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PLANS SCIENTIFIC BABY ^ College in Oklahoma Adopts Boy for Class in Home Economics. Stillwater, Okla., Sept. 20.?The home makers' cotage at the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College here today is complete, for it has a baby?the one essential which in years before instructors in home . economics have complained was lacking. David, the college baby, was adopt-ed this year, or rather borrowed from the Oklahoma Children's Home at * Oklahoma City. He is to be ttfept foi the school year. Plans are under way to make this boy, whose mother died when he was ten days old, a month after she was deserted by the father, the most dcientifically-raised child in the State. Half a dozen senior girls for six weeks at a stretch will make the home makers' cottage their own, cook the * meals, make the beds, prepare David's diet, make his clothes?in short play "foster mother" to him. Meanwhile an experienced matron will keep a practiced eye on the cottage and David. ', * A traveler who believed himself to j be the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a cannibal isle hid for three days in terror of his life. Finally, driven out by hunger, he discovered a thin wisp of smoke rising from a point inland. Crawling there cautiously on his hands and knees, he arrived just in time to hear a raucous voice demand: ^ "Why the blinkety-blinkety-blank did yon play that blan-blanketed card?" "Praise the Lord!" gasped the survivor, kneeling devoutly. '|They are Christians."?American Legion Week ly. # STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of the ABBEVILLE PRESS and BANNER published Tri-Weekly at Abbeville, S. C., for October, 1921. State of South Carolina^ County of Abbeville. Before me a Notary Public in and the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared W. P. Greene, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor of the Abbev:lle Press and Banner and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the own * 1 i-- xl ersnip, management, etc., 01 me k aforesaid publication for the date skown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, mangaing editor, and business managers are: vv< Publisher The Press and Banner Co., (corporation) Abbeville, S. C. v';-Jbditor* Wm. P. Greene, Abbeville. j.\ Managaing Editor None. Business Manager H. L. Johnson, Abbeville, S. C. N-That the owners are: Wm. P. Greene, Abbeville", S. G. ..That the known bondholder^, mortagees, jand other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bond, mort XT___ gP?*eS, or Otner securities are; nunc. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list ef stockholders and security holders N as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is givsn; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements * _ /? A.11 1 emDracing amani s iuii Miuwicugc imd belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity^ other than that of a bor.a fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd day of September 1921. W. H. White, N. P. (My commission expires pleasure of Governor.) SENATOR SCORES HARDING FOR TRII Washington, Sept. 22.?The Am j erican people "want more work an< , less play," Senator Harrison, Demo ? crat, Mississippi, declared today ii i the senate, in describing Presiden ! Harding's recent trip to New Yori i on the presidential yacht Mayflower . The trip was taken, he said, "whil< millions of Americans were hang ing their head in shame" becausi men who "Helped win tne war" wen ; being offered on-the acution bloc! > in Boston. "What the American people want/ ; the Mississippi senator said, "ar< i more results and fewer recommen i dations; more meal tickets and few * % ; er bread lines, more prosperity ant , fewer poor houses." Declaing that there were nearly 6,000,000 persons out of employ ment in the United States, Senato: Harrison charged that the Republi cans had failed to keep their cam paign pledges of increased prosper! > ty in the ocuntry. Describing recent scenes on Bos ton Common when men stripped t< the waist were knocked down t( those bidding highest for their serv ice the speaker said that while thii was going on the presides had ask ed the senate to defeat the soldiei adjusted compensation bill. "Oh, yes, you promised adjustec compensation to the soldiers," Sen ator Harrison said to the Republicai senators, "and you gave them th< auction block." Mr. Harrison made an oratorical reply to President Harding's recenl i enumeration of Republican accom 4-V rt n A piidiaucnuo uuuiig uuc pi^caw <*uministration. He took up Mr. Harding's letter tc Senator McCormick, Illinois in whicl President aHrding referred to the "monumental" achievements of th< <5. 