Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Established 1844. The Press and Bannei Abbeville, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter a post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: rv? ?9 viic ycai r?v, Six months ? 1.0( Three months > ,5( Monday, May 3, 1920. ALEXANDER C. KING, JUDGE President Wilson has appointee Alex. C. King, of Atlanta, Judge o1 the fifth circuit. He succeecrs Judg< Don A. Pardee who died some weeks ago. The appointment is a most .hap py one. Mr. King ranks with the besl # lawyers in the United States. He is a native of Charleston, was educate^ in Savannah, and for thirty-five years has been a lawyer m Atlanta, the senior member of the firm of King & Spalding. He has been engaged in most of the Important litigation in his adopted city the last quarter of a century. His Targe practice has brought him frequently be 1U1C tuc VVU1WO VA I^VV?V4. W* Two years ago he was appointed Solicitor General of the United States, which position he has filled with great credit to himself and the country. Mr. King is not a politician. He ";s never sought political office. The honors which have come to him in the great profession of the law have been won by merit alone. If the legislature of South Carolina and the appointN^g power generally would exercise the good judgment 3| in the selection of judges wnlch has K j^fceen exercised in this ease by the Department of Justice in Washington and by the president, the courts would not so often be the target foi adverse criticism. Mr/ King is the kind of lawyer the lawyers and the people generally should desire to see on the bench. [PATRIOTIC DISCRIMINATION V There should be patriotic discrimi near) in mnlrlnCT J? ilist hasii iiatxvii movu in ^? of awards to ex-soldiers. That a dol lar a day should be paid to ex-sol diers who are healthy, making a living-, or otherwise able to take care oi themselves, would be an unpardon { 'able waste of the nation's money That the expenditure of billions, if il be necessary, in caring for the sev r enty-two thousand mentally derang ed and fifty thousand tubercular cas es attributable to our European ex p?ditlon, for the maimed, the gasset the peculiarly impoverished of oui fighters would be a wise expenditun of the nation's money. for the fully capable ex-soiaiei no monetary testimonial should b( necessary, and if his futuure actions are like his past, he will neither asl it nor expect it; in a great majoritj of the cases he will write his con gressman in protest, against the pro posed bill of the ways and mean; committee to pay a billion dollars t< men requiring vocational training and a billion to pay ex-soldiers at th< rate of a dollar for every day of ser ice. NOT THE WAY TO DO IT. "Chips for the Home Fires" is th< name of what is said to be "The Offi cial Organ (also Trombone,: Corne and Drum) of the Campaign Com mittee to raise One Million Dollar for Christian Education in the Syno< of South Carolina." We Save re ceived the first, number of the Or gan and find this paragraph amoni the "bright sayings," we suppose they would be called: t ^ > *r* "A Jew here was writing his son in uniform in France a bout a recent fire or two at the old stores. The "week later the pater wrote that one of the stores had been burned down. Then the son wrote home: 'Dear Pa: All that I have to say is, "Keep the hOirte fires burning." Isn't that clever? Did you eve hear anything quite so funny> Bv isn't it raw and cheap and altogethe out of place in the official organ of great movement for the promotio of Christian education? Many of the best people we have ever known wer? Jews. They have been very liberal contributors to all good causes; tc educational institutions under th? control of Christian denominations; to the support of Young Men's Christian Associations; to other deserving community enterprises. They did their part in the recent great World War and among the immortal dead t who offered their lives for what ? called Christian civilization hundreds of their race and faith lie sleeping overseas. They have never been J found wanting in courage and theix ) good deeds must be accounted tc ) their credit. We have not the least doubt that the Jews would esteem it* a privilege to contribute generousfy to the present great educational effort of the Presbyterians of South Carolina. , We do not believe that they will be j'deterred by the publication of such 41 "chips" as that we have taken from I the "Official Organ" from doing what 11 they can in aid of this effort; but we ^protest that the road to "Christian j (Education in the Synod of South j' Carolina "does not lie this way.? ^Spartanburg Journal, "i ?????! A BLUE DENIM WEDDING. '! '( We have recently read the follow ing account of the latest styles for ' wedding ceremonies and pass it along for due consideration by prospective June brides of our locality. | "Miss Matilda Stewpid became the I bride of Oscar Silly today, the feature of the wedding being the appearance of bride and bridegroom in i overalls. The ceremony was performi ed in Rosenberg's hardware store. 