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rvun Established 1844. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. Pnhi;*h?d Everv Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. Telephone No. 10. Entered u second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Taraas tf SubKriptim One year..? ..$1.50 Six month* ............. .75 Three months. ........ .50 ' Payable invariably in advance. [ . Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1917. , THE LIQUOR SITUATION. ?' ' The House of Representatives at the recent session of the General Assembly passed the bone dry prop hibition bill. The Senate refused fc to pass such a bill, but, on the other hand, passed what is known as the ~ * ? xl?i Durant iJill, proviains urn cumu persons might procure as much as a quart of liquor each month "for medicinal purposes only" upon the prescription of a physician in good standing. The House having failed to agree to this bill, the matter was sent to a free conference committee, and the result is the legislation on the subject copied in another column. Just when the legislature adjourned the Congress of the United States adopted an amendment to the postal regulations making possible absolute prohibition in all states forbidding the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Had the members of the House known that this amendment would pass in Congress they would never have accepted the free conference report on the liquor bill just passed, ber cause, without doing more than allowing matters to stand as they were, absolute prohibition was possible. The Durant Bill could not have commended itself to any thoughtful person who was in favor of prohibiting the use of liquors as a bevermntention that it was Oftv. ? necessary to provide some means ' of procuring liquors for medicinal purposes will not stand, v Sections 796 to 803 of the criminal code had already furnished a practical way by which alcohol might be obtained for medicinal purposes. It furnish. ed a way in which alcohol might be obtained without there being i.ny , suspicion that the same was to be used for beverage purposes. While "the sections are somewhat long it is worth while to keep the provisions of some of these sections before us. Sec. 799 provides for the obtaining of alcohol for use in the Arts and for Scientific and Mechan^ ical purposes. Sec. 801 provides ?' for procuring wine for sacramental purposes. In addition to other provisions for safeguarding the public against designing druggists, Sections 796-798 provide: Section 796. Sales by retail drug??imr ra+Ail drncrerist whose place of business is located in any of the incorporated towns or cities of this State, who is himself a registered or licensed pharmacist, or who regularly employs a registered or licensed pharmacist, may sell, in the manner herein ? set out, upon filing a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved by the Clerk of the Court, in which such druggist does business, conditioned for a faithful observance of ffie provisions of Sections 794 to 803, such bond to be approved by * ? ^ * -1 tne <JierK OZ L/Ourb, pure aituuui awi medicinal purposes only, grain alcohol to chemists and bacteriologists actually engaged in scientific work, and for such purposes only, and wine to be used for sacramental or religious purposes only: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent such druggist from using alcohol in the compounding of prescriptions or other medicines the sale of which would not subject him to the payment of a special tax required of liquor dealers by the Government of the United States: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prevent such druggists from compounding or selling medicinal preparations manufactured in accordance with formulas prescribed by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary which contain no more alcohol than is necessary to extract the medicinal properties of the drugs contained in such preparations, ana no more alcohol than is necessary to hold the medicinal agents in solution, and which are manufactured and sold as medicine and not as a r < beverage. Section 797. Sales upon physician's prescriptions.?No sale of pure alcohol for medicinal purposes, shall be made by any retail druggist except upon the prescription of a regular practicing physician of this State who,, before writing such r . & i / ...... prescriptions shall make an actua examination of the person for whoa the prescription is issued, and th( said prescription shall be substan tially in the following form: "Stat< of South Carolina, County. To Drug gist I, ,a regu lar licensed and practicing physiciar under the laws of this State d< hereby certify that I have examinee a patient in mj charge, and I do hereby prescrib< for the use of said patient alcohol and I further certify tha the use of such alcohol is, in mj judgment, absolutely necessary t< alleviate or cure the illness or dis ease from which said patient ij now suffering and that I am no interested in the drug store to whicl this prescription is directed nor ii the profits on the drugs hereix prescribed. Dated M. D." Section 798. When and how pre scriptions may be filled.?No pre scription shall be filled herein ex cept upon the day upon which it ii issued or the following day, and n< more than xmt-half pint of alcoho shall be sold and delivered on anj one prescription, and when . sucl prescription is filled, it shall not b< refilled but shall be delivered to th< druggist filling the same, and a "the end of the month in which th< same is filled, it shall be fil6d by sue! druggist -in the office of the Clerl . of Court of the county in whicl said druggist is engaged in business ? ^ -* !