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PAGE TWU Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ' ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company " Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday, i Entered as second-class matter at; post office in Abbeville, S. C. , Term* of Subscription: l, One Year ? $2.00 L Six Months $1.00 . Three Months .50 1 Foreign Advertising Representative , AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION j! WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1921 HELPING THE HELPLESS. At last Christmastide Miss Blanch Reep, of the Abbeville County Memo- ^ rial Hospital, turned her thoughts : to the helpless children of the com- i munity, those who were in sore need j of medical attention and whose par- ^ - ents were unable to give them this , attention on account of financial in- j ability. The people of the city were ( asked to contribute to the Baby j ?-* i J-1'? nrViinli 'funfl runa, every uunai ui nuiv? ,j Miss Reep promised would be used j to help some little sufferer and no ( part of which was to go to any phy sician or surgeon. Miss Reep kept ^ her promise and the small amounts ( contributed by the people of the city i j did much to help little sufferers who 1 would not otherwise have received ^ the treatment they needed. Encouraged by the generosity of , the people last year Miss Reep is { again asking contributions to a like , fund. No individual is asked for more than one dollar, though contributions for more will be accepted. The money , will be used just as it was used last , year, and Miss Reep may be relied on to see that the contributions made go to worthy cases. It is true now, as it was a year , ago, that few people are able to , spend much money at Christmas. It will be a relief to many to know that tile habit of spending large sums of money this season for useless pres ents to other parties is at least sus pended. liet us hope that the practice Will not again come around. Instead, how inuch better it would be where , there is only a few dollars to spend fbr these gifts to give them to some < charity like that which Miss Reep ; has in charge. The giver will feel , ihore satisfaction, we feel sure, from j thus giving what he* or she has to j, give, and the amount given will give more pleasure and satisfaction to the recipient. , Miss Reep deserves the abundant ^ iencouragement of the people of this ,] community in her good work at this \ Mtwit Jo fVio timo tn Vipln her I^ l/lUlCt ilWTI WMV ?M?>V WW ?? | do" it successfully. As you read the j notice which you will receive from her or as you read this appeal in her behalf, will each reader not sit down and write out and send a check for the worthy cause which she repre sents? NO MORE CHEAP COTTON The Wall Street Journal has teen for years the most persistent critic 1 of the Southern farmer rarely men- 1 tioning the cotton grower unless to ] make sport of his idiosyncracies. It ? is something of an event, therefore, ] that ablp. newsDaoer should have ceased to jeer, having at last, it { would seem, divined the gravity of the crisis through which the cotton industry is passing. Convinced by a study of the fig- ] ures that the present cotton surplus - must disappear within a year at ; most, the Wall Street Journal has been wondering what will happen then. "There are two alternatives I before manufacturers and con sumers of cotton in the future," it < . says. "They are to pay the producer j more or to use less cotton. The lat ter is becoming impossible, and < therefore the former must be ac cepted." It is now clear to The Wall Street Journal, as it has been clear to many of us for some time, that the cotton growers cannot go on planting cot ton unless they have some assurance in advance of planting that if they make a crop it will bring a return justifying them for the hazards they run and remunerating them for the lalbor they perform. The expense i of making cotton has increased to such an extent that dt is impossible for the grower to finance his opera-. tions unless be is reasonably certain .> * "' r of getting1 a price which will yield ^ him a profit. "Cheap cotton," says The Wall Street Journal, "can no longer be produced/' The price will have to advance or the cultivation of cotton will gradually cease because the banks will, not be able to advance* the mOney to carry the industry on.' "When large landowners, not small croppers, deliberately abandon a crop in midsummer because they cannot afford to save it, the con-j Burning world must see and aknow ledge the changed condition," says J rhe Wall Street -Journal. The con suming world has not reached this if unll roqJill pvuiL yvw vuw iw t*4m * v?v?i ? -it ?? likelihood before another year is oat.?News and burier. ANDERSON MAN MISSED FROM POST Following the discovery of cer tain irregularites in the books and record of the company on Satur iay and Sunday, officers of the People's Oil and Fertilizer Co. are ;oday checking bank accounts in an jffort to ascertain if ibhey have suf fered any loss. The treasurer of the company, Mr. Broadus B. Babb of Anderson ha3 been missing from the nill since Friday afternoon and his family nor the mill officials have re ceived word of his whereabouts. According to Mr. Levi N. Geer, president of the company, Mr. Babb secured his permission to absent lianself from his duty on Friday af ternoon stating that he had some business to attend to and that he would likely be back either Friday evening or Saturday morning. On Saturday morning >he did not appear at the mill an later in the day a