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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banne ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. . The Press and Banner C? Published Every Tuesday and Frid Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail mi ter at post office in Abbeville, S. Terms of Subscription: One year $1. Six months Three months Payable invariably in advance. s po One of the things in the retfe Liberty Loan drive was the subscri v- tiog which was not large enough. i-' . ? The High School debaters may n< . find out which is the more dang< k ous, a flying switch or a loaded sh< . gun. Peace may make cotton go v but it is not the piece of his mi: ^ which President Wilson gave G( many yesterday. R' 3?*' * The War and the flu pestilen have served the purpose of puttii two fat furniture dealers to woi We have seen them both in a hun m : ' Speaking in rough language, Pr< ident Wilson has just about told t Kaiser that he is such a liar nobo can believe him, and that everybo knows iti f Cotton Ed Smith has our perm rion to withdraw his statement th lie was against fixing the price cotton. That statement sent o from Washington sometime a might have served a good purpoi though unauthorized, if let aloi We are still for one dollar and eig ty-nine cents a pound. ___ We do not see why Abbevi ? . should not have a hospital as w as Chester. Chester people no dou would be glad to come to Abbevi for treatment in a modern hospi if we had one. There are some p< pie who believe that our doctors s as good as Chester doctors. Certf it is that with a hospital here p< ' . pie could be treated with more si cess, and with less trouble for t doctors. Two good nurses and t good doctors in a hospital mig have cared for most of our flu i tients. Let us all think about it. In Greenwood six cotton mi bought Liberty Bonds to the amou of two hundred and ninety-ni thousand dollars in the recent drr They bought heavily in every otli drive. The Calhoun Mills boug fifty thousand dollars this time, well as heavily in every other drii The Abbeville Cotton Mills boug fifteen thousand dollars worth in t hird drive and twenty-five thousa dollars worth in the fourth. bought none in the first and seco drives. What is the matter with t v, Abbeville Cotton Mills, anyway? ?f?. . SELLING BONDS. Abbeville should get ready n< for the next Liberty Loan drh * whether we have another one or n We should know in advance, in t jp; first place, on what basis the app< tionment is made, and if it is ma on an incorrect basis, as many 1 lieve, we should let the people authority know the facts. They correct errors if only they are i formed, and it is our business to i form them. In the next place, we are of t opinion that some people are t highly taxed by these loans, wh w K-'Ife ' . . -V. ; FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918. I; ?. Germany is now devoted to ji tice. How she does love the right We said at the beginning th Abbeville would go over. We we over. And nobody is hurt. The only way to keep a talki man down is to shut off his gas su > nlv. q others should do more, and woul _ do more, if the matter were pr< Jf sented to them in the right way. The last loan was somewhat of drag on the market here until th last few days, when most excellei work was done. The Press and Bai ? ner, feeling that we were about 1 0 make a failure, did not hesitate 1 call the matter to the attention < ay the public, and to tell the businei men what they should do if we wei ? to go over the top. Without clain at- ing any special credit for the resul ^ we may, at least, say that the evei proved the correctness of all v ~ stated. The one great trouble with u gQ however, in all these matters, that we are too slow in beginnini ^ We should be ready for one of thes 50 driver when the first gun is firei I The committees should be ready 1 wait on the business men first. Ar the business men should be ready 1 subscribe, not a trifling sum whic ? they know is insufficient to get u JS" the amount, but the full amoui which they should be expected 1 take. Had this been done in the ri iat cent drive, and had the work in tli ;nt city of Abbeville been complete during the first week i>f the drivi the committees might have gone ir ng to the surrounding country an ip- might have made a more extensivi % as well as a more successful, cai vass. These matters must be brougl nt home to the people. ip. Some people thought we wei wrong in suggesting that certai men should take certain amount )W We do not think so. The people ma ,r_ j not know it, but in those districl which are most successful in raisin thoir nnrttfls in these drives, the COW w"v" n**" ? ??? ?