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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matir? Ahhavilla. S. C. ' Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .75 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. ? Tuesday, April 9, 1918. ' ' V , NOTICE TO THE DISLOYAL. -? The lynching of a man in the North-west for disloyal utterances, while not to be defended, should i serve as a warning to those people who are accustomed to criticise this country for its entrance into the war, and especially to any one who may have it in their heart to wish openly for the defeat of the country at the hands of Germany, whatever their provocation or excuse. It would seem that the people in fe* the North-west are in no temper to be trifled with. And as the weeks wear away and the casualty lists come in and grow longer and longer, that temper will but be magnified. We are reminded that in this section of the country, as fai back as the American Revolution, we had disloyal citizens. The stigma which they won in that conflict J- . has followed the names down through all the succeeding decades of history. The people then despised those who were disloyal tc the American cause, though they had better cause to be loyal to the king thai? men have today to love Germany, but, on account of the fact that the people were divided, summary vengeance was not visited on the tories. If the remembrance that those pepole who were againsl Independence in 1776 were called tories, with all that the term has meant in succeeding years, is not a warning to some people, they might contemplate with profit the fate oi the disloyal citizen in Illinois. \y ' And it may be said in passing ? - - ? ti.;- ? tnat li repetitions ui una vnuic uc to be prevented it is high time that the Government of the United States passed such laws as made it possible to get rid of spies, dynamiters and traitors in a summary manner, while providing for the imprisonment for the term of the war of every man who utters disloyal words in time of war. The people the country over will not be trifled with when red American blood is flowing in the trenches. JAMES HEMPHILL, OF CHESTER. James Hemphill, of Chester, has been killed in action in France. The young man enlisted from Brown University as a private in the Rainbow Division and was with the first soldiers to go across. Mr. Hemphill comes of a long line of honorable ancestors, being the son of David Hemphill, who died during the Spanish-American war, being a major in the volunteer army. He was a grandson of Hon. James Hemphill, of Chester, one of J-X~ ? 1 owvnrQ of Lilt; IIIUSU UlOClll^UlOllVU mnjv.v the State and a grand-nephew of John Hemphill, Chief Justice of Texas. He is also a nephew of Edward Strobel, at one time professor of International Law at Harvard, and for some years legal advisor to the Government of Siam. It is but natural that the young man should feel the divine fire of patriotism and lay down his life for his country. A PLEASING APPOINTMENT. Senator Smith has appointed Mr L. H. Wannamaker of Orangeburg as clerk of the Interstate Commerce committee and Mr. Wannamaker ha gone to Washington to take up hia work. Mr. Wannamaker has long beea connected with the News and Cour ier and is known throughout the State as a newspaper man of unusual ability! He will be missed in newspaper circles and his leaving will be regarded as a distinct loss. Around Abbeville where Mr. Wannamaker is familiarly known as "Hayne," and where his charming wife is much admired, friends are pleased at his appointment. THE NEGRO SOLDIERS. One of the most impressive sights of the Liberty Loan parade in Atlanta Saturday was the negro troops. They came down the street eight abreast, in heavy marching order, stepping out with vigor and with military precision. They were a fine looking set of men and have j the making of good soldiers in them. THE FARMERS FOR LIBERTY. A number of very prominent farmers of Anderson County have already made liberal subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan, declaring that they feel it their duty to invest a part of the good money they have made in Liberty Bonds. Dr. John E. White, the distinguished pastor of the First Baptist Church of Anderson, and president of Anderson College, has been so TMATTfl ri V?i7 fhp natriotic statements of the Anderson County farmers that he has addressed the following letter to James F. Shumate, county chairman for the Third Liberty Loan?and the letter ought to be ,'read and taken to heart by every ; South Carolinian: ' "I have been much impressed by . the letters you have published from ! well-known farmers of Anderson county offering subscriptions in , I large sums for Liberty Bonds, and J expressing their hearts along with ; it. If these letters could be drop1'ped among the country folk of Gers'many, their eyes would be opened .'to the hopeless tragedy on which > their >mad kaiser is leading them, for ji. ?oV><->ur rtpm the bottom spir r it