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^ ruuix. ,The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE, S. C. Published Every Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. WM. P. GREENE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1916. M'CORMICK COUNTY. The Court en banc has finally passed on the Act creating McCormick county, the decision being in favor of the new county. The people of McCormick are greatly rejoiced at the decision, and we hope that it will work out in line with the expectations of the people of the county. This paper has had no interest in the new county, or against it, except to see that the law was complied with and that Abbeville county lost none of its constitutional and statutory rights. Personally we regret to lose the McCormick people. We lose some of the best ? " ,v J- ? J _ -* A L. people 01 me present county ui aubeville, men who have always stood for the hest in life, whether private or public life. We can but regret to see them go. But since the county is to be formed we congratulate it on having men of public spirit in it?men who will want to see the county developed, the condition of the people bettered, and advancement along all lines. The new county will give to these men a fine opportunity to show the mettle of which they are made. There is much undeveloped territory in the area of the county; the schools need improvement; the roads need intelligent work; and the people who have battled for the new county movement have only begun in the fight to do something for their neighbors. The people of Abbeville have nothing against the good people of Mc mick?none pf them have. Some of our people have fought the county as they hac| a perfect legal right to do, because we disliked to see the territory taken from the mother county. * Some have thought that the formation of the county would be a serious blow to the old county, and that we would suffer seriously from being forced to give up this territory. We feel that we shall for a little- while experience some % embarrassment on this account. But the country is growing fast, and in a little while the present county of Abbeville will be greater than the old county was. What we want to do is to build up at home. We have neglected enough opportunities here at home. A few large corporations organized in the present county will more than compensate for the loss of srt far as taxes are con cerned. We shall at the same time be spared the expense of maintaining the roads and bridges in that part of the county, of trying offenders against the law from that part of the county, and in other ways be relieved of expenses. We shall not know the difference in a financial way ten years from today. To the people of McCormick, we would say that the formation of the new county will not prove a panacea for all ills. The people of the new county will find taxes creeping upwards very shortly. Some of the large land-owners will reap a reward i in the advancement of the property which they wish to sell, but the av rage man wno owns nis nome ana who does not wish to sell it will find himself paying more taxes than he has been paying. He will have added advantages though in the ways we have indicated, but they too will be : expensive. These things should Warr, the people responsible for the County to guard well the finances of the new county from the start. This can only be done by refusing to create useless offices, and by putting the right kind of men in the offices created. None but business men should assume the management of business offices, and none but statesmen should fill legislative offices. McCormick county has men of the calibre needed and we hope tne people will demand that they assume the management of the affairs of the county, and that these men will not refuse. In conclusion, we wish to state that the people of the new county have the good wishes of The Press and Banner. We wish for them peace, plenty, and great progress along all lines. THE DUE WEST ROAD. We have recently traveled the road from Abbeville to Due West. Supervisor Stevenson and the men in charge of the road force have done a fine piece of work on this road, work that has been a long time need-! ed, and work which the people who travel the road should appreciate. The road is now about twenty-five to thirty feet wide all the way. The heavy grades have been eliminated by building around them, and the opportunity to make a first class | thorofare is now offeree! to the people interested in the road and its maintenance. The people of Abbeville and the people of Due West should join with < the people along this road in giving 1 it a thorough "sand and clay course" 1 during the summer. Those who 1 wish to work or give teams snouia j be willing to give them for a week in ] August, and those who can do nei- 1 ther should subscribe money with which to hire necessary labor to as- ' sist with the work. We can make a road of which everybody will be proud if we will get down to business. We have nominated Dr. Carwile to f take charge of the work of getting us this movement, but he has not , yet signified his intention to accept 1 the office. We, therefore, urge upon him the duty of taking up the 1 matter, if he can see his way clear j to do so, because we know that the j people have confidence in his leader- < ship in these matters, and that they ? will be glad to follow him. There is another reason why this j should be a first class road. The j people in Augusta and other points ' in South Georgia like to go to the ' mountains in motor cars. There is ] a fine road on the Georgia side from \ Augusta to Chamberlain's Ferry. ; From there