0. P., both in congess and \.thf legislative departments. This letter, he said, was "concocted" by Messrs. Harding and McCormick to be foisted on the people". Its use in the New Mexico senatorial campaign just closed was decided or because Republicans were worried about New Mexico, Mr. Harrison asserted. Reviewing the letter in detail, he pointed out mat nothing was said in it about educing the high cost of living, while credit was taken for passing the emergency tariff bill, a measure designed to increase the cost^of living." J "We've been stuffed up on promises ever since thi^administration be gan, declared Mr. Harrison, referring to promised governmental economies. , r "Chairman Lasker, of the shipping board, is firing a lot of cheap clerks and employing men at enormous salaries, but expenses are not being reduced," he said. Chicago, Sept. 21.?Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris today was found guilty of contempt of court because of interviews criticising Judge Jseph David of superioi court who presided at sanity hear ings in the Wandered case. The 'chief was given his choice of a $100 fine and five d^ys in the county jail or no fine and six m<jnths in jail. The fiding was made Dy Judge David who suspended serving in the mittimus for 60 days to give the chief's attorneys time Io prepare appeal. MJCKIE SAYS: /MM GOAT \UuCrt ft Q\yy< I wnvios ^ a> ooa Xt utfs ocrrffo /Wvvjc. av&vrr O^P >wt SWAOP / I AROOViO GrrtW rC out \j -ruex> I I Ut COvAtS -CVUO -CUfctk y |uvrcs* ^ vjuavjts to -C A voooco v* vw. tweacor'Qjojkjoj Wfo-^TJOB OP W<5? f MANY INDUSTRIES j TIEDTOTOBACCO' J Prohibition of Weed Would Mean ti Big Financial Loss to i ? Allied Trades. t ; WHO USES THE MATCH? t . H The Smoker Mainly?Also Responsible Q for Spending Hundreds of Millions *; Annually for Licorice, Sugar, 0 c! Coaf, 'Cigar Boxes, Tin ' s j Foil, Etc. \ 'j By.GARRET SMITH 3 "Got a match?" How many times a day 5s that quee. tlon asked In these United States? n j How many more tlrfes Is the question t | unnecessary because most pockets are kept well supplied with the useful j little article? Anyhow, inasmuch as It Is estimated that thire are ^0,000,000 n tobacco users In the country, we would f r gueM that the answer to that Question a - would run Into the hundreds of mll lionB. . ~ For If It weren't for the smokers In * these days of electric lights how mdny v matches would be used? A pretty - small proportion of the number of > these "sticks of blazes" produced In " } the country every year. Abolish to n bacco and the match business would bf h shot to pieces. 3 But the match business Is only one - of a dozen 6r more allied industries t! . which derive large revenues directly or J Indirectly from the tobacco trade and e would suffer heavily If national pro1 hlblttyn of tobacco were to go into s . efTect as some of our reformers would 8 L have it. The annual sales of tobacco o products, based on retail prices, is es- ? i tlmated at $1,987,000,000. Of the cost a of producing and selling this quantity [ of cigars, cigarettes and other forms 0 of the weed, some hundreds of million F dollars are paid out for other things than the raw tobacco and labor of making it up. f $25,000,000 a Year for Boxes r > For example, the1 tobacco trade con- ^ t suines each year 45,000.000 pounds of rJ licorice, 50.000,000 pounds of sugar, ' i both used in flavoring tobacco, and CTO.OOO tons cf coal. It Is estimated that the value of wooden cigar boxes used Is $25,000,000 a year, quite an D Item to the lumber business and to 4 manufacturers of the boxes. j In making these boxes 550,000 pounds of nails are employed. Other large items used in making and pre- c< paring tobacco for sale are tin and s< lead foil, paper for bags and cigarette wrappers, clolh for tobacco bags, labels, coupons. Pt(*., involving the printing trade extensively. Then building contractors and manufacturers of mac hinery are largely in; terested. Investments in plants and machinery employed in manufacturing tobacco are estimated at $102,000. 