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ESTABLISHED 1844 I The Press and Banner [ c ABBEVILLE, S. C. c . I < Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. The Press and Banner Co. j Published Every Tuesday and Friday r Telephone No. 10. j t Entered as second-class mail mat- r ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. * " ' r Terms of Subscription: t One year $1.50 f Six months .75 t Three months .50 c Payable invariably in advance. 1 c ?????????? r FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918. * f f WHAT WILL YOUR ANSWER BE? ' t There is a picture somewhere of v a little boy four years old, leaning f on the knee of his dad. He is old enough to understand things and he r has been hearing the tales of the, ^ over-seas veterans about the great; j war. Quite naturally he knows the! t heroes. They are big men in his; j v ?riL ? eye, because ne sees witn a ticoi > g vision. And as he leans on the knee, 5 he asks, "Dad, what did you do?" \ ( Well, dad cannot say that he hasj 1 been overseas. He might tell the j young man that he was too old to go. (J But that would not do. Young Ameri- t ca knows there was work to do at c i home, and dad should be able to ex-! 1 plain to him that while he was not called to fight in the front line' trenches, there was real work required of him at home, and that he did his duty, without danger it is! true, but that he did his duty at: home, even though it did not hurt, him to do so. * I But will dad be compelled to allow. the little boy to know that he was a, SLACKER? ! Dad may answer that question for himself. The Fourth Liberty Loan! is now on. x * FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN. __ 1 While other places, including Honea.Path, have already gone "over the top" in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive, Abbeville as Usual, is lagging behind. Yes, we usually get there at the finish, but before we do so the men who do the canvassing have been compelled to visit, re-visit, then go and beg a few people who are able, and should be willing, to give the subscriptions which should have been made without a canvass.' It is only when the canvassers have: been made to feel fully that the money they are asking is not far the i government, but for themselves, ardl that the subscriber is doing ther' a' personal favor, that some neople wi'l; subscribe. ! That is one of the reasons why ; Abbeville is not on the map. We had. a town once which was first in every-! thing. In those days if a Liberty ' Loan drive had been ordered, long' before the start was to be expected,! the patriotic people of the city would have gathered around the captain's > office and enlisted without any per-| ' ID suasion from any individual, class, g or foreign nation. But in these days j 9 everybody expects the other fellow j| to canrv the load, hold the wheel, il and mostly and in general subscribe |8 for the bonds which every other r^-!l son should subscribe for. We sympathize with the canvassers. If a man had the money we jj feel that he would give it himself be-, | fore he would ask the people here J for their part of a just demand upon I them. We have made the canvass ig ourselves at other times. Of course 9 there are those who are willing to' I give and others who say they are J l Willing, DUt mey never maivc tut mistake of subscribing or giving more than the canvassers know is' their share. Now this is no school-boy play. The raising of six hundred thousand dollars in Abbeville County is the! work mapped out for a grown man. But the money is here. The farmers of Abbeville County can take it all and not feel it, if they are willing, as the people, or some of them, in the city and towns of the county have been in the past, to continue to carry their debts, and invest the i' >rofits of this year's business in the ives and welfare of the men who ire fighting the country's battles >ver-sea3. We shall see who does his luty. i HOT AFTER GINNERS. Col. Dote Smith, otherwise known j is Mr. R. W. Smith, correspondent'or The Press and Banner, promises ^ o make it hot for the ginners unless j here is some change made in the nanner in which they are handling, he ginning business. The colonel tells us that the gin- j lers are charging seventy cents perj mndred for ginning cotton, making' hree dollars and fifty cents for a| ive hundred pound bale. Now, if he bale happens to run a few pounds >ver five hundred, the colonel tells is, the ginners charge for the exess at seventy cents per., but if it Tins under five hundred, it matters lot how much, the ginners still say ive hundred, and take the three ifty out of the seed. In other yords, the ginners have no figure in heir arithmetic under five hundred vhen it comes to charging the poor armer, as Col. Smith tells it. The colonel is not one of these nen who whine on the streets about iow the farmers are treated. He beieves in taking matters to headquarers and having the proper remedy. Accordingly, he has reported his jievance to Cotton Ed Smith, the Senior Senator from this state and Congressman Dominick, as well as rhe Press and Banner, and he pro>oses to have matters remedied. He loes not believe the ginners have! he right to charge for ginning cot-1 | ]il|| ' P&-? rV.Twrf.TV,* 1010 TT->r* C-l, Helping There are a lot ( lows who have be< and helping on th ii^ver did much oi work before; th good, too. Military and Va for young men ar( they waste no clo i stylish, all wool; tl The RO \ ton which has not been ginned, and j he proposes to see the thing through, j Mr. Allen, of the local oil mill, j cannot understand where the griev- [ ance of Col. Smith comes in as he never has a bale weighing less than about seven hundred, and he is sure that the colonel would not want him; to gin about two hundred