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Established 1844. The Press and Bannei Abbeville, S. C. T5nw*?A* pA*vtnonif me r icsa axiu ucuhixzl vum^/uiij Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. I ' 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 KK1JUAY, MAY 28, lyZU. COLLEGE VANDALISM J* I ?. Dr. D. M. Douglas, president of the Presbyterian College of this State in the Founders' Day address delivered recently at the University of Soutli Carolina had this to say of the abuse of college buildings by Southen stu dents; ;' ;'r ^ "I mentioned as a part of your in heritance a material equipment pro vided for your use. Is there not a responsibility resting upon you to take care of it? There is one lesson Southern students have not learned; that is, how to take care of public build ings. This is noticed especially bj those who have been connected with Northern institutions. We do not like to make comparisons, especially when they are unfavorable. I was visiting a Northern institution not rong ago, and said something to the person with whom I was talking about the arrangement of the rooms in the dormitory. He said, "Would you like to see a room?" He walked up to ? door and knocked. A student said ' "Come in," and there I found a beau tifully kept room. There is not t Southern president who is not em barrassed when he is asked to shov his dormitories. I know a Souther: college which advertised excensivelj a new dormitory. A few years later ] visited the college and thought ! would like to go through this moderr dormitory. From the amount of plas tering knocked from the walls am other damage done, you might havf thought it had, been occupied in th< meantime as a stable. There is a de sire at the present time on the par of the State to provide beautifu buildings for students, but unti there is a change amonj* students and they are willing to tarce Dettei care of what is being provided foi them, it is going to be difficult t< convince the State and friends o1 education that money put into hand some dormitories is a wise invest ment. It is discouraging to erecl buildings, and in a few years fine them all abused." f % Not only do the remarks of Dr Douglas aptly apply to our colleg( property but to public property oi every kind. We have only recentlj been told that one reason why th? / AtTAvnrw tirtf lil'o +A laova +Vl? guv^i IJ111C1IV um iivv Iinv vv tVHfw vuv front doors of the Abbeville post office building open after nim o'clock in the evening was that van dais?private citizens of the town? "persisted in abusing tTie funiture ant f. fittings in the lobby by strewing inl v. abouit, tampering with the lock bo>ie: and whittling on the writing stands. Another instance of the inborr i love of-destruction and abu^.<jf pub lie property is to be found in the public schools. Boys and girls, too take a seeming delight in carvinf their initials on desks in the ' schoo room. During the Christmas holiday) a visitor to the high school, a college boy, evidently prided himself in carv inor Viis mnnnmm on aihrand nev desk in one of fhe rooms. Look through the song books ii any of the churches. You can find in numerable caricatures of the preach ers, sketches of the choirs and witty often sacrilegious, parodies of th< hymns or psalms. ./rc -r ' FRENCH MAIDS AND FRENCF I WIVES. Mrs. Ewait Sauer, the French brid< of a former soldier, was so wrough nnAn VitT +>io ViicVi crtct. rtf livinc ant "1'VU JLvuv VV.W- ??? o what she termed "American extrava gance" that she suffered nervou; prostration. Her husband, an Ameri can accustomed to American ways couldn't understand how such a little thing as extravagance could produce a mental storm of such magnitude 'if*. He had his wife examined by a lun-Jj acy board. Mrs. Sauer cried as she \ told how all the money her husband J r turns over to her each pay day "goes t out as fast as it comes in. 1 can't af-j c ford to have my meat delivered in an i automobile, and I won't." j i It seems apparent that ?ils French J bride is determined to guard her f . husband's interests. Perhaps a mil-! lion French girls would not all prove ( as thrifty. Many would not marry I here, but some would. We would ,c watch their attack on the high cost|? jof living and American extravagance's i with considerable interest. J I I 1 A group of such economical and t | temperamental brides as Mrs. Sauer! r