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ESTABLISHED 1844 " The Press and Bannei* t ABBEVILLE, S. C. t % I ; ? Si Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. * b o The Press and Banner Co. i5 Published Every Tuesday and Friday f Telephone No. 10. t; ' Si Entered as second-class mail mat- g ?? . nn?t nffipft in Abbeville. S. C. t: 1 1 c Terms of Subscription: a One year $1.50 ^ Six months .75 t] Three months .50 si Payable invariably in advance. m e FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918. ? ' t] ! Buy Them And ? Help Win The War I fOR SALE EVERYWHERE s1 - e UNEQUAL TAXES. ft P The esteemed Tax Corfimission of ^ South Carolina, manned by a crowd P of politicians appoined by Governor ^ Manning, is keeping up its record. ^ Early in the year the command went Cl out that all property must be re- n turned at one hundred cents on the 0 doLar, and when so returned its n value was to be reduced to fortytwo per cent, of the real value, and taxes were to be levied on this re- n duced valuation. n This paper which has opposed the present Tax Commission as an entirely useless body and a worthless adjunct to Jhe state government, taking the commission at its word, took ^ occasion to commend it for doing the one proper thing in South Carolina, namely: ; the equalization of taxes according to the value of the property assessed. Other newspaperg denounced the order as a scheme to extort more taxes from ^ the cities, towns and corporations, ^ with a concealed purpose to relieve n country property of its just burden. It seems that these newspapers P e were wiser than we were. In the c Abbeville school district, the tax assessors undertook to place a reasonable value on all property in the district, city and country property l alike. No man in the country, so b far, has appeared before this board 4 and complained that his property was not worth the sum assessed against it. This board having put all property on the books on a hundred per cent, basis passed a resolution that if the property was to be reduced, all property was to be re/ duced on a per cent, basis in order that relatively all should be assessed alike. But this will not go with the Tax Commission. The order has now been made to reduce the farm property m this school district from an average tax value of seventeen dollars per acre to eleven dollars per acre, with no corresponding order for city property. In other words the. farm property in the Abbeville School district, which at forty-two per cent, of its real value stands at seventeen dollars per acre, is to be reduced to about two thirds of that amount, and is to be taxed at eleven dollars per acre, about thirty per cent. of its real value, while the city property in the school district is to remain at forty-two per cent, and continue to , do in the future as it has done in the past?pay more than its just share of the taxes in Abbeville county. Not only do we pay one-fourth of all the taxes in the county, but under the law we get no direct benefit frnm a prpat nart of the taxes which! we pay. The million and a half dol- I lars worth of property on which we I pay five or six mills in order to work the roads of Abbeville county and keep up the notorious chain gang; coilnts for nothing when the work: is being done. All the money is. spent outside of the city of Abbe-j ville and we must pay another eleven j mills in this city, about four or, five mills of which is used in work-j -.Sri-,'i jjsSis&sO*?. ig our streets. We pay into the school funds of he county a three mills constituional tax for the support of the chools, and of the amount paid by his city, under the law as enacted y the legislature, about one mill of ur money is taken to run schools i country districts, while we are orced to levy eight mills special axes in this district to support our chools, to which access must be iven to the pupils of country disricts free of tuition, or else we annot share in the state high school ppropriation after helping pay it. Of course the Tax Commission of outh Carolina is not responsible for he distribution of the taxes in the tate. But its members should know rhat we say is true in Abbeville and very other town of like size. And nowing this the members of that ommission should make no order rhich imposes other hardships on hose communities which are aleady bearing more than their burens of the public expense of runing the government. The Tax Comlission should not in violation of he oath which they have taken, lake an order which can have no ther effect than to impose on one ommunity for the benefit 01 otner.r burden greater than the burder nposed in other communities. The truth of the business is w. hall have no relief until the presnt Tax Commission is abolished. Ir. Cooper advocates the only proer solution of the tax question in lis state. That solution is to apoint a commission each four years > apportion the public expenses bekveen the several counties- on a perentage basis, and let every county lake its own levy for the purpose f raising the necessary amount of loney. And in the name of common jusi ice and fair dealing let the comlission consist of business men and ot professional politicians. SON "BILL ~ECONOMIZES. Our son Bill has not been able to et the usual number of spoonfuls f sugar in his coffee each morning or sometime, and has been told so o # ften that we muit economize on ccount of the war until he has conomy on the brain. Wednesday fternoon he went around the bend ith us, holding his Scotch Collie in ie ion nnH a<s he rode he told us [lis,?"I