/lovn PaloVl ?X77Q T? on. ertaining in the St. Francis Hotel. ?atty fell for whisky and wild wom?n. Old Belshazzar had a party that vas most disgraceful, but that' party lad nothing on "Fatty's." PRdF. GUNTER RETIRES Z. C. Rots Takes Furman University Faculty Vacancy. Greenville, Sept. 15.?Friends ;hroughout South Carolina of Prof, liirceo Gunter, head of the departnent of education at Furman Unirersity, will regret to learn that the :ondition of his health is such that le has been compelled to retire tem>orarily from his active duties. Prof. junter has been under observation >f a specialist in an Atlanta hospi* al for several days and news from jim is to the effect tha the will be 'orced to take a leave of absence un:il the first of the coming year, at east. To fill the vacancy caused by the llness of Prof. Gunter, the adminisxation at Furman University has se:ured Prof. Clay C. Ross, of Powell, Cennessee. Prof. Ross comes to Furnan highly recommended and splendidly equipped for his work. He is i B. A. of Carson-Newman college, lolds a B. A. degree in education ;rom the University of Tennessee! ind an M. A. degree from the teach;rs college of Columbia University. 3e has had considerable experience n teaching. LOWELL SHERMAN, GUEST OF 'FATTY' LOSES OUT Los Angles, Cal., Sept.. 17.?Low;11 Sherman, motion picture actor, ;uest at the Roscoe (Fatty) \rbuckle hotel party in San Francis:o, on Labor Day, was released from i contract with a large motion pic;ure production company here, it was announced yesterday. MANY JEWELS FOUND IN DESPERADO'S LA Ml Atlanta Nefro, Profexional Burglar, Killed by Officers Who Try To Arreat Him. Atlanta, Sept. 17.?Large quantities of valuable jewelry have been found in the haunts of Frank Cooper negro desperado, thought by the police to have been a professional burglar, who was shot to death early Friday morning by Officer J. W. McWilliams, after a pitched battle. Four negro women have been arrested, charged with being accomplices of fcooper. They are Mattie Byrd and Ruby Russell, 306-A West Fair street; Roxie Jones, 181 Bell street, and Mary Wilson 9 Old Wheat! street!-'.' H r .jDet^dtivtes went to the Scene' of the: fcfto'otinfc'of Cooper, which occurred at 308 West Fair street, just after daybreak. They entered that house and number 306-A, next door, and as they mounted the steps a negro woman, one of the four under arrest, threw a box from the window. When recovered, it proved to contain diamonds, and watches, and brooches of considerable value. There is, somewhere, say the negro women, a cigar box full of gems and jewels of great value. They say they do not know where it is. Cooper showed it to them a day or two ago and went away with it, they said. The police department is hunting for it. Searching Cooper's pockets after his dramatic death, the officers found eight gold watches of considerable value. They have not been identified. , The jewelry recovered from the box in Cooper's room consisted of the following: A diamond-studded gold watch embellished with sixty pearls, and a pistol, believe to belong to Mrs. H. L. DeGive, of 665 Peachtree street. A gold wrist watch .and a diamond ring, identified, by Mrs. S. Franks, of 260 Rawson street, as her property. A pearl-studden sunburst, a gold and pearl brooch, a gold wrist watch and a ruby ring, identified and delivered to Miss Rose Bloom, 210 Washington street. . A quantity of gold chains, diamonds and jewels yet unidentified. I * "Cooper was an expert burglar," say the police, "and if we can find all his hidden loot we will be able to return much of the valuable jewelry whioh has been stolen in the past few months. We will not rest until" that cigar box is found." Cooper, a negro desperado well known to thfe police and a romantic figure in the underworld of Darktown, said to be an escaped convict, and a generally bad man, was shot to death early Friday morning by Police Officer J. W. McWilliams. "You'll never take me alive," he had sent word to headquarters. A year ago, it is said, he was given a sentence of fifteen years for burglarizing the home of Mayor Key. He served two months of this sentence and escaped, and Atlanta police have been searching for