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fAliL J. TT V Established 1844. tk The Press and Bannei a Abbeville, S. C. th Gi ' ~ sa The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly A. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. fv Telephone No. 10. th - in Entered as second-class matter at vv post office in Abbeville, S. C. w Terms of Subscription: th One year $2.00 w Six months 1.00 cc ] p Three months .50 !wi FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920. j LET THE OPTIMIST COME FORWARD NOW! ! . k ! in ^ (Manufacturers Record.) ! BL Let no one grow pessimistic about '10 the future or about our country be- ec - - i th cause of the turmoil of the hour. | ^ Strikes are in evidence every-' ' where, but these strikes do not mean 1 i CO that the country is going to the dogs on that business is going to be halt- . in ed. They are the natural outcome of the spirit of uncertainty and turmoil gr and nerve tension through which the .world has been passing for the last ? six years. But they should not be (jr taken as a sign of national decay or of any breakdown of business. For the last five years or more the t ^ seeds of discontent have t>een sown Ch throughout the land. Germany did its utmost to turn America into hell In str order that we might not be a power for good against its evil designs. Pro- se< Germanism in all its vilest forms did its utmost to give aid to the devil in aPl his work, and the devil was probably an' never so active in human history as P?' he has been for the last five years, in cooperation with the ablest agent ^ he has ever had, namely, Germany. so Bolshevism, with all of its accurs- an ed doctrines, has been preached to almost every workman in the land. ar^ Millions of aliens, foreign to Ameri- v,c canism in thought as In birth, have 0x1 foilan on oacv nrpv tn radical labor teachings, and American business "' men, preachers and teachers have na fallen short of their duty in working ma to counteract these evil teachings. We should not be surprised, therefore, that out of all these conditions t 1 n there has come a spirit of unrest and of strikes. Men have been made to believe by the Govenrment itself and by many publications, eccarar and on t religious and by some ministers, that all the business interests of the coun- ' try were engaged in a great profiteering campaign, seeking to rob ? each other and everybody else. The effect of this campaign of evil has been widespread, tout it has not destroyed the genuine Americanism of J1( i the genuine working people of the ]n; country. Many of them have been fls] misled, and at this we need not be se( surprised. They have seen the mount- f,sj 1 in;- co?t o!' living, and have been ^ mr.de to believe tb.at it was due to T,a the work of lvghway robbers, known $a as profiteers, instead of being most- ;-(j< . ly due to a .crowing scarcity of food stuffs and 01 otner ininss which c-uter into life and to the world infla i0 tion which alone would have created ;-.u a large part of the hign pilces now ; prevailing. Three years ago the edito!* of the 'ic Manufacturers Record begged Presi hit dent Wilson to use his official authority to impress upon the country the tol danger of a great food shortage thi and the consequent high prices, say ^ ing to Mr. Wilson that if he did not do so th?re would certainly come socialistic and anarchistic unrest, by people being misled ant? made to be- t0( lieve a lie. But President Wilson, jp V while recognizing the facts we gave him as to the food supply, preferred I that they should not be mace public, ' Violiovino- thnf tVipv would create a I v food panic. The socialistic and anarchistic un! rest of the hour is the natural outcome of the suppression of the truth in the past. But this unrest does not spell disaster. Sooner or later men ^ will learn the facts for themselves, and then there will be a return to ^ sanity and to safety for the country. With all of our boundless resources; with a country more richly en- 51 dowed than any other land In the world; with a population of more than 100,000,000, unvexed by differing languages and the arbitrary ol dividing lines of Europe; with a "< large degree of homogeneity among c< our people; with a more active, virile population than any other land in S e world; with the abiding faith ir large proportion of our people ir e directing power of Almighty ad, we have a sure foundation for fety, sanity and national progress The man who is a pessimist as te merica has little conception of th< - -t AA?i?%^mr iture ui tuid tuuuwj. This is a day for the optimist; foi le man who sees the sunrise com' g ere the day break*; for the mar ho amid the darkness of the nighl ?ars the birds singing; for the mar ho knows that behind the clouc iere is a silver lining; for the mar ho with faith in God, faith in his ?untry, faith in his fellowmen, buci s down to the hardest kind of wort termined that by. his example h? ill do his utmost to carry his part : the burden. This is the kind of man that should > in evidence today in every office every factory, in every home. The optimist is the man for this ur, and his optimism can be bas[ on a foundation as sure as that oi e everlasting truth. Down, then, with the pessimist! 