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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 post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919. Ex-President Taft now seems to be quite a large man among democrats. a Speaking of reducing the acreage, what has become of our old friend, the boll weevil? ?? Senator Lodge is greatly worried by the criticism of some of the South ^ Carolina eutwra. None of the speakers at the meeting on Friday told how many bales he was holding, nor what he had been offered for it. Perhaps President Wilson sought to give the ex-Rev. Herron a way of escape from the widow, or a new Carrie. The League of Nations is designed to prevent all kinds of wars. That crowd of farmers who met in Columbia before Christmas and pro posed the issue of bonds for build ing good roads over which they might haul their farm products to town, and who called on the automobilists to pay the expenses, should have provided a system which would have been of some pleasure and convenience to the men who were to do the, paying, rather than providing only a scheme for their own purposes. The farmers are always up to something. Col. H. P. Burbage, of Greenville, has come out for the twenty five million dollar bond issue. His provocation is that, although there are three railroad lines running from Greenville to Greenwood, he undertook to make the trip between these points one day in January in his automobile, and got stuck in the mud on one of Greenwood County's good roads. Are we to assume that Col. Now a great many people have already sold their cotton; they sold last fall when* their debts pressi g, and in order to meevtheir; obfi gations to the government. Other v people are holding not only last year's crop, bat the crop* of one and two yean before that time. Ii' I Burbage is one of the farmers for whose benefit we should issue these bonds, and that cotton would have gone up if he had not happened to this calamity? ' Notwithstanding the fact that the government, which is the people, we suppose, is now operating the railroads, and wants to do so for the -i next five years, and, therefore, these roads are now our roads, so to speak, and notwithstanding the fact that we have.already been "McAdood" out of - i" three quarters of a billion dollars in so doing, according to newspaper reports, the Columbia State now proposes that we should build good roads, and that every man should operate his own railroad, thus cutting down the revenue of the railroads still further, and making a bigger ueucit ior us xo pay. we claim tnat this it not making the world safe for democracy. ANOTHER SUGGESTION. As the people did not seem wholly agreed on what to do in the matter of cotton acreage, every man having a differnt remedy for the prevalent disease, it is suggested that what ever scheme is adopted should be as nearly equitable as possible. If there is to be a loss, it should be shoulder ed by all the people according to their ability to bear it, and if there is to be a profit by the reduction scheme it would be altogether unfair for a portion of the people to get it all. view of these facts it seems to us i that those people who have as much I as a year's crop already on hand, ; should not plant any cotton at all. 1 The man who has sold will, at the 1 end of the year, have only one crop,|i so that the man with one crop al-M ready, who does not plant any cotton |1 this year, will be on an equal footing! i with him. If there is money in re-.' ducing, they will share the profit') ratably. If a man is only holding:] one half his last year's crop he should : plant only half what he planted last ' year, and so with other proportions. J The fairness of this proposition J will appear when it is considered J' that if everybody reduces in the i same proportion, then the man who' has no cotton will suffer from having ' a small crop, while the man with the ' ' J? i -i- ?;n ?o cotton aireauy on nanus wm icojj ? big profit, not from the crop raised this y?ar, but from that which he already has. This will not be fair.1 to the man who has sold already. I Or if this scheme is not adopted,! 1 we believe that the men with cotton, j who are to ask those who have al- < ready sold to agree to reduce acre- i age, should pool the cotton now on 1 hands, and have it valued at present prices. All those who agree to cut the acreage, whether they have cot- 1 ton on hands or not, should be par- i ties to the pool, and when the cotton 1 is finally sold, the profits from holding should be calculated, and divided ] between all those who reduce, accord- 1 ing to the number of acres of reduc- 1 tion. Some will say that this will | be allowing one man to profit at the 1 expense of another, but serious re- i flection will show that this is what < we intend to avoid. The man who 1 has no cotton and who reduces his < acreage so that he cannot make a full crop will be losing largely, and mak- 1 ing nothing, while the man who has i a large amount of cotton on hands, and who wants his neighbor to plant ' a small crop in order to help him, 1 will otherwise obtain all the profit I by the reduction scheme. But if all ,' cut down and all share in the profits j to be produced by the reduction of j ] acreage, it is evident that the scheme 1 works equally in favor of or against all. i' I ] We will have books opened on < Tuesday morning in order that all ] those who desire to go into this 1 scheme may enlist. OUR OWN RAILROADS. The Columbia State says that the' railroads are owned by private individuals, but that when we obtain good roads every man will be his own j railroad. We presume that every j man who owns a Ford will haul his; own cotton to New York on his^railroad and there dispose of it. The railroads, we believe, formerly charged about sixty five cents peV hundred for hruling cotton to New 1 York, or three ,'cllars a.id twenty- ' five