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FUUJtS I ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banne;ABBEVILLE, S. C. H. G. CLARK, Editor. a . The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday ' Telephone No. 10. ~~ ' * - - ?""J ?'bo? mail mat Uintereo- as sctuuu-nuau tar at post office in Abbeville, S. G Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three .months ' .50 Payable invariably in advance. . - i * ' , t _ I FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1919. ?V WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Woman suffrage is upon ns. The question -will come np in the Senate Monday and a final vote on the bill which was recently passed in the house will come shortly. There. is little doubt that1 it will pass. Now that we are about to have it wW will we do with it? Its ar dent proponents expect it to work wonders in the political life of this country. But there are some who are so cynical as to ^observe that the world will shuffle along much as ever.. That is our view. We believe * in equal rights for women-\ ; equal everything: for women?equal v . responsibilities, even. Hurt is on the promise that man and woman are on the same footing in this vale of tears. . And we. do not expect any more from women in the way of uplift than man has been responsible for irfthe past. There are some problems, especially in the South, however, which will come up for solution with the arrival of woman suffrage. The most important is the possible drive of . , , the negro for political recognition. . . It is an old question and much nOni . * . , sense as well as sense nas neen writ-< ten on the subject. At present the negro in the south is not ready for full participation in the ballot. The problem has been met and solved in the past; we feel certain that South-, ; - . : ern States will dispose of the matter, in- as wise and expedient manner as * possible. " . W. P. Pollock, qf Cheraw, former, - United States senator advances a newj idea to restrict the negro's partici-j pation in politics. He proposes an amendment to the State constitution with the following provisions: ' "No person shall be eligible to vote s m this state ,unless such person shall j present a^^gistration certificate to, i the maftacartTkif the election: and ro rejr^l^biok. certificate shall be is-1 t^pny person unless such person! .phaU present sufficient evidence to| < registration officials that such . person id net HJI illegitimate _ to t^*j fljf ' third generatio^ Concern in^ th?* fopfted .coMtitoiWwO-aow^ment K "*' Pollock said: ?r-' i ''If 8tt?h an *?^adment to the conv" A ki,' ' Wittltion of the several Southern jjg. Ikatei were adopted, the race ques... tiea would be practically solved. No ae should object to such a provision, as it would not only solve this vital qpettion, but it would place a ban on llleeritimacv and would encouracre marriage and the keeping of the fara-1 ily relation sacked. And we all know ; that the family is the very foundation' of our institutions and our civilization. t "If such an amendment is adopted .: ' in the various States, there would never be any danger from the vote of the negro women when the right of suffrage is extended to the women of America under the federal woman suffrage amendment, which . will be adopted by the senate, within the next few days and be sent to the several States for ratification. "Pending the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment,' the next Democratic State convention should extend the right to the white -t i.i._ o4-~ Tyumen ui uic ovate tu vutc iii mc . Democratic primary of our State in recognition, not only of the right of the women to vote, but also in recog-i . ' nition of the invaluable services ren-! dered by the women of South Caro-j lina and of America in helping win the Great War for civilisation and righteousness. If i 'should be a mem- J ber of the-next State Democratic ( coiTention, I propose to try to have, I this right accorded the white women ( of this State." The purport of the proposed amendment is plain, but we fail to see wherein I it would accomplish much. In niany states no vital statistics are kept and the plan would react on the white' voters as well as the black. In addition it is impos I 1 ing a penalty on the innocent. There " should be laws to^ uphold the sacredness of the m&rriage relation, but it 1 is no deterrent to punish those who ' are so unfortunate as to be the re1 suit of illegitimacy and let the guilty go free. There seem to us better means to control the situation. For instance, more stringent educational qualifications. And it would not be