3wn with the man who thinks the untry is going to the dogs? Up with the optimist! Let us sing a spinx 01 optimism, ana soon irie ghty chorus will swell from one id of the land to the other, and ? wail of the pessimist, the howl radical demagogues will soon be owned in a mighty hallujah chorus NEWS PRINT PAPER arlotte Observer. A very striking example of the aits of the newspaper publishers the country are being put to in :uring supplies of white paper for i presses is afforded in the lean pearance of The New York Sun d Herald. That usually big metrolitan paper confined itself for jdnesday's edition to twelve pages, explained that the situation was acute it was forced to "conserve" :1 with a vengeance. This one New rk paper is forced to sacrifice its i*ertising space to the news sere, and it is making sacrifice to the tent of from 225 to 250 columns advertising matter each day. hen a paper is compelled to elimi e its "assets" to that extent, we iy know that what he has come to called "the new:- print /.r.Li a bad one !n the < ? rid. Just how Inn?? nvcr^t er-'r'ilis* -.-low liwt ic niMhionT't i?" !] mil" f;;ct rev..;!-:!- '.hat' ihe papors all :r V.'iO Unite;! States are short rations. The Obsen :v L'"1 handling the situation ro the ?atoct advantage possible for its vertisers, but its policy i< St." DOTE AND HIS FISH. Sinpc Dote inserted his advertise nt in our Want Column, we have ti ali kinds of inquiries about his h business. Most of his "friends >m tr< think that Dote intends to n on Long Cane #from Sunday irning until Thursday night, and t his catch on sale on Fridays and turd ays. In order to jet the eor:t information we had to got into r.miinication with the advertiser. cntrh hi:-, own fish, and that he ys hi.-; yi-o'jk and only puts out his ak for customers. Tic hopes that ? readers of the Press and Ban[ will take kindly to his bait and v.- freely, he says. This talk about iitics may sound "fishy" itself, he (1 i\s, bu: he will try to make ngs interesting. TEACHERS GO ON STRIKE. T!'p Jr'icv-.Tournal was informed lay over long distance from Mountie that the three teachers and JIIUlpcU /jimiiivi mail, uj nit le school, had walked out on a trike"' today when notified by the lstees that they are expected to ike up time lost in closing the 100I. It was not stated whether this >sing was during the flu epidemic not. The information is given as was received by this office and is far, the first "strike" on the part school teachers in this State. The hool was to close soon anyway, so at it may be simply a "premature osing."?Index-Journal. IE THINKS GOD HAS FORGOT SHE IS HERE Springfield, 111., Apr. 27.?The dest woman in Illinois , who says [Jod has forgotten I'm here," has ilebrated her birthday. She is Mrs. Mary Antoinett< mith, No. 214 North 14th street i* On April 18 she will be 108 year i old. Confined to her bed for yearr( because of infirmities of age, sh( ' hopes that this will be her last birth .' day. She regards death as a thing t< ? be desired. And she prays that he: ? romaininp- Havs on earth are few. Mrs. Smith was bom on the Islant of Mandeia in 1812. In 1847 her peo - pie, the Alves, family, Portuguese i'were obliged to leave Madeira and g< t into exile during the persecution 03 i'the Portuguese who had taken uj 1 the Presbyterian beliefs. i, Her mother, Mrs Maria Joaquim > Al\*es, before their exile, was throwr in jail because of her religious be ^ liefs, charged with "apostasy, heresj and blasphemy," found guilty on th< ; latter charge and condemned to die | English residents of the island ap i pealed to Queen Victoria of Englanc , who in turn took the matter up wit? i Queen Donna Maria of Portugal ant i the sentence was commuted to i fine. , For failure to pay the fine Mrs j Alves was kept in prison for tfwenty I three months. When she was releas ! ed the family fled to the Island oi j Trinidad, remaining there for twc ! years and then moving to New Yorl ! with a band o fother exiles undei | the protection of missionaries. Foui !'months Infpr thp family left New ,York, coming to Illinois, where the> ^made their home in Jacksonville. Mrs. Smith is the oldest member j of what is probably the oldest family ! in the United States. Five living ! membes of the Alves family, ranging from 108 to eighty years old, total in age 454 years, an average of nearly ninety-one years. The "baby" of\the family, John Alves of Salt Lake City, is eighty i years old. The others of the family jare: Manuel Alves, ? farmer living j near Jacksonville, who is ninety-six; I Mrs. J. Figueia of Brooklyn, who is j eighty-seven, and J. J. Alves of ! Farmingdale, 111. who is eighty-three. \r? 4.U? Vw> j .VI IS. OlllILIl (b MIC UII1) UIIC U1 lire family who is not active today. She ! has been confined to her bed for more than two years, but aside .from the natural infirmities of her advanced age is in good health. She . is in possession of her faculties but is now only a little wisp of a woman. ?he lives with her daughter. ]\Ir.". rvthrrine Franks, who. though sixtyu r ytars of age is the youngest of five l.vi.ig chiMr-v.. ??"r . Sr..!'