economized today on peauts." When asked how he accomlished this he said,?"I had a nickl's worth and saw Jack Bradley oming and put them in my pocket." IN LONG CANE. During the month of June in ,ong Cane township there were 11 irths, 3 whites and 8 colored, and deaths, 1 white and 3 colored. E. R. Miller, Reg. 4 WAR SAVING8 STAMPS NONTAXABLE. / ??? When preparing for the fitufng of Thrift Stamps and War Savings Certioatea the national admlnlstratration very wisely deoided that they should not be subject to any taxes, federal, state or local. In this respect they are entirely unique, being free when almost everything else is subject to Impost. As the amount that an Individual may hold is limited to $1,000, this concession does not deal unjustly toward other security holders. It is simply an inducement to the small Investor to make an unusual effort in his own and his oountry's behalf by depositing as much of his surplus with the government as possible. Those who buy these littie bonds?and all should do Itshould understand in advance of the coming days of taxation return hi April that whatever of their earned savings or surplus derived from economies Is converted into Thrift Stamps or War Savings Certificates need not be rsoorded upon the assessor's blank. As the Interest and principal ars payable In 1923, neither Is It necessary ' to make mention of the investments in tne return to tne income tax colI oo tor. They are, aa stated, absolutely free and, as they also pay 4 per cent compound interest, are the best securities that one can buy In thess troubled times. Every time you buy a War Barings Stamp you help weaken the Hlndenburj Una. 1 FARMERS MAY GRIND I FULL YEAR'S SUPPLY I Food Administration Rules Governing Grinding of Home-Grown Wheat Modified?Flour May Be Sold Under Certain Conditons. Columbia.?Under modified regula tlons of the Food Administrator farmers are now permitted to grind a full year's supply of flour from home' grown -wheat. Millers throughout South Carolina have been authorized by the Food Administration to grind, from wheat made by farmers, enough flour to supply their families and their tenants for 12 months. This amount must, however, be based upon a calculation of 12 pounds per month per person. Although using flour ground from home-gnxwn wheat, farmers are ex pected by the Food Administration to nevertheless observe strictly the flfty-flfty rule and to us? flour substitutes, pound for pound, with the flour they have ground. The fact that they have produced their own wheat doea not release them from this obligation. They are also expected to see to it that their tenentg, furnished by them, use flour substitutes on the flfty-flfty basis. Farmers who grow wheat may sell flour to their neighbors who perhaps have not, but in such cases they will be required, under the rules of the Food Administration, to sell an equal I amount of flour substitutes, the same i as a merchant, or take miller's cor| tiflcates from the purchaser showing j that the purchaser has had flour sub! stitutes ground to cover the flour j bought, pound for pound. Farmers j may sell flour, from their wheat, to I merchants, but when merchants re' sell this flour it must be sold, pound j for pound, with flour substitutes, to j the persons who buy it. j These regulations apply to throta I ermen as well as to winners. I LICENSES ARE REQUIRED TO DEAL IN POULTRY Columbia.?Country or cross-road storekeepers who buy eggs and someI times poultry from the farmers, foi | Belling again, are required, under th? ! proclamation of President Wilson at i May 14th, to obtain licenses from tha | Pood Administration. The fact that i most country stores are in the rej tail business on a very small scal? ! does not alter the case, but as a rule j these storekeeper! have not consider i ed themselves liable. The President's i proclamation required the licensing of all those engaged in certain lines ! of business; including "operators oi poultry and eg? packing plants not &i' ready licensed under the United j States Food Administration." Undei I this classification, anyone who sella \ poultry or eggs In any way than at I retail to the consumer, regardless ol . the amount of: business done, must be I licensed. In order to comply with the j law all country store? buying egge i and poultry from farmers must fill out j blanks obtained from the United I States Food Administration, and har? licenses Issued to them. WHY WE MUST SAVE FOOD The United States the Last Reservoir of Men, of 8hlp? and of Food to Save World Civilization. By Herbert Hoover. "If you could stand In the middle of Europe today and survey the land to j ita borders, you -would discover Its i whole population of 400,000,000 human being short of food. Millions of peo: pie in Poland, Finland, Serbia, Armenia and Russia are dying of starvation and other millions are suffering from too little food. Our Allies and the neutrals are living on the barest margins that will support life and 1 strength. I IV. ? 