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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner; ABBEVILLE, S. C. H. G. CLARK, 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. CL Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919. FOR THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE. There is very Kttle real leadership in either the Democratic or the Republican parties?has not been for a number of years?'but the Republicans, being in power, have more opportunities for making asses of themselves and they are passing up no chances. The big issue before the people now is the Treaty of Peace, which, nf rrmrsp. includes the Leasrue of Nations. It is a vexing problem and the sooner it is settled the better this country and the world will be. Instead of trying to help reach a so lution of the question the Republicans are doing everything in their power to embarrass the President. They are making of a big issue a matter of. petty party politics. The slogan is "anything to discredit Wilson." The latest development is the Taft letters to Will Hayes, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Taft in his usual easy, ingenuous way, suggests that the Peace Treaty is all right, but that the Republicans had nothing to do with making it; therefore, it necessarily must be at fault. He further suggests, to salve the Republican sense of conceit and to give the impression that the Republicans have won a victory that certain paragraphs ef the, treaty be changed by way of compromise. The Republicans hail these two letters *of Taft with acclaim as scoring a party victory over Wilson, who, after all is * the Democratic party in a national; sense. They even went so far as to1 publish them prematurely in their, eager desire to furnish a symbol of party victory. The Taft letters have not helped1 matters any and when read analyti-j cally they do not mean anything more than a request for clarifying! ? fiAn c A-f n oin r>orQ nrroriVlC I JLIl tcz |yx tiuno v/jl vvi vwui At present the Republicans are interpreting the treaty as suits their selfish aims and are attacking the document on all sides and with a blindness of vision that is as amusing ps it is disgusting. England has ratfied the pact. France intends to do so within the next ten days. Italy will follow suit. Germany has already "come clean." America, of all the great nations is held back because the Republican j politicians care naught for the rights at issue, care for nothing in fact' ? 1?_L I save tnat wmon tney accompnsn re-j fleet success on them. The Republicans have never .got-: ten together on what they Thus the Democrats are in a better | strategic position. The Republicans are making speeches and attacking the treaty generally, but have set forth no concrete set of reservations which express their viewpoint. Sen-; ator Knox offered a resolution which' would separate the Peace Treaty: and fche Leaenie of Nations, but his suggestion fell with a sickening thud.' Mr. Root offered other suggestions.1 Now conies Mr. Taft, and Mr. Taft is a nice somebody whom we. wouldn't like to offend, but he seems! altogether too eager to save the day for his party. Unless the Republicans get together and set forth their position plainly and succinctly the Democrats will still have the edge. In the end the people will decide. Let the Republicans talk their fool heads off. Wilson will soon go before the people and make a direct appeal and it can be safely said that he will have a message for the peo-| pie that will be well worth hearing.. Therein lies hope for action; for thej people have a power for coercion that is well understood and 7?j$>ected even in the United* Abates Senate. PENNY POSTAGE. Congressman Moon, of Tennessee, is nothing if not sanguine when he, says that one-cent letter postage can' be established and the postoffice de-j partment still ?arn a surplus of I twenty-five million dollars a year. I He stipulated, however, that other I aIoccm n-f mail "shall he made to pay v* ^ the cost of handling." . Well, we are thankful enough for the return of the two-cent letter and the one-cent postal card to let further reform rest for the nonce. In the postoffice, moreover, good service is the public's prime demand, and cost a secondary consideration. Yet we may look forward to a time, though cautious oracles will name no date, when Mr. Moon's opi timiiiii shc.ll be fulfilled. A recent writer, recalling the British postal reform of 1839, which was the forerunner of cheap postage throughout the world, observes that it was a model of what' every innovation of the kind out to be?'scientific, mathematical, clearly thought out, reasonably imaginative, disinterested and democratic." Of Jttowiand nui, tne father of that achievement, we are 1 told that he could not have failed I long with penny postage, "because ! the proposal had been so intently , studied, particularly on the economic j side, that there was) simply no case against it." The ridicule of bureaucrats and a few other interested or i naturally contemptuous persons was I so overwhelmed by public opinion | that Parliament appointed a special i committee inquiry, and in less than three years from the time Hill began his studies, penny postage was on the statute books." It will be observed, however, that I postal responsibilities in the United i States of America today are incomparably heavier and more complex than in the British Isles eighty years ago. Still, with airplanes and a I ??UI> sv+lmv. iriTj-on+innc U'P mav wcaitix ui \j unci tiiTvuvtvuw; . ? ? ! score a yet greater reform, if we find ! another Rowland Hill.?The Atlanta ! Journal. I i i j COTTON CROP AND PRICES. i Mr. A. R. Marsh, Editor of the | Economic World of New York, and i a well*known cotton authority, pre sents the following opinion of the j cotton situation: "The Depatment of Agriculture places the expectancy of the crop of 1919-1920 at 10,986,000 bales of lint cotton, as compared with an ac-J tual yield of 13,040,532 bales last year, ll,iV)2,000 bales two years, ago, 11,450,000 three years ago, and 11,192,000 bales four years ago. j "There is nothing that can be called comforting for the trade in' the successive figures of the cotton' crops since 1914, as just given. For-j merly it was the tradition of the; trade, based upon long experience,! that three short crops of cotton in! succession in the United States are! almost beyond the bounds of possi-l bilitv. Yet we have