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xV.V / i ESTABLISHED 1844 f lv The Press and Banner %'i. ABBEVILLE, S. C. c . f*-T ' - ?? Wnl. P. GREENE, Editor. : : I The Press and Banner Co. t Published Every Tuesday and Friday 1 Telephone No. 10^ t Si. . < V ' Entered as second-class mail mat- t iW tar at post office in Abbeville, S. C. t ?r-?????1. J s ?. i ... Terms of Subscription: s fir) p vear _ - ^____$i.5or ~ " v "" ' ? Six months i - .7? p'.:/ Three months ?- * .? /50 , Payable invariably in advance. ? I (V? > c FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918 t . ; ? ^ - 0 c J Buy Them .Adid ' Help Win The War \ fOR SALE EVERYWHERE t McLAURIN retires. ,? John L. McLaurin, after having k failed to "raise hell," as he declared 0 was his purpose at the Greenwood * meeting, and having, as he says, n failed to interest the farmers of ? South Carolina, whom he desired to s serve, in a movement to make the ? cotton raised in the South a liquid * asset, has ret'ired from the race for ^ governor of -South Carolina, and v j once more, and for a little while, is s, Bgua private citizen. . K t. John L. McLaurin is a man of ^ p great ability. He has made the misg take of not knowing that as a politi- ^ cal factor he has been dead in * ' . South Carolina these twenty years, k ^f ' Nevertheless, his day of usefulness P'i. in South Carolina was not over had o P,: \ ' hp desired to serve the pepole whom h - he professes so much to love and to ^ KBhS.* . _ . . j m'.-. : desire to assist. a Mr. McLaurin has evidently de- ii 5v ceived himself. There is no man in n v. ___ South Carolina who desires office g more than he does. There is no t< jg^t>. man in South Carolina who has s< fc'; J it itJT OVIiVCH aaiuci bv tvuig uuvn. J.UVAV ^ : .V ia no man in South Carolina of his a ^ ?V. education and breeding he has done b Pay as many things as he has done, who ir .1"has bowed to as many gods, and t< g&r. swallowed as many "isms" as he has h In the attempt to be a political fig- s1 ?& ? , lire in the state. But his political ti %** '}/ epitaph had already been written. d McLaurin is terribly mistaken in K ??fv-.\ the assertion that only through the is ?U;!y government can the farmers of di ? South Carolina, and of the South, w . secure the things which they need w IsM for financing the cotton crop. Noth- h |p-' ing should be further from politics. C S&m ' If the government has ever made tl anylrody rich, or provided a means h: '&/. * of getting rich, we have not heard si M.k;''\#of *** ^e handling of the cotton fi icrop, the securing for its recognition ti , as security for the advancement Is of money, and other matters perV taining to the handling of the crops ri ' of the South are matters of business 'a and not of politics. The people of tl ' the South need not look to the poli- li jjs^V ticians to secure for them that as- C :c\ sistance which they so much desire, tl 0X-: Wh&n they have confidence- in the a business integrity of the business men of this section of the country, tl - and handle their business affairs si jjfe';\ a through business methods which t( have made for success in other tl lines they may hope for the things a which they seek. But as long as a li few politicians, seeking office, are li their spokesmen they may expect to v . remain hewers of wood and drawers a rbv/' water, to sav nothinc: of being t ? -- --- jj\'. members of a faithful organization h supposed every two years to come t IK' to the assistance of a few faithful e demagogues who, since we came to v know things, have promised all and b lip"-,- given nothing. h If McLaurin desired to serve the^v . people, he fell from grace when he v sought office for himself instead of t adopting business methods for the accomplishment of his purpose. He c KjA should have sought relief in the i court of finance rather than in the .t political forum. , c I v %' .v-: "S. ' i .. v . v.. IIS DEATHBED REPENTANCE. We have' heard all our life the disussion about deathbed repentance. >ome ofthe preachers have pointed o the thief on the cross and argued or it, while others have told us that he doctrine did not apply in these atter days where the opportunity to ie good had come to a man all these rears before he was stretched on he cross. Some of them have read o us that "my spirit will not always trive with man,? while others have uni that' While the lamp of life holds out to 'burn, The vilest sinner may return", etc. It seems that our own . Cole beongs to the latter branch of the hurch, becaus^ after having told he boys that ne was not "a'skeered" if Wilson, and after having had hem shout themselves" hoarse at the