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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920. j
LET THE OPTIMIST COME FORWARD
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BL Let no one grow pessimistic about '10
the future or about our country be- ec
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cause of the turmoil of the hour. |
^ Strikes are in evidence every-'
' where, but these strikes do not mean
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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
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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,
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while recognizing the facts we gave
him as to the food supply, preferred
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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.
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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 !! '
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: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.
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; As long as a man can Keep hi
. temper he isn't his own worst enemj
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ijS lower grade o: fuel
Chalmers eng]
serious problem. 1
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properly, strikes th<
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Serious Problen
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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.
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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.
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^ Quality l irst "
the prevailing
nes to deliver
ne down and >n|lfpg
i to meet the
nswer to^ this
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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
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