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 i post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.0 Six months 1.0 Three months .5 WEDNESDAY, MAY 1?. 1920 A SOUND PLANK I ' The country is being agitated ju: now by all kinds of people who d not want to work. Trouble is threa' ening everywhere, and everywhei there is unrest. President Wilso says that it is all because we hav not adopted \lhe Hope of the Worl< and on that account "the heart c :he world" is about to be broke! "Mankind everywhere" and other .ire crying for the League of Ns tions. Some people think that the h bor unions are responsible for th unrest, while the labor unions thin it is other people. Undesirable cit zens are being run out of the cour try and anarchists are being ai rested and tried because, In som quarters, the trouble is all being lai at their doors, >'" Just what is causing all the trou blje is a matter for argument and ead person will have his own opinior Vice President Marshall has adv? -c ed a new idea on the subject, an upon mature reflection we are in clined to think he is right. He say the trouble with the country is tha we are in need of "a good five cen cigar." There can be no doubt that a ciga of this quality and at this pric would tehd to reduce the high cos of living, unless perhaps some of th reckless spenders might try to smok two 6t once after having paid fifteei cents and a quarter for a smoke al these months. For the man wtth a eye to economy, however, the fiv center would go a long ways to mak the world happy again. "With th coming of the good old summer tim? and the shade of the, big oaks, an plenty of candidates to talk to, ther is no reason why all of us shoul not take a rest and get back to tn feood old days of before tie waj ^There is nothing on a hot- numme day which tends to contentmen more than for the plow-Tiand to fin a politician at the end of i. row jus v.here the big persimmon tree stand especially if he has a cigar to giv you to smoke while he tells you o the ills of the country. The^n. too th s lawy>er? about the court house town could enjoy sitting on th? benche and in the parked automobiles errant Hpal more if it were not so e> pensive to make a cloud of smok like a smoke-stack. And as for th politicians it would be cheaper tor because the H. C. L. will tell on ther if they are forced to "set 'em up on high priced Havanas. We are not trying to persuade anj one to abandon his favorite remed for the country's ills, but only to er dorse the new plank in the platforr of the Vice President. Unless it 1 speedily adopted and put into opera tion the matter should be referred t the League of Nations. GOOD READING "All the thrill of historical ro mance may be found these days ij your boy's arithmetic book. In it pages flourish farmers who still sel potatoes for 56 cents a bushel am grocers who offer eggs in any quanti ty fQJE*24 cents a dozen. And as fo sugar^why,-just listen to "thistfroE 0 barti^s-pf.sugat each Icpiatainjng. l,40^pfcuj*ds; Clf h ,. sells a' pound how much fhoney will he have?" In this good book dwell prosperou grocers who have baigain sales o butter at 24 cents a pound and love able milkmen who stick to the ol price of 8 cents a quart regardless o what milkmen outside the book hav done. No wonder, therefore, that withi ite pages reside happy families o six who can Jive on $89 a month, a in this problem: The grocer}' and moat bill of ! family of six amounts to $39 a I month. At that rate what would a; ! family of four pay for meat an ' gi'ocerieg per month? ' i There is talk of revising school' arithmetics so that their problem-.1 written in good old days when sugci was 6 cents a pound, shall be more1 realistic. But no! no! Let there b-11 ; no change! Never were arithmetic I bocks such pleasant reading as now.! it They not only teach arithmetic, but I >)< / ? +<-nipV?in?r nc t-Viov fin nnnn (those happy days when a markett| i basket could be filled for a dollar. 0, And if they should revise artithnv.' ! 