-i. .U, irroviaea, ?o aruggiwt, wnu m uib* a practicing physician, shall fill hi | own prescriptions hereunder, no: shall they be filled at any druj , store in which the said physician ii I financially interested: Further Pro vided, That the delivery of sucl alcohol sold under such prescriptioi shall Db^made only directly to th< person for whom such prescriptioi is issued or to the physician, or t< some one authorized by the physi cian or in case of a minor to hi: parent or guardian or physician oi some one authorized by said physi cian. It will be remembered that th< gallon-a-month law left these pro visions of full force and effect Therefore, there was no need foi any provision in the Durant Bill o) in any other law for obtaining liquor for medicinal purposes. The provisions in the bill to allow individuals to procure alcoholic ilquon "for medicinal purposes," in the face of the existing law on the subject, are so plainly evasive of the real purpose of the bill as to need no statement of its purposes. The purpose plainly was to allow persons to obtain liquor for beverage purposes under the hypocritical pretense that they were to be obtained for medicinal purposes. The other provisions of the bill show this. A man who is sick and is needing liquor as a medicine, under the Durant Bill, must suffer on from his malady until he can get to the probate judge's office and make an affidavit that he needs some liquor for medicine. The probate judge then issues a permit for an order, and an order is sent to Baltimore, and the sick man grunts on until it arrives, and if the bottle is broken in shipment, he must remain sick awhile longer, and order again, A law of this kind passed "for medicinal purposes" in the face of a law already on the statute books fo* procuring alcohol as a medicine al the very time when it is needed is so plainly an attempt to make the people believe that they are getting Ana fViirir* -nrVmn ar?nfV?ar fliino Inrn. WUt l/IIlilg Vf iiVli UiiV V11V& Viililg yyi V curing liquor for beverage ( purposes) .is meatt that it needs only ' a statement of the case to show it Such^ a law cfuld have been support, ed .by men only on the ground of so intending or through ignorance. Now, it will not be denied that ii the Durant Bill had done what ever it was intended to do, and if the enactment of congress had not come about, some good results would have been procured. The amounl of liquor to be obtained for beverage purposes by an individual woulc have been cut from a gallon to s quart each month. There is the additional provision that only malt persons twenty-one years old maj order, and that fenjales cannot order unless they are the heads o! families. On the other hand, an old maid may die for the want oi liquor under the Durant Bill, or ar infant if he has no parent or guardian, may do the same, but he cannot get the "medicine" which thai bill provides, which exhibits agair some of the defects of the bill as ? health guardian. But any good features incorpor ated in the bill to make it look inviting are entirely overshadowec by other provisions which make ii inimical to good morals and gooc government. There are man3 crimes worse than liquor drinking pvpti the pxressive drinknc of liauor There is nothing, we can imagin< worse in a community than a schoo! ' for the encouragement of fals< swearing, and that is whit the Du I I , I WHEN NEW SP MO V 9 1 rant Bill, as adopted, provides. And - it is only what was inevitable tinder tne original Dill, Because as stated, i we .already had all the machinery, - and well guarded machinery at that, . for obtaining alcohol for medicinal purposes, under a plan which was r efficient for the purpose. But as we said the House had ! adjourned when the enactment of Congress was passed and the memi bers may be excused for getting ! what they supposed was the best to be had, though they did not get > what they wanted. t But Governor Manning cannot s urge this excuse for his approval i of the bill. Before Congress acted there was a general suspicion that . the Governor would veto the Durant 1 Bill and leave the people to procure a gallon a month. Whether he 1 would have done so, or not, we canT not say, but it is certain that as soon as congress made possible abi solute prohibition in South Carolina > by making it impossible to get the i gallon a month under the existing law, the Governor lost no time in f signing the quart-a-month-medicinali hypocritical enactment which is the best the liquor people could get uni der existing circumstances. ' He, t thereby, took his position along i with those who favor liquor as a . beverage, where it has been saspect ed that he stood for sometime, and r he to OK a position squareiy aguiuoi* L-bone dry prohibition. ; He is entitled to all the credit he t can obtain for allowing liquor to ! come into South Carolina as a bev: erage still, and for the promotion of false-swearing in order to obtain it. C????? ANNOUNCEMENT. For Alderm&u, Ward 2. > ' ^ I hereby announce myself for re? election for ward No. 2, to abide by rules of Democratic primary. 1 T. C. BEAUDROT. I hereby announce myself as canI didate for ward 2, to abide by rules - of Democratic primary. BEN T. COCHRAN. I ESTATE OF REV. P. G. ij HOPPER, DECEASED > Notice of Settlement and Applica. tion for Final Discharge. TAKE NOTICE that on the 19th j day of March, 1917, I will render a ! final account of my actings and doi ings as Executor of the Estate of f Rev. P. G. Hopper, deceased, in the office of Judge of Probate for Ab1 beville County at 10 o'clock a. m., * and on the same day will apply for . a final discharge from my trust as i such Executor. All persons having demands 1 against said estate will present them i for payment on or before that day, proven and authenticated or be for ever Darrea. C. L. HOPPER, " 2-28-2. Executor. I t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE Probate Court. > . * Citation for Letters of Administra5 tion. 1 By J. F. MILLER, Esq., Judge of Probate: ' WHEREAS, Mrs. Mattie E. Bu ford hath mare suit to me, to grant gj????jjgjjj YOU'RE RING sun t . . r niaif,.;,,. i.?; *at?r !9 j: *Atf v i: ' . . s v'.> h.Tv . , . . : an i ' * ' Par her Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Lemuel 0. Buford, late of Abbeville County, deceased. There Are Therefore, to cite and admonish all, and singular the kin-; dred and creditors of the said Lemuel 0. Buford, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Abbeville Court House, on Thursday the 8th of March, 1917, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause if any they have, wny the said Administration should not be granted. ,Given under my hand and seal of the Court, this 22nd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen a*id in the !4Ist yeav of Am. erican Independence. Published on the 28th day of Februiffy,'1917, in The Abbeville Press and Banner and on the Court House door for the time required by law. J. F. MILLER, 2728-2. Judge of Probate. Judge of Probate. A NEW FLOWER BED. A new flower bed is being planted out by the Civic Club near the Seaboard depot Cannas, lilacs, crepe myrtle and other hardy flowers are being put out. As soon as some grading is done the place will be a credit to the town. The work is in charge of Mrs J. L. McMillan. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure It you must take Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. 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