him ever since.. Prior to 1910 the pink boll worm' so destructive to the cotton fields, was unknown in Egypt. , \ ? VALUAl Should t well as ii \ a place c ty Depos You hav< to the bo J.1 T iiieiii. v MURDER UNSOLVED > 1 Man in Car Shot By Party in Pairing Car. Akron, 0., Sept. 17.?More light ^ on the circumstances of the murder j of Harry Sinclair, 40, Akron sportsman, early Thursday, is toeing sought today by Cleveland and Akron po- ^ lice. Two leads were followed yester- j day in an effort to run down the identity of his slayer, but county ^ prosecutor A. W> Doyle reported lit- ^ tie progress. (Sinclair was dirviner the -roadster; of a friend, R. & (Red) Smithers,' j who was also in the party with two ! j, women, yrhen, according to the . Story told iby Smrthers, a car raced 1 up behind from which two shots were r fired which struok the body of the s roadster. The third shot fired as the pursuer was passing killed Sinclair instantly. A * "'"i : \ ' : iM'* i The two men in the party substan-^ tiate Smither's story. iPriends of Sinclair state that he, was a former Philadelphia man and ( that he had no known enemies. He was known to police as a gambler,! and police believe that he may have' made some bitter enemies in his pro-! fession. The police have discarded the jealousy theory on which they worked yesterday. WEEKS AND FORD CONFElt Will DUcum Offer of Lizzie King to Buy Power Plant I , Washington, Sept. 17.?Secretary Weeks will confer Monday at 10 a. m with engineers representing Henry ' Ford on the offer submitted by ,the Detroit manufacutrer for the purchase and lease by him of nitrate and water power projects at Muscle Shoals Ala. After the discussion with the engineers, it is understood that Mr. Ford personally will come to Washington to talk with Secretary Weeks. The conference Monday was believed to center upon certain objection raised by Secretary Weeks to provisions in the Ford offer. These will be explained by the secretary to the engineers who, it was said would advise Mr. Ford, probably before his conference with. Mr. Weeks. SMOTHERED TO DEATH Newberry, Sept. 16.?The six year old son of G. B. Ellison of Spring Hill, Lexington county, was smothered to death in a pile of line cotton Monday at a gin house on the James C. Duncan plantation In Cromer township. The lad was visiting a family on the plantation and with the children of the family was playing in the cotton when the accident: occurred. The little body was ship-( ped hack to his father's in Lexington county for .burial. \ f f ' " ANNOUNCIN< OF THE DIXIE G MEXT DOOR TO ABBEVILLE \ AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING ALL WORK C e;. m. bonds, jr. J 'igJSJglSISEOJSISJSMSMSJSfSMSJSJSJSMSJSJSJSJi BLE PAPE . ^ w 1 o 1V\ r\ -ft VIA A-P v\ it; pittceu in a iiic-piuui p i a place safe from robber; an be found at this bank ir it Box at a cost of only $3 3 the key. No one can hav x but yourself. Call and Ve have fifteen unrented 1 x PLANTERS B 1 "%Q friendly San ' ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CARC rO RESUME STUDY OF LAW AT CAROLINA James S. Cothran, Jr., popular leputy clerk of the United States District Court, nephew and private ecretary to Associate Justice Thomis P. Cothran, leaves Greenville tolay to visit his sister, Mrs. Julian D. t i *. J* n .1 i? i j a _ loistem, jr., 01 n.ageneia. Aixer a hort visit in Edgefield Mr. Othran vill go to Columbia, where he will lursue. the study of law at the University" of South Carolina. "Jimmy" Cothran, as he is popu- arly known in this city, has made a lost of friends during his residence n Greenville, and all wish him a nost successful term at the law ichool.?Greenville Piedmont. ' ; / ' I Pictures Framed HAVE YOUR PICTURES FRAMED AT THE ...ECHO Prompt delivery. THE ECHO "The Really Mtuical Spot ia AbberilW Sandwiches Fine for that "gone" { feeling along about the middle of the day. Ham Sandwiches 10c. Cheese and Pimento Sandwiches.. 10c. : Chicken ............ l<5c . FRESH EVERY ( f 4 ' DAY. * = The McMurray Drug Company 3 OPENING? ^ . ; new AR AGE IOTOR CO., TRINITY STREET and cars stored. 1UARANTEED W. R. GOLDEN !RS I lace as 3. Such * l a SafeI a year. e access inspect boxes. I ANK k" t