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ruun ESTABLISHED 1344 The PresS and Banner i ABBEVILLE, S. C. ? ? i H. G. CLARK, Editor. m ! ? I The Press and Banner Co. | Published Every Tuesday and Friday; Telephone No. 10. ^ i i Entered as second-class mail mat-1 ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C.j I Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00, Six months 1.00, Three months .501 i Payable invariably in advance. x TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919 GETTING RID OF EASY MONEY One answer to the high cost of ] living problem is that people areholding their money too cheaply. Thousands of Aemricans who never were more than a dozen paces from j the breadline are today owners of - - i Liberty Bonds or some other form ol securities and they have never learned the lessons which Ben Franklin sought to teach a growing nation. Some of the people are spending tfoeir Liberty Bonds. Their savings in these securities represent money that came comparatively easy, that is to say, the holdings were accumu- , lated in small weekly or monthly |j payments?money that was hardly). missed from the pay envelope. The people are spending as furi- 1 ously as they fought and worked in ^ war times. They are on a spending v ( "jag"? so to speak, not only in this < country where the fruits of victory seem to make spending a necessary I ^ part of the peace program, but in the^ ^ rest of the world, not even omittingj 1 I Via />ftiintrie5 of the Entente. The; , money of the times is apparently very! ' cheap, it seems to come easily rnd toj j go easily, but this condition can't last , indefinitely. When spenders are free and easy,! prices go up with equal ease. Those who hold their ' "easy" money too ' cheaply make hard buying for those i' who must part sparingly with their 1 limited funds and, by the same token, those who demand luxuries without 1 accounting the cost may expect to |' pay more for necessaries. The trou-l' ble is not so much the high cost of Jiving but the high cost of high liv- 1 in g. 1 t ?Whe one remarked very sagely : that if all the wealth of the rich * * were equally distributee among mvo<=j who have little or nothing, the rich would soon have it back again and the other class would be in the same position as before the division was made. This is the natural consequence because the rich, or the great proportion of that class, learned to accumulate wealth by haibits of saving, and would no doubt recognize the necessity of saving more quickly than the class that had never been accustomed to it. LAW ENFORCEMENT Next Monday, August 8, has been set by Solicitor H. S. Blackwedl for a meeting of the sheriff, deputy sheriff, magistrates and magistrates' constables, and such members of the grand jury as may want to attend. The meeting is called for the express purpose of discussing law enforcement in this county. Enforcement of the law lies directly upon the shoulders of the officers named above. The background, the moral atmosphere for' law Anfnrrement is furnished by the) people. As a general thing our of-1 ficers do just what the people want! them to do. ! This move on the part of Solicitor! Blackwell follows the State conference held recently in Columbia and; presided over by Governor Cooper. It is to be hoped that the officers ( of the law in this county will bring: to bear on the questions of law en'forcement an earnest desire to better conditions, and finally arrive at that state of mind that will bode ill to all who brak the law in any manner. It is tfte duty 01 responsiDie citizens to give material and moral support to the officers. v V COTTON MARKET. \ V Hotton sold on local mar- V V ket yesterday for 32.20 cts. S>. October futures closed in Vi V New York at 33. V1 I V. * VVWV V VV WW , ? : EDISON REALIZES HIS MISTAKE IN INVENTING THE TALKING MACHSINE I Late in the afternoon on yesterday just before going to press we received the following from partner' Edison: I "Your wire. Know nothing a-' bout move. Realize I made a mis-1 take in inventing talking machines.! should hive invented a horn, because ?f nartner Kerr could have blown' mine like he blows his own, fortune would have been made. After hear-j ing Kerr blow his own, nobody longer! doubts the story from the Bible about: Joshua knocking down the walls ofj .Terirho bv sounding the ram's horn trumphet. "Edison". Prominent Visitor and Prospector. Takes a Look at Oxford. i Col. John Davis Kerr, one of thej most prominent citizens of Abbeville,! 3. C., and owner of the largest furniture stores, under one roof, in the' South, was a visitor to Oxford last | iveek. He was shown over the town by one of our prominent citizens. From information gathered it is understood that Col. Kerr is touring North Carolina and Virginia with a riew of buying a farm of 1,000 acres \ :>r more and opening up a chain of furniture stores. If he does, it is ikely he will locate here. We hope t is true. He will find Oxford a progressive town, and no doubt he ian be satisfied on the land question, [f he can be he will probably build >ne of the handsomest homes in the 2fofo 5e will not solicit local people to! ;ake stock in his funiture stores as, le is amply able to finance the enterprise, but Col. Kerr stated that he Had an uncle that had a little money, md he would probably be allowed to take a little stock.?Oxford, N. C. Public Ledge. A copy of the above paper has been received at this office. 