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Established 1844.
The Press and Banner
Abbeville, S. C.
The Press and Banner Company
Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Tplpnhone No. 10.
Entered as second-class matter at
' post office in Abbeville, S. C.
Terms of Subscription:
One year $2.00
Six months 1.00
Three months .50
Monday, April 26, 1920.
BACK TO HONEY.
Texas is at present sending out a
deal of propaganda regarding a sub |
stitute for 35 cent sugar which is
predicted for July 1. That this prophecy
is not without foundation It
maxr hp stated that such a prediction
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was made Saturday by the Austin
Nichols Co., wholesale grocerymen^
of New York, with whom a number
of our local grocery firms deal. One
hundred dollar suits have theifr over-j
alls, dollar butter has its olomargarine,
but the general public has as
yet found no satisfactory substitute
for 35-cent* sugar. Texas asserts
that it has found that substitute by
producing last year 19 million1
pounds of honey. The Lone Star
State also states that sugar did not
always exist. The first mention of it
as a northern European commodity
was in the early fourteenth century
when the price was exactly 34
1-2 cents a pound. This price in, say
1320 meant an equivalent of dollars
today. We have not yet gone hack
to the high prices of sugar's initiation.
Sugar six hundred years ago
was rare luxury and a medicine.
Honey was the standard sweetener,
as it has long been in the Orient.
. Honey was used in cookery, wine,
ale, medicine, etc., to the exclusion
of sugar until coffee and tea gradually
brought in sugar and the latter
became so cheap as to drive honey
off the market. In 1700 England
used only ten-thousand tons of sugar.
The same country In 1900 used
more than a hundred times that
amount. ,?
' Just now honey is selling for 23-'1
cents a pound against the predicted
\ 35-cent sugar. Bee-men say the(
United States does not produce
more than one per cent of Its potential
production of the melliflulous
"sweetening." Chemists also tell us'
that honey does not have the bad ef-1
fppt on the teeth that rogar does.
However, if honey in coffee has the
same effect upon our stomaches that
we recall honey and hot biscuits'
once had, we'll have none of it.
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OVERALLS FOR PARADE?
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If the overall is simply to be added
to the wardrobe, for use in overall
parages, we shall raise the price
of the workingman's daily jeans and
accomplish nothing more. And if
tney are IU UC WUIU ao a vuwcmvn
to fine raiment the saving will not
be appreciable for some time to come.
If the overall is to be of service in
bringing down the prices of clothing
it will have to take the place of
someth.?ig more expensive, and that
something would naturally be the
regular summer suit. Except for the
looks of the thing, and except for
our being bound to the wheel of fashion,
overalls are equivalent to the
kind of material the millionaire
wears at Palm Beach or Daytona.
One of the sure signs ttiat the
overall drive is accomplishing its
original intent would be a scurry
and manifest uneasiness among the
clothing manufacturers. Is there
opposition among the big clothiers of
the country? Hear what Hart, Schaff-,
ner & Jdarx, one of the largest and
most reliable ready to wear manufacturers,
say in response to an inquiry
received by them as to their
opinion of the blue denim drive.1
Whether with an eye to publicity or
out of mere honesty they Indorse the
idea of the universal wearing of
overalls heartily. In their opinion
"the talk about overalls is all right.
It makes people think about economy.
It makes them anxious to reduce
the cost of clothes. If a man
can wear overalls in his work, that
is a good way to save." A great many
sensible merchants would say the
same thing, but the general attitude
of clothiers was expressed in Fifth ^
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avenue's objection to the overal
rade through that street last w<
At all events those prophets
disaster, who foresee a cio'
market gone to the devil, thoru
of businesses ruined, the pri<
suits tail-spinning to the low Jev
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a consequence, are a uit cauj
their predictions. The most thai
be hoped is a slackening in den
temporarily, which may bring p
down a bit, but nothing near no
Too many men in the South hai,
ready either had their summer
delivered or else contracted for
receive even temporary relief,
so long as conditions remain as
a re?people willing to pay the t
demanded?an overall parade as
as the Lincoln Highway will ha\
effect except, probably, to ralsi
price of the overalls to the wor
man who uses them in his tmsi
The latest reported price of the
piece overall in New York is $
which five years ago would bu
fairly decent cool cloth suit.
Apropos of the blue denim
followed so closely by the C
Your-Own Lunch movement in
cities someone has suggested
we had better prepare for the
lowing fads:
Grind your own coffee T>eans.
Reweave that old cigar butt.
Smoke that cigarette down U
firing pin.
Don't throw away that che
gum. Have it reflavored.
Never discard oyster shells.
k * ? 1?
them to tne sea w> De rem^eu.
Cut your own hair.
Make one bathing suit do for
self and. wife.
Add more water to the nearNaked
came ye into the 1
and naked shall ye go out, say
Scripture. And if the clo
prices go any higher naked shs
spend the intervening period.
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WHICH IS MORE SENSATIOI
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1 Whenever we have a murde
lynching, a suicide, a defai
bank cashier, we play it up by
ting the news item in bold ty]
the front page of our papers,
when Carpentier, the French
list steps from the gang planl
the steamship we make the eve
occasion for many pictures ajid
comment in the newspapers. Y<
j may be questioned whether this
true sensation or that all our i
papers which play up these e
1 are guilty Qf yellow journalism
take such events just as we d
drama, shedding our tears, per
those of us who weep, but, afte:
I investing it with a quality of
sion. .1 . i
i Of all our critics, perhaps,
British are the most ardent in
; nouncing what they call our s
tional journals. The London T
I the acme of all British newsp
j is altogether different. Even tl
| King George himself committee
! cide this evening, the London r
of tomorrow would not have
story on the front page. The
page of The Times is devoted !
and eternally to advertisemenl
has no society ladies, murderer;
liticians or athletics menacing
from its front page. But the ey
the habitual Times reader fa
upon an innocent looking col
well known to every reader, mi
"Personal" in ten-point type.