a bad idea to include property qualifications. As a political expedient Mr. Pollock's suggestion seems to us both unwise and unjust. J THE OVERSEAS FLIGHT. _ i We are proud, justly proud of the > j record that the American Navy has made when there goes to it the j honor of making the first crossing of ] .the Atlantic by air. Lieut. Comndr. i ; Reed and his intrepid crew have ] j written their names in history, nor [ should we forget Lieut, uomnar. uei- j j linger and Commander Towers, who < failed because of-no fault of their < ! own. / ,y But it is npt of the men and crew | that we have in mind, though we 1 would not detract from the glory i I that is theirs, but it is .rather tbc i j fact that American? for America ' have accomplished this epoch making ] ' deed. Transatlantic flights will be < j commonplace 10 years from now? probably in less time. The fact that America led tl^e way will never be I forgotten. j It was the organization and spirit 1 of the American Navy that made the ] accomplishment of the flight possible. Except for the uncertainties of i the weather there was hardly a hitch ' .n the program. And we have no doubt that if the weather had not I ' proved a very present factor that-all lv? vi otto laratdflm? ?ti 1111 CC pwuco TTVUtU U?fW I ? i Lisbon. Ab in the old days when the P'loe1 neeians pushed their frail barks out on the uncharte^ seas', and* found|j the elements of all foes the mostj t treacherous, so it is today when the t air is the medium of transportation, i On the sea the questioi has largely i been solved. There is little danger i now from the most furious storm, i The size of the v esse I. staunchness l and skill of jponstrucVton has been the 1 solution on sea and. it will be much o the same story in the air. \ Hawker's attempt was a headlong t adventure, whefre sportsmanship pre- t dominated. The American flight was c a carefully planned undertaking, t where the element? of chance was t eliminated as much a* powiblo. It s was a serious business proposition, a the foundation for tegular trans- f oceanic^transportatiou?and it sue- c ?a??^ jt - iWuL ?"'? .' TTT i b FAR FROM HOMI.r. nut o Mrs. Wade Cothran, of Xbb?4itif;; * is shopping in the city today. : ^ Misses May and Eugenia feobert- son and Mrs. C. D. Brown, of Abbe- ville, *re spending the day in the eity.. Mrs. S. G. Thomson and ifiM Mar-1 garet Thomson, of Abbeville, are in the city today. ?Greenwood IndexJournal, Tuesday. vvvvvvvvvvvvv vvv!( V V V A FINAL WORD! V \ ' ^ V From E.^C. Horton, Candi- Vj ' V date for Treasurer in Elec- Vj V tion Tomorrow. V1 V For many reasons, sons V; V over which I had no control, V' \ I have, been unable to see all. Vj my friends and solicit their V support for County Treasur- Vj V er in the election tomorrow. VM -W I iirant VA1SM orlrl I T ^ * nBHl JWWt -1 V will appreciate it, and hope V- i V you can take time enough to V. c V go and vote. If my friend* do Vj t V this my chances look mighty V 1 V, good. I have not thought it Vn V necessary to solicit many of V V my friends when I knew they { V were fully aware of my can- V j. V didacy. Everybody is busy V V and I thought it better not V g V fb "pester" them, still I am V V counting on them to help me V V out. E. C. HORTON. V; I I % ' \ iROWING DEMAND FOR FARM LABOR 1 Washington, May 28.?A growing lemand for farm labdr is decreasing ;he amount of unemployment over ;he country, the United States Employment Service reported tonight in jrese'nting a summary for the week in^ino' Mav 24. showinc 227.4251 persons classed as unemployed,. ajainst 247,365 during the previous week. Over half the unemployed were reported in New York c;ty, where the estimate ran that from 100,000 to 125,000 were seeking work. ___________ /' A TOM THUMB WEDDING. A Tom Thumb Wedding was given at the Mill Monday night and proved to be one of the most enjoyable and most successful entertafnments ever g^ven there. About forty little children took part and all the frills and*furbelows of a genuine wedding was gone through with. Before the wedding a musical program wag enjoyed, little LiUian Langley taking the part of AJma Gluck and Gertrude Simpson, as Mrs Barnwell, sang "0, Promise JJle." Edna Barnes took the part of the little bride and the groom's part was tarried off in good style by Lesley Cox. The ceremony was performed with due solemnity by Ralph Fall. After the wedding Miss Fannie Stark sang "Because." Then came a laughable feature of .the program in a "Honey Moon Race." Mr. Barnwell and Miss Stark and other couples demonstrating how a young couple could take in the pleasures of A.tlailtic City. Chances at a Lady Baltimore cake brought in a considerable sum of money while the door receijfts were fine. The money will go to7 the support of a French orphan. Miss Sarah Boyd "was assisted in arranging this pleasant affair by Miss Victoria Howie. 