/ mittees first meet, go over the situi tion .acquaint themselves with th ! ability of every man to pay, figui j the amount which every man shoul< IT-1 . , . in their judgment, take in order t raise a given sum, and then go t him and ask for it. The people gei ce | erally do not regard this as dictatinj n?| because most of the people ai ** ready to do their part and are anx y- ous to know from people who are i position to tell them, just what the; is- part is. Had we adopted this rul he | in the recent canvass, in the first ii dy j stance, a great many people woul dy not have been called on to take s much, and others might have bee persuaded to take more. If a con is- ( mittee is made up of business me at who have no personal interest in of canvass of this kind the ordinal utj Tian will not object to being tol go that a certain amount is to be raise* 3e,' and after going over the matter an le. J trying honestly to reach a conclui :h-1 ion, the committer feels that h I should take so much. Of court j there are exceptions to all rules, bv lie they prove the general rule.. Whs ell; the committee failed to do, the Pre; ibt' and Banner atempted to do on ii lie! own responsibility largely becaus talI others did not think the plan wise. ?o? j The matter is worth considerinj ire' and before another drive is to t iin; launched, those in charge might we ;o-; consider the matter. The duty res ic-' ing on all of us may be more equi he ably distributed amongst us if th I . . , , wo plan is adopted in tne Deginninj >ht' and if the work proceeds alon >a-: these lines. Experience, as we hav i said, demonstrates that the plan ! just and acceptable. lis FROM DR. SWOPE int ne Writing the Editor, Dr. Swope hi the following to say: We arrived safely, are rapidly si curing order out of the chaos of mo1 : ing, and are well. The Influen2 HS' ^ j epidemic here is horrible. One ei i tire family wiped out near us her 1 j Leslie has gone to Minneapoli , Minn., for training in aviation. Pai j. is at work in a bank and has begu n{j his voice training under the moi , j wonderful teacher in the Stat ; Mrs. Swope still bosses and Geo.,Jr ' and I fill in the best we can. M j meeting in Baltimore was called o I on account of the "Flu". A lettc j from a friend there states: "Thei DWjwere 242 deaths here in 24 hour The doctors are succumbing. Th ot. cry of distress is everywhere. Sun he ly this is a great visitation of tli >r- Almighty. The dead, in some ii de stances lie for days unburied an )e- without undertaker. In one cerm in tery yesterday there were 45 bu: rill lais, in anotner au, ana in tne uati in- olic 17 by ten o'clock." in- We are delighted with our ne home and a general invitation 1 he visit us is accorded our Abbevil oo friends. Cordially, ile Geo. W. Swope. - V... i d' THE FLU SITUATION. B | The reports filed with the city a wealth department for the past twoj i le days show that the doctors are mak-h it ing headway against the prevailing : i-' -nalady, and that we have ground i ;o to hope that, in the city at least, we ;o shall soon be free of the dangers 1 >f which have been lurking at our 3s doors for several days.