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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 matter at ..ost office in Abbeville, S. C. I Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 \ Six months .75 Three months .501 n 1 ? ;.vi_ ]., J v x*ayaDie mvanaoiy m auvmiue. I . v , ,ff. ... , Ll nicags t BUY? ! WAR SAVINGS STAMPS MIICTAHTIV || ywnw i mi i h || ;* TUESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1918. THE PEACE DRIVE SMASHED. i' J Col. George Harvey, speaking of !&* ' * i the German peace proposals sub-| . - mitted by Austria, ana 01 tne auty > 1 of the United States and her allies, has the following to say in his War Weekly: i "America answers Austria. That . imperial harlot, speaking for her Hunnish master, cries for peace. America, speaking for the allied powers of democracy and civilization, replies that there is no peace for the world's troubles, but the sword. "There is," says the President, in . words never surpassed by him for readiness, for consistency, for moral courage, for spiritual resolution, "there is only one reply . . . The v United States .... can and will ; V ' entertain no proposal for a confer\ ence upon a matter concerning which i; :U3 made its position and purpose {^ t-.Tc.In.." For his prompt utterance cf those words, all praise and honor 13 Woodrow Wilson! ' "In the making of this peace drive 5' ! tho expected has happened. There has always been a peace drive when' the war was going against the Huns. Just now it iz going against them more than ever before. Therefore, a greater peace drive than ever be" fore is undertaken. The parallel is striking in detail as well as in general. The Huns are losing all along' the line from "Silver Streak" to the; Alps, from the Alps again to the Bos-! ' porus, from the Caucasus to the ^ shores of the Pacific, and on to thej C03St of the Artie Ocean. They are losing on land, under the sea, rnd in I ? the air. The revolt of Spain and! the exposure of Bolshevik infamy v mark their final disasters in diplomacy. Therefore, they begin a peace drive at all possible points. Frst, Burian; second, the Kaiser ;j third, Payer; fourth, Hertling; and fifth, the Austro-Hungarian government. All five have spoken in suc-( cession within a week; each present-; ing some different phase of pacifist plausibility. All five are susceptible, of a single answer: " I "There is no peace, sai'.h the Loru,j for the wicked!" Let us consider the mutter c lm'y. By virtue of a coincidence so striking and so felicitous as to suggest Divine \ j.?: _i__ uiapeiiscitiuu, cue nuairuiii pgturc pica and the complete conviction of the Hun appeared at precisely the same moment of time. The former is a request for all belligerents?thereA fore for America and Germany?to get together and discuss terms of peace; implying necessarily that they 1 shall meet as equals, giving each other full faith and confidence, since meeting on any other ground would be a futile and mischievous mockery. But the latter, appearing simultaneously, is an absolute convincing dem-, onstration of the impossibility of any such meeting on any such ground ; the impossibility, that is to say, of Am-! erica's giving any faith or trust to Germany, or entering into any nego-: tiations with her. Never were banej I I | ard antidote more perfectly corre-, 'lated. "Let us talk peace!" cries perjured Austria. "Peace cannot be discusused!" re-| i p]y the official archives of the German i j government. For there is documentary evidence) complete and irrefragable of German j I mendacity,- treachery and all-embrac-; ing turpitude that makes that nation | unique in the annals of crime, and! that forbids cny sc!f-respecting and1 truth-respecting power to enter into' relations with it, save such as are| conducted with fire and sword. To respond pacifically to the increditibly | impertinent and inept appeal would; be treason to man and God. There is j but one possible, one conceivable an-j swer: "Force; Force to the utmost; Force without stint or limit !"" It was supremely fitting that Amer- i ica, and that America through the j lips of Woodrow Wilson, should give; this answer. It is now less than two years ago that the greatest Hun peace drive before the present was undertaken. It was undertaken because of America's prospective entrance into the war, as the present is because of her actual and