'We were shocked to know that the furniture king was thinking of quitting us. We immediately called on Bro. Horton of the Medium, who forded it home with the Colonel (knowing that the Colonel had a delicacy about talking about his own plans and riches) to ascertain what he knew about the news item. Bro. Horton was as much in the dark / as anyone else. He stated that he went through the office of the Public Ledger while in Oxford for the purpose of inspecting the equipment of the paper, and while he was doing so Col. Kerr was on the outside talking to the editor and a buggy manufacturer from whom he was trying to buy some buggies, and as this was the only time he was out of hearing distance of the Emporium man, he thinks that the news must have come straight from headquarters. He saw Uncle Jim about the matter and as he still has his cotton, for which he refused thirty-six cents some two years ago, he said he was not talking furniture just now. Resides he said he wanted to find out v iio paid the expenses of the trip recently taken through the eastern states before he took any more stock in the furniture business. Not being able to get any satisfaction in this quarter, we next ? _^ J thought oi partner j&cuson, su we wired him as follows: Reported your partner Kerr about to leave Abbeville and locate in Oxford, N. C., that is if he can find enough land to satisfy his appetite. Please advise as to truth of report. Press and Banner. i Sells Farm ;Comes to Town. j Mr. P. H. McCaslan, who recently' sold his farm in McCormick county to Messrs. R. S. Link and J. S. Stark, is in the city for a few days' visit to his nephew, W. M. Barnwell. The McCaslan farm consists of 650 acres and was sold for $25,000. It is one of the most desirable places in McQormick county. Mr. McCaslan plans to spend the winters in Florida and the summers in the mountains, while he will call Abbeville hdtoie. MUCH CONCERN OVER NEW NARCOTIC LAW D. G. Heyward, Collector of Internal Revenue, is very much concerned over the situation which has arisen a:- a result of the enforcement of the vftaanfIt? anqjtfa/1 Kit f\viiyvaco in ' i a w i cccuvij ciiavwu wjr wugivji? in regard to the dispensing cf narcotics! and the steps taken by the Revenue1 Department as a result of the decis-j ion by the Supreme Court, it is now^ :irt pavmiisible, as in the past, for a physician to be the judge of prescrip-; lions he gives the patients, but under j the provisions of the law as at pres-: ent constituted, a physician cannot: prescribe narcotics to habituates merely to satisfy their craving forj the drug caused by the habit. The; only conditions under which a physi-J cian may prescribe for a habituate' are that the habituate be under i treatment of a physician for the pur-j pose of effecting a cure and that the J habituate be so confined while under; the treatment as to preclude his se-j suring the narcotic elsewhere than! from the physician in charge. Of course, where a patient is suffering pain on account of illness or injury, the physician still has the right to an Ariltr onfflnionf! drug to meet the immediate needs of i the patient. The result of this law is that in; the State of South Carolina, hundreds of addicts are deprived of their ^ habitual supply of narcotics drugs and, especially in the case of old people, a very great hardship is inflicted. Later on, provision will probably be made by Congress to take care of these cases, but at present the Federal Government has no system of hospitals in which this problem can be handled, and the only course Collector Heyward sees" by which the present situation can be alleviated is for hi mto call the matter to the attention of the people of this State and urge the various municipalities and also all ** societies which have for their object the helping and uplifting of humanity, in the hope that they will endeavor to aid the unfortunate who are not able financially to help themselyes by placing them in some institution where they can be treated and, if possible, cured of the habit. Mr. Heyward has conferred with Dr. Williams, Superintendent of the State Hospital, and the authorities of the hospitals will do everything in their power to help the situation, but they are at present very much overcrowded and cannot receive an addict for treatment, unless such addict I i has been regularly committed by the; county authorities, and, even then, the law of the State requires that their expenses at the hospital must be paid, as only lunatics can be treated free of charge. Mr. Heyward wishes it thoroughly understood that, under the law, he has no right to issue a permit to a physician prescribing narcotics. He can only point out to them what the law is and the Collertor'* Office has made every effort to thoroughly acquaint the physicians and people of the State with the changes in the law There are, however, throughout the ?tate a number of private institutions, which are no doubt in a position to receive patients, and Collector Heyward hopes that once the attention of the people of the State has been called to the present condition of affairs, that they will realize that something must be done and that steps will be taken by municipal authorities, also by societies and public-spirited individuals, to see that all deserving persons who need treatment, receive this treatment. The physicians of the State are in a position to report to these societies and city authorities the names of habituates