to the Abbeville county 1 line (the new line) the road is good. ' We can improve it towards the city. ^ There is a good road from Due West ] to Donalds and from there to Green- i ville. This is the most direct route for these tourists to take and it will put Abbeville on thecanap if we can , have a first class road the whole way. < For these reasons the people of < the city of Abbeville should interest J themselves in making these roads : super-highways, and when this has ' been accomplished the city council < should advertise the route in the Augusta and Savannah papers and in j other ways, which will induce people to come here. Unless we find i ourselves nobody else will find us. < We have slept long enough. Let * us awaken from the slumber. i t FRANK C. ROBINSON. i I \ And now that McCormick county t is a reality, we rise again to nominate t Frank C. Robinson for the state * senate. His father was one of the ? best and most patriotic men who ever j T lived in Abbeville county. He lived' i among the people of the new county,; * counseled them always for their j good and the good of the state, he { settled their differences when they i arose and he settled them always as | a man settles things, according to * his views of the right. He has given J to McCormick county a son who emu-t lates the example set by his dis- \ tinguished father. He has ability, j he has the training to make a good j senator, and above all he has no per- c sonal ends to serve. He legislates only for the state and for his peo- * pie who are a part of it. We hope that the people of the new county J will do the right thing and name him r as the first senator from the county. I ,i r D. W. HIOTT, JR. U - !* Mr. D. W. Hiott,, who has been * with this paper for the past several ^ months as manager in the mechani- $ cal department, leaves us this week t to return to his home in .Pickens. He 11 has acquired an interest in a paper ? in his home town and will settle ^ there. j. We wish at this time and in this d way to,make acknowledgement of P his worth not only as the manager ? of this office, but on account of the great interest he has shown in the business of his employers, and for " the help he has given the editor. Without that we would many times ^ have been lost in the perplexities which have confronted us. Under his management the office ( has been systematized, and the stan- ^ dard of the work greatly improved, o We have been able to offer and have * offered the public as good work as F can be done in any country printing ^ J L-li. 1- XT 4.1. _ 4. V omce, anu ueu,er worn uictii mat, u which comes from many cities. Mr. Hiott will succeed in his new ? venture because he has ability and " character and because he knows the t business and is not afraid to do the work. We shall watch his career jj with interest. r He will be succeeded in this office e by Mr. W. W. Matthews, for a time s with the Greenville News, but lately 1 with the Herald and News, of New- j. berry. Mr. Matthews brings with j him plenty of experience, and we t believe that he will be able to fill the vacancy made by Mr. Hiott's de- ^ parture most acceptably. He will c call on the patrons of this office g from time to time. We ask for him * the kindly consideration which has r heretofore been extended to the c other representatives of the office. f ( t If we should use an axe on our c own faults we shouldn't have so much time to use a hammer on other t people's. i '800K OF THE DAY." Hon. W. C. Benet, reviewing 'Young Heroes of the American ^avy," by Commander Thomas D. Parker, in The Columbia State of Vlarch 25th, has the following to say, vhieh will interest the people of Ab>eville, from which City Commander Parker went to the United States Navy: I I NAVAL HANDBOOK, as Bearing on [ National Defense and the Euro- I pean War. By Thomas Parker, | commander, U. S.> N., (retired), i Cloth, pp. 80, illustrated. San J Francisco, John J Newbegin, 1916. j To the Editor of The State: : A friend in San Francisco sent me recently a very interesting little vol- | ame with the following title page: : "Naval Handbook, as bearing on \ national defense and the European J war, by Thomas Drayton Parker, lommander, U. S. N. (retired,) au- | thor of 'Young Heroes of the Ameri- j :an Nevy,' etc. San Francisco, John ! J. Newbegin, 1916." I Having known Tom Parker from j lis infancy, I was very glad to see i the little book. He is the youngest of | the lour sons of the late William | Benry Parker, member of the Abbe- j ville bar'and well known throughout the State. I knew that Commander I Parker, after 20 years' service, had I retired from the navy, but it was news to me that he was an author. I How many South .Carolinians, I won- j 3er, were aware, of that fact. Are i sve not too much in the habit of overlooking our own authors? Do we j not go to the North for our litera- j ture very much as we send to the | West for our corn? Inn TToaro QflPA < r Of CAttllipiC, auuub bWJl jrv?4 0 Mgv I i young Columbian, the missionaryexplorer, Verner, published an ac:ount of his travels in the very heart >f heathen Africa?among the pygmies, where no white man had ever ventured. As a book of travels it ranked among the best. Stanley's 'Darkest Africa" was not more interjsting. How many Columbians nought it? How many Carolinians read it? Are there 20 copies of it n our State today? Another example: Two or three fears ago there was published by one )f the big Northern houses a book jntitled "A Woman Rice Planter," )y Patience Pennington (a nom de >lmue), with a very complimentary, f somewhat patronizing, in*roduc;ion by Owen Wister. It was manifestly written by a thoroughbred Southern