effective participa-; tion in it. It was answered by the | President ,then speaking as the head, of a nominally neutral State; andj his answer was, with a patience and: a tolerance that amazed the world, j that there must be "peace without! victory." There is no such answer now. x lie vpjpvi CUIIIC^ la uciug anpiuvcu of demonstrating to the world the ^ advance which America in less thanj two years has made in penetration; and clarity of vision, in recognition j of the incapacity of the German gov-, ernment and the German-people for| covenanted peace, and in inexorable resolution to prosecute the war until peace is attained with victory,; peace with victory upon the terms which the President, with the ear- j nest approval of this nation and all its loyal Allies, has declared to be1 the only possible terms of peace. "We shall not see the President,': we shall not see the Nation, recede': from that noble stand, once nobly j: taken and now so nobly reaffirmed. i America is not to be moved irom ; that stand by any peace drive di-. rccte'.l by the prostituted power . which made itself the strumpet of. i | the Hun, even to the extent of letting the assassination of its heir to-( the throne be used as the Hun's pre-] text for a pre-determined war. The! answer to these hypocritical bleat-, ings from .Vienna rises swiflty and 1 fervid in every American heart. It! quivers with z??al for utterance oni every American lip. It has been ex-J pressed by the President with all ofj Ms official authority, his intellectual; power, his moral and spiritual exaltation. As our American soldiers so' creatlv aided in defeating the Ger ? ?? ?- ? I, man war-drive and turning it into a; great Allied advance, so our Ameri-j can President has given the word for j defeating this German peace-drive, and for turning its back upon its j ^ onfused and dismayed authors in an; irresistible campaign of force with-!' cvt rtint or limit. Tho peace-drive is smashed." DOTE ON GOOD MUSIC WR'TES ABOUT THE CONCERT GIVEN BY KERR & EDISON : ^ deer editoral:?i seed "the letar viiitch ole furnitur Kar writ ter his 1 Vazzin Parcy bout the konssrt 1 ' hitch he sed he wood give, lizzie 1 had red so mutch about frend Kar ' 'I.at she sed as i wood slay at hoamj1 an look arter the chillun and chick-j] >:is she wood go herself an hecr thCj konsut, speshully as she had never heerd Ited pardner Kar hpeek ter a j1 ordinance. So i stays at hoam jest;' lack i likes to, an awaigh she goes, j well she cunis hoam the wust disap-j rinted pussun whitch i has seed in; nienny a day. she sais t;;3t the fan.: ( of Kar an Eddison is nuthin moar 1 than Mr. eddersun an his hired man, < as the whoal thing wus eddisun and if Kar was evar in 'it she did not| see whar it cum in. she sed that mr. | eaisun s snurner naa Doatn trend Kar and unkle Jim hitched out in a side stabal an he did all the eatin of the corn in ther barn by hisself, cep-! tin ther stennography whitch seam-j ed to be a genrul favrite with ther! kongregashun. v j, She sed she wood pernounct a few abjecshuns ter ther performants as she seed it with no unkind fealings neether ter frend Kar nur Mr. Edi -- ? - - I r.1 n. she sed fust an foarmust that si". 3 jected ter ther nouncemint that the poar wimmin whitch had the: small chilluns at the Konsurt shood^ cnrrie them out if they cride. Nowi she sed they was blige ter cry when they seed the kind of a lookin man whitch mr. edison has fur his shuf* fler, and it wus pintedly rite that the babies be tuck out when crying, hut whar wus Mr. Kar and unkle Jim n.r.d Roy powar and Saml mcKune' bout whitch we seed so mutch that! they shood not take the crine babies' out an look arter them while the visitin ladies witnessed the konsurt. She sed also that she thinks it wus a bad ideer to put the lites out' fur so long as sumboddie might aj eot ther pockets picked while ther I lites wus out in whitch ease sum-] boddie else mite a sed that the man whitch picked the pockets wus in the! kompartner of Kar & edison, an the; furm mite a been blamed fur it, but! i sed no that the furm of Kar &| edison is daylite pickpockets andj what thev kennot erit out of vou in' the day time is not wuth pickin at | nite, and jist then* lizzie remember-1 I :d the bed whitch she bort frum the! Emporum and sed that she seed i1 was rite. by that time she wus doun to tell-! ing me bout the good-lookin