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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 mattar at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: toe year $1.50 Six months .75 TVree months .50 Payable invariably in advance. TUESDAY, AUG. 13, 1918. v V I fwsir fDUL a?TBf09 ffttlfff u 8un>>r Ttt UNITED STATH4 4XWERMMENJ Buy Them And *T?I? w:? TUn Wo* acip YT 111 llic TTai TOR SALE EVERYWHERE MORE TWO DOLLAR WORK. Word comes to us that the city's property has again been given away. Sometime ago, we do not know ^ when, the city council, or the water and light committee, we "are not inv formed which, decided that the city l needed a transit, or surveying instrument for the purpose of laying sewerage and other pipes, grading streets, and perhaps doing work K -'> ? . I , about the power house. ' . The authorities duly took the money of the taxpayers of this city and purchased the instrument. We fcave no doubt that it was absolutely necessary that the city have this instrument as without it the superintendent of the streets would be at a gTeat disadvantage. In fact it is impossible for him to lay sewerage lines properly without the in- ; r . ~ .. sfcrnment. He 'needs the instru-' - ^ tent frequently. . A few days ago the superintendent again needed the instrument, fest a still search for it at th council offices, the water and ligbt plant, the office of the water and light ^ plant, and other places where" is might be, failed to locate it. It fin? ally leaked out that E. M. Anderson, formerly the superintendent of < the plant here, packed it up and carried it away with him. And it then was stated that certain city officials gave it to Anderson as a present when he was leaving. * Just who gave it to him has not yet developed. One member of the water and light plant, when asked about the matter, as we are informed, did the Peeples stunt as described hv Pollock, he swallowed and he didn't swallow, he turned red and \ then turned pale, his" "Adam's apple , jumped up and then jumped down i and then stood still, and finally he 1 eould not remember anything about the matter. Another councilman j stated hat he had a "faint recollec- < lion" about the matter but was not ] able to give any saitsfactory infor- ! mation. j i?v - _We are not informed who is re- 1 sponsible for this misappropriation . 1 of property, because such it is. We have warned the present city coun- : eil before against appropriating money for political campaigns and to Lire men to abuse taxpayers who are forced to foot the bills. It is the plain duty of the present coun cil to ferrit out the true state ofj facts with regard to this matter andj give it to the1 public. A matter of | a hundred or two dollars, perhaps: less, may be involved, we do not know. But we do know that no man, not even the> whole council, has any right to give away a single dollar of the city's money to any individual for a present or for a keepsake or for what-not. They have noj more right to give away a transit belonging to this'city than they have( to give away the city hall or the water works plant or to write a check for a present. The money which buys the city property is the money of the taxpayers of the city of> Abbeville, and 1 |ter-' the members of the city council and of the committees of that institution are trustees of the public, and it is their duty to protect and preserve public property and they have no right to squander it. The members of the city council and the members of its committees have a perfect right as individuals to go down into their pockets and give anybody they desire a present, but they have no right, under the thin guise of taxes, to put their hands into the pocket of the editor of this paper and of other citizens and take their money and give it to Anderson. Although he had made a personal canvass of this town toj save his head, appealing to church) affiliations and to fraternal orders] in a manner which seemed to rightthinking men as utterly unworthy j of a self-respecting man, the people; of this city told Anderson in no un-j certain terms that they were tired of him. He took his pay and should: have been satisfied with it. We do not say that the men who( gave to Andersan the city's proper-1 ty were dishonest, we do not be-; lieve that they are. We prefer to' believe that they were ignorant, but! with all that when a man is rieht he js "as bold as a lion" we are J told, and it is passing strange that; somebody does not remember