iravery of their noble leader, he ias now about-faced and is one of iur most loyal Wilson democrats, ilthough his ersjwhile friend, Col. Cheshire, says that Cole "wished to iod" that Hughes would be elected resident. , We have all seen the time in the ountry, though, when a man was ibout to be called before the judgaent seat, or supposed he was. The aithful old women, and all the oljl aaids, gathered, looking solemn, but till hopeful, each bringing her, favorite remedy to heal any and all :inds of ills. . Col. Bill McKinney if OrppnwftoH +hlH 11s that he took he whole menu on one occasion. Veil, Brave Colte has of late been aighty sick. In fact he has been ace to face with political death for everal weeks, and on last Saturday he faithful oldv women, including hat charming old maid Johnnie Lull, attended at his bedside at Litle Mountain, in Newberry County, rhere Cole looked political death # * t quarely in the face. They all had heir remedies, but just which one ; was that told Cole that the only hing which would land him in f)oliical heaven was a full tablespoonul of Wilson Tanlac, we do not now. Whether he kicked much or not, r whether it was necessary'to hold is nose we have not been told, but re do know now that Cole too^ the ose. He appeared early this week 1 Manning the most rearin' Wilson lan in the whole state. The little irl about whom Col. Dial has been ailing:, who made, over 100 at :hool on all studies is no longer in Cole is 490 per cent Wilson nd is still coming. He tells the oys that when he gets up to Washlgton he is going to vafk right up > the president and tell him that e i$ an American Senator, he ;ands behind the country in the me of war, and is with the presipnfc. tooth and toe nail, to finish. [ore than this he tells us that if it i. necessary he will put the presient in the race for the third term, hich Washington declined, and ill stump the United States for im. ; Think of it friends! That is ole talking' He intends to take le president by the hand and tell im so. He is to take that hand, neared with the blood of all the resh young manhood of this coun*y, and tell the president all this. ; Cole "a 'skeered?" More than that, he will raise a *giment, and himself go to France nd personally spank the Kaiser on le back steps of his home in Bern. So said Cole as he lay asick. ' ?1? + Ur\ in tTTi 11 i n nr UIU H?A2> X ICU. HC 10 UlJllixig 1UA le people to forget all he has said nd done. But one of tne worst things about lese deathbed repentances is, that ametimes the fellow doesn't go up 3 heaven at once, but is left on lis terrestrial sphere, here to strive little while longer with old sin. row a man who has never had region before, and who gets it ?n rhat he supposes is his deathbed, nd then is left here below, has a errible responsibility thrown on his ands. He is forced to live up to he religion which he has so recently mbraced, or the boys may think he ras in iact " a SKeerea. oomeumes ie tells his wife all the bad things ie has done in life and is still felt nth us then, and he has to conince her afterwards that he was alking "out of his head." Now one of the things, in this reent conversion, which is puzzling is is this?what if Cole should fail o land in heaven through his relent conversion, and be left here amongst us Wilson men, with all | these brave and loyal utterances "all balled up in his hand" as Col. Pat Roche would say in a set-back ^ - game? Would be still .play thei hand, and would he still be vjjlltngf to take the president by that hand] of fris Covered with all the^inrocent; blood and tell him that he was with; him, and for the third term? If he didn't would the boys think 1 he was just "a 'skeered", or would; he persuade them he' was talking "out of his head?" .. ! . ; McLAURIN GIVES UP RACE FOR GOVERNOR | Discouraged That Purpose Seems; Misconstrued?Farmers Spurn -Help. (The State, July 16.) The State last night received! for publication from John L. McLaurin the following . communication, "written from Richmond, Va., hospital, and dated July 14: To My Friends: I see no good to be accomplished ;by my remaining in the campaign and desire to release I you from such obligation you may feel as to my support. I am discouraged that my purposes seen so sadly misunderstood and my motives so wilfully misrepresented. What is the use when only 18 minutes areallowed to present great issues? I did not offer as a candidate because of any personal ambition. My desire was to serve. Primarily, it was my hope to unite a conservative element in both factions upon a program for building a system of finance based upon cotton, which would render our