7 > . HAIL STORM HITS \ SECTION OF GREENWOOD COUNTY ON SUNDAY Greenwood county was on Sunday lfternoon visited by a severe hail md wind storm which wrought havoc ;o the crops extending over a wide irea and wrecked a number cf bnildngs. A negro church at Dovms was wrecked, three colored perrons being njured, the preacher among the num t ?er, but none were severely hart, [fie storm occurred about 5:30 1'clock. An examination of the hail devasated district in Greenwood county y County Agent C. B. Faris and thers indicated that a strip of terriory nine miles long and from three o five miles wide . was practically wept clean of vegetations. yesterday fternoon when a hail storm burst in ury on the upper section of tfee ounty. The damage extends from ihoals Junction on down to I bwn of Qreenwood^ ,not g&\ng much $ffipJfaehwo<ni;: Damage >was tv>t ? f?pnt'iShoali--drUBct^cn', to tiodgp aad:; "rom ther?4Cb,Cokeflburyand for "FAKE" ASPIRIN WAS TALCUM ^Therefore Insist Upon Gen- ' uirie "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" Millions of fraudulent Aspirin , rablets were sold by a Brooklyn! na"ufacturer which later proved to; # i >e composed mainly of Talcum Pow-j ler. "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" the ?ue, genuine, American made and American owned Tablets are marked vith the safety "Bayer Cross." * Ask for and then insist upon "Bay-, sr Tablets of Aspirin" and always >uy them in the original Bayer packige which contains, proper directioms tnd dosage. , I Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester if Salicylicacid.?Adv. three to five miles in width the de- 1 btruction of growing crops was complete. ? ' Negro Church Destroyed. 1 A negro Baptist church, Mar3 Hill, 1 at Downs was blown down the sec- 1 ond time in its 'history, ft is said, and 1 several who were in the church at 1 the time was hurt, though. no one < was seriously injured. A sinking con- 1 vention was in progress when the i storm hit the church. 1 The damage ip the1 town of Green- 1 wood was mostly confined to gar- . dens, with some chimneys blown down and trees broken, but no injury to any person. The worst so far reported was on : the farm of W. H. Williams, who bought the farm formerly owned by Rev. T.?H. Edwards, sooth of Hodges Mr. Williams \pas absent from home, visiting in Greenville county, and did not get home until about midnight. His mother and one little boy were at home during the storm. The window glasses were smashed jut by the , hail^and the house flooded wtch water, both inmates fearing that house itself would go over any minute. * This morning Mr. Williams looked out on his field and where he had had a fine crop of cotton, much of it thinned out and about 50 acres of what he says was as fine grain as he ever had, he saw fields stripped perfectly bare, the cotton was simply beat out of existence and the grain was a hope&ss mass of wreckage. He had just bought a new binder, he says, and some days ago had cut a field of rye. This rye was blown out of the fields. 1 Fruit Tre?* Rtaund. Mr. Williams had two tenant houses blown over and the bark on his fruit trees waa simply battered off by the hail. Of course the fruit was completely removed. The damage around Mr. Williams' place was evidently severe. Also, J. B. Pulliam brought in thi3 morning samnles of cotton whcih had everv leaf stripped off the stalk, and he says that around Downs the crop is completely ruined. % Col. McN. Cochran, df Hodges, who was in town this morning, says that the damage in and around Hodges was most severe. Gardens and young corn were destroyed and the crimson - clover seed crop of ihe whole/ section was almost wiped out. Much of the clover seed had not bsen harvested and this was all lost. Cotton and other small crops were badly hurt. \ I t Take a s< * ^ % ' : . I / ' " " Copyright 1919 Hart Schiffner & ! The Rosen NEW RAIL PLANS . ; i C ON SOUND BASIS Washington?One of the big probems before the new Congress is get- in king the railroads back on a peace h< basis. . These 260,000 miles of steel t kiopViwnvn wpw t.nlfpn nver hv the U Government as an indispensable arm tl &f the national defense; but how bi that their wkr service is over, there d: is a country-wide demand that the bi Government restore' them to their C owners to be operated on normal o: American business standards of effi- p.' iiency. . ' b But, as has been pointed out by it President Wilson