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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. i i The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION L'1" WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1921 EXPLANATION NEEDED. fe* i ' 'It is stated, in a dispatch to the State from Newberry; that some five thousand people were in the latter city yesterday and not one of the whole number was either drunk or disorderly. No explanation of the U. cause of this happy condition is giv en, and we are unable to say whether prohibition, the boll weevil, or the two good newspapers in that city, {produced the happy result. Whatever, or whoever did it should receive the iron cross. PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. It is stated that che one thing we need in this section 'is co-operation and a few things along the same I;ne. It is stated that by producing other crops than cotton and getting together the farmers in a given section may market these crops at fair prices 'and make out of them money-producing crops. This is all very well, but we want more specinc miormauon. If some one on whom the people / may rely can be sent to Abbeville I County, who will tell us just what crop to plant, how to prepare the soil for that crop, how to fertilize the land for it, how to harvest it, and where to ship it when it is ready for shipment, the information will be worth while. What the people want is something specific. We have had enough of what was at one time callr ed "glittering generalities." Now we want the pleadings made more specific and certain. FAVORS PROGRAM jV'- ' Columbia, Oct. 11.?"I do mot know of a more timely or important movement in South Carolina under present conditions than the one for s development of cooperative cotton and tobocca marketing associag tion," says Prof. Wilson Gee of the |p\- University of South Carolina in a JjgN \ letter to R. C. Hamer, president of the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association. "You ^ may count on me for my very best of interested service in the cause we fr. are promoting. I sincerely hope that we may be able to effect a speedy and highly successful conclusion of I the whole matter of initial organi - ration." Writing to Harry G. Kaminer, * president of the South Carolina Cot?.r" ton Growers' Cooperative Association, Senator Niels Christensen, president of the South arolina Development Board, says: "Cooperative marketing has been publicly advocated by the South jCarolina Pgyeloppient Board and ?tate Chamber of CorajBefug on na-; B3S. ; "r;;v?k. .. . ' merous occasions, so it may seem gp*v *v> # 4 superfluous for this organization to have anything further to say in proJ* motion of this marketing method, jbut the matter is of such great importance not only to cotton farmers but to every fanner, in the state j that we wish again to express our keen appreciation to the campaign, you are making to sign up the catton producers. "Every effort that is made to educate the public in the interest of cooperative marketing, whether it be ' for cotton sweet potatoes, truck, peanuts ,cane syrup and its by-products, or any other to the large number of products of our South CaroIitio ^ol-nc PAmmAn onH iiUW lOillt MVil/" VV VViiMIIVtt Viiu. 'V " i The principles of marketing for which you are contending are appli" cable to each of these crops. The success of your undertaking is a fundamental requirement to the successful diversification upon which our agriculture and our business are waiting, before we can again become the prosperous people we were a few .; years ago." Steady increase in the number of contracts again is reported by President Kaminer. r SnSSS&r.- N&&33&S&3&S& FOREIGN TRADE FOR SEPT. SHOWS DECLINE Imports Were Lowest of Any i Month of Year; Exports Small Too. jc Washington, Oct. 11.?Values of ? imports and exports of merchandise 1 each fell off materially during Sep-' tember, according to figures made * public today by the department of,c commerce. Imports for September p were $180,000,000, the lowest for! any month this year. Exports last month totalled $325,- j 000,000, only $5,000,000 more than|? j the lowest month this year, July,! j and 346,000,000 below^ the August!' ! record. Both imports and exports j were approximately 50 per cent be- j1 | low the totals for September fb20.