wuuiu ?uvT> ?...? i it of America?the spirit of the i American farmer?which pledges >'the resistless resources of the might,' iest democracy on earth to the last 1 dollar and to the defeat of Germany i "If I could enjoy in the good old; fashioned way a close Christian felI lowship around the fireside of every t farmer in Anderson county, I would i beg fathers and mothers to make ; all necessary sacrifices to buy Lib: erty Bonds. These are testing times. | You need not tell me that there is . not a difference between folks; a j difference in the stuff they are made of; a difference in decency before God; and a difference in the way nnH the general public ; IlcigavvAu MM?? 0 ? I size up our characters. A Liberty Bond, and as many of them as a man can take, is pretty fair evidence of the sort of citizen a man is; that is to say, and that is what II want to say from the housetops of Anderson county, that the citizen who shies off on any excuse from buying Liberty Bonds fails to show his colors for his country and hu!manit$; and there is something ' deeply wrong about that, and the , wrong is in him. j "I venture also to say that the father of children who hasn't Liberty Bond in his house to show them ' when this war is over will be sorry , for it and his children ^vill be sorry, i In a sort of way, that piece of yellow government paper is a ticket to the respectability of the future in this country, which shows that the old fellow who has got one tried to ~ ^ " 1 4.1* ~ do his 'bit' oi tne ngnung- wnen me holy interests of humanity were assaulted, and that he was sorry he couldn't go with his boy to France. 'J "If I had a bale of cotton I would ' exchange it for Liberty Bonds instead of greenbacks or silver. Why? Because a Liberty Bond is the best money now circulating in this country. You can not only use it as I currency, but all the time it is ; drawing interest. But the main rea'j son for intesting in Liberty Bonds is not that. It> is that it is now the test of the genuineness of our reliability as citizens in a tremendous emergency, when what our nation does in the next twenty-four months will determine the hope or the despair of democracy on this earth. "Anderson county has the reputation of being the home of a great i high average class of successful farmers. With Liberty Bonds in ( every one of these homes, Anderson county would be more than the t home of successful farmers; it would be the home of great-hearted, positive, actual, true blue, all-wooland-a-yard-wide Americans, who did more than talk about it." The farmers of America are fortunate indeed when compared with those of invaded France and Belgium, whose orchards have been cut to chips by the Huns, whose crops have been stolen or destroyed, whose homes have been burned, whose wives and daughters have been brutally assaulted or carried away into slavery worse than death. If Ihe Huns came to America that is what might happen in this country. The farmers of the South are fortunate in that war has not meant tp them what it did to their fathers a little more than half a century ago. What did it mean to them? Let Henry Grady answer: "What does he find - - when, having followed the battle-stained cross against overwhelming oddsl - - he reaches the home he ,left J so prosperous and beautiful? He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless, nis social system swept away, his people without law or legal status, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders - - without money, fcredit, employment, material or training - - The soldier stepped ; from the trenches into the furrow; horses that had charged Federal guns marched before the plow and fields that ran red with human blood in April were green with the harvest in June." The farmers of Greenville and: ? J - _ -1 Anderson counties ana.every uuiei i county in the Palmetto State will j do their duty in buying Liberty j Bonds because farmers have everj been foremost in the struggle forj human liberty. Their part in the i American Revolution was fitly de-j scribed by Emerson: "Here once1 the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world." The part that the Southern farmer played in the grent .and bloody struggle for liberty that be-' /-o-n of 1?Sumter fiftv-seven vears I 6?" - ? ? ago is familiar to the hearts of the present generation. The finest testimony to their service then is the fact that the last act of Robert Edward Lee as commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox was to secure permission for his thin gray line of I J heroes to take their horses heme so that they mig,*ht be able to plow their wasted fields. The farmer of 1918 is no less 'patriotic than the farmers of 1776 and of 1860. To them the cause of liberty will not appeal in vain.? The Greenville News. CORPSE SHIP IS STRANGEST OF ALL Bagdad, April 4.?Nothing in the land of strange things strikes the European visitor so strangely as the "corpse ship.