in the various counties. Mr. Heyward hopes very much that this will be done and done promptly. Ladies' Society Meeting. I The Ladies Society of the Associate ) Reformed Presbyterian Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Wm. P. Greene Thursday afternoon at ':30 o'clock. Buys Home. ivir. l. t\. oouinigs lias puituoscu | from Mr. J. R.Glenn the cottage on Pinckney street now occupied 'by the former. Mr.Stalings saw that if a man is to have a home in Abbeville he must be its owner, and he acted accodingly. The price paid was $2, 700. ) ? the Kitcher You Need Not the Fortunate of a Hoosier o i - i^aDinet ?B??I? f < /' j i i s ? a s I " < I STOVES ""RANGE: 20= ; 4 N. Main EFFORTS OF TAFT AT CONCILIATION STIR WHITE HOUSE | Washington, D. C.f July 25.?For-j mer President Taft's effort to conciliate the opposition to a League of j Nations by' concessions and compromise caused dismay at the White House. President Wilson offered no1 Comment, but Mr. Taft's action seem-' ed to create an impression there of! weakness on his part, a readiness to J surrender his own convictions to <<th?| exigencies, personal, partisan and po-| litical," which he says must be recognized in the present situation. The president has insisted that his desire to see the peace treaty and League of Nations ratified without l?" reservation is not based on any per- ==== sonal feeling but a knowledge of the *rom difficulties in store if /the whole doc- wher< ument is opened up to all nations for change and interpretation. Al- ,leves ready the French parliament is wait- si?ns ing for the American senate to take a the initiative before reopening the ^eaffu | delicate suestion of the Saare bar ^r'en< I sin, which kept the peace conference ^ 11 at sixes and sevens for three f"3* months. could Sctcpif Mr. Wilsonrs position is that reservations may seem innocuous to \ stfcad i American senators but that foreign ,, Avr* n I nations would not so regard them. If | "A1' I Great Britain has assured Senator j ? Lodge that she is ready to accept res-! 1*6SPG ervations, such action not only is * without precedent but would be asservii tonishing to Mr. Wilson, as the usual teresl channel of communication on foreign ^ affairs is through the executive branches of the two governments. Taft Letter Not Liked. 7 The White House didn't like the' iear Taft letter. That was plain to see. Certainly the impression on Capitol Hill was that defenders of the league! Col were giving ground, were yielding to was i the point of view of the opposition. Mond Many senators still view the peace Mrs. 1 teaty through the same perspective well 1 -- _ ? ~r,/.? n-f s)/Ymno+i/? loonalfltian? Mr. 1 ciS '<% pcavc VJL uvi**vww*v *v0^.?.?? finished when the various factions ing ii have agreed either in committee or McCc in conferecne on a compromise. But kept i Cabinet that saves miles o: Kitche x HOOSIER Prices ire so low that every 1 >wn this scientific kite ioy its great convenier No other cabinet sa' 10 other cofribines al tfoosier's capacity is e itruction extra quality, This is the cabinet should have?the one; id. To delay ordering ind energy. Comeanc ind prove this fact fo riaces you under no ot S ?T HOME 0U1 l I " For Lease A twelve-horse farm, three m ing farm of Supervisor W. A houses and near the Abberill prefer to lease for 3 or 5 yean I ing rent, but might rent for or several farms. For furth Rev. M. R. PLAXCO, Abbeville, 3. U. Mr. Wilson's standpoint, that's i the trouble begins. . Taft has made clear he bei the interpretations and concesare unnecessary and that were senator he would vote for the * e unamended. In the opinion of ' is of the league, he therefore ' ,ot help the cause by admitting : vital clauses in the covenant be changed and to some extent iced. e president for example has fastly opposed an idea which faft frankly espouses?the placf a ten-year limitation on the itions by the United States with ct to article 10. Mr. Wilson has that this would be practically lg notice that America was in;ed in peace for only ten years vas in effect telling the other as that they were free to do as pleased at the end of the ' tenperiod. With The Boys. !. Jim Taggart of McCormick, i < ci_J. ] ? ?I n tne city irom oaturu<>> uuui | ay. He came to visit his sister, R. . McCombs, who has not been for some time. Saturday night ?aggart took in the movies, be- i i charge of James and William I mbs and Bill Greene. They j him up until 12:80, which was \ ? ; fsteps i 4. < " :/ m . 11. | P' f I . ; t and Hoosier terms lousewife can easily :hen helper and enlce. ' yes so many steps? 1 wanted features. ixtra large; its con' : every housewife I you have long want ; means wasted time | 1 inspect them today r yourself. . A visit B ligation whatever. H me- Ce, I TFITTERS 1 \bbeville, S- C. | or Rent 1 x ile* from Abb?nll?, adjoin- H l. Stevenson. Good tenant BB ?-Greenwood road. Would |BB i to reliable party for stand- j^H one year, either as a whole fll sr information address H J. RODDEY DEVLIN, Q Greenwood, S. C. |9 lat* hours"for a aiaa from McCo^l nick county. Hp Davis-Hemphill. 53B Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Davis announc^M ;he engagement of their daughtei^H Miss Mlwee, to Mr. Jas. C. Hemphil^J JOHN A. HOLLAND, BH The Greenwood Piano Man. The largest dealer in musica'. lnst^^H nents in Western Sonth Carolina. SeHH )ianos, self-player pianos, organs aH^9 lewing machines. 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