The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, October 04, 1918, Page FOUR, Image 4
ESTABLISHED 1844 I
The Press and Banner [
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ABBEVILLE, S. C. c
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Wm. P. GREENE, Editor.
The Press and Banner Co. j
Published Every Tuesday and Friday r
Telephone No. 10. j
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Entered as second-class mail mat- r
ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. *
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Terms of Subscription:
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One year $1.50 f
Six months .75 t
Three months .50 c
Payable invariably in advance. 1
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918. *
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WHAT WILL YOUR ANSWER BE? '
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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
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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
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i home, and dad should be able to ex-!
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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?
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Dad may answer that question for
himself. The Fourth Liberty Loan!
is now on. x
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FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN.
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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-|
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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
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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
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>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.
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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
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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
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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:
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finer & Marx
With the
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m pitching in cj0|]le
farm who
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We're he
by offerii
rsity styles
j the thing;
tli; they're
tiey last.
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The home of H
August, the total was 932,566 tons? 5
a reduction of 58 per cent.
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(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 \
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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 _
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days. Mr. Pressly is in his eightieth j
year. He is a half brother of Dr.
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The Federal officer who inspected
the Erskine Dormitories pronounced j
them in the best sanitary condition
of any he had visited.
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QUESTION ON THE CURB; a
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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-IBERTY BOND SERVICE FLAG, so
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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
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.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.
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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
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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
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