section forever | rich ana independent. I have given ten years of my life and spent much of my means in spreading the propaganda. Its fruits are visible on every hand, but I despair of ever making faction ridden South Carolina a leader in a great movement of this kind and shall make no further attempt so to do. Let me state the proposition clear |ly: Section 13 of the federal reI sprv-p act. nrovides not ohlv for the I discount of notes secured by receipt ' j for cotton on storage, but also for " | discounting securities, where the j proceeds are to enter into the pro- ' j duction of the crop. This means j that a note secured by rent or a : j crop mortgage can be discounted at J the federal reserve bank. It is done 1 now, but not for farmers, few of ' them know these facts. All that we ' j need is the machinery and it can be I more easily provided than the presi ent system, which I presented after \ the failure of the Wade plan. The warehouse is merely a funda- 1 mental incident in a system of fi- 1 nnace. The real basis is the con- ( I * 1 version of all serurities which rep? ; resent cotton either made or to be j j made into fluid assets which will J ipass current in the money markets. When you do this the marketing ^ j question will logically solve itself i and it can never be solved except by the firm establishment of a sys- . tern of credits, where the pound of ^ ! cotton is the unit, and as good in i one man's hands as another's. It ; will never be done by voluntary or- ( ganizations; it ca nonly come thru , j the government ,and to secure that , political control is necessary. However, as the people are more | interested in other matters, I see no ^ reason for dragging myself around - +? Violn tne State in a vain ciluib w people who do not wish to be helped i Being a side show to a third ilass \ ; country circus does not appeal to . i me. ! "John Lowndes McLaurin." i ROWLAND CAMPBELL IN ABBEVILLE | A Large Audience Hears Young 1 Man's Experiences at Front?Red Cross Benefits to the Extent of Thirty Dollars. "War news hungry" is the best way our'language in its poverty can I describe the present appetite of the i ! American people. Abbeville Court I House was filled Tuesday night ' " ?->?i?i /-> t-.il ti.? | wnen iVir. xiowianu ^ampueu, uie I Anderson boy, returned from the J front, delivered his illustrated lecj ture on the war. The occasion was : arranged for the benefit of the Red | j Cross and Mr. Joel Morse introduced the speaker. I ? ? > v' J ... = V<\ . i \I7L2iL which Will y i i *" .... - i The hot, stuffy on " ' ') ... . , cool, comfortable oi ! takes away all the < Thousands of wo VlAO V?/^ 'fV> a HoffAi licaiu Vy X uiv WUUI V.U Detrot tVhpc Oil Stove | W STOVES ?*?RAr Rowland Campbell, known to many people of this vicinity, is a young man of boyish countenance and youthful statue. Talking rapidly and without any attempt at elocution ,he presented his experiences one >after another and rarely rose above the conversational. ' / Volunteered in French Army. The young man began by telling how he happened to precede America into the conflict. It was during those years when war between this "mintrv nnrl flermanv hnnc in the salance, he said, that he and two j ' iohipanion students in the University of Chicago began to consider low they could most quickly see active service. The American ambulance service, designed to bolster up the inadequate French organization, offered them that opportunity. So they sailed for France to aecome ambulance drivers. However tvhen they arrived, a French officer met them and persuaded them to 2nter the French transportation and supply service, which was represented as. being the more important at the time. His duty was to drive barb wire, trench mortars, or any thing desired up to the front lines. Tells of Experiences. Naturally, many experiences fell to the lot of the young truck driverA.t the end of three weeks, he had been offered the Croix de Gifrre foi unusual service and had refused it. The reason given was that French soliders, who had been in trenches fo^ three years, deserved it fai more. In illustrating the American spirit he stated that he was driving along a road under such bombardment that Jack Johnson shells were falling at the rate of twenty a minute, each tearing up great holes in the ground DesDite this, however, twelve Ameri cans were seated at the side of the road calmly eating sardines! II was not his purpose to dwell on the horrors of the war, yet he could nol help mentioning that all said about the barbarity of the Germans was true. He himself was in a hospital when it was bombed by Hun aircraft and that same