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-ruua ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. 0" 'The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. * f Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months l.OC Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1919. A GOOD INVESTMENT. Notwithstanding the fact that the banks are now carrying a large amount of indebtedness on the part of their customers, we must not forget that there is in the vicinity of Abbeville enough cotton, if sold at a fair price, to pay every note in the * ' ?T# +h,*c three banks in ADDevme. were done, the banks would find ? themselves with the heaviest deposits in the history of the city, and with no borrowers. There are people in Abbeville, not one but several, who have money to loan, and who have had it for several months. They have been willing to loan it at seven per cent, which is less than money has been loaned j at in the past, but there are no borrowers. Only those people who desire money for a short time are borrowers these days. In other sections of the country where money is plentiful, the in K Mnnev rarelv lijrest rube io iwn. ? ? "ff brings more than five per cent in the Eastern States. With the great amount of money coming to this section of the country from the sale of our farm products at prices heretofore unheard of, and undreamed of, by the present generation, we must expect that the interest rate in J the South will continue to be lower. When the present crop of cotton is sold, if it brings twenty-five cents, or even twenty cents, there will be money to loan at six per cent. Perhaps there will be money to loan at . five per cent. The Victory Loan bonds, therefore offer to the people who have money an investment which should * nnr rHqfnilTVfcfid. IlUt UC uvci-ivvnvuf v. The money is loaned for a definite period. There is no question about the security. There is no danger i < that the debtor will die, or that there v * will be a minute's delay in the payment Of interest when it is due. The money will be forthcoming when it is wanted. The interest rate is four and three-quarter per cent, almost five. The bonds are tax-free so far as state and most federal taxes (all in fact so far as we are affected) are concerned. It appears to us therefore that the loan now offered by the government, while offering a lowef rate of interest than we have bier accustomed to accept in the past, yot offers as high a rate of interest a? , we shall likely be able to ? collect in the future, when everyy thing is considered. i<5 People who have money need consider these facts and decide if it would not be wise to invest the surplus money now on hands in the only s?!urity in the world to which ob' * jection cannot be urged. FINISH THE JOB. In a cabled message to the American people, President Wilson says: For two anxious years the American people have striven to fulfill the task of saving our civilization. By the exertion of unmeasured power, they have quickly won the victory without which they would have remained in the field until the last resource had been Exhausted. Bringing to the contest a strength of spirit made doubly , strong by the righteousness of their cause, they devoted themselves unswervingly to the prosecution of their undertaking in y.' ) the full knowledge that no conquest lay in their path excepting the conquest of right Today the world stands freed from ths thresil of4; |nil^i5?n.i . W v < ? ?)>* which has so long weighed upon , the spirit and the labor of peaceful nations. But as yet we stand only at the threshold of happier times. To enter we must fulfill to the utmost the engagements we have made. The Victory Lib; erty Loan is the indispensable means. Two years ago we pledged our lives and fortunes r ? to the cause for which we have fought. Sixty thousand of our strongest sons have redeemed for us that pledge of. bloods To redeem in full faith the promise of this sacrifice we now must give this new evidence of ' our purpose." ' The message thus sent to the American people is in line with what all the thinking people of the country have been saying for the last few i weeks. The message come to us and bids us take up the work where it was left off at the completion of the last Liberty Loan and go on to completion. , The amount allotted to Abbeville County is relatively small. We raised I six thousand dollars and more on the last call from the government. We raised more than our share and this has been taken account of in the present division. By subscribing only one half of the amounts which we previously subscribed, we may be enabled to take every dollar which the people of this county are asked to take. We should not fail; we must not fail to do our fqll duty. Our duty is to promptly buy these bonds. ' | "SEVEN-UP AND SICH." Our esteemed cotemporary, The State, agrees in the main with The Observer's scheme of organizing places of resort for unmarried men, to take the place of barrooms; but it balks at substituting anything for Beven-up?the game that used to be so popular in Laurens in the old days. I The Observer does not- object to ' seven-up on moral grounds, but