cents per bale. Perhaps the!, price now is about five dollars per bale. A one ton truck would haul four bales. A man who drove his j truck from Abbeville to New Yo*rk, paying for gasoline, oils, hotel bills, ^ and losing a week's time in doing -o, t would get rich z*unning his own rail- ! road. . : Ice was formerly, shipped .from . Abbeville to Calhoun Falls at about three dollars and a half for five tons. ? With a one ton truck, it could be , hauled in five loads, with a two ton < truck in three. To say nothing of the outlay for the truck, and nothing . of the oil, gasoline, repairs and depreciation, we doubt if a man to . operate the truck can be hired at the | ^ amount charged for the freig/it. , It costs two dollars and sixty three ' cents per ton to haul coal from the mines to Abbeville. A man who took enough trucks to Tennessee, or West Virginia, to bring in his winter's supply of coal on his own railroad, ^ would, we imagine, have a hard timejj convincing the doctors, were he ex-| amined under a Writ of Lunacy,! that he was still sane. Every man operating his own rail- 1 road, we fear, will prove about as remunerative as government ownership. ______ ( i ONE WAY TO REDUCE. < If it be true that we cannot produce cotton at present prices, and if ] H*;De equauy true mat we ean maice i money raising hogs, cattle, -fend farm ; products other than cotton, then we i suggest that some of the men who j have bne, two or three crops of cot ; ton in the warehouae, might do a *ood part by the country in refusing ;o plant any cotton at all. Being ible to hold cotton for thisi length of time, the public has a-right :o believe that these men are business men, and are succeeding, else they could not do so. The public will not believe that good business men will produce cotton at a loss^ when they may go at other things and make money. They have the I money with which to stock their farms with hogs and cattle. Then why do they not determine to quit losing money in producing cotton, find get down to business at something else? The time has come for somebody to put up, or shut up. Besides the farmers of Abbeville county need someone to blaze the way. VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN. |9 Richmond, Va., Feb.26, 1919. w rhe Editor, The Press and Banner, g Abbeville, S. C. ? Dear Sir:? ? An article bearing a Washington' date line of February 19th, published ? i ? i i J ! H in tne .tress ana Banner, nas a neau-j line "No Fifth Liberty Loan for the, United States." Liberty Loan workers throughout the Fifth Federal Reserve District j are asking for information about: this report. The report is entirely wrong. Sec-j retary Glass has officially announced that the Victory Liberty Loan will be offered according to the usual program. It will be a popular Loan and will be floated by a popular campaign not later than April 21st. The same organization which successfully handled the previous loans is counted upA ltnvi JIA Ana | uxi bu iiaiiui^ iuio viit. Each' worker is expected to stay with the job and work harder than ever for the success of the issue. The Government is cleaning up its war bills and expenses are running very heavily. Secijetary Glass urges the Liberty Loan Organization everywhere in the country to disregard all irresponsible reports and go on with plans for the widest possible distribution of the coming Loan. Whether the Victory Loan issue be notes or bonds makes little differ* ence. The security will be a solemnpledge of our Government to pay. The rates and terms will be favorable 1 and the investment offer will be the best in the world. jljj! Workers must stay on the job and 1 keep up the preliminary work. Na- m tional honor and American prosperi- & iy are at issue. I trust that you will make this = plain to your readers and do every-J jjl thing you can to pave the way for. H ;he successful flotation of the issue.'B Your for the Victory Liberty LoanH Frank H. West, Director of Publicity. jg The article headed "No Fifth Lib- g >rty Loan" was taken from an At- H B anta paper. |j rREATMENT OF SEED IRISH POTATOES H Clemson College, S. C., Feb. 28.? jg '.t is very important that seed pota- jj ;oes should be treated for the pre- jj mention of scab, says the Extension ^ Service horticulturist. This is eas- jg ly done by using either formalde- jg lyde or corrosive sublimate. In us- jj ng formaldehyde the potatoes M ihould be soaked for two hours in a i tolution of one pint of formalin to p JO gallons of water/ This solution gg :an be used several times. If the corrosive sublimate method g s U3ed, the potatoes should be soak- g| ;d for one and a half hours in a so- = ution of four ounces of corrosive'j| sublimate to 30 gallons of water, jg mis solution snouia oe renewea ai- s Wm :er /ising three times. Since it cor- M rodes metal, the solution should be m used in a wooden or earthenware, W vessel. In either case the potatoes should j j be soaked before cutting. Both so- ?| lutions are poisonous and should be, landled with care. Five and on?- J half gallons will cover a bushel ofjjg potatoes. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The Woman's Missionary Society H of the Baptist Church will meet Fri- B day afternoon at four o'clock in the g ihurch parlor. Subject: "Value of g[ Mountain Schools." At the close of the meeting the M personal service committee will pack || a box for Connie Maxwell Orphan- |g age. Every woman of the 'shilrch m is requested to contribute o6e new] a garment?any size from fouifto' 18 | ^eara. j Mrs. W. F. Benton, Sac. ? ^ aaa?Bg3gg======== oiltairStov The Boss, like a gas stove, i 4* * is the Uil Move ot steady ne^t. blessing to thousands upon thoi i the world. On busy work days; after a a long afternoon's shopping; m at all times when minutes are pi petites to be satisfied quickly, 1 quick action Boss Oil Stove. 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