just who it was that gave away city' property. For Anderson we must say that he' took property away from this city: which was not his, and which he i knew as any honest man should have! i known was not his, and which was; not the property of anybody to give away. He pretended to be a man| with enough sense to run a one hun-j dred and fifty thousand dollar business, and we take it, that he knew! when property was not his, and when; it belonged to somebody else. It is up to the city council to re-j cover this property. Anderson has| no right to keep it, and it should be recovered if it costs twice the! amount involved. If the instrument cannot be recovered the men who authorized Anderson to carry it away, from here should as honest men pay for it. Having made Anderson a present they should go down into their own pockets andj pay the bill and not take it out of I the public treasury.. If they refuse to do so then the city of Abbeville should commence an action against them for the conversion of property and we guarantee that there is not a court of justice in the land which wiirnot.make them foot the.bill. Wj have told the people before that there is nothing to expect from two-dollar-a-meeting councilmen. The time has come to abolish salaries for councilmen and mayor, and perhaps then we may be able to get men with enough judgment and ?ood sense not to give away the lard earned money of the people ixtortea trom them in the shape ot axes. SENATORIAL CANDIDATES ASSAIL LOYALTY OF BLEASE (Continued from Page One.) them back again if it is possible. In ither words, his platform is the whole-hearted support of President Wilson in the war. Now as to the short term, Senator Benet had reason to believe that he lould fill it most satisfactorily at the present time. He had been City Solicitor o fColumbia, a member of the Board of Regents of the Hospi-| tal for the Insane, Vice-chairman of j the State Council of National De-! fense, State Custodian of Enemy Property. Upon going to Washington, he went to the White House and was greeted cordially by President Wilson as an old friend. He knows j personally the Secretary of aWr, Mr Baker ,the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Daniels, the head of the Reserve Board, Mr. Harding, and the head of the War Industries Board, Mr. Baruch. In the Senate itself, Senator Benet was assigned to the commit tee on appropriations, tne most important committee in the Senate. He was made chairman of the committee on banking and assigned to | five other committees. In addition,! he hor been called upon to preside! over the Senate several times. However, the question of this! man or that one is a minor one. I Loyalty is the main issue. Speaking of a telegram he had received from J the Charleston American, protesting | against his' questioning the loyaltyj of the editorial staff, he stated that \ M-I- i I. i ;' he referred only to J. P. Grace, edi- " tor when the paper was denied the privilege of the mails for pro-Germanism, Paul Wierse, now in a federal prison, and John K. Aull, who -J tried to seil out the State to the Republicans'a couple of years ago. As for the rest, he will not positively call them disloyal until he has proof of it. But they are with a bad bunch. Any paper with editors e like those mentioned ought not to L be listened to by decent, Democratic | South Carolinians. Yet Bleasej | urges all people to read this "fine" I' paper. In casting your vote, think ofj some one boy over there, a son or' friend, and think what he is fightingj for, also how your vote may affect j him. "Let's make a Loyal Legion inj South Carolina." And all over the United States will 'go the message, "All is well with South Carolina." J. F. Rice for One Poor Man at Least James Francis Rice, candidate for the long term, was the last speaker. J Due to the hour, many people left' the room and speaking was rendered, difficult. The Pomaria and Filbert; speeches of Blease disqualify that; candidate, said Mr. Rice. This leaves, only Dial. The Bible says that it is harder for a rich man to enter hea-| ven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Our history! has shown that it is just as hard for a rich man to go to the U. S. Senate. Dial is a rich man and is J therefore debarred. If elected, he; could never get his mind off "busi-, ness." long enough to attend tOj public affairs. The inference was that Mr. Rice had plenty of leisure1 to devote to the people. The next meeting takes place