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r.-i viii. i yv \j Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Companj Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday Entered as second-class matter i post office in Abbeville, S. C. Term* of Subscription: One Year ? Six Months Three Months $2.0 $1.0 .6 Foreign Advertising Represe"tati\ / AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATIOi FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1922. ADMINISTERING JUSTICE On& of the distinguished judges i Georgia a few days ago made an a< dress before the lawyers in Atlant on tl^ subject of the laws admin stration, and in the course of his r< marks he took occasion to say tin the -work of the courts was seriousl 1 interfered with in many cases b three causes. These causes he' state to be, tly preachers, the newspapei and advertising lawyers. That there is merit in his cor elusions along this line those wh have given the matter consideratio will admit. Only a few days ago distinguished lawyer an this stat< holding court in one of the countie <by appointment of the Chief Justic< wrote that he thought too many sug gestions were coming to the court from the pulpit. In the case of the Georgia Judg as well as in (the case at home it wa distinctly stated that the motives c the preachers were the best, but thj the ends they sought to serve wer not always accomplished. The troi ible with the preachers is that the <io not confine themselves to a di: cussion of right anil wrong whe they some to talk albout the court nor to law and disorder, but once c \ v the wrong track, they undertake i try cases for the courts, or for othi tribunals. ,An instance of this toe place not long ago. A man was to I tried in the Courts of Atlanta f< murder. On the eve of the trial, * * preacher, Peking more notoriel tlian anything else perhaps, in tl course of'on? of his sermons, i] stead "of denouncing murder an r* wrong-doing in' the abstract, too ' up the particular case then about 1 be tried, and demanded of the cour the death penalty. He knew none < the facts of the case except fro: hearsay. And was not in. position 1 determine the facts of the case in judicial way,, nor to suggest tl mnn-naf nnni?)iTno.n+ fnr tho inn jJA VyUUH'iMiiVU* V?*V about to be tried. His language wt intemperate, non-chrisliian in chara* ter, and did not tend to assist in ti proper administration of the la"v He should have been adjudged i contempt of the court. . On the other hand, just a fe1 days afterwards, when the case ha been tried and the party accuse found guilty by the courts and sei tenced to death^ a noted evangeli: .took occasion to write to the Gove] ,nor of Georgia and ask for a r< .prieve. The preacher in this cas ' knew nothing of the facts of th case except from reading the paper: and it must be evident that the Go\ ernor of Georgia, who will have b< fore him the sworn testimony in th trial and the assistance of counse will be in better position to pass o the case than was this minister. ] the minister sought to influence, th decision of the Governor itVwa necessarily through his standing an reputation. If some other prominei man had sought to influence tl: Governor contrariwise on these coi siderations, the minister would liki ly have thought he was trying 1 tamper with the just de-mands of tl law. We do not say now that eithi the one, nor the \ other of tl preachers expressed our views oi U case. What we are trying to say that the courts constituted . to ti cases are beiter able to render ju imloTripnt.s ir> all casps than ar preacher, and the preachers in u dertaking to try particular cases, i stead of denouncing wrong wrong and commending right b cause it is right, hurt the cause th< would help. Newspapers err in the /same wj at times. But the chief grievan against newspapers along the line the criticism, especially those in tl cities, is that they exploit the fac of particular cases for their ov ends. When a crime has been cor ' Sr.- \ | . - I " mitted they print and color the facts''! ; 'in order to sell extra editions, pub-J lish many things having nothing to J ? do with the case, give cases sensa-' 1 r tional turns and generally under-J take to prepare the public for any thing except a judicial hearing and - determination of the issue to be it tried. There is a law in England,as iJ stated by the Georgia Jurist which 1 ? limits the ri^ht of newspapers to i publish matter about cases pending d in the courts, and it would be J: well of we had such a law in this I "1 country. If we did, it would not 'be < long until we had better administra- J < tion of the laws, or some newspapers,"1 would be reckoned among the law breakers. We agree entirely with the re marks of the Georgia Judge that the advertising lawyer should ibe elimi nated if not exterminated. There are lawyers in all large cities and in some small ones who are always try ing to get in the light of publicity. Older lawyers, better lawyers^ law yers of far greater experience and with much more business, practice i ^ law from 'one year's end to another and you do not read aibout them in the newspaper, but when the adver tising lawyer sues Bill Jones because his ox gored the bull of Tom Smith, ^ there will be a column in the local t papers telliag alj about the case, 1 and emphasizing the fact that the' a action was filed by a particular at- + 1 torney, that the allegations of the t ,g'complaint ara so and so; the trial ^ if' will be had a^t such a term; and the ^ t.' evidence promises to give the people. g^som? information about bullology,' ^ J e*c* |'r We are having entirely too many r of this species of so-called lawyers, t In the main they are ambulance ,t chasers. While lawyers generally' t may be classed as necessary evils', 3 this is a class of evils entirely un-' < * 9 y necessary, and one which the courts i s_ and the people should not tolerate. No feelings of sympathy, and no < consideration of any nature, should j prevent the courts from making I such rules as will get rid of such! lawyers. The public is not safe' while they are around. The courts are discredited (by them, and the ad- j 1 ministration of the law is seriously interfered with by their being mem- :l Ibers of the bar. i PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES hi._ n? is r\ t .l _? \7 xiie xvt:v. d. juyiicii ui vtiiaauica, Ky., will preach at Upper Long Cane church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, and will preach at the Abbeville Pres byterian church Sunday night. PREACHES AT DUE W?