1 The bride carried a large spray of brick-laying tools, with hod to 1 match, and many present commented ! upon her resemblance to old Mike 1 Stewpid, her great-grandfather, who : was a first class hod-carrier and who laid the foundations of the family ' fortune. The groom carried a pick ' and the workingman's conventional 1 lunch box. "The bride's gift to the bridesmaids consisted of a set of carpentry tools. The groom's gift to his best man was the Seaboard's book of rules for brakemen. I I "As soon as the reporters and ! camera men left the happy couple ! ok off their blue denim, donned I i their regular million dollar clothes, ' and left for a honeymoon expressly 3 mapped out with the idea of getting as far away as possible from people who fear cheap raiment." J THE DUE WEST WAY i . Two weeks ago there was an epi_ f^emic of influenza in Due West in ^ consequence of which the class rooms of Erskine College were " closed for a week. The boys who lived near enough went home, but there are always boys from Missis. 1 sippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Ala. bama, who cannot go home and re. turn in so short an interval. During j this enforced vacation these boys de_ r cided to make a fight on H. C. L. or i get the benefits to be drived from it. 5 First., they erected a garage for : Mr Brownlee,. a building which he r had been wanting built for a con_ siderable tittle The carpenters up - that way,, are like they are in Abbe. 3 ville ,too busy as well as orna> mental to do much work. But some of ; the college boys proved to know how i to build, and i"ri a week the build ing was practically completed. Some i of the boys made as much as $47 at i the work, enough in the old days to 'pay one.third of the years' ex_ ! penses in procuring an education. 2 This gave the boys an idea, so they - have been ready for work whenever t the opportunity presented itself. Last week a load of terra cotta pipe s arrived in the college town. The 1 negro laborers struck for higher wages when unloading time came, ' whereupon the college boys took the S job, and unloaded the pipe in just e.two hours. The pipe then had to be 'laid in the*ditches dug for the new [sewer line and the ditches filled., an.] ; no laborers could be found for thi.-: j job until the boys came to the rescue j again, where, under the leadership of ' Prof. Paul Grier, they learned some I thing of engineering in a practical ; way as well as earning wages. I In the North during the strikes | the commuters have been firing en. j gines and doing other work on th< ;r railroads in order to keep them go. it ing. They have formed what ha: >r been called 'The linen collar bri. a gade." in Due West, it should be 'The n Linen duster brigade.' I .'going to new york t! to buy stock for | new jewelry store i Frank E. Harrison, Jr., will leave , some time this week for New York to buy such a stock of goods and , equipment as is necessary to furnish | an up.to.date jewelry store, which I he will open p in the building just I vacated by the National Bank. This ( building is a splendid location for a t jewelry store and Mr. Harrison pro_ ,| mises to completely renovate it and jjplac^the latest in showcases and .1 jewelry cabinets. J His stock of jewelry, silverware, | put glass, pins, watches etc. promiees | to be a thing of beauty and worthy oi | carelul examination on tne pan ji 'j the public. J U .S. MOVES TO NIP 'RED' PLOT ! : Washington, May 1.?The department of justice today moved to check May Day disorders, which the att torney general states he knows have been planned by extremist organiza(tions. * ( Agents of the department have been widely scattered to protect in| dustries against lawlessness and to thwart plots which the attorney | states have been made on the lives of | State and federal offices. "Information gathered by secret service operatives of the department of justice showed that a nation wide , plot was in progress to bring about ' a series of industrial demonstrations marked b ythe mailing of bombs to high officials. Official* Marked i It is understood that on the list of l those marked for death were the attorney general, at least one justice of the Supreme Court, Governor Allen, of Kansas, Elbert Gary and Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts. Mr. Palmer said the locai police in every State had been notified by agents of the department of justice to give the fullest protection to those marked for death by the "Reds" on 1 May Day. The names and addresses of these officials have been communicated to local authorities with requests for special protection, Mr. , Palmer said. j Agents of Lenim and Trotzky, the attorney general stated, were operating in this country to bring about an ,inuusaiai reign oi terror in. New .York Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and other manufacturing centers on May 1 as part of a more extensive plan for coincident demonstrations in Fance, England, Ireland Italy and Denmark. According to department of justice officials, a saturnalia