11J J ; mis, I life) LUUBl appaJJIug tuiu uicaufttl thing that has come to humanity since the dawn of civilization, is to : me the outstanding creation of German militarism. The Germans themselves are not the wost sufferers. They axe extorting at the cannon's mouth th? harvests and cattle of the people they have overrun, leaving them in desolation. If the war were to ceas# tomorrow, the toll of actual dread from starvation and Its attendant diseases within the German lines would double or treble the 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 ol men who have been actually killed by Germany and her allies In arms. The 10,000,000 people in occupied Belgium j and Northern Prance would have died j of starvation had it not been for ua nrl 4ht> A1H?? ; "We must build our food resource! to stand ready for any demands upon us by the Allies. It ia of no purpose to us to send millions of our best tc France if tve fail to maintain strength of their men, womea and children on our lines of communication. The Unl i ted States Is the last reservoir ol men, the last reservoir of ships, the | last reservoir of munitions and the i list reservoir of food upon which th* ! Allied "world muBt depend if Germany ' is to be defeated and if we are ts b? free mer * oe or service to y i' i j : It will pay or : i , j | home, to ge ' ' ? =========== The Rose I Dep I A FRENCH OFFICER PLEASES | ABBEVILLE AUDIENCE I (Continued from Page One.) i been without the blessed British ; fleet?", the speaker asked amidst great applause. It fills the French , heart with joy to be fighting side by i side with England. At the Marne, Britain wrote with us one of thei most glorious pages of her history,! | she who had been writing-' most of I the pages of her military history j -J- --- Al- - TTI V XT?V j against us, me rreiicii. nui muci>i > unofficial American aid be overlooked. Many lady nurses and men in the foreign legion aided in the winning of the great battle. It was General Foch, who was in immediate command at the Marne and he is the most epical figure in the war (applause). "My left wing! is broken," he wrote, 'and my right wing is broken; but with my cen1 ter, I shall attack." He did. And he i routed the Prussian Guards, pride of the German army. If Foch could do that, if he could save the channel ports immediately after with only 12,000 Fusiliers, what can he , not do with all the allied armies under him? ' French Bull-dogism. For a long time, the world has i lacked faith in the French ability to hold pugnaciously. It was admitted that the Frenchman was brave and , spirited. Bu it was thought that he soon lost courage and gave up; that "bull-dogism' 'was an Anglo-Saxon monopoly. This representation of( | the Frenchman is a great injustice j i to him. He has always had a good! i ~Kiill in Tiim A "ff pr I L snare ui tuc uun-uv^ **& **?** .. fighting throughout the long Hun1 dred Years War, an up-hill fight, "the English bull-dogs were mightly i glad to get home, but many of them were not allowed to." It is* true I that France then had the inspiration of the saintly Joan of Arc. But , now she has the inspiration of all t the saintly women of France and ' also of all the saintly women of all | the allies, (great applause.) In fact, this is merely a part of i the insidious German propaganda i started years before the war. The worst phase has been the creation of II a conception of "poor bled white [dry ( . i I TTiiq rlrv ornr | *- ??? j ta . It is more so i Staples have i is, medium price | extremely high p Having conc certain lines, y< have placed oui 1 c jQODS ids store is an ECO now than ever bef< always been our s d goods that every riced goods?no che entrated our efforts ou might say SPI rselves in position ou now. iy lady, who d( t acquainted witl t nberg Men artment St RRFVII IP C I .JL-flJJLU T 11 II II rfj U? i France." The Germans say, "Poor France! We hate England. But we love France and hate to see her led astray and commit suicide. Poor France! She is bled white and can't fight long." Lieutenant Dewierzbicki gave the lie to this and proved it by figures. One set of statistics alone is sufficient to illustrate this. Of the 470 miles of French front, the United States holds 38 miles, the Belgians hold 16 miles, the British hold the 120 miles protecting the channel ports, and France?the socalled "bled white" nation?holds the remaining two-thirds, or three hundred odd miles. VI1C UUlCi IVliiU U1 UCiiiiaii yjLxjpa.ganda is now patent, he said. It is the attempt to make America believe that she is protecting France as an act of gratitude for France's aid during the revolution and doing it for this reason alone. No, the Sammies over there are protecting the United States first and foremost! American enthusiasm must not be GO "OVER 1 with Empi American i- \ru ?k?0 Mo in v uagi apu o iiiu "OVER T Opera House, Abbe MATINEE, 4:00 PIV SPECIAL ADMIS I Matinee?Children, -Night?Orchestra, RESERVED SEA AUG. 1st. GET YOl AND AVOID THE store! NOMY STORE. ire. strong point; that r family uses; rto tap trash. > in this store on CIALIZED, we where we can )es sewing at I h this store. I >nnlil/> r a I amiic bu. ores I allowed to cool by the contrary coi^^B ception.' pSM After the address, the chorus sanHn "The Star Spangled Banner." had been hoped that LieutenaiHH DeWierzbicki would remain in A1^D| beville over night and a receptio^^H at the home of Mrs. Greene had be^HH arranged. However, the lieutena^EB had to return to Greenwood immec^H| ately. Bfl| HOME AGAIN. HB r" Mrs. Mims is in Abbeville for tflH ?HH i remainder of the summer with j daughter, Mrs. Fred Cason. MHH | Mims has been visiting her dau^^H : ters in Columbia and Leesville, tHHj her heart naturally turns to Abl^HH ville. eSJhH She stood the trip up here | indeed, and despite her eighty-n^^H ! years she is in excellent health j takes a vivid interest in the aff^BH . of the world and in the pleasuHH| I Ul JTV/UVU. rHE TOP" I gy and the H Sammies rvelous Photo Play w ww-i m r?M HhH HL 1 Uf H| ville, Friday Aug. 9 HS 1. NIGHT, 9:00 PM^H . MUSIC ISION: 28c; Adults, 55c. HBH 55c; Balcony, 45c. T SALE BEGINS^ UR SEATS EARLYBn RUSH.