000. Replacement, up-keep and inter est on the investment make po small sum annually. , And let realty men not# there are approximately 32f>.,000 tobacco farms in the country, with a total estimated" valuation of $160,000,000. Of further in terest to. real estate men is the fact that there are 700,000 retail e&tabllsh merits selling tobaocq, involving a total i rental and upkeep Impossible to estl. mate, besides the large amount of office space occupied by administrative brnnches of the general business. The insurance men, too, have their, snnre of the pickings. ' The tobacco bus'ness pays out annually $7,000,000 . in premiums in the United States. And there are the railroads who reap , revenue from 2.210,000 tons of tobacco ' products every year. As for the advertising business here again it is impossible to. forn< ( any estimate of the enormous annual . outlay. ' The prohibition of tobacco would also I knock a good-sized hole in the receipt's ^ rf the United States government ^ , The Internal revenue receipts from ? Tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount- i, ed to $295,809,355.44. Customs duties j 1 provided an additional $25,000,000 in j round figures, making the total revenue j return to the government $320,000,000. _ Influence on Popular Sentiment v i It is this interlocking of the tobacco bus'ness with so many other Interests !;!; and the vast amount of financial Iosa !jl that would be Involved in the abolition $ of tobacco that is one of the most serious aspects of the proposal to pro 1 j hiblt the sale of tobacco, a proposal, <;<! I however, which has little support bj ;!j; [ public sentiment If the newspaper efli |j!; tors of the country are correct In their l); j estimate of tliat sentiment. !j! In a poll of the editors made recentyr i;!; by the Tobacco Merchants' Association J;!; j of the United States, through the Pres* !;jl | Service Company of New York City, j|| I 95 per cent of the 7,S47 editors vho J;!; i replied expressed the opinion that vlic !;!; people of their commun'ties were op- !|! I posed to any law against tobacco. A* {these editors represent some 80.000,000 i vpnrlers tlip results fnvni n nrofti' r?cii. Is? ? eral test of national opinion. Zs Tn their renwrks accompanying their ;j| replies many of the editors expressed ; It as their opinion that the oppos Hon of their coinrauniti?s to the abolition !|! of tobacco was based to some extent least on the damage such a change would do to the business interests of rhe community. This was particular^ true in the tobacco growing states and centers where there were large tobacco \\\ plants. ' But when the extent of the business. Involved in the allied Interests of th<> '!;! tobacco trade is considered, as above briefly outlined, it is clear that there !s harJ'r a section of the country that jjt would not be affected directly or in COMMISSION DECIDES EXPLOSIVES CAUSED WRECK N " | /, nvMtig&tion of A. B. A A. Wreck b< Results in Substantiation Of c< Road'* Claims. p< Atlanta, Sept. 22.?The Atlanta ai Birmingham and Atlantic freight f< rain wreck at Cascade crossing, r< i ear Atlanta, on the night of Sep- G ember 7, resulting in two deaths, tl 'was directly caused by the force A f a high explosive," in the opinion a c r* tit n * _ ? xl. r. 