of violence may be expected in the United States and other countries by radicals who plan to make Mtav 1 an "international labor day" by demonstrations against existing government everywhere. Propaganda Sent Out The attoi-nev general stated that radical publications had printed and dissembled thousands of handbills j and posters in industrial districts all I over the country calling upon the I workers to lay down their tools on : May 1. Many workers in no way identified with extremist activities has been solicited to quit work and I join with the radicals in an indus trial revolutionary movtmifc. Officials of the department of justict stated that they look for a mor: | extensive repetition cf last year's bomb plots, in which a number of I bombs were mailed to officials in va1 rious sections in packages bearing : forged labels of Gimbel Brothers' de, partment stores in New York, j It was recalled that the outrages (of last year culminated in the atI tempted blowing up of the attorney general's residence in this city. The man who attempted to plant the bomb was blown to atoms by its premature explosion., POST ATTACKED: . < AND DEFENDED J Washingtoi, May 1.?Administra^ I tion by Louis F. Post, assistant secI retary of labor, of radical deportai tion cases was attacked and defended | 4 , t , j today oeiore tne nouse ruies cnmmutee, which is investigating Mr. Post's "l official conduct. ' I Members of the immigration comI mittee headed by Chairman Johnson ,! declared they had evidence that gov< | ernment efforts to break up "tht i most damnable conspiracy in the na fied through release by the depart 5 tion's history" were practically nulli . I fied through release by the depart ! ment of labor largely at the instance 1 of Mr. Post, of most of the 5,00( communists arrested in nationwide < raids. i ' The course of the department of labor, including that of the assistant secretary, was defended by Jackson H. Ralston, counsel for Mr. Post, who declared that the only criticism { that could be directed against his 1 administration as that he had "exer- 1 cised humanity" and had proceeded on the theory that only in most ex- * treme cases should a man be torn * from his family and sent from the i country. J Mr. Ralston attacked the depart- * ment of justice, asserting its agents ' I had used, methods in dealing with al- ^ ( leged radicals that were not countenanced even in Russia when the ? czarist regime was at the height of ? its power. I Representative Siegal of New 1 York, Republican member of the 1 immigration committee, declared c that secrecy maintained by the department of labor in deportation pro-' j BwaHnaauH Ctvrtf* 1920 Tk. Hcmm W K?k?1m Qu< as " YOU sometimes ards in commod er days. Some men evei stack up in qual They say the old But are they? good clothes wi There's a plea; who sighs for th Kuppen good Cl< reflect the integ the quality of th I new. r. It took years t< : . . Kuppenheimer' eminent in all c wants to be we' is to be had for Puru It UI11 . )i wmmmmKmasmm :eedings was without precedent a?d li without authority. - c 'tl Bringing Back Sunken Treasure p Si Untold millions in gold and silver t< ind other precious commodities have seen sunk during the war by subma- 2 risen and othewise. Naturally, men it once set their brains to work to try ;o recover some of this treasure, particularly in those waters where sunken ships are strewn the thickest. Bradstreet's reports that sunken treasure worth $200,000,000 hqs now seen raised around the British Isles, it continues: The Restorer and Reliant, two SI living vessels that were bought by i British concern from the American ^ ^avy, have a new device, an oxyace;ylene flame, which is worked under ^ s< 17ofor fnr nnffinor Viin fVia IXV/i VtJ All L11U OIUCO >f submerged vessels. Each ship has twenty-five electric e* jumps capable of pumping one mil- a Mr ility Standar good as of yor 5 hear the remark that q lities do not compare wit 11 have the idea that cl< ity and workmanship as [ quality standards are g( The man who wears I 11 say "no." sant surprise in store, her e quality of old. heimer "vfll AO JlllCO rrity, the thoroughness, e past-and, every good 1 o learn how to produce way. That's why these c) :haraeteristics that the m; n si nrl vet wants li UA VUUVVA ^ ? - his expenditure. W Xr R( iVI W Ji mi HnHM on gallons of water an hour, and arries two divers, search-lights, lineirowing guns,, electric welding slants, rock drills, and other accessories. Each diver is equipped with a slephone. COTTON MARKET. Spot __ 43.06 May __ 40.45 July 38.2? Oct 35.70 Dec. 1 34.95 Jan. 34.50 gjgjgjgjgjgjgfgjgjgjgigigjgjgjgfgfgjgjgjgfgjgjg/gj And those chaps who think that bey ought to get pay for being good robably wouldn't draw much of a ilary at that. Some men keep their religion lockd in a safety deposit vault six days week. I Hi ds | uality stand- 8 h those of oth- If 3thes 'do not 9 they'used to. ji )ne. j? Cuppenheimer m e, for the man jS i St2J the skill and m thing that is g clothes in the m lothes are pre- ' an seeks who .1 M-: fhp most that m - eese