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FRIDAY, SEPTEttiMiM o, aviv M* BIG J ' LAND SALE J The Oliver BranI yon Farm of 365 acres, six miles of I Honea Path III HI Ill flUUJIUIll FRIDAY SEPT.5-" [ i ? This is a Splendid T? U/:iL rarm vv iui Good 8=Room House Tenant Houses! Barns and Productive Lands ton muucD flUL uiniun t II GROUND $300.00 j i.- Worth of Valuable I, nniTrc Sale on he Farm || toiillwn Innrt UUUIIIUIII LUliU lift "We Sell Lots and Lots of Lots and Farms, My! My!" ASHEV1LLE, N. CAROLINA. Anderson Office With ? * CDCTWCI 1 ^ I > STRIKE OF RAILROAD CAPITAL IS SUGGESTED BY S. D. WARFIELI Washington, Aug. 31.?Railroai capital as well as labor may "strike' unless congress grants its demand in planning for the future of th< roads, S. Davies Warfield suggeste< today in a statement supplemental? to recent testimony before the housi interstate commerce committee. Mr. Warfifield is author of the rail road plan sponsored by the nationa association of owners of railroad se curities. * Kepesenting large numbers o: banks, trust companies, insurance companies and individual investors that own railroad securities, Mr Warfield said that unless congress makes the railroad investments suf ficiently attractive, capital will de sert the railroad for more profitabh fields and leave the roads without the credit necessary to their opera tion and development. Mr. Warfield's statements were ii advocacy of his plan to guarante( lines "six per cent dividends. This he said, will mean reasonable returns for the lines without watered stock and small dividends for the overcapitalized lines. All returns abovt six per cent are to be divided among the public in the form of lower rates labor and capital equally. "The situation will be utterly hopeless if the railroads are returned to their owners without constructive legislation," Mr. Warfield said. "We have asked that pending the putting into effect of this plan the standard return now being paid tc the railroads be continued. It would be most disastrous if time is noi given within which to bring aboul the proper adjustments. Director General Hines was quot ed by Mr. Warfield as unequivocabls indorsing the position taken by security holders that any legislatior enacted must provde a fixed returr of not less than six per cent. The senate interstate commerce committee subcommittee has completed drafting of a railroad bili which will be introduced Tuesdaj and referred to the full committee. OPPOSES PLUM PLAN. Shortly after the appearance oi the Plumb plan of railroad control, Governor Cornwell of West Virginia wrote to the governors of othei States, calling attention to the Iosj in tax receipts would the Statei would suffer if the Plumb plan were adopted. He estimated the yearlj loss for his own State at $3,000,000 His action was criticised by the officers of certain labor union at Huntington, W. Va., to whom he thereup on wrote the following letter: "Charleston, August 11, 1919 "Mr. E. Brennan, President, "Mr. J. H. Williams, Secretary. Federation of Railway Employes Huntington, W. Va. "Gentlemen: Of course I regrel that any of my fellow citizens shoulc disagree with, or feel aggrieved witl me because of my views upon anj public question, but that cannot deter me from having and exercising the same freedom of opinion thai you have. When you asked for ar eight-hour day I was with you, heari and soul. "I was then and am now, in favoi of your securing not only a fair, bul a liberal wage, but when you ask the fanners and the laborers in othei lines of work to go in debt $20,000,000,000 through the medium of the federal government to buy the railroads and give them to you to operate for your benefit and to use as you please, you are making a propositior that is neither sane nor fair. "To me it is little short of amazing that men possessing the intelligence of the train men I meet shoulc be gulled into making such unreason able and outrageous demands. "If the people bought the railroad! and gave them to you to run for you] benefit, telephone and telegraph em ployes would demand the same thinj of these properties. They have a! much right to it as you have. Thei the coal miners would demand tha the mines be purchased and given t< them, and they have as much right t< make that demand as you have. "Then the farm laborers, with evei better right would say, 'We produce< the food you live on?buy the farm and give them to us.' Then we have not