today in McCormick. ANTREVILLE AND RAY SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TOARC I We want to acknowledge the re-i ceipt of $57.00 from the Antreville' Chapter, $20.00 from the Ray District and $37.00 from - Antreville. This is the second sum sent us recently by Antreville. It is fine. Keep the good work tip. 4 J. S. Morse, Chairman. ( Abbeville Chapter A. R. C. HE LOVES US STILL. ?Dr. James H. Austin was in town TH for a short while this week seeing his old friends.. He likes the people of Bennettsville and says the country down there is full of pretty girls, but he just has to come to adde- j ville now and then. Everybody is sai< glad to see him. erii ? - wa: ORR'S REUNION. me ? II The reunion of Orr's regiment' urg will be held on the 14th and 15th of j.0 thsi month at Honea Path. The peo- pog pie of Abbeville are interested in gaj Orr's Regiment and no doubt many ??m, will attend. Mrs. D. A. Rogers will attend and will have a place on the jan( program. ed *" higl COLD SPRING PICNIC. j (> ? wai The annual Cold Spring picnic ^ will be held on Thursday, Aug. 15th. Several speakers will be present. The public is cordially invited to can come and bring well filled baskets. ILLUSTRATED LECTURE. stu( sitii The illustrated lecture at the Pres- 13 * byterian Church Wednesday night Pos by the pastor, will be on "Palestine." resl lhis is one of the most interesting twc lectures yet given. " " 1 Stu NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE. A. be By virtue of an Order of the ed Court of Common Pleas in the case enr of Lee & Blake, Plaintiffs, against pra J. F. Riley, et al, defendants, I will mei sell to the highest bidder, at public coa auction, within the legal hours of mei sale, at Abbeville Court House, on enr Monday, the second day of Septem- the ber, 1918 ,the following described tar; property, to wit: All that tract or Dej parcel of land situate, lying, and A. ' being in County of Abbeville, State att< of South aCrolina, containing One mei Hundred and Sixty Acres, more or insl less, bounded by lands of David age Romans, Mrs. Dora Lomax, Mrs. Sa- stm vannah McCord, Joseph Lomax and ser others and being the land devised to emi J. P. Riley by W. C. Riley. ern Terms ot sale?uasn ana purcnas- ?ib er tp. pay for stamps and papers. dra T. P. THOMSON, par Aug. 12, 1918. v con Master for Abbeville County, S. C. dra <1 l' , ==, ? 4 j ?g l FU For the Room, L and Den. All The 1 Mahogany, Dull, American Walnut, English, Fumed, Jz All the latest des William and Mary, BRASS Can furnish your The largest stock on eroof in Upper i i E WAR DEPARTMENT'S EMPHASIS ON COLLEGE TRAININ 2arly in the war President Wils< j, 'It would seriously impair Ar la's prospects of success in th r if the supply of highly train* n were unnecessarily diminishe lave, therefore, no hesitation incr colleges and technical schoo maintain their courses as far i ible on the usuaul basis." M four, of the English commissio ade it clear tha the regretted thi greatest error on the part of En] d and France that they had allo\ students of their institutions f< her education to volunteer in sue je numbers at the opening of tl In view of the importance < se statements the committe o ication and Special Training < War Department has started lpaign for the enlistment in tl ited States' Army of the ma dents in our colleges and unive es. The object of this campaig ;o induce as many young men s sible to attend the colleges in the pective states. If eighteen 1 inty-one they are urged to enlis under eighteen, to enroll, in tl dents' Army Training Corps (I T. C.) Enlisted students will ah members of the army of the Uni States. Students so enlisted ar oiled will be provided, as far j cticable, with uniforms and equi] it, including hats, shoes and ove ts?all furnished bythe Goweri it. Students neither enlisted n< oiled will not be entitled to ent( training units or receive the mil y instruction offered by the Wj jartment. The members of the ! r. C. will have the opportunity 1 2nd a six weeks camp in the sun r for rigid and intensive militai ;ruction with privates' pay. Mil each way will be paid. The: dents will not be called into activ vice except in cases of sped; urgency. The policy of the Go1 ment will be to keep members < S. A. T. C. in college until the ft age is reached. The War Di tment may permit such men < tinue in eollege even afterthe ft age is reached whenever the ij RNITU j Parlor, Living R? Dimnor Rr IlkyilAl jr } L/lAlUlg A vv ?atest Woods anc Polished, Adam Brow Old Ivory and White En* icobean, Golden and But >igns, Louis XVI, Hepple^ Queen Anne, Sheraton, A BEDS IROI WOOD BEDS home from Cellar to Garr : of Furniture and House South Carolina. CALL AND SEE US NGES 4r HOME OUT n] < Qreen g-i" ? nr. i are taking medical, technical, scien~ jrj tific or other courses important to >h! the prosecution of the war. iej Competent officers and non-com)f j missioned officers will be assigned to n I the various institutions t ocarry on jf I the work of military instruction a! Every enlisted student must register le'with his local board after he has l lo ! rtan nil a/1 +1* a rl*?o ^ TT?