would give a proteering rnarxet man;t a chastening half hour when they ap-j i peared to do their morning's buying.' "How much, ze cauliflower?" Marie J would ask. "It is bery nice; 50 cents," says the) *| grocer. j q lj "Mon Dieu!" and Marie swoons on; i] "Kow much zis soup joint?" Fa- ? I'cette. demands. "Forty-five cents," says the sales-' ?o man, I "Ma foi!" and Facette collapses! j ' across the prostrate form of Marie. | And so with the others, until thej proprietor Calls a couple of ambulances and his reputation goes . screaming across the town. We would hardly suggest such a ^ r method of reducing the cost of liv t ing. But one can never tell what tha ( importation of a million thrifty . French girls for domestic service ^ t might do to the Ameican habit of ex1 . a tavagance?and to the pofiteers. t Thus says the Chicago Tribune. 5' But can one ever tell what the im- , i i jjportation of a million thrifty French ^ ?' girls for domestic service might do ( i!to the present domestic felicity in a ? , million American homes? ( When the President of France has iJ a4habit of falling from trains thatji " I million Fench girls might not be so 1 careful about the fall of a mere < I American man. ^ [i [ NO MANDATE FOR ARMENIA j ( 1 ' i President Wilson's request to the. i! United States Congress to grant him 1 j the license, the money and the power( ? ?for all these things are embraced: J in his proposal?to exercise a man [ ..'date-for Armenia merits from the U I 1 l' legislative branch of the American ^ i1 Government not much more than a | I respectful hearing. The sciieme of i .'internationalism itself desjrves no' i ' I . mercy at all. 1 i I ,1 This government and tills natioi I need to get our own affairs in orderj ?i before we set ourselves up in the .j business of trying to manage the af ^ fairs of anybody else, East or West. ji Managing the affairs of Armenia,' I means becoming tanglea up with the I affairs of eastern Europe. Becom-j ,'ing tangled up with eastern Europe p1 would mean becoming tangled up I with pretty much the whole of the r| Old World. This is exact'y what they all over there want to get us ii into?get us into it up to our necks. *, Then they will take goon cave that J we shall never be able to get our-| - selves out. I I ,J Mr. Wilson regards it as provide!!- t I tial that jthe conference of statesman j at San Remo made this appeal to ] . him. All the rest of us can regard c 'it as providential that trie American c ! people and the United States Con- t j gress are agreed that while Europe 1 "I ir- settling its own business we should 1 continue to devote ourselves to the job of settling our own business. 1 C Unless Congress went clean off. its a f head?something not liable to hap i c i li- 1-1 I , S jjcii tu cuuiu iicvci gidia iv x iuoi j v. j'dent Wilson the mandatory power h Jt seeks tor the purposes and the ad '( vantages of the Old World agains i IT I j the desires and the interests of th j | United States of America.-?rfun am N. Y. Herald. . L "| -'SIX HUNDRED BBLS. OF SUGAR SFIZEDj ? . , h Raleigh, N. C., May 27.?The | seizure of 600 barrels of granula-j ted sugar stored in two warehouses!' i xx;11 Kir r?Q. f 1 ai ivuoc iiiii) juu^uu wv/uiii/jr j uj x/tpartment of Justice agents yesterday was said to be the largest sei} zure of sugar made in the South fc since the Lever act became effec- ( i tive. The sugar was consigned to J. - G. Townsend and Company of ' 3 Shelbyville, Del. ! A libel of information and a , writ of seizure against the sugar. ; Oscar Fussell, J. G. Townsend and ; Company, J. G. Townsend, Jr., were . sworn out by Assistant United < v States District Attorney White- j mrst, charged that the sugar was emov^d from the usual course of rade to inflate the mai-ket and in-. Tease prices. The writ of seizure lirects the parties concerned to ap>ear in federal court at Raleigh on fune 19 to answer the libel of in "ormation. The sugar was shipped to North Carolina about a mqnth ago. Mr. russell, the only person in Rose Hill :onnected with the sugar, stated, icccrding to Frederick C. Handy, igent in charge of Department of fustice operators here, that it had >een shipped there for use in canling strawberries but on account of he failure of the strawfberry crop t was not used. ACCUSES BARUCH OF BIG SWINDLE j ' ? Washington, May 27.?Advocates I f th? soldier relief bill served