stenno-' graphy whitch did the singin. lizzie! sed as how she cood out sing a! mawking burd and what a beautiful! skirt she wore when she was singin, and all bout her butiful pussonality. I seed then that i hed mdid a grate mistake in gittjn cort at hoam.' the moar she tole me bout how good-! lookin the lady wus in fack, the( : ,?u.. iiiuar i DCc wuy iuia, cuisuu uw nvoi allow Mr. Edison to travel roun look-| in after the konsert bizness, and I soon saw that insted of the shuffler havin Unkal Jim and fren Kar hitched in the side stabai, they wus under the protecktin kare of Missus Stocks and Misses Kar, whitch made J them so quiet. By the way lizzie deskribe the lady, as pius a man as' I am, i wood never go hoam ter' dinner and wood be lait ter supper, sevrul nites in the weak if she wus I my stennography. Well, I gess it are a good thing that I do not know how to doo nuthin but maik cotton and corn and talk pollerticks. I v lizzie axed me Toosday nite whut Lher silunt pardner wus in a furm,| but arter she seed fren Kar and Un-| :y! Jim out at this konsurt with ther; good wives she said as how she seed' fur herself what a silent pardner wus, though it has alwais seamed ter me when i seed bruther Kar doun' streat by hisself that he wus verry unsilunt, but lizzie suis as how she shure| uld enjoy the musick at the konsurt. she sed that the follow whitch looked so ugly as ter make the babies cry cood also make a fiddle cry and; ? * j-1- - / 1 she was also taiken witn tne nnesinging of Miss tiffuney? Now she sais as how the whoal music whitch they sings is Kought by mr. edisun an boxed up in his| fafferfoan and it can be bought andj kept fur manny yeers jist as good as when fust plucked. She is furj buyin a box contaneing bout a bush*i or a bushel and a half, or two - . 1 uiihels of the best whitch he has boxed, and that is where i git off!, igin. But the wust of this buyin bizness is that lizzie lays the whoal, thing on me. she sais as how she j lias done heerd it herself, but she is <o disappinted that i had ter stay at hoam and mine the chillun and chickens and did, not git ter heer it that she will not be kontent till I lias bort a boxfull of it so i will be paven with her. she sais she is willin fur me to wear my ole last winLnrs soot of close but what I shall !uive a Eddersun. Now that is verry i-:ind of Lizzie but i am thinkin bout it. i think if dr. mcmui-iio now gives konsurt with frend Vickter and his siennography that i will go myself and leave lizzie at hoam specially if he serves ice cream ter all whitch cums and furnishes smoaks during the recess. o 1 yourn fur good musick, Dote. ?Buy Liberty Bonds, 4th Series? i D. A. R. MEETING. A call meeting of the D. A. R.'s will be held today, Tuesday, at five o'clock, in the chapter rooms. Mrs. R. S. Link. ?Buy Liberty Bonds, 4th Series? ' | < - After all, it's not the school tr which molds the child. Children betray that fact during their entii ! print. A home' with any claim to cul music is enjoyed and understood is fostered will become a man or which makes for lasting happine* THE NEW "The Phonograph You want tc give ; ,,8*300 That is just ons reas This wonderful instrument b home; Re-Created by the world' No matter where you live yoi musical advantages that you woi them to New York for the opera s The New Edison does not mei human ear can distinguish artist J Edison tone tests have proved thi times. Call at our store for a denorni they'll enjoy it too. STOVES-GRANGES m | Abbeville, Soi j buy- l Lad I 1*1 A 19 ?GF-_ !ww m\ ^F&F1 SAVINGS JfCri STAMPS w: I CONSTANTLY .We have the Goods in stockright in price?We can undersell expense account is so much less | rect from the manufacturers. GALLERY 01 | FA'fYr'v Denartment of our sto> Winter Goods?We are confidei 1 show our goods,, we will be favor* I trade. PiM&ery Department is all afelaHats. Ready-to-Wear Department i count of increasing demand the SWEATERS, S1 Now is the time to buy your J our stock at present prices. GINGHAMS, C Fave you seen our 32 in. plan snroest wash sroods on the market | prettiest wash dress in your neigl Haddon - Wils Abbeville, So - - laHjg, aining but the home atmosphere brought up in a cultured home -e lives.' It leaves a lasting imture is a home in which good A child whose interest in music woman who possesses a resource, 3S. 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