because it is such a stupid game, requiring only an inferior quality of brain work and having no/ mindtraining quality whatever. It is just j a "game of chance," 'the main chance being how the ace and jack and two-spot of trumps are dealt. True, to deal these cards where they will do the most good to the dealer requires expert knowledge of cards and a high degree of skill; but of a kind that ought not to be encouraged. j It is altogether different with j whist; that game requires close atj tention, a good memory, nice calcu! lation, and silence?all excellent recj 7 t ommendations. And whist is not a gambling game; no professional ever .adopts whist as a way to win money, They do say that W. W. Corcoran, late of Washington, who gave that splendid gallery of art to the nation, would never play whist unless the ? ??iA tt piuyeis wuuiu pui up suiueiauug 3 quarter or fifty cents?because, he aid, men would play better when they had something at stake, no matter how small, and whist is a mighty poor game unless played well all round; when so j>layed it is the premier among card games. Most other games are either gambling devices or else. r extremely ( {' i . stupid. Our cotemporary; refers /to the "Set-Kack cluh" in Abbeville. A very apt illustration in point. Setback is correctly described by our cotemporary as "nothing but seven-up furbelowed and filagreed," standing midway between it and auction bridge. Who knows but that the constant indulgence in seven-up and set-back has had much to do with the decline of that once good and famous old town? Who ever hears her spoken if now as "the Athens of South Carolina?" We must insist on "no cards" in the new club that is to take the place of the old barrooms, unless it be for the quiet and fine old game of whist. Even checkers is preferable to :even-up.?Newberry Observer. I "The Price of Peace," a live-reel motion picture of the war just.issued by the Treasury Department to aid Ihe Victory Liberty Loan campaign, is the only war picture yet issued with th-? lid of censorship clear off. See it Thurday, April 24th, at the Op:r. HovkfV'j&atinee and night III' ,r ? - >N* EASTER. Easter was fittingly observed the Episcopal, the Methodist, tl Baptist and the Catholic church last Sabbath. Religious servic were held in the Presbyterian ai A. R. P. churches. me Jiipiscopai cnurcn was ueau fully decorated with trailing ivy ai a profusion of white flowers, East lilies and carnations adding th( beauty to the charming scene. I Arundel preached an excellent se mon and there was special music 1 the choir, " Miss Mary Quarles 'Lii presided at the organ. ?o? In the Baptist church the decor tions consisted of pots of Calla lili and several vases of pink and whi ! carnations. There was1 a special pr | gram of music, the duet by Miss Fa ! nie Stark and Lieut. Allen King b 1 ing a beautiful feature of the nig ! service. Miss Ruth Howie presi j ed at the organ. Tn flio MAfJmHist rTinrnh the de I orations were of white and green, | large cross at the back of the cha eel being the central feature.v T1 chancel rail was draped in white ai twined with evergreens. Miss Lei Ellis is a charming addition to tl choir and added much to the sple did musical program rendered. Father Murphy came down fro Greenville and held services in tl Catholic church, which were atten ed by the member of the congreg tion and interested outsiders. FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO. ? ' Dote Smith came up town Mondi morning to see his old room-ma Deacon J. C. Hemphill. Dote sa; that he worked in the Medium offii forty-two years ago, and that he ai the Deacon had a room up-stairs the home of Gen. Hemphill in Fo Pickens. He told how they mat " -tl-- ? "TVin mnHi nres in wie muiuuigg. vivendi," and Editor Galloway wou put it, was for both to jump out < bed, throw a few sticks of wood < the fire place, pour a little kerosei on the pile, fire it, jump back in be j and wait for it to ^burn. If i^ d i not burn to suit them, they made ! blower out of a Medium, (it st ! blows a good deal at times) Do holding one side while the comb deacon managed the other side. . Dote tells us that the Mediu force at that time consisted of Ge ' eral Hemphill with the following c laborers: Henry Moore, Foster Hai mond, James W. Martin, J. C. Hem hill, himself and Andrew Bradle Dote was a kind of second boss, ] tells us, and that he had a got deal of trouble in getting his rooi mate to work much. The only tira Dote says, when the room-mate w always on hand a little ahead .< time, was at meal time. Dote asks us to state that he several years younger tfian the De con. He says that when he came town, the Deacon would take hi around at night and shpw him tl city and that he "had never saw" large a city before. ALLEN KING HOME. J ' -Lieut. Allen G. King came hoi j for the Welcome Home celebratio ! and marched with the officers in tl big parade. He looks well and nrosoerine in his new home. fl I : I _ JOHN A. HOLLAND, The Greenwood Piano Man. The largest dealer in musical insti ments in Western South Carolina. 8e pianos, self-player pianos, organs a sewing machines. 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