gentlewoman. It paints a vonderfully vivid and faithful picure of country life in our low counxy near Georgetown after the war. know of no publication in this State >r in the South that better describes southern life at that time. It did lot need Owen Wister's sponsorship, 'or it is a better book than his "Lady Baltimore." I wonder how many ; :opies were sold in South Carolina, should like to know how many mem>ers of our numerous book clubs ? lave enjoyed a perusal of that book. But I must come back to Comnander Parker's "Naval Handbook." >' t is without doubt an admirable I lote book. Most handbooks are of I he dry-as-dust sort, but this small rolume is pleasant to read. Although t is as full of information as an egg s full of meat,' it is written in a simile, free and easy style, not withlut occasional blinks of quiet humor ?quite characteristic of the auhor. In the preface, after telling what he handbook is, the author tells 'what this book is not"?that it "is lot a scientific or technical treatise, t has no professional significance. It s for the man on the street." And 'the man on the street" will find it rery handy and enlightening. It conainr? "a hundred questions asked and mswered." The veriest land lubber >y its help will be able to understand yhat is meant by the various types f warships, dreadnoughts, cruisers, lestroyers, etc. He will learn all that he laymen need know about subnarines, torpedoes, mines, aircraft, :uns and ammunition. The handbook is well printed and ??? #???! ?aa/1 nn/1 i + laD acvcitii guuu tuuouauuno, auu aw 3 made complete by an excellent in;ex. It is a neat little volume of 80 ages, the very book for "the man f the street," who will get so well tiformed by a short half hour's readrig that?to quote from the preface ?he "will astonish his sons and comland respectful attention from old oys at the club." ilTE NEAR ASHEVILLE FOR TUBERCULOSIS SANITORIUM New Orleans, April 14.?A gift o the Southern Sociological congress f 700 acres of land near Asheville, J. C., to be used as the location of a iroposed large tuberculosis sanitaium for the South, was announced iy officials of the congress in session lere today. The gift was made by Mrs. D. B. Jafford, a wealthy widow of Hot Springs, N. C. She also gave $20,000 n cash as the neuclus of a fund to >e raised to erect the buildings. With the announcement of the gift, f E McCulloch, general secretary of he congress stated that $200,000 aleady has been pledged by an unnamsd person for the operation of the anitarium after money for the buildngs has been obtained. The sociologcal congress, officials said, will make he raising of $100,000 for the proect part of the health campaign, conemplated by the organization. i The congress also purposes trying I o induce the several Southern States I o appropriate funds for the erection I if State buildings on the sanitarium I grounds where, tubercular patients rom the several commonwealths nay be sent for treatment. The present penal system of the ountry was branded as a survival rom the barbaric past by Dr. W. H. Jates, State prison inspector 01 Aiatama, at the government and health onference. He declared the fee system in counies was "deplorable, pernicious and inwittingly criminal." ruygigLQP Cimon1 irpor ?n ^UulliOOIJULilJIJUul iu1 | Sprin i rr\o liAUKi Irui\ iviLjiv We're ready with i but it's wise to buy now It's always a good plan t< look over tbe new styles earl; in tbe season, before tbe bes things are gone,?but this yea: ? " there's more to it than that. n Good woolens are scarce ant yft getting scarcer. Fast dyes ar< Hi hard to find. The surplus stock; fu which tbe woolen mills hav< jjl been useing, are now practicall; If" gone, the producers are uj Ejf against it. Qj Our clothing makers stockec Of up long ago. They're all righ LJC tor tbe present. Tbe new Sprint [B Clothes we're now showing, an in from pure Australian wool, dye< In with the good-old fashionei u uennun ?yes. in But there's no reserve! Thes< 5 Hue |jj Schloss Bros, and . S Styleplus Clothes S Can't be Duplicated. [jj Full lines of New Sprin j?- Underwear j Park< ^innnnnnnriwnnnwr raduUlJuulJuUUIllllJOl East Only a Few < I Close Them < N A big lot of summer dr Fancy Parasols, Shirt Waists, A big shipmen and get yours Mrs. Ja I A 1_1 | HDI irdnLnimr.ijn^^ g- Clo AND YOUNG L Lie ill, W11C11CVC1 y\JU 1C J ; read and we will tell yoi d We cai y tbeni. Ii t pay you t r It's mo ^ you kno 1 -jfii IrflSF store to r the popul ^ ifv /iw^f advances. * W^hJJa warned u } you^ TU " I 'iW w GET T1IJ t Wjlj f | SO BU Q jjjj 1/1 III M soiner lin * Willi llr I' ill ctloice. i mo(lels ai *W\ $10.00 8 ^ $i2.i gCRZj0t5 1R01A CtX ^ I ? * .. $ g Furnishings ready?Ha , Neckwear, etc. Best mz er Specia Goat Suits L< Out at a Big E I f EW ARRIVALS esses, just the thing for yo Silk Dresses, Spo: Fancy Hose, Bra: Corsets. MILLINERY t of Hats just arrived. Coi ; before the Easter rush c <! fn ?> U? VU Seville, S. C mimm iwmynv^gv/. i-gHUhH sgffifflgggfaifKj thes [] MEN I ready for them, [j 1 why. [ I.i! i't get auy more like ]f yon want tbeV it will | I o buy them now. j j S re or less the custom, I ? w, for every clothing J j1 eplenisb its stocks on J j lar lines, as tbe season ? 1 , But this year it can't ? J Tbe big makers have f ] is (us we are warning f 1 ?Y SIMPLY CAN'T | 1E GOODS. { | E' I Y UOW. DON'T DE- J J here never was a band- i ] e to see; never a better g ] All patterns, all styles, g 1' id sizes. [ IE ij j >.00 I: 17.00 J J $20.00 | j $22.50 11 $25.00 f I I ts, Shoes, Shirts, || ikes. | j ! ?ese j! V gi?TwrriiTWf?T?H3BBBMBBMI ' Is 3ft, Will deduction lur Easter outfit, 1 rt Coats, | ssieres, ? 1 me early | . is on. | chran * |