0 tics in accordance with the-prices o'JI q toda^, who knows but what these jj prices will be hopelessly out of datcjj I tomorrow," The above editorial from the In- j dex-Journal is good reading but there might be added further attractiveness in the following , prob5t lems: 0 A boy went to a store with $5.73! in his purse. He bought 3 1-4 pounds e of butter at 24 cents a pound, 13 n 1-2 pounds cf sugar at 7 c. a pound, e and 2 pounds of coffee at 18 c. a * pound. How much money did he have left? 1, . What we would like to know is ! ^ i why his mother gave him so much J money to make the purchases. She i shoudn't have risked him with the ! ^ whole month's grocery money. Again, what will be the cost of uniforms for a baseball nine at $2.47 for each uniform? I One league style baseball cost this , much now. I If 10 days are required for 5 ' workmen to build a wall, in how l" many days can 8 men build the wall? We would hate to be compelled to u stand on any wall that either 5 or S laborers would construct inside of ^ 00 days. " Find the wages of a man for v j * weeks, 4 days. 8 hours at $8 a week. This must be a typographical error j or else copied from More's Utopia. Surely the baby's nurse-girl is thej r one working for $8 a week; no man! e works for that little a day any more.' C A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR Si e Newberry Herald and News. Np.wherrv is the home of iuderesil n "" " "" - " ! ^.and so far?as we can i*ecall has the honor of holding membership on the 3 supreme bench of South Carolina | ^ longer than any other county in the ^ State, and certainly holding the posig tion of chief justice. And even now ^ the chief justice Is a descendant of good Newberry people. His forbears , were natives of this county and not ,'so very long ago since they moved . over to Abbeville. it ^ Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary of ,f Abbeville ran up from Columbia on Friday afternoon to spend the weekend in Newberry with his daughter, ? Mrs. Dr. Thomas H. Pope, and we e were very glad to see him and to see g him looking so well and so young. He g comes of a distinguished family and a is himself a very learned judge and writer on jurisprudence and has been e on the supreme bench in South Caroe lina for 30 years. His other two , brothers were on the circuit bench, 't n Judge Ernest Gary dying only a few >? years ago and Judge Frank B. Gary is now one of the best judges on the r circuit, and by the way is holding court in Newberry this week. LOUISVILLE MAN PUT n IN NEW I. C. C. POSITION s l" Washington, May 10.?The Inter0 state Commerce Commission Monday appointed W. A. Colstein of Louisville, Ky., director of the finance of "the commission under the new railway act. Under this act Mr. Colstein will have supervision of the division a of finance created in the Interstate s Commerce Commission. Colston is 1 general solicitor of the Louisville ^ and Nashville Railway. r WOULD REPEAL ALL WAR LAWS n ??? ' .Washington,. May 11.?Another . bill proposing repeal of all war laws ' /was introduced today by Senator e ;> Jones, Republican, Washington. It " would be effective upon enactment. j * s Honolulu. May 11.?According to f .1 ">1 1 l A- /? xl TT - *- the tokio correspondent 01 me nunululu Advertiser, it is reported that ^ Roland S. Morris, United States amf bassador to Japan, intends resigning c in the near future to participate in the Presidential elections in the n United States. f s Britain considers her . principal competitors to be the United States, a Germany and Japan. t l ' ' i i Kuppen | u I B Copyright 1920 '1 Jic.n w * See the larg good Clothes all ages, all ta patternings. S( ?stripes chec and double economical cJ longer?lastnnt ' * t * * ..... i Pa iheimer Jothes i > - j ... ???? ouse or Kuppenhcime^ -?sensible quali have real style, ness. Clothes whether they li country. I e and varied assortm we have ready here istes, all builds; new >me very attractive o ks and mixtures, ne\ bresteds, fine all-w< \ othes?they wear be y satisfaction. irker & I ?the house of bbbsb v lly clothes that ft , commonsense s for American ve in town or i f ent of Kuppenhi : for you?mode i Spring colors nes have just ai v idaes in both j tl JUL laurics. 11 tter and look 1 irj ' *r,? i \eese / Kuppenheimer good i v ; * I \ x ( / / / \t and martmen n the eimer Is for and rived jingle tey're Detter i Clothes I