/ .: old:-st living child eight-one. She Iia> twenty-seven grandchildren. forty great gran'children .".ml five g'*C"i ? great- grandchildren. Prohibition has been a blow to the aged woman. She misses her wine .-iiice prohibition went into ei/e.'t. 'Sri- ">hi we ;pie oivz'.1- U. vi i.t'wv a hlmuiMn-./' ii!iu' tj her daughter. Iin-l< cirniiy i!:?.* (kiUj'hU'r. Mr*. ! ,;u.i si:.-.. fiu;v c uiu ra--*s fi v <-.:i : 'i.-ra..!y y;- ir.jrc*: aiv.i ^iw.; pro: T 'inhoi 'iiiir tin- family tra lilion * ic> ucviiy. ! 'ho 'i1:.of Aiv:\; "My. J ?>-n .\!v?s of Sn It f.a!;e. .: ' Xni'i *!;.!,! A ! f!v:t tiv.ic !! ' .... -. :U ' Mrs. Smit!i, f ?r the firs *!: si.uy years. SASE2AL;. LEAGUE AI n nr. 'tinu.* hold in Vvaro S'v-.i last Th.i ; - ?<?'*. (I. II. Lollis of thi> .laco was elected Chairman of tY .ov.Tiling Boar.i tin* i4 & > " li:: - j;i Leri'/ue. composed >? iJt-lio . "o.. ! aii;. Aubcvillo. vVaiSho..i li ' nossibly Laurens and GremSa! ' r> ?. i Tl?, . ? ;?1 WM'I'IIVVUUII. 1 IIV. lUitsuv v.una^ers arc arranging a schedule "or the season an.I this will be an.:'>imeo(! in a very short time. The ' . '!ason will open on May Kth, probably with Ware Shoals at Abbeville, and Honea Path at Belton. All trames will be played on Saturdays. Honea Path hopes to see the home team win the pennant, and it is the ducy of the citizens of the town to lend their support to the local club. Be a booster!?Honea Path Chronicle. GOES BACK TO PRISON Til A *11. 07 PnknH doiieu, ill., -nyi. -..? Needham, paroled three weeks ago after serving part of a sentence foi burglary,, scaled the walls of the state penitentiay from the outside early this mornng and sneaked bacli into the prison because he fount himself unable to cope with the higl jcost of living as a free man. \ "The only way to beat the higl ' cost of livin,. is to be in prison," saic 5, Needham. I ; As long as a man can Keep hi . temper he isn't his own worst enemj 0 I I ! \/lico I ilio-ri F)#=> Avmr itxxoo l^mun j?' v_ i 111 a xv. Comedians wee i BHoi Rnliip n H IP S V ^ K/ ^ ^~|"^HOSE who u I weakness is yfp^! satisfactory n lp^lS| duwn in grade and ijS lower grade o: fuel Chalmers eng] serious problem. 1 - wi The raw "gas properly, strikes th< ' of water falling on liifMI Thus the heav ||y|ffii|| ^ has 'c^e slightest il'itelS Ram's'horn manifo 1{] ; .j^a Mil * ^-s 'ke spark ! iMSS pet instantaneous c j 'pJUsi ijl!pj?|| You get smooi quent saving in rep i'ouled spark plugs !i ?W| t0 t^e in^er^or '"Sas I pSiS Ride in a Cha Hi f*cw great cars of tl Ji A. I ilk. v- -V mar 'j3h' jd ', pi l\A % V ..: >; P: ? V'/\ ''' ~ / \ ' 4 ' / * >nd with Melville's ? :k of May 3rd j? ALME and Rani s-hon Serious Problen # i mderstand motor cars know that the inability of the various engi] ssults from gasoline. Gas has go: engines have not been redesigne( ineers were first to supply the a; They devised the Hot Spot and F too heavy for the carburetor 1 2 Hot Spot, and the result is muc the top of a red'hot stove. y "gas" is turned into a "dry clou chance to revert to "mist" it is j id into the cylinders. plugs touch off this tinely vapoi ombustion and maximum power. uhncss, the absence of vibration a air bills from burned bearings, so and many troubles that are all t " of the day. lmers and you, too, will say that i ie day. r irci w i ^ 138 . v,-/ i-L*z- & XL--: J - \S s ?IBB S 1 ^biJ EJ ^ All announcements in the candiitei column are published for cash i advance. FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a candiate for Sheriff of Abbeville County l the Democratic Primary, and I ledge myself to be governed by the lies and to abide the rosult of the rimary. C. J. BRUCE. in . .a.t ; i :;rse:! X candiate for Sheriff of Abbeville County t the Democratic Primary, and I ledge myself to be governed by the lies and to abide the result of the rimary. J. N. BLUM. CLERK We ae authorized to announce R. Cheatham as a candidate for Clerk Court, subject to the rules of the mocratic party and he pledges mself to abide the result of the imariea. SUPERVISOR I hereby announce myself a candiate for re-election as Supervisor of bbeville County and agree to abide le result of the primary election. W. A. STEVENSON A busy man is one that can't find me to meddle with things that don't ancern him. 656 has more imitations than any ther Chill and Fever Tonic on the larket, but no one wants imitations, hev are dangerous things in the ledicin^ line.?Adv. RS ^1 ^ Quality l irst " the prevailing nes to deliver ne down and >n|lfpg i to meet the nswer to^ this 1 to vaporize it ;h like a drop |j^|| d" and before jlfiBjP rushed via the jj||S|| ized fuel you nd the conse' ilfljlfj Dred cylinders, :raceable back j| jjjjj t is one of the 1