$T. Rev. M. R. Plaxco of the A. R. P. Church here is conducting services tonight and tomorrow morning at Due West preparatory to the com munion service on Sabbath morning. He will return to Abbeville tomorrow afternoon and will preach in the church here on Sabbath morning at 11 o'clock. DR. SOLOMON PREACHES. Dr. Solomon will preach at Cal houn Falls Sunday morning on "The Field is the World." His theme at night will be: "Everybody is Some body." He will preach at Midway Sunday at 3 p. m. on'the following subject: "What sort of a church would my church be if every member was just lil>e me?" All are cordially invited. ie i '' ? is HOLDING AGED MAN d y itjSetioUa Change Brought Against 'e i Anderson Man. *-j Anderson, March 30.?A white e-jman, aged about 60 ?ears, named -O.Jesse McAllister, was arrested Wed ie | nesday afternoon charged with se 2i"jduction. The warrant alleges that the lejgirl was not 16 years of age. McAll w ister is in jail. is ryi22 MILLS ARE CLOSED stj IN RHODE ISLAND iy n-| Providence,R . I., March 30.?The n- number of mills closed by the textile as | strike in Rhode Island climbed to 23 e-1today, when the Andrews Mills at -y | North Smithfield shut down, follow ing a walkout of the employees due *y i to a ten per cent wage cut. ce( This plant, which is a branch of j of (the Andrews Mill Company, Inc., of I tie.Philadelphia, is the first woolen and' ts worsted mill in the state to be af-j m fected by the strike. About 200 n- workers are employed normally. I HENRY FORD'S OFFER FAVORED BY SOME If He Will- Modify Contract For Muscle Shoals in Several Respects Chattanooga, Tenn., March 30.? 3ome members of the house mili tary affairs committee said today they d>elieved Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals would be reported favorably if he would agree to pay the cost of condemnation of land, overflowed (by the construction of lam No. 3 and would modify his. ccn tract as defined by terms of the fed eral water power act, except that a LOO ye<ar lease' foe substituted for the 50 year provision o<f the act. Members of the house coihmittee ind of the senate agricultural com mittee stopped here a few hours en oute t* Washington, after a three lays'inspection of the Muscle Shoals >roject. The ommitteemen aaid that in he event Mr. Fond failed to make he modifications in his offer, they onsidered it likely that the commat ee will recommend to congress that ippropriations be made for the gov ernment itself to complete Wilson lam, leaving the other features of he project in abeyance. Members of he house commitete, while loath to JJow use of their names in regard o their views as to the best disposi ion of>the plants, were frank to say hat their ideas of Muscle Shoals had ieen revolutionized by their trip. "I had always voted against ap ropriations for the dam and the titrate plants," said an influential epuiblican member. "I had thought hat Mtfscle Shoals wasn't anything >ut a big graft. But I saw my -mis ake. I believe tjiat in the event the ?ord offer is not acceptable the gov ernment itseif must finish the dams ind operate the plant." This feeling was echoed by1 several >ther members of the party. " JBERTY BONDS MAKE AN UNUSUAL RISE I \ New York, March 30.?'Unusually leavy buying of Liberty bonds was ;he outstanding feature of today's >ond market, the demand being cred ted to investment interests. At midday the entire group was ligfier by 6ix to almost 40 cents per me hundred dollars. The first ,and ?conds 4s and all of the 4 1-4a rose o best quotations for a year or more. MnWkTFY NAMP.n The new baby monkey at the park las been named Townsend Mara* OPERA HOUSE V THURSDAY and FRIDAY V APRIL 6th and 7th V Cecil B. DeMille's Production V "FOOL S/ PARADISE" ^ Matinee each Day at _ 3:15 ^ 15c. ADMISSlbN 35c. NIGHT 8:20 V Admissioii: 25c and 50c V It's not what You earn, but What you SAVE That counts! Start a Savings Account with a small sum out of this week's pay?keep ad ding to it and you'll never regret it. PLANTERS BANK The Friendly Bank | SOFT COAL IN STORAGE [Approximately 52,000,00^ Toi u Laid Away. Washington, March 28.?Consul ers 'had approximately 52,500,0( tons of bituminous coal in- storaj Marl:h 1, according to a statement i su^d jointly today by the census b reau and the geological surve This was in addition to 5,160,G< tons on the upper lake docks ai 674,000 tons held by producers mines or intermediate points. Esl mates based on the rate at whi< coal has been leaving the mines r cently indicated a reserve of at lea 63,000,000 tons by April 1, equal the maximum reached at the end * the war. At the rate of consumptit prevailing in January and Februar it was said, the reserve on hai March 1 was sufficient to last'fort three days if evenly divided. COUNCIL REPRIMANDS Greenville, March 28?For the fir time in the recent history''of "Gree ville, a member of the city coun< was reprimanded by the council its Tegular session tonight for ma ing public proceedings of the coui cil at a recent executive session. 1 a lengthy resolution read and adopt< Alderman W. N. 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