*' It is a huge barge piled high wii;h native corpses, many] of them several years old, which] are being carried down the river toj rest in a cemetery near the whit-j | ened bones of the Prophet. The bodies are piled on deck,; packed tight in . straw cases, on top! of which the Arab attendants sit: nonchalently and play . a native' game resembling dominoes. Some; j of the corpses are comparatively j ! new, others old. It all depends on! how long it took the family of the [ deceased to save enough money to! pay the cost of transportation. V/AR SAVINGS STAMPS. South Carolina's army of Savers! was in a defiant mood last week and ; answered the German offensive by j increasing the purchase of War Sav-1 ings Stamps and Thrift Stamps by' over 50 per cent. The campaign j for the sale of the stamps was given i a big boost and practically all j points in the State made increased; sales. Reports reaching headquarters of the War Savings Committee show sales for the week to be over $66,-; 000 as compared with $43,000 the previous week. Despite this excellent work, South j Carolina is still lagging behind all other American States. This fact alone is spurring every community in the State on to greater effort. The per capita sales for the State are still belc-w 30 cents and the to? i. ^ ; *+: tal sales less than $500,000. If South Carolina is to meet the quota assigned by the federal government it means that several hundred thousand dollai's worth of stamps will have to be bought each week. Intensive campaigns are being waged in several sections of the State. There is great rivalry between the cities of Florence, Lake City, and Timmoitsville. Spartanburg led the State in the amount for the week, nearly $10,000 worth of stamps being sold. Florence was second with nearly $9,000. The most striking result of the campaign during the last week was the increases shown by the sales of post offices in the smaller cities and towns of the State. , The rural sections are purchasing more liberally of the stamps. A TRIBUTE TO WATER. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Col. Bob Maxe, a typical Southern gentleman of the old school, was sur prised when at, .a banquet in Arkansas he found that he was down to respond to the toast, '-Water." And this is what the colonel said: "Water is the purest and best of all the things that God created. I ^n,?A if in fnor "avc OtCU lb guov^u lit VIIIJ ?vm<. drops on the sleeping lids of infancy I have seen it trickle down the blush ing cheeks of youth, and go in rushing torrents down the wrinkled cheeks of age. I have seen it in tiny dewdrops on the blades of grass and leaves of trees, flashing like polished diamonds when the sun burst in resplendent glory ovdr the eastern hills. I have seen it trickle down the mountain sides- in tiny xt-- -J? ! .'J *?:i nvuiexs wun me music ujl iiquiu silver striking on beds of diamonds. I have seen it in the rushing river rippling over pebbly bottoms, purling about jutting stones, roaring over precipitous falls in its mad rush to join the mighty father of waters, and in the mighty father of waters I have seen it go 'in slow and majestic sweep to join the ocean And I have seen it in the mighty ocean on whose broad bosom float the battle fleets of all nations and i the commerce of the world. But, (gentlemen, I want to say to you now. that as a beveraee, it is a ! d?n failure." | . THE DIXIE HIGHWAY. Something must* be done, and done at once, to secure the Dixie Highway. Unless Edgefield County acts promptly the highway will be diverted through some other county from Greenwood , to Augusta. The proper route from Greenwood to AiTcnisfft is fov wa'v of Kirksev. Pleasant Lane, Edgefield and the Pine House. This route can be improved so as 1;o compare favorably with any portion of the highway. The United States .government will appropriate $12,000 for a model soad, if the county provides a like atoount. This can be done largely, in fact almost entirely, by work of the chaingang. Our people should act at once in securing the highway. ?Edgefield Advertiser of last week. * It is clearly seen in the above clipping that Edgefield has a route picked out for the Dixie Highway through tha tcounty and is going to do her berft to secure the* road. So McCormick County has no time to lose in laying her inducements before the Dixie Highway Commission to have the road run through this county to Augusta instead of by Edgefield.?McCormick Messenger. SHIPBUILDING CRISIS SEEMS TO BE AVERTED Washington, April 6.?A crisis in the shipbuilding program because of the shortage of steel has been averted as a result of an agreement reached with the manufacturers, Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, announced late yesterday aiternoon followiog a conference with President Wilson. The manufacturers have agreed to furnish for immediate shipment all the steel parts essential to the success of the Government's program, he announced. All woolen mills in the country were directed by the War Department today to hold their looms at the service of the government from now to July 1, in order to secure adequate supplies? of cloth for uniforms. I OPERA Friday A] D.W.GR1 . COLOSSAL $2,000, 1T0LE | LOVE'S STRUGGLE THI Most Gigantic Production i 125,000 People 7,500 H . . %f ftj i.