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.
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Ahhavilla. S. C.
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? Tuesday, April 9, 1918.
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V , NOTICE TO THE DISLOYAL.
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The lynching of a man in the
North-west for disloyal utterances,
while not to be defended, should
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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.
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And it may be said in passing
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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."
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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.
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OPERA
Friday A]
D.W.GR1
. COLOSSAL $2,000,
1T0LE
| LOVE'S STRUGGLE THI
Most Gigantic Production i
125,000 People 7,500 H
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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
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f-' SERV1C1
Just received
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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
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pril 12th
IFFITH'S
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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
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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.
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A YEAR OF WAR. g
General Pershing and his staff H
arrived in Paris on Jnne 14,' 1917, ?
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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|
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STATE ITEMS. I
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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.
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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
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