* re On Tuesday morning the doctors a- reported twenty-three new cases, t, with five cases of pneumonia, and it four deaths, three white, and one re colored. These were the deaths j which we noticed in our Tuesday's s, issue. | is On Wednesday morning eighteen' g. new cases were reported with two se cases of pneumonia and no deaths. d.: On Thursday morning sixteen new < to cases ?were reported with fottr cases id of pneumonia and no deaths. to In all eight hundred and tnirty:h two cases have been reported to the ; ip city. it Dr. B. E. Garrison, the Washing- i ;o ton physician who came here to e- assist the local physicians, and who le has been sick at the hotel for severid al days, is improving and will soon j e, be out. Dr. Garrison rendered great,: l- assistance during the worst period j, d of the disease, especially among , e, the sick in the Cotton Mill village. |} l- Weber Wilson continues to im-'( it prove. 11 j The physicians report that while; | . - tl. . J * 1L. iL - I e ine disease is on me wane in tne n city, in the country districts it is s. just beginning to make its appear-j y ance with the result that many peo;s pie are already sick, some seriously, g with it. The doctors are being worked far beyond the strength of the i- average man, and only the endurie ance born of all kinds of hardships e enables them to keep going. Dr.! i, L. T. Hill and Dr. G. A. Neuffer, the' ;o older physicians, deserve great cred;o it for the faithfulness with which i l- they have stuck to the fight, going without necessary sleep, and miss-! e ing meals and other comforts in or-1 i- der to take care of the patients who n were calling them, ir - | le BANKS THROUGH WHICH ! l" THE LOAN WAS SUBSCRIBED d I 1 !. 10 n r* 1. k 1. 1 Ml - (% A/* HAA farmers uanK, ADDevme ?o,/uu , n National Bank, Abbeville? 187,250 , , Peoples Bank, Abbeville 110,000! ^ n Bank Due West 81,100 , a Branch Bank, Mt. Carmel. 5,900 ( ^ ' (Calhoun Falls) !, ^ Bank Honea Path 5,300 Bank Lowndesville 13,700 (" d Bank Donalds 27,600! 5" Bank Iva 2,250 ie Bank of Greenwood 500 ,C Nat. Loan & Exchange Bank, Greenwood 250 ^ Bank of Ware Shoals 200, *S Bank Hodges 1,500 ^ Bank Anderson 2,250 '6 Mill, Calhoun Falls 50,000 Mill, Abbeville 25,000 Other Banks ( Anderson 4,000 >e I Total subscriptions for Abbeville County $612,500, Total apportionment $600,000 13 Over-subscribed . $ 12,500, T I The total number of subscribers ' in the county as far as reported is, . 1805, divided as follows: National Bank of Abbeville, 603; Farmers Bank of Abbeville, 247; Peoples' Savings Bank, 320; Bank of Due ls West, 489; Branch Bank of Mt. Car-! mel, at Calhoun Falls, 37; Bank of! e_ Honea Path, 63; Lowndesville Bank-! f_ ing Co., 40. The other banks have ;a not reported to Chairman Barnwell! 1. as yet the number of subscribers in e their banks, but when the reports ? re all in the number will run to s, 2,000 or more, which means that n one person in etfery fifteen subscrib3{. ed, counting men, women, and chile. dren* HOW BOOKS REACH I OUR SOLDIERS i ff I *r i The American Library Association i 0 J has the big job of keeping our solS' diers in reading matter. The asso-| 16 ciation maintains libraries in Y. M. ~~ C. A. and K. of C. Huts, Jewish ie Welfare Houses, War Camp Communif-v Hoiispb anH Y. W. C. A. IC* Houses. Besides it has libraries on| e" all transports, in all hospitals, and| r" in the barracks and mess houses on l" both sides of the Atlantic. w MRS. SMOAK HERE. ;o Mrs. Smoak of St. Matthews, has le been here several days with her daughter, Miss Willy Smoak, at the home of Miss Sarah Haskell. YARDS LOSE CONTRACT. Washington, Oct. 22.?Because of their inefficiency from 15 to 20 shipyards now building wooden ships for the Emergency Fleet Corpora- ' tion will not receive any more contracts. In making this announcement tonight, Chairman Hurley of the shipping board said there would be no curtailment of the shipbuilding program, the step being taken to save material, labor and money. ! As fast as the yards complete the 3hips under construction the workmen will be sent to other plants which are constantly in need of additional labor. Mr. Hurley would not make public the names of the yards, nor did he indicate when the Closing ox uieiii wuuw uegui. The yards held to be inefficient have failed to deliver contract ships within the time or at the price specified in the contracts, Mr. Hurley said. BIG BUILDING PROGRAM CONTEMPLATED BY NAVY I 1 Washington, Oct. 22.?Congress has been asked by the navy department to authorize a second three year naval building