It looks very much like on<
our want ad! columns, but it is
more sensational than the G<
an's front page. Here you find
things as, '"Gerald A. Humps,
of 10 Bangs-road, county of Su
warns people not to trust his
| for he will pay none of her c
Here lovers exchange messages,
an anonymous person regrets
rudeness on Oxford street to
equally anonymous. Here "01
cries to "Pensive Lady", "No, J
Chuck." Here "Mound-Maiden"
"Stewart" that "the inexorable
of caste prevents it." There
tional messages by real people,
every day in this column bold,
put in the newspaper by thems
for 7s. 6d. per two lines.
What American can find th
his "daily?" Wouldn't it be bli
some of our old gossips could
the very personal messages fron
ers, one or both of whom
known to them? Wouldn't our
scription list grow in leaps
bounds if in the "Personal" co
a young gentleman in Lownde
could read a message understoc
him only that the young lady
treated him coldly in Antreville
Sunday was sorry. Or if ay
1 pa- lady in Due West would receive in
eek. the "Personal" column an apology
i of from the young. Abbeville beau who
thing was rude to her at the Erskine-Furjands
man ball game last week?
:e of After all it is xmly in sedate Eng el
as land that you can unfdld your mornj
in ing paper and expect a personal
I
i can heart leap.
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,ricesl ROSEMARY FOR OLD BILL
rmal. j
re a| | Three hundred years ago last Frisul^i
day Shakespeare had been dead^four
*4- frt , , . 1 .
1U years, and ftis iame was Known m a
*us^, few quarters and in the memories
t^eyl of his fellow actors. Today his fame
trices jias . become an artistic tradition
l?ng from which writers of both prose
re no.and verse cannot free ttiemselves.
s the fp^g manner which came naturally
to him is artificial since then. There
:ness,|Will never be another William
! one^ Shakespeare and it is sufficient
7.50, ^he influence of "the bard of
>y a Stratford" still continues to daily
I g^ve pleasure and encouragement to
drive ^ countless millions. May the request
arry I contained in his epitath continue to
be respected.
that
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*?1_i THE ASHEVILLE HOME SCHOOL
The following poem was written
! by Miss Elizabeth Raines, a student
5 the at the above-named school, and is
|reproduced here by request:
iwing There's a grand and glorious Home
j School
Send That's known over land and sea,
And it's loved by all our students,
But it's dearest to you and me.
yourI
Her name shall always linger,
beer.' And her girls shall prosperous be,
world TiU the Chief of all great schools
s the tf?3 sounded calls for me.
thing'
til ye When she's defeated and laid away,
There'll be no one to weep,
For every true Home School girl
^AL? WW be in a peaceful sleep.
j
r, g lllG SI66p insi Knows nu noiviiig
ilting time
' put- Here below
)e on gut the .call that wakes their slumber
Even will be the final blow.
pugiz
Some few girls were a little slow,
an But they're all here at last,
much we j{now -there'll be no errors
lt:i When we look back over the past,
i is a1
| i " ?l, S s
newsi
And when we ge to fight the battle
^ At the dear old Home School bay,
' | With Miss Bundy as our leader
, i We're su reto win the day.
haps, J
r all;
illu- w^en flt last the school is over
r I And we've said our last farewells
the' teac^ers an(* Miss Bunffy
^ " And those dear old morning bells,
ensa?
Then we'll boast about old Home
lmes,
School
apers
lough suPreme? sublime and true,
1 sui- ^"nc* ^rink *? ^ea^th of our deal
Times Teachers and bid them adieu.
the 1
front ^hen we'll boast again Old Home
solely Schr'
is it our own ^r'en^s* ian<*; \
1 To our friends and to our mother's
3, po'
About our dear old Home Schoo
f us
e of band'
.sterts
lumn ! DIVERS AND HARBORS
arked TO GET M0RE MONEY
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a 0? Senate Passes Bill After Total Is
far' Made Twenty-Four Million
iorgi-j . Do"?"
such
late Washington, Apr. 27.?The rivers
rrey" a?d harbors bill was passed today by
i the senate after it had been amended
lebts'< so as to ma'te t^ie $24,000,000
Her^ as against the '$12,000,000 in the
^.g house bill and $20,000,000 recom
one'men^ec^ sena*e committee.
The measure which was approved
tver j
Sweet Wlt"0ut a recor(* vote now soes to
tells con^erence where a sharp fight is exlaw
Pect (**
I Both the senate and house agreed
an(j to the general principle of a lump
_ l sum appropriation rather than
emoielves'Spe
0 gran^s ^or vari?us Pr?,
jects. No new work was authorized.
. . 1 At the request of Senator Reed,
lis in
Democrat, Senator Harrison, Demoiss
if
read Crat' 0 ^1SS,SS1PP' sought early in
i lov-'^6 ^ay to amen<* bill so as to
were niake the total $27?000>?00, but this
i was defeated, 26 to 28. Senator Har
j rison then proposed' $24,000,000,
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lumn which was accePted after long dissville
cuss'on' vote being 64 to 22.
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