Socialism, but chaos. They art trying to run things that way in Rus sia and we know the rteolt. "I intend to try to present to tin ~T" j people of the State what this plan i means. First, as to the shifting of * >| the burden of taxation, or some four * ' million dollars of it, in West Virginia t 1 j from the railroads on to the farmers * and home owners if the Plumb plan j1 8. were to go through. It would make < & Cabell, Wayne, McDowell, Mercer je ijand Mingo Counties unable to pay{ f j the debt they are creating to build 6 s j public roads. It would stop road* j building, building of school houses,11 "t and all public improvements. "I have been a laboring man my-:* self?carried a dinner bucket?for a 1 j dollar a day. My labor now is not * * regulated by eight, ten or 12 hours 1 ! but often 16 and sometimes 18. I s ; am not now and never expect to be a!1 *, capitalist, but I am an American, not!'3 s, a Bolshevik. I stand for law and or-,' | " ;der and I am not asking somebody j1 "j to buy property and give it to me, 5 but want to work and give honest ser- j * 11 f vice for every dollar I receive. [ I "Very truly yours, j* (Signed) "John J. Cornwell, li ' "Governor." . CONDITION COTTON S si AUG. 25, 58.2 PER CENT. * ?! ? * J Columbia, Aug. 28.?The Ameri! can Cotton Association issued the ' following report tonight, placing the C , condition of the cotton crop on Aug- t | ust 25 at 58.2 per cent. The govern-' a ' ment crop report, giving condition c on August 25, win oe issued sepiem- a j ber 2. There was a difference of on- B ly 1 per cent in the last American' ! Cotton Association report and the a sj government report: j"\ ? "The condition of the growing v 1' crop up to August 25 for the belt is * 58.2. The crop is from two to four^E t weeks late. It has a diseased rootjS ' system; sappy and unable to stand ^ r 'reverses; extremely poorly fruited; t r'shedding and showing rapid deterior-,f Jation and premature opening. I "Insect damage has been record- a ' breaking. Boll weevil damage is the p largest eve known. In addition to ! this boll worm, army worm and red! B spiders have done serious damage. B II There is serious damage also from rj boll rot. 1 "Labor is extremely short and un- t j satisfactory. The gathering of even I j the record-breaking small crop, which ^ ,j is now a certainty, will be a most serious problem. Under favorable weather conditions delay in gather-j I J ing will be serious and will result in I i in fioWc nnniplr- I ' tuttun o^aimuitL in i/uv iivivtu J. }'ed, causing crop grade to be low. $ i With adverse weather conditions losses on account of extreme labor con-i ditions will be enormous, resulting in ihe largest percentage of off grade of any crop ever gathered. I "Acreage abandonment will be 9 11-4 per cent. This is the largest a-' | mount ever recorded. The farmers' < I are forced, on account of the great I scarcity of labor and the record-j j breaking seasons, to abandon this; ' amount of acreage. This will show; the largest reduction in the yield | probably ever recorded. No deduction has been made in our condition report for abandonment, nor will the j Department of Agriculture show any I deduction for acreage abandonment j until the end of the season." . | BAPTISTS TO PUBUSH PAPER TO AID WORK i i "J Greenville, Aug. 30.?With a view : to informing every Baptist upon the ij purposes underlying the Baptist 75 j Million Campaign, and upon the de tailed progress of the Campaign organization in South Carolina and other Southern States, an extensive and complete publicity campaign has i been inaugurated covering virtually1 I - I all phases of the big money-raising j campaign to be made Nov. 30 to Dec. 7. j j A sixteen-page monthly magazine,! I'"The Baptist Campaigner" will' 'make its first appearance on Septem-j | ber first from Southern headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., and its. rj circulation will be South-wide. With-j -j in the state of South Carolina, the^ fj Baptist Courier, the official organ; 3^of the denomination, published at' i; Greenville, is now being sent to 50,t, 000 homes weekly, with a view to j >: covering the fifield in an intensive > way and carrying all the news of the: i Campaign week by week to the Bap^ i tists of the state. ii An interesting feature of the publicity campaign is a four-page folder ,jin colors, including a map of South s Carolina, showing county and asso rifttinnal boundarv lines, and