pounds for nothing. But Mr. Allen overlooks the fact that as a correspondent for The Press and Banner it is the duty of Mr. Smith to look outj for small baled farmers, which he is doing, and will keep on doing. British Build Many Vessels FIRST 9 MONTHS OF 1918 SHOw' TREMENDOUS INCREASE OVER SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR - -VLondon, Oct. 2.?The British admiralty announces that the tonnage of merchant vessels completed in the United Kingdom shipyards during September amounted to 144,772, which is 20,000 tons in excess of the figures for August and has only twice been surpassed in any month of this year. The total tonnage in new construction for the first nine months of 1918 was 1,174,641, as compared with 743,853 in the corresponding period of last year. The total for 12 months ending September, 1918, was 1,594,262, as compared with 957,185 for the previous year. In the second quarter of 1917 thej world's merchant shipping suffered a loss of 2,236,934 tons, but in the: last three months for which figures, are available, namely, June, July andj jivSviv: ... % ... ?>\ . . , jy, finer & Marx With the )f patriotic fel- It' m pitching in cj0|]le farm who : that kind of neve ey're making ii ter p We're he by offerii rsity styles j the thing; tli; they're tiey last. SENBE R( The home of H August, the total was 932,566 tons? 5 a reduction of 58 per cent. VVVUVVVWVVUV^ 1 > \ DUE WEST. S. V V vvuvuvuvuuv If Ic (The A. R. Presbyterian.) Mr. Geo. Dusenberry of Abbeville, t has a position with the Presbyterian t Company. On account of the condition of her 1 mother, Miss Estelle McDill has giv- rj en up her school and will be at home 1 this year. Mr. Frank Young who has a position with Copeland Brothers of Co- j lumbia, is spending a few days at \ home. c Mrs. James Boyce and Mrs. A. S. h Kennedy accompanied Mrs. Burwell g home to Dallas. They will visit Capt. c and Mrs. Jno. P. Kennedy at Fort Worth, and will make some stay with Mrs. Burwell. Mr. Samuel Pressly, who lives 3 miles south of Due West, has been j very ill for some days. He has been unconscious for the last four or five _ V days. Mr. Pressly is in his eightieth j year. He is a half brother of Dr. TT< V !>??* T T. Prooolv r ? x.? ouu iiui? v- *- * * vum*j. ^ The Federal officer who inspected the Erskine Dormitories pronounced j them in the best sanitary condition of any he had visited. n t QUESTION ON THE CURB; a 11 Foster Cromer: What is better1I than a leaf on a colonel's shoulder? f Major Long: A chicken on a private's knee. Crops--a s something like that les. A great many men v r thought much about s i clothes are taking this rr iretty seriously; they're b :lping them save when th ig Hart S^haffner & Mar> For older men we have good, conservative styles; models for every figure; strong values. 1MERCAN art Schaffner & Marx 1 >PANISH INFLUENZA J FAR FROM CONQUERED Nearly Three Thousand Cases Reported During Day in Army Camps. pri N Washington, Sept. 24.?Nearly 3,-; 100 new cases of Spanish influenza; n army camps had beerr reported to! he officers of the surgeon general of j he army up to noon today, increas- lar -.g the total number of cases to near; Re y 23,000. Deaths reported were 112 th< lue chiefly to pneumonia which fol-( sid owed influenza. The total of pneu- j vil onia cases was 390 for all camps, j Br. New cases of influenza were re-' cir \ mrtpH t.nrlnv from 21 eamns in nil.! ?-P vhile Camp Beauregard, La., its first | Lo :ase. Camp Devens, Mass., had the tin lighest number of new cases, 616; hv md Camp Lee, Va., the second high- pa ist, 528. ^ co, . go A BOND FOR EVERY HOME. ga sts Don't stand in your own light, buy liberty Bonds. The high prices are dr< lot going to last always and we don't fei vant another "Buy a Bale of Cotton wi Spisode." The Woman's Committee w? vill gladly furnish you with pledge pti orHa m( * gh -IBERTY BOND SERVICE FLAG, so fo: Get your Liberty Bond Service be lag out on your front porch so paslersby will know that you are trying cir o do your part. A good slogan will les >e a Bond for every member of the al amily. p!< ?Buy Liberty Bonds, 4th Series? Al * i i*i *v>*"'*'*'' ' ri iViVi' i V * *** .nd With < in ing only what ti v^0 when they do bu: quality because av~ lasts longest an( tat- labor and materi uy- run. ey buy, : clothes Shirts, hat! ties, hosiery?i high standards all of them. TILE COM Clothes. Wouldn't Take $ 1,C00 For The Good It Is Doing ominent Masonic Officer Tells How lew Herbal Medicine Astonished Him. Gives Signed Statement. "I wouldn't take a thousand dols for the good it is doing me. ally it astonished me." These are ; words of W. D. Branson, who reles on R. F. D. No. 3, Kernersle, Guilford County, N. C. Mr. anson is prominent in iraterntti cles, holding the important office Junior Deacon in his Masonic dge. He has suffered for some le from stomach gas, kidney and er trouble, headaches and constition. He took one bottle of Dre, the new herbal medicine and the od results he obtained may be thered from the above signed ttement. j Mr. Branson is only one in huneds of men and women who suf:ed, who tried almost everything thout relief, and who, just as they :re about to give up hope were rsuaded to try Dreco. It is these ;n and women who are always id to make public their experience that other people in the same un- B rtunate plight may read and be I nefitted. H Dreco is purely an herbal medi- H le. It is pleasant to take, harm- B is and contains no injurious miner- H salts. Its action is quick and H ;asant in most cases. H Dreco is recommended and sold in H )beville^by P. B. Speed.?Adv. H I *: ; MH MB Clothes I hey need and . jjjfjfl / they get good ?B they know it . i consumes less fggB al in the long' BH 3, underwear, raHn up to our usual MMW ?money savers SHfl fPAMY IK n i