as well as by many o: men in public life .who have given ci this subject years of careful' study, ci it is not enough simply to say to the , railroad companies, "Take these rail- o roads and give the. country the best a transportation service that money and brains can provide." fi Old Laws Obstruct Growth. I G The President recently said that' it| li would be, a ^serious jnistake to return b to the old conditions of railroad reg- n: lation without reforming . the antiquated lawa that were obstructing c fhe free development of transporta- P tion facilities. The Director General p of Railroads has recently made an inspection trip from coast to coast, and v he has been , telling the people that the time hafr now come to put the * railroads on a sound foundation. b; The plans for a better system of national control of railroads are as varied, as were the plans for banking and currency reform when Congress received a mandate from the people to provide insurance against financial d panics. The public now demands in- C surance against a breakdown of rail- tl road transportation, and the i new Congress is undertaking this work as secondary only to insurance against ' international warfare. Congress solv- " ed the -banking problem seven years c ago as a non-partisan issue, in which t] all the people had a common inter- fi est, and Congress evidently is tack- b ling. the. railroad problem with the same spirit. While the many plans that have d been proposed differ in the methods C to be adopted in reaching the desired tl goal, it has been pointed out by Senator Cummins of Iowa, that all these plans h^ave/really very much in common?so much so that he is con- I fident that Congress will have little o difficulty in framing a bill that will C meet with popular approval, and e that will take the railroad question b out of politics for many years to a n 1 * . " \ v ;cond look. - . %. ' ' y Marx ' ^ ?ii v ' " knwr Mnv/tonfiln UCIg lUHUUUW; / im?. Many Plans With One Aim, The Iowa Senator has a command-^H i,* ig position in this Congress becatlse^Hj 2 is the ranking iqeinber Of the In-Hfl irstate Commerce Committee of the^H nited States Senate, and it is in^H lis committee that the new railroadBB ill will take final form. In an ad~B| ress before a national meeting of^Hj usiness men at St. Louis, SenatorH| ummins stated that since the - close^H t the war, fully thirty complete^Rj lans for new railroad legislation ha<tK| een submitted to him by- business^H ten, economists, bankers, railroad^! fficials and owners, Government offi-Hj ials, railroad workers andjust plainHj itizens. .. I The basic principles upon which allj^H f these plans, with one exception, gree are c* follows: . 1. . Private operation is more ef-^H cient and more economical than^M Government operation, and the pab-Hf c interest will therefore be* served B| y 'a return of the roads to private H| laiyagement I 2. To make certain that. ne^jl apital will be attracted to the ex-H ans^oa of railroad facilities, titereH ught to be greater certainty that si air return will be earned on the in-B| estment, H 3. The merging of weak andB trong roads intd large competingH ^stems should be encouraged. H ? . -i i . , t ' '' BB POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. H .B /< ?? J Hi ror v.giuii7 irwram. ,'n I hereby announce myself a czjnH idate for Treasurer pi AbberiQeH !ounty and will abide the result of H he Democratic primary election. H ? ? I R. C. WILSON, (better "known asH Dick") is hereby announced as ? andidate for County Treasurer in H be democratic primary for that ef-H ce. He pledges himself to beH ound by the rules of the party. H ? I hereby announce myself a candidate lor Treasurer of AbbevOla lounty and will abide the result of be Democratic primary election. J. E. JONES. mmmmrnmammmm W<e wish to annodhce 6E0SGE C. >OUGLAS as a candidate for the ffice of Treasurer of Abbeville bounty, in tl^b approaching prijnasy lection. Mr, DougWagreefe to abide y the rules'of the Denoczatk Primf " ^ : ' - * ; - V \ t 1 * -I \ r ' * % I ! . v - >1 ! V . - ?: v , r $ I rl ' * * ahun?rJ <;/:M 1 - advr .nfccnilO ioI yatrioSaQ j lotfcfne* lb 3 S dyer^??m?nU or olh *<the (ore?If they didn't ?io- j > ^dy^ould buy them. f Looks" are to Important lal some men forget "thev Mt?that clothes don't >ok stylish long unless j ley*re made of all-woof. . / x- ? ' * r ' " ' ' ! " if.s\ - . 0 . r ' ' s That's why we're so |rticular?we have all'ool clothes here; Hart chafTner & Mar * make H -mm Snnh nlnfhe<* nre H conomy because they ear longer than others ncl give you more all | round satisfaction. ' \ ' . * a . v ^ : f nrrmomr . vumpajij