already had fourj short crops in succession since the monster crop of 1914, and there is every reason for thinking that the present season's crop will constitute the fifth short crop of the series. Everybody in the trade knows that, but for the reduction in consumption brought about by the war, so great a falling off in America's production | of raw cotton as these five short] * ? I c$ops represent would have meant thji severest kind of cotton famine J all ovar the' world and a rise of the i -r:~2 of American cotton to amazing; hel-'htz. Indeed, there are the best of ^ reckons for thinking that, if there: had been no war at a'll, the present; price of cotton would be indefinitely! higher than it actually is. "It is scarcely to be wondered at; that considerations of this order, in-] disputably based upon realities, con-j firm the majority of the trade in its confident belief that before the 19191 crop of Amercan cotton has beenj marketed price levels much above! those now obt^djjgf will be reached! This belief, mor&AA', is probably in accord with the ^Rt judgment of the most experienced and conservative cotton merchants. At the same time, it has to be remembered that it is of the very nature of great commodity markets that their major price movements in either direction ?upward or downward?should consist of a series of ebbe^and flows, and that there are only too often most discouraging postponements of events that are clearly foreseen rod that in the end come to pass." wiv *vt *'.> .;?-v 1 'i'iwV ij / / FLIGHT LAW MUST BE REVISED^ I For the third time, now, and within not many weeks, a dirigible balloon has taken fire from a spark of mysterious origin and been almost instantaneously destroyed. The first I of these accidents, the one that hap1 pened near Baltimore, resulted in no Incc n-f li-fo ihnt nnlv hwamp t.hi> I * airship was at anchor on the ground and its crew were not on board. When a dirigible was blown up in, and perhaps by, a thunderstorm, the other day off the coast of England, its whole crew perished, and now | comes the still more terrible disaster i in Chicago, with fatalities not only ! among the men operating the balloon, but also among the employes of the bank building upon and into which it fell with all the effect of several incendiary bombs of the largest size. These occurrences not only illus' trate and emphasize the peculiar and 1 dreadful dangers incidental to the | use of the lighter-than-air machines, | they bring most forcibly to attention i the need of reviving and again enI forcing the ordinances passed by | most cities soon after aerial journey1 ings became possible for men, fori bidding and penalizing flight over j municipal territory. While the war was in progress, ! these ordinances, for what then I seemed, and probably were, suffici! ent reasons, were allowed to become ! "dead letters." Aviators then flew ; where they chose, and often over cities in response to invitations more I or less urgent from the residents of them. So far as known, however, none of these ordinances were repealed, and, as the excuses^for their suspension are now passed, they . 1 1 1 I. -T 1 C?.. i snouia again ue emurceu. oucn en| forcement will not interfere at all | with the training of aviators of any j kind, or with their actiivties, which every day are becomng more varied and valuable. It is, therefore, in every way commendable, and it is especially necessary that dirigible j balloons should not pass over or | hover above areas at all densely inhabited.?New York Times. | ROMANTIC WEDDING ON SUNSET MOUNTAIN A wedding of interest was - that , of Miss Lucy Zachary, of Sylva, N. ! C., to Mr. J. Robert Cochran^ of ; Abbeville, J3. C., which took; 'place j July 16, on top of Sunset Mountain. The wedding party motored from Waynesville to Asheville, then in the afternoon on to Sunset. Just as the sun was falling (behind the distant hilltops the impressive ring ceremony was performed by Dr. E. K. McLarty, pastor of the Central M. E. Church, of Asheville, in the presence of a few immediate relatives and friends of the bride ,and groom. x ; | The bride was never more beauti ful, in a handsome gown of beaded white duchess satin. The maid of honor, Miss Jessie Zachary, a. sister of the bride, wore a blue georgette crepe. Acting as best man was Mr. Henry G. Chatten, of Atlanta, Ga. Accompanying were Miss Janie Coward, of Sylva; Miss Lillian Green, of Waynesville; Miss Dixie Coward, of Webster; Dr. L. J. Hooper, of Asheville, and Mr. 0. D. Biddy, of Hendersonville. ^ * Mrs. Cochran is the daughter of the late Dr. J. M. Zachary and Mrs. Alice Zachary Norton, of Cashiers, North Carolina. nr.. .1 *jr. . n . .1 mi i . ivir. anu mrs. L/oenran win maKe their future home in Atanta.?The Atlanta Journal. A Baby Boy. There is a brand new ,boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Hill. He came Saturday morning and is going to stay for an indefinite time. He has no name as yet but is lively enough to make himself heard around the house and to keep his parents up at nght. *_*, I BIRTH. I Born?Baby girl, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe T. Hughes, Sunday morning. It has been named Carolyn Huguelet. j The Park. j The Monument Park is being greatly improved by the work dose on it in the last several days. The grass h& -*>?^ &it fthd all tSFshrufrs trimmed up into handsome shape, j a .. I \m, M\ You Need the Fortui of a Hoosie Cabine > i STOVES ""RA 20=22=24|N. M Lan< We are offering oi miles from the Court churches and school. $80.00 Per Acre. 63 Acres near goo barn, 15 acres origin (PTE fkfk nwvn/in cc tpieJ.UU, UUI piltC, ?po 80 Acres 3 miles c "EN' Piedmon C. H. ABBEVILLE, vir 1 We nave soi y. -yfi s t,,. UJ jfjtfljuj. -Ci naBNH ??"' *??<w ?mi i im> >" <. ?. . -? /* ? *Itchen Cabinet thai saves miles of st aate Owner r Kitchei E3?295SflBHK9iHHHHBHSHHBE?3B3i: it BEzsae HOOSIER Prices ar are so low that every ho own this scientific kitchi joy its gre^t convenient No other cabinet save no other combines all Hoosier's capacity is exl struction extra quality. This is the cabinet should have?the one yc ed. , To delay ordering n and energy. Come and ii and prove this fact for ; places you under ho obli ain A! i For' ne of the best Dlaces in the ; House. Good improvemen , If you are in the market i d school and church, new 5-r Lai oak forest, good branch e nn a.uv. ^ if city, only $40.00. 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