the lo ! cations of the 1,142 white BaptistJ s! churches of the state. This folder is I I * iow on the presss, and will be distributed broadcast in a few days. In iddition to the map, the folder shows ;he state and associational appor aviuuvuto, auu CUIURKCS a vain)aign catechism" setting forth in :ondensed form a numbe of the outstanding features of the campaign. Artistic posters are also to be issued in large quantities in the next :ew weeks, following somewhat the )inciples used by the Government in ts Liberty Loan Campaign. Bill >oards are al^o to be used judiciousy throughout the state, and in adlition to these general publicity terns, a number of pamphlets,, and mall booklets, containing detailed nformation about the Campaign wi^f >e placed in the hands of interested Japtists who will take an active part n the campaign work. Prepared peech-suggestions for the 5,000 our-minute men who are to be aplointed in the state, are also to be ridely distributed. AV\VVV\VVv\vvvvv V . SANTUC NEWS. V v AVVVVVVVVVVSV^ Santuc, Sept. 3.?Mr. and Mrs. 'arl Callaham and children of Sparanburg, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. McGee ;nd children, Mrs. John Kay and hildren of Belton, motored down ,nd spent Sunday pleasantly at Mr. I. B. Kay's. Messrs. Jessie Richey, Walter Coc nd Private Carlton Vermillion of Vare Shoals, spent Saturday night irith Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Haddon. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kay and son ^rancis, and Miss Lizzie Sharp spent lunday at M. A. M. Milford's and eported Mrs. J. B. Sharp some beter. This will be good news to her riends. Mrs. A. J. Morrison and son, Miles, nd Mrs. Ermie Haddon were shopiing in the city Wednesday. Mr. W. F. Kay and family and diss Lizzie Sharp spent Monday at 1. B. Kay's. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Drennan of Lnderson, spent Thusday night with heir parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Jeauford. ^ Mrs. James Haddon and children bhhbbi MA ] a \ Haiisanev signed for the has points that It is a car wl \ hook?either i The BEAU1 pendiiure, wra too little are ai Souther I j^ALVIT^ELlJ: | spent Saturday with Mrs. Ermie , Haddon. j Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kay and chil| dren dined at Mr. T. F. Uldrick'e on Sunday. | Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Haddon and i baby are visitine Mr. John Petti-' j grew and family this week. Miss Annie Kay spent Friday night with Mrs. Frank Kay. I Mrs. Tuppy Boyd has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs.1 K. I. Bryant of Georgia. Mrs. A. J. Morrison and children: i have returned to their home in Co-j I lumbia, after art extended visit to I relatives in Hodges, Due West and : Santuc. I Engraved Cards and Invitaion*? | The Press and Banner Co. i : ! UI rciieri 0SB3SBEL ! COLLEGE OF FOUND! , A college of highest standard, intentionally limited enrollmenl Four-year courses lead to the Bf cal course, a special feature. Addre** HARRISON R j CHARLES I EXPERT 1IRI ===== Four years experu Let us Icok ever yc MARTIN ai At City I 9 ! R S H J 5EAUTY FOUF v' * 1 t \ r line that we hm taken Motoring Public and we will appeal to a large ch lich will not be a drain a first cost or maintenan rY-FOUR exemplifies w( fre the pitfalls of spendii raided. n Auto & Sap 5, Agent. A ' STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Abbeville. In Probate Court. Notice of Settlement end Applice?. c c:..i iivu iv> t au?i vw?m?i #vv TAKE NOTICE, that on the 16th day of September, 1919, we will render a final account of our actings and doings as Executors of the estate of John D. Alewine, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate for Abbeville County, and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from our trust as such. . All persons having demands a< rainst said estate, will present same for payment on or before that day, proven and authenticated, or be forever barred. t at/pvmrc M. P. ALE WINE, 8-19-4t. Pd. Executors. * ' 'J| CHARLESTON 1 lD 178S- ' i. 'f| open to men and to women. An t insures individual instruction. ichelor's Degree. The Pre-MediANDOLPH, President. r V TON.S.C. ! REPAIRING 3 ?? t snce in tire building. >ur?. id PENNAL. Garage. ggjjjjjjjllglp IB iLL I m i I 1 Hi on* It is de- H are convinced :' ' m us of motorists. & U on the Docket-^ H I I ill balanced ex- 1 I * ig too much or | I i I ply Co. bbeville, S. C.