I lotice on tne nouse toaay mat De- i ;lnning tomorrow they would seek | o block all legislation until the j neasure is brought up for passage. | f Illinois made such an announce- 1 nent amid loud applause and later j tepresentative Murphy, Republican j f Ohio, repeated it. Representative Fordney, Repubican, of Michigan, in charge of the neasure said its passage might be ittempted Saturday but some other eaders thought it might go over mtil next week. < Prolonged debate on the bill, hough bitter at times, disclosed no >pen opposition to it. Mr. Mason, in mswering affirmatively a question >y Representative Rainey, Demorat, of Illinois, as to whether the nn QA nflf nonf tUQT* urinei mvuicu an uv wuv .... jrofits tax to finance the proposal :harged that B. M. Baruch "had itolen $50,000,000 on war profits >n copper." "I'm willing to vote to have your ittorney general bring suit against Sarney Baruch, the chief man, the closest man to the President of the United States, who stole $50,000,)00 in copper alone. Representative Mason did not ilaborate on its charge and his renarks passed without comment from the Democratic side. . Celebrate Membership Drive Florence, May 27.?Celebrating ;he successful membership campaign, members of the Men's Bible Slass of Central Methodist Church, ast night had a big banquet at the lining room of the union . station Vlore than 100 men were present ind greatly enjoyed the banquet vhich was furnished by the losing ' earn. A feature of the evening was the jresentation of the handsome Bible ,o F. W. Wilson, captain of the 'Blues" who were the successful earn in the membership drive. The Bible was the gife of J. C. Long, resident of the class, and the pre- 1 :entation was made by Rev.^1 E. L. HcCoy, pastor of the church. nnrvrnPTO rnuitou AGAINST MOVEMENT Charlotte, N. C., May 27.?Selecion of St. Louis over Staunton, Va. i md Charleston, W. Va., as the i L921 meeting place, and disposition 1 )f matters pertaining to the Inter- 1 hurch World Movement featured ' he final day sessions of the Souhern Presbyterian General Assem )ly here. The fight which characterized Wednesday's sessions in connection vith the Intefchurch Movement, . ulminating in the assembly's derision to continue cooperation in ;he the movement, was renewed ;arly today and not until late tolight was the subject finally dis)csed of. 'ENSION MEASURE PASSES SENATE Washington, May 25.?After less ;han three minutes consideration, ;he Senate late today passed the innual pension bill carrying $279,300,000. The measure now goes to nnfprpnoe for readiustment of dif Ferences with the,House draft. The pension bill as finally passed .vas the same as reported by the Senate pensions committee and jrovicjed for increased appropria;ions of $65,000,000 over the rlouse bill. WILL NOT ACCEPT New York, May 27.?Dr. Nich>las Murray Butler, candidate for 1 LIBERTY The "LIBERTY BC cepts these bonds, 01 from impossible losi blesome clipping of er's wishes the coup< in payment either m placed to the credit partment or Savings cent. jj We Pay Five Per A Full Line of Lc 1 ? I Countv L SOUND jg||ggjg?ll|g the Republican presidential nomina- ,!2SS tion for the Vice- Presidency if it is offered to him, Judge John R. Davies, his campaign manager, announced tonight. "AN INDISCRIMINATE" BONUS IS OPPOSED Bristol, Va., Tenn., May 25.? Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, announced his opposition to an indiscriminate bonus to ex-soldier in a letter received by W. 0. Came, vice president of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, in answer to a message in which he urged that the Senate oppose the bill. DR. STRATON SAYS HE CAN SMELL WHISKY YARD AWAY I What the lawyers call rules of evidence do not apply in the pulpit, so Dr John Roach Straton was able Sunday to tell his congregation in g Calvary Baptist Church several, facts ? about whisky. Recently United Stat- j es Commissioner Hitchcock ruled | that Dr. Straton could not testify that | he had purchased Scotch whisky in i New York cabarets after he had ad- f mitted he never had swallowed this | kind of liquor. "One would not have to swallow a || polecat to know that it was a pole- ? cat," declared Dr. Straton. "I am l| ready to testify that I can swear to l| the identity of liquor by smelling. In || 1 - - ?- -- -J. T 1 II my worK as a minister 1 imvc nou ; = enough experience with