|: ! September imports of gold totaled j J $66,515)000 or approximately $20,- j * 000,000 below the imports of Au-j gust out $15,000,000 above the im-J^ ports of September, 1920. Silver im- J ports dropped from $7,842,000 in August to $4,565,000 for Septem- 1 ber. Silver imports for September last year we>re $6,501,000. * Exports of grain took a decided' I jump from August to September, ' [the comparative figures being $617,-;* | 000 for August and $2,448000 for j !September. Silver exports also show-}5 | ed an increase for the month, $4,-;1 i 946,000 being exported as compared i with $3,743,000 for August. The * ! September silver exports, however, were nearly $2,000,000 below the | exports for the same month last year. FIVE DOLL RAIDERS TAKEN I' I1 j Detectives Get Clues Mingling With I Schoolboys at Play. New York.?The raid on the Kargo : j Doll Factory at Maspeth, engineered by youthful schoolboys eager tojj please their sweethearts and partici-.j pated in by most of the pupils of the; Maspeth school, had its consequences^ yesterday. Detectives Thomas Caputo i and James Knapp, after joining in!) the games of the boys during the greater part of the day, obtained the f names of some believed to be ring leaders, of whom they arrested five;! Louis Mirdex, 10 years old, 247 j Clermont Avenue; John Cizan, 15,1, 68 Perry Avenue: Joseph Cibarows-!, ky, 11, 10 Clinton Avenue; "Bootsie"j John Nowosofielski, 15, 160 Jay; Street, and Stanley Wroblewski, 14 j Ill CJinion Avenue, all of Maspeth.; After being taken to the station! house the boys wei*e paroled in the j custody of their parents for appear-j ance in the Jama'ca Children's Court ^ on Tuesday. The owner of the factory, William ( Kaufman of 420 Beverly Roadfj Brooklyn, said that he will appear in j court to prefer charges. i Detective Caputo said that from what he learned while making his .nvestigation, he might well have arrested three out of every four girls and boys in Maspeth, but he stopped with five. 1 A number of the girls who were ] given dolls by their youthful admirers argeed yesterday that they would I even go so far as to sacrifice their i stolen gifts to keep their swains out 1 of trouble. ' < PRETTY GIRLS CAPTURED J IN LIQUOR CAR RAID 1 Athens, Ga., Oct. 5.?One Kuttcii'^d * gallons of whisky, two pretty g:rls, a ypung white man and a big autQIB0- * bile were captured by Clarke and * Tackson county authorities a few ^ hundred yards on the Jackson coun- V cy side of the line Msttday after a * 12-mile pursuit breakneck speed frofti Jefferson, which ended by the 1 whiskey car plunging from the road 1 ahd turning turtle. i . The driver is said to have lost control when the Clarke county car bore i down in front to intercept him, while the Jackson county posse, just be- 1 hind, kept up a rattle of fire in an at- i tempt to shoot his tires. Sheriff Ben Collier of Jackson J county, over long-distance phone, j 1 gave the names of the prisoners as j .k #>M/] lVT?*n U AxVini'f D! 11 TV* on/1 1 4 1Ui, dHU 1*110. iiciucn x lwmti auu | < Mrs. Mabelle Williams of Augusta, j < Ga. They seemed to be refined per- j < sons, the man apparently 24, the girls 22 and 18. They told the sher- : iff they had left Augusta Saturday 1 night and got the whiskey Sunday at a Dawson county still. As they pass- i ed through the outskirts of Jefferson 1 an early rising housewife spotted the car as one she had heard was run- < ning whisky. The sheriff was inform- j ] ed and wiring Athens to intercept j < jthe car, the capture was made. ' SOME CENSUS FACTS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA The total population of South Car>lina is 1,683,724. There are 835,843 negroes in the itate, 55.2 per cent of the total popllation. In the state in 1920 were 220,667 >eople over 10 years of age who were :lassed illiterate. Of these 181,422 vere negroes. There were 330,500 dwelling hous:s and 349,126 families. There were 192,693 farms in the ;tate, averaging 64.5 acres per farm. The land area of the state was 19,>16,800 acres. The value of all farm property ivas $953,064,742 an increase of L43 per cent, since 1910. TU/? n'oroa-D nor form was All** MTdagv ' V*. V.V -v., M>946. ': . x ,.; By far the larger number of the farms were of a size from 20 to 49 icres, 28,938. 40,825 farms were less than 20 icres in size. 37,530 farms contained from 50 :o 100 acres. There were 1,343 farms 500 to L000 acres in size and 584 over 1000 acres. Of the 192,693 farmers in the itate 86,683 were white and 109,000 (vere negro. Owners operated 67,724 farms and tenants operated 124,231 farms. In the state were 88,878 horses, 233,740 mules, 469,407 cattle, 24,771 sheep, 34,055 goats 892,014 hogs. There were 1,753,813 acres of :orn harvested in 1919, 27,472,013 bushels. Oats produced was 3,597,835 bushels. 