program to provide ten additional superdread-| naughts, six battle cruisers and 1401 smaller vessels at a cost of $600,-; D00,000. This was disclosed tonight! by Secretary Daniels after his appearance before the house naval committee to explain the appropria-j iion. This appropriation is asked for; ;he next fiscal year and is in addi-i Lion to the 156 naval vessels com-J prising the first three year building program authorized in 1916 and the ?reat number of new destroyers and ather special types contracted for' since the United States entered the; war. Work on the first three year program was delayed by the war,! but congress has required that a start must be made on all the vessels before next July 1. Including the $600,000,000 for the' three year program, Secretary Daniels said, the total estimates of the department for ship construction, including armor and armament, a-' mount this year to $972,090,000.' 0?ly $200,000,000 of the $600,000,- [ 900 will be made available next year for construction work on the three jrear program, but in addition $372,-' 590,000 is asked for completing ves-, 3els already authorized. j "1 T and the ^ able Perf' warmth? Sturdily 1 odorless. 1 4 1 IT* t t^\iaaain : See the I Wathinfton, 1 Norfolk. Va. PE OIL MARIA CHILES KILLED. Maria Watt Chilei, an industrious negro woman, residing in the Fort Pickens section of the city, was iii- . 3tantly killed Wednesday evening about dark by being run over by the train of box cars on Southern Rail- j way. The accident happened in the! yards at Abbeville after the arrival of the last train. As reported to us the train had been backed, and the engine went into the siding for the turn-table. As usual a flying switch was made in order to get the engine in front of the cars for the return trip. This is done by having the engine on the siding give the cars a start down the main line, on which they run to a designated spot, when they are stopped. The deceased must have been onj or near the tracks as she was caught' in some way, dragged for a short distance, finally falling under the1 passing wheels and being beheaded. No inquest was held, as there] were witnesses on the .spot immedi-j ately, so that the cause of death was not in doubt. ?Buy W. S. S.? WAN' To buy Liberty Bond Thrift Stamps on the piano, self player piai able credit on balanc ment. Fourteen diffe and five makes of pla Reference the Bank est and Strongest I 1 Cou inHN A 1 I/V/11A 1 X Jka j The Greenwoo FOR BABY'S BATH -vanning of his tiny garments t ection Heater gives a generous -drives away alJ chill and damp] built?easy to clean and fill?sn Inexpensive to buy and use. Security Oil gives best results, 'erfection at your dealer's. JDARD OIL COMP^ (New Jersey) D. C. Baltimore, Md Cherlotu CharloK a. CharlesK :rfectio HEATERS A?SS4 ATTENDING THE FUNERAL Judge Frank B. Gary went down to Columbia Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Frank G. Tompkins, who died suddenly at her home on Monday night. TO GAVE HER VINOL And She Soon Got Back Her Strength New Castle, Ind<?"The measles left me run down, no appetite, could not rest at night, and I took a severe mViirVi cfl arl nn mw Inn ore on T vviu ww IMVI* gwMVU VJI iu/ luugg) aw 4. was unable to keep about my housework. My doctor advised me to take Vinol, and six bottles restored my health so I do all my housework, including washing. Vinol is the best medicine I ever used."?Alice Record; 437 So. xxth St., New Castle, Ind. We guarantee this wonderful cod liver and iron tonic, Vinol, for all weak, run-down, nervous conditions. P. B. SPEED, Druggist. and Druggists Everywhere. - . TED!! s, War Savings, or purchase price of a no or organ. Reasonle of price of instrurent makes of pianos tyers to select from. / . of Greenwood, OldBank in Greenwood nty. TOLLAND ) d Piano Man. iV/if \|fr mlm ? mmv in ateix. -'Vgy.j < tl * * ?? : : : : ' .. ^ | ^ | iM^Nl;! lie port- | If&ifeli f|| glowing SRWiYUaUJ ness. Il STANDARD 'J ? X , . L ciLCCir,v.y ;i, ? lokeless. t ??"? V?JJ P !i 1 i 5 J Pi f : M iNY J i HMK ? 5 3 11 1?? 1 r ?' ;Acv,. ij hi jlnUi nde Mark AfStftgn-g*'" ; -~;g C jbirmtSmfii i n *; 11, fi'nhw