'JL v^. in. ^aiiuieT, cimuman ux me u tate railroad commission and a Voods H. Hudson, vice president sj nd general manager of the Atlanta si Jar and Locomotive works, consti- o: uting a majority of the special comlittee that investigated the wreck ^ o determine its cause. p William H. Turner, a mechanic at s< he Georgia railroad shops, the third F lenvber of the committee, dissented om the findings of Messrs. Candler ? nd Hudson, and filed with Governcr d larwick a minority report, setting *G orth his reasons for attributing the n" mreck to defective equipment. . S The reports of the committee were ^ led with the governor Wednesday c< loming, and were made public by t] im without comment. ' b The mapority report declares ~ hat in the opinion of its author? lessrs. Candler and Hudson?"the xploSive apparently was a compoition with chlorate o^ potassium and ugar as a base, placed underneath r near the left rail of the track in he direction the train was moving, t a point under or nearly so, the verhead highway bridge on the 'airburn road." In the opinion of Messrs. Candler nd Hudson the circumstances surounding the wreck indicate that ke explosive was placed under the an. . ^ ft A Good Job. The teache^ had , asked, 'Why did avid say he would rather be a oor-keeper in the house of the ord?" "Because," answered a boy, Hhe ...IJ 4.1 n. ?J- ? juiu uicn wain, uuu*iue wnue ine ;rmon was being preached."?Bos>n Transcript. . t PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN \ i o/apus> . . When Folks want Anything Done, they o to J. Fuller Pep, for he's a Ninety lorse-Power Booster and Liberal with is Time and Money for anything tc tetter the Town. Ole Hezeklah Usejss allows as how J. Fuller Is trying to tun Things, but if Folks were all like lez, thix would be a Hot Sketch of a .'owi1 mm You may se cure a cu^tome: with a bargain but it takes quality to hold him.. < \ FEWER MAIL ROBBERIES i Washington, Sept. 22.?Mail roberies have been reduced "3,500 per jnt" in the five months since the ostoffice department promulgated n order arming its employes an of;ring a reward of $5,000 for a mail >bber, "dead or alive." Postmaster eneral Hays announced today. For le year immediately preceding pril 8, 1921, when the order beame effective the amount stolen rom the mails was $6,346,407 with recovery of $3,286,017, Mr. Hays lid. Since then the total amount tolen was $88,580 with a recovery f $78,555, he added. "The mails must be protectd," [r. Hays said, "and we propose to rotect them even if we have to $eart to the methods of the old Wells argo days." As an example of the manner in 'hich the department proposes tc eal with bandits, the Postmastei General cited the attempt to rob a tail train near Fort Worth, Texas, eptember 14, when two bandits ere shot dead by government offers. For his part in setting the tra{ hat resulted in the death of rob ers;. Alvin S. Page, Assistant chiei i-rr i,-r j ftg I.,-- i ? i 1 John Wanar says: "If the ness on earth should leave I it is advertising ' . Advertising which creates: business. T1 to increase ad ing what are times. In this way ?by using ad v ?keep their s to normal % . A doer ThelPress . Sells tl 4 Static I r How's 1 * ' business Now's c look it ready fo We can a der for Er for every p The Pres clerk of the railroad mail service'aft. Fort Worth, has been ordered ft* Washington to receive a rewanL , , Reports to the department Awl that although he had fnll knavlefer that the bandits intended to MB him. Page volunteered to act as m'senger on the .train to be hdi aiiu weiiu uuuugu witu ius> par* nmtil the bandit who had enterei Or car and held him up was shot ddi \ by officers concealed in the ax, Hr also participated in the lolling of Hi; 11 second bandit who was to xtaa/Hm > the mail as it was thrown Trass-*&ie ; train. A large sum in currency mm ' carried on the train and the InBk had advanced information of flat ' fact. Page, however, was tlppdijff i to the plans of the robberB aafi wfe . able to lay his pans according: ;v ' W.A.HARRIS FUNERAL SUPPLIES EMBALMING ! ; s i - , i Auto Hearse Service ' s t PHONES v- N \l Day 395 Pigfat IM , t ????J ^ # #>/J ' > ' I " .1 > ' ' j ii M j-f naker 'i' i f r" \ 1 yi v * v \ :re is one busi- -i ' \; that a 'quitter "j ,:? severely alone, , ' H J g- /. is the poWer sales and builds; ie natural time vertising is dur- .: termed ''dull" . j J wise merchants : . 'vertising space ! ales volume up; , ? 0 !" Using in i ') and Banner ?| le Goot/s ? J j ! *?< .. ?j mery <fj j /our supply of J 3 stationery? J \ good time to over and get :|| r the fall trade. j ; ilso handle your or- : igraved stock \ uryose. \ < is & Banner Co. \ i