| TL Iureatesc noveuy cue id Four Different Stories That i Thrilling ( You Say; Mr. Griffith "The Birth of a Nation" It Cost 100 Times More Than A Be Worth. $2C Admission: Childrei Plus war tax both I * *r-. f-' SERV1C1 Just received -L ? ? 4.1 meni ui uncs, u wear well and paice. Hall Invesl MASTER'S SALE STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Abbeville. * Court of Common Pleas. ROBERT H. GILLIAM, Plaintiff, against JOHN CANNON, Defendant. By authority of a" Decree of Sale by-the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County,1 in said State, made in the above stated case, I will offer for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbeville C. H., S. C., on Sales-j day in May, A. D., 1918, within I | the legal hours of sale, the following described land, to7wit: All that! tract or parcef of land situate, lying and being in Abbeville County, in the State aforesaid, containing Eighteen (18) acres, more or less, situate, lying and being in Magnolia Township, said County and State, and bounded by lands of Visanska and Rosenberg, Gertrude Cannon, j Richard Wade, being the interest of the defendant through the ?state of his grandfather, Willis Cannon deceased. TERMS OF SALE?CASH. PurJ chaser or purchasers to pay for papers and revenue stamps. J. L. PERRIN, Clerk Court Abbeville Co. S. C. 4-2-3t. John McCormack has bought a new violin giving the comfortable sum of ten thousand ' five hundred dollars for it. The American Red Cross announ- . ced a gift of half a million dollars' to the Canadian Red Cross for war . relief work. The gift was made without restriction. More than $2,000 will be sent outj, .f ? a-P T r\V> w "P Qxiro orin_ ! , iruill UUC unite yix Kill>11 u. Mnvu>iu-| j gen, state superintendent of educa- ; tion, to prize winning schools of the 1 state in the School Improvement J Association contest. The list of I prizes just awarded shows that 30 schools received prizes of $50 each; 23 received $10 prizes; and 67 re- , ceived $5 each.?Honea Path Chronicle. American destroyers arrived at a ] British port to assist in patrolling j European waters 28 days after the ] declaration. 1 A/ - i. i .Mi jj - HOUSE pril 12th IFFITH'S 000 SPECTACLE' - >. RANCE" 10UGH0UI THE A6ES V in History of the Theatre V [orses 1,200 Chariots ' eatre Has Ever Known >weep at the lyid Into Four ;V Climaxes ? ';l & j ^ 's Other Production -Don't Miss This One. ' BABYLON With Warrior* On Wall 300 Feet-High? I E OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW f : v 1BLE NAZARENE?Gripping ^ 4:4 tory in Contrast to Tliese r. eriods. ny $2.00 Attraction,- So Shquld' 10.00 a Seat. n, 25c; Aduljte 50c; , matinee and'pight. sJi8 , , ' . ^ .J > i TIRES ; . ^ another ship- : || ley look good are cheap in t .. vc; ? ' m i Vs V-* . ' , j. r. ; cmeni kju. j | A YEAR OF WAR. g General Pershing and his staff H arrived in Paris on Jnne 14,' 1917, ? 9 69 days after the declaration of war. The first American troops ar-^. 'flj rived in France on June 26P On* H July 4, in celebration of oar natal Xfl day and a new fight for liberty, H American troops paraded tTie streets ..'H of Paris and were greeted a: t&e H forerunners of great American arm- H ies and vast quantities of supplies and munition^. |H On October 10, 1917, 187 days H after the war .was declared, American soldiers went on the firing line.' iHH In January American soldiers took over permanently a part of the * line as an American sector, and this JH line is gradually lengthening. 9| , " STATE ITEMS. I ??- n When Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo visits Columbia Wednesday Hj| in behalf of the1 Liberty Loan campaign he will view a living American flag, formed on the State House steps by the school children of Columbia. This flag will be on th'e back steps of the state house and as the Secretary is escorted from, the ^^9 Union station he will view the -flag. The Clinton Chronicle got out a I I record paper for Liberty Loan- week^^^B It was an excellent paper and welF^^B printed. ' . .. . The officers of the 119th Infan^^^B try gave a delightful ball Monday night in Greenville complimentary to Col. Frank Parker. |^H Miss Madelene Pryor of Chester, was happily married in Chester on^^^g Thursday to Mr. Ernest 0. Steinback, and will make her home in^^H Sclma, Ala. Miss Pryor is well^^H known in Abbeville and her friends^^^fl ivish her much happiness. rViorlncfAH 1OQ Hg tVip state in theH^I V11U1 1VO VVH *vv*v?M ?..? ^ . _ _ _ natter of recruits for the army,^^H naking a record of thirty-six iccepted for March. ^^^9 President Wilson today appointed^H^S Edward R. Stettinius, second assist-^^^J int Secretary of War, and Fred P.^HH ECeppel, third assistant Secretary oiH^H Af, . ? ? ? -' "*! ' n