tele oho ne call came from Mr. Bablb's family asking information as to his whereabouts, and asserting that he had told his family that he was going to Spartanburg on busi ness for the- mill. A check for the weekly pay roll at the mill was also found by Mr. Geer "which check" he added "indi cated to me that he did not intend1 to return before Saturday." On Sunday morning officers be gan a systematic investigation of the records of the company, and accord ing to Mr. Geer, "the finding was not very satisfactory." By that Mr. Geer states that he does not mean that he does not mean that the mill the mill has suffer loss financially. He oes not know just how the mill| stands, but investigation at local banking houses this morning show some credit to the mill at the bank. "We do not know that we have really suffered a financial loss," said one of the directors of the mill today. "The records, we do know are not in satisfactory condi-1 :ion, but we do not know positively that we have, any loss or not. We positively hope not." As secretary and treasurer of the company, Mr. Balbb had practically entire management of the company funds. He enjoyed the complete confidence of the entire mill man agement and ran the financial end >f the 'business practically alone. The Dresident. Levi Geer a prac :ical cotton oil man, devoted his time to the production end o? the business and only supervised the inancial end of the business casual ly so great was the general confi dence in Mr. Babb's ability. Daily Mail. OBSERVATION TEACHES WAYS TO ADVERTISE Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 20.?Here's a little advertising talk from an ad vertising man and addressed to Mr. Business Man: "You may or may not be an ad vertiser. In either event you may have something to gain from obser vation of the advertising methods of your competitors. They are J showing you how or Ihow not to do it. If they are wholly neglecting their opportunities so much the bet ter for you. If they are using the J wrong mediums or weak copy, thej way is open for you to forge ahead i of them. The combined experience, of leading merhhants and manufac turers indicates that the daily news paper which reaches everybody is the cheapest and most effective medium for the sale of articles of general use. Are your -competitors using the right newspaper? And are they using it the right iway? The finest doll house ever made is now being constructed in London for presentation to Queen Mary. SMITH AND WATSON ATTACK THE BOAR Placing the Blame in Wrong Eil mate of Cotton Production?Re cite* Tables. Washington, Dec. 20.?A char] that the crop reporting board of t] Department of Agriculture, was tempting to make the farmers tl goat or some of its mistakes" w made in the senate today by Senat Smith, Democrat, of South Carolir "The result," the senator declare "is that the market broke, men w] grow cotton lost money, and tl dissatisfaction was made worse. Mr. Smith, in analyzing the di ferent cotton estimates and repoi from government agencies, aecian they showed a continual reduction the ginning of the article and add< that if the ratio was maintain* there was less than 100,600 bales be ginned between now and March next year. He cited numerous tabl of statistics to support his assertic that the amount of cotton availab is far below what people have ge erally been led to believe. Governor Harding, of the feder reserve boards was attacked durix the discussion by Senator Watso democrat, of Georgia, for a spee< the Georgia senator said the reser board official made in New Orlea: in which he discussed the agric'i tural situation. Mr. Watson declari the Harding speech had caused drop in cotton prices immediate from 20 to 18 cents and had a disc trous effect generally on the farm< With reference to statements ere ited to the crop estimate board to t effect that it had not received relial information, Senator Heflin, dem crat, of Alabama, declared tnere w "something crooked" going on a that he would rather believe it in the crop estimate board th among the farmers who had suppli the information on cotton crop com tions. "Well," replied Senator Smi "at any rate the figures put out we not only all wrong but the declai tion that the cotton farmer is indi ed by propaganda to misreprese his cotton acreage is a blatant i flection on his honesty and integitj CHRISTMAS TREE FOR DUMB BEAS* PtfladleOphia^ pec. 20.?Duin beasts in Philadelphia are to ha a Christmas (tree. Arrangemer are being made by the Penns; vania Women's Society for the Pi venition of Cruelty to Animals. TTrifciMi H/vo*5 ATid oats to < guests of the society. For t horses there will be apples, carrc and blankets; for the dogs, d biscuits, for the cats catnip bal Each horse will also receive thr meals?one at the "party" a: two to be taken home. $1,000,000 STORM DAMAGE AT BUFFAL Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 20.?An exai ination today of the grain fleet, pa of which was blown shoreward fro the lee of the main break wall yesterday's 95 mile an hour gal showed that twelve out of the fif four vessels were resting on sai bars, but none was in a position danger. The damage from the stoi in the city, along the lake shore ai on the east shore of the Niagara "Ri er between here and Niagara Fa] was est'mated at $1,000,000. Scor of boathouses and squatters' sha ties were swept into the river whi< was ten or 12 feet higher than no mal owing to the wind blowing dov Lake Erie and piling up water in tl narrow channel. ASTROLOGISTS PREDICT 1926 ONE OF DIRE CALAMITII London, Dec. 20.?The year 191 is destined to shake the world to i foundation, both physically, and p litically. It is to be a succession i plagues, famine, floods, ship wrecl rioting and revolutions. So says tl British journal of astrology, whi< has drawn the horoscope for th uoor wVion ftie nlonota Msrs nriH Mp cury will be in conjunction. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER! MEETING. The annual meeting of the stoc holders of the National Bank of A beville will be held in the directo room of the bank at 12 o'cloi Tuesday, January 10, 1922. LEWIS PERRIN, Dec, 19. 3t. . Cashier. | CONFERENCE END D, MAY BE DELAYED ti Plea of Franco Presents. Sharp It* sue?Others ^In Ac* ? cord. Washington, D?c. 19.?The French proposal for a capital ship ratio permitting her to construct and maintain 350,000 tons which when first presented to the naval committee of the armament confer ence, was understood to be merely suggestion, now is declared to lio have the . full support of the l.~ I -n- ;u LIU X1 iCittll ^UVVXIMII^UV* | This was the outstaning develop ment today in connecition with the "ts conference and was accepted in most quarters as considerably post in J poning what had been predicted ! would (be an early adjournment of d Washington meeting. The impression gained among oth er delegations was that if France in sisted on 5-5 J3 ratio, comprised in; proposals put forward Tuesday she. /would find a solid opposition con-; fronting the suggestion. Neither from a standpoint of national securi ty nor from that of "present status" on which th^ whole scheme of limi tation is built, it was declared could the French delegation defend the . claim to such a standing in the world's delimited naval concert. Although further instructions from Paris are expected generally to soften somewhat the attitude taken by the French delegates to ward the problem of naval ratio, many members of the arans confer ence are looking forward to an ani mated and perhaps prolonged dis cussion before the French views finally are brought into.accord with those of the other powers. There apparently is little ex pectation in American, British, Japanese or Italian circles that the French government will insist rigidly on the proposal of its naval experts already presented to the conference for a French capital fleet of 350,000 tons. But at the same time enough French opinion on the subject has (been revealed to dampen the hope that the counter proposal for a 175,000 ton fleet will be readily accepted. WAR ON BOOTLEGGERS Member of le|?il?ture Will Intro i dace BUI. Anderson, Dec. 20.?T. L. . fV/v 1 nm'ol a _ V/UllAi7VaiCi3; Ui Wi^ ture from Anderson county states that he is going to the next gener al assembly "armed to the teeth" for bootleggers and they need ask no mercy; and that instead of $100 or six 'months on the chaingang, that he is oging to introduce a bill making the selling of liquor a chaangang op pen&tenfciary sen tence. "That's the only way to stop it. I'd like to have some way of punishing the buyer also, but if we stop the sale, that's all we can do at present," said the legislator. Can't Eat Fur Coats. Newport News, Va., Dec. 20.? Owners of big automobiles, fur coats, and the like in this city are without food or money with which to pur chase the necessities of life, accord ing to officials of the associated char ities. who are receiving from ten to :s fifteen calls a day for aid. Servict YOUAR !6 ts American IN THE COURT F Thursds IF YOU BOX .'s MAN AND WIFE ARE D1 DEAD IN AUTO WRECK Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 20.?Two per sons partially identified as R. L. Jones'and Wife, of Fitzgerald, Ga. were failed eari^ today wh$n their automobile ran1 off a bridge over-the Southern railway tracks at Bolton, near here. The machine fell on the railroad tracks and..was struck by the engine of a passenger train, tet ters and bank deposit slips found in the man's clothing bore the name of "R. L. Jones." ' - ' THEY APP1 FL'Ott J: If J l; PLACE YOUR ORD1 . '?C.. MAS IS A dozen or two beam a very acceptable gift The McMnrra "Say It With ] ' PHONE ; sniMizraaiii^^ CHRISTMAS SEA " T .? .. ' "I . , ?. S You can get the proji putting the little heali green, on your mail. - you aid the South Cai Association in its figh J\ % . - v Did you know tha died in Abbeville last sis? Help in the fight The seals cost onl everybody would use 1 mailed this week, it v sum. v Buy tkem at the f c McMURRAY DRUG CO. AUSTIN-PERRIN DRUG CO. P. B. SPEED'S DRUG STORE MRS. J. S. COCHRAN THE ECHO W. E. JOHNSON COBB'S 10-CENT STORE. Men E INVITED TO ATTEI ai f i IOUSE AT ABBEVILLE iv Decembt r: J :4 i - 4.. l: j WILL BE THERE, WE 424, ABBEVILLE, S. - - -- - ' _ - " / .li-? ? - ' . * SORDERS MARK OPENING THIRD WEEK OF STRIKE Omaha, (Dec. 20.?Disorders in rich a number of geraona were irt marked the opening of the ird week oi?the strife in the pack g industry Hfte. P* Police' said that numerous clashes curred between strike sympathize s and the men working in the pack g plants. Extra police wire called it to restore order. - Wntch the liiU) On your paper, IECIATE rERS 2R FOR CHRIST IOW. kiful Roses make L YUUK MAUL >er holiday spirit by ;h seals, in red and At the flame time olina Tuberculosis t on tuberculosis. t eighteen people ! year of tuberculo against this disease. y a fcent each but if them on every fetter yould make a neat >llowing places: F. E. HARRISON, JR. CASH BARGAIN STORE CO-OPERATIVE MERC. CO. L. W. WHITE CO. HADDON-WILSON CO. MRS. T. S. ELLIS, Due We?t MRS.'T. V. FARROW, Calhoun F*IU, S. C. sraiafgiaiHiaraigiaiaiES ?.? ? TO THE id Dance r(:jf TP1" ' '' H ^ / ; AT 6 O'CLOCK OQl-k