hospital was the victim of nine such attempts while he > . i . ' ~ h * 4 Kitchen is ou go through a: stimmer of heat? ie that makes you just rea le, with a Detroit Vapo discomfort? men all over the country it Vapor Oil Stove. Ode sofhtelv safe, wond v / [?j| Burns kerosene just I better, too, becaus< the heat just as you We have a numb* of Detroit Vapor Si ^ Call at our store an Sold Gnlj * IGES tr HOME OUT r j i was in the sector. i Inasmuch as the meeting was ar ' ranged by the Red Cross, Mr. Camp- j bell said he desired to state what he ;knew from personal experience re-j i; garding the organization. While 1 over in Georgia, he said, a man actually had the audacity to ask him if the Red Cross was on the square. This ignorance was pathetic. Ab| solutely no better use could be made : of money at the present time than , to invest it in the Red Cross. For ! one thing, the Red Cross has canteens all along the front and this is one of the greatest conveniences enjoyed by the soldirs. While in the midst of the lecture, the room suddenly became dark. The ten o'clock hour of prayer proclaimj ed by the mayor had arrived. In the adjoining Opera House, music ceased. And an audible breath of prayer could be heard toward the | left. Lantern Slides and Display of Relics: [ Mr. Campbell brought many pic . ture slides with him and attempted ; to portray actual war Conditions on ij the screen. Many of the pictures .! he had taken himself. It is against j , the law for soldiers to take such j pictures. But he and his two com-| panions carried cameras neverthe-i I less. If necessary, two of them would' entertain the stubborn French of-] llficer, he said, while the third, took! ' the picture. 'I After the slides had been shown,j many relics collected on the field of 'j battle were displayed. Among them: I were gas masks, helmets, guns, J j shells, and a German machine gun.! Considerable excitement was caused !by the exhibior suddenly firing sev'jeral blanks from a pistol. While. 'j doing this several weeks ago before j j a North Carolina audience, Camp-1 bell accidentally wounded himself. I ! New Spirit. : "When I sailed out of New York! ! harbor," he said, "several young men j ; with me stood up and saluted the: : Statue of Liberty. I remained seat-j i ed and thought it foolish. But Ii I came back a new man. I realized ; the value of being an American When I sailed into the harbor of j i New York, I stood up and saluted | \ Yours? '. 1 , >'.i. h _ m \ ", '']& mother <v. % ) ' ?V(J ,dy to drop? Or. the / i r Oil Stove that lll l I ' ' bless the day they mess, wicKiess, ao erfully economical, i like city gas. Cooks 3 you can regulate want it. ? , >r of different styles nvp? on exhibition:' w ww w? ? ( ,j?j d see them. % r By ; V \ / " ' | FITTERS T>50.Cfl / " , * '; that statue. The French and 'British soldiers have unqueustionably demonstrated their bravery. But somehow I feel, now that the American soldiers, are in it, that they are going to be just a little bit better than the rest." *' ' .r' f*. Red Cross Benefits." fl| Mr. Campbell expects to return to the front as an American aviator. BB He is a relative of Mrs. J. L. Hill m of this city. The Abbeville chapter 19 of the Red Cross benefitted to the HI extent of $31.50, the gross receipts being over sixty dollars. B88 mm ABBEVILLE PUTS 9 OUT THE LIGHTS H (Continued from Page 1.) H off for one minute each night at Hi ten o'clock so that you may engage in prayer for that period of time, j^R for our boys that are in the army BH and for a victorious conclusion of H the war. SfiB "Now, I, Mayor of Abbeville, do MR hereby call upon the citizens of the Hfl City of Abbeville to engage in hQI prayer for one minute each nighf at Hp ten o'clock, for our boys that are in the army and for a victorious con-^R elusion of the war for human free-^H dom in which our country has en-^H| fered- J- Moore Mars, Mayor." By thus adopting the silent min-HDj ute every night, Abbeville has fol-HH lowed in the footsteps of Green-^^B wood, Chester, and many other cit-^H ies in the state, which had already^BB adopted the plan. It is hoped that^^Q thus the people might be brought^^H to a more profound realization ofHH the real significance of the war and^^H that greater patriotic devotion^^H might be inspired. nUjfl LIQUOR CASES. BH Commissioner Williamson held preliminary in the City Council of^^J fice Thursday morning in the case^^H of the United States vs. Zeke QuinnHB Laura Hunter and Mary Smith^Hm charged with selling blockade li^^H quor at a Fourth of July picni<^^H near Latimei'. All the defendant^Hfl were bound over to the next tenflHj of the court at Greenwood. .