*a? i 1C | icatucu tiic uiait age. upv/u ou~ r- ing in his questionnaaire that he is in ^n|the S. A. T. C., and, therefore, al19 ready in the military service of the iri United States, he will be placed auto-j to J matically by the local draft board in i it,! Class 5-D. The draft board will not: ie! call him into service as long as he re-J S.| mains a member of the S. A. T. C. j so'However ,when he does reach the' I : . t-i draft age the president ofthe college !' id and the commanding officer of the S. j is1 A. T. C. will report to the committee : p. I of education-and special training of r-j the War Department the form of ser-. n-vice for which the drafted student Is; 1 jr- best qualified. He may be called into J ;r|the service as a private just as he i li-j would be if he were not in the S. A. ; < ir T. C., but will be likely be sent to an 1 S. officrrs' training camp or allowed to :o' continue in the colleg euntil he has A. ' finished his education. If congress y should lower the draft age men of the e- new ages not already enlisted in col- 1 se1 lege training units, will be able to i < rejentr the mltary service only as pri-j i il, vates and through the local draft i ir-j board. It is, therefore, highly im-i >f. portant for as many young men as, ir possible to attend college and enlist B-i or enrol in the S. A. T. C. ;o College education at the present, ir, crisis has become not only apersonalj yi privilege, but a patriotic duty. If i'JiVffa ' RE j aom; Bed -\nm Hall I yvilij X 1IA14 1 Finishes n, Circassian and imel, Oak in Early ler Brown. white, Chippendale, .dam and Colonial. SI BEDS i Furnishings under H i M t>i& Gei$$r I FITTERS T/SO.CA. H / a:HB * t ' Ml ^EN BROS. MABBLB H ND GRANITE CO. , W Designers , IB Manufacturesr H Erectors |H ers in Everything for the J HH Cemetery. u Hflj largest and best equipped , HB ionumental mills in the , Carolinas. > wood, S* C. Raleigh, N. ? *" H| Catarrh Cannot Be Cured HM with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they W&M cannot reach the seat of the disease. IBP Catarrh is a local disease, greatly ln-H^fl fluenced by constitutional conditions, and HEE in order to cure it you must take an RH| internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts thru HH the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was BB prescribed by one of the best physicians MM in this country for years. It is com- S0I posed of some of the best tonics known, HH combined with some of the best bljod HtlUJ purifiers. The perfect combination of the ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medi- ElflB cine is what produces such wonderful results in catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. All Druggists, 75c. HB Hall's Family Pills for constipation. EHBI the war closes before a member of the^HH S. A. T. C. reaches the draft age no^HH one can accuse him of being a slacker^^Hj because he will have the status of United States soldier. Never in the^^^K history of our country has there beenHH| such a demand for college trainec^B^H minds, trained muscles, and foremosflaB of all, for men trained in instant, im^^HB plicit and cheerful obedience to ful constituted authority. For the solution of the many prob-^HBj [ems that will arise during the reHHH construction period following peac^^HS :he demand for college trained mei^^HJ will be even more urgent. W^MjjH therefore, call upon all members the State Council of National fense and upon all other organiz^HHH tions in the State to carry oat the luest of the War Department and 3ur colleges with young men who :'ender the most important service their country within the college wal^^^RS In this appeal it i snot the intere^RflflB ef oht colleges, but the Nation th^BHfl are at stake. W. S. CURRELL, mHjj State Director for the CampaiHaHl of Student Enlistme^B^^B J