630,911 bushels of wheat was made, and 122,465 bushels rice. 112,578 bushels of peanuts was ijrown. 406,343 tons of hay was grown. 1,077,936 bushels of sweet potatoes was produced. 5,309,611 bushels of sweet potatoes were harvested. 71,193,072 pounds of tobacco was ijrown. Th acreage planted to cotton was 2,631,719, to corn 1,753,813. Cotton was planted on 42.6 per cent, of the improved lanNd of the state. DANCES ATTRACTS VAMPS Bars Them In His Hotel For This Reason Uniontown, Pa., Oct. 6.?Asserting that dances, particularly those ?* modern society and near society atiiact only vampires and bootleggers Leo L. Heyn, manager of a summer hotel here and a winter hotel in Florida, has put a ban on dances in his hotels hereafter. Mr. Heyn declared today that thousands of respectable folk had been turned away by the performances'of those attending dances, especially in large hotels and public places. "It seems that vampires, bootleg ?ers and untrue married folk figure that a dance is their headquarters," lie said, "and therefore, rather than be bothered with the disorders which dances invariably bring, I will not illow another in my hotel. There ivill be no more jollifications and no nore 'California parties' at the ho;el while it is itfV Property." i v s SHARON V k \ wV.VVVVVVVVK ? i * y J ii-t. acnooi openea auonuay wim ttuvui 10 pupils on roll. Mrs. Charlie Giliam is principal and Miss Daisy Lalier is assistant. Miss Gertrude Penney is improvng from a recent tonsil operation. Mr. E. B. Mason left Wednesday ;o visit his sister, Mrs. C. L. Brooks in Columbia. Mr. W. M. McNeill has been very jick for several days. We hope Ijv lim a speedy recovery. Little Mildred Watson is still conined to her bed. We think, since the >peration of -tonsils, she will soon be i well girl. Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins Ramey >pent the week-end near Due West Mv on/1 "MVe .Toe H. flToono Mr. J. H. Penney is feeling fine igain. He has just recovered from hay fever. I Aunt Georgia Hill, the faithful old :olored woman commor.ly known as Dump, died Sunday morning at 6 o'clock. She was buried -Monday at 11 o'clock at Shady Grove cemetery. | EXTENSION FORCE ADJOURNS Workers Indorse Cooperative Marketing Program In Clemson Meet Clemson College, Oct. 11.?After going on record as strongly endorsing co-operative marketing and supporting by active campaign the present movement to organize South Carolina fanners for co-operative marketing of cotton, the annual meeting of the Extension Service forces adjourned here Friday night, after having been in convention since Tuesday afternoon. During the sessions practically every phase ol agriculture in ooucn Carolina under present conditions received attention including production, cropping systems, farm manage, meat, boll weevil problems, co-operative marketing, etc. Naturally the l?oll weevil has occupied the center of the stage, with marketing a closc second in attention received during the entire week. The sessions Friday afternoon and night were occupied chiefly with consideration of such special subjects as boys' club work, co-operation in buying farm supplies, ways and means of reaching the average man with the gospel of good farming and the part played by the South Carolina Experiment Station is conducting research and experimental work to aid the extension worker and the farmer. The discussion by L. L. Baker and B. O. Williams, on club work stressed the importance of training clui boys as future farmers and broughl out particularly the value of th? community club method in teaching the junior farmers the value of organization and co-operative effort The discussions by Prof. H. W Barre, director of the Experiment Station, R. E. Currin, Superintend ent of the Pee Dee Station, anc others, brought out much informa tion as to research and experimenta tion on varieties, culture, fertiliza tdon, farm management, etc., whicl have an important bearing on pres ent agricultural conditions. > Chicago has a snow-loading ma chine which does the work of 12 trucks and 60 men. BBRgRBBHggBBR Si Com 1 a n i | ivien gi S There are uni ijj goods and l S apparent at a 1 You'll find, t< jD ijj reasonably p J Come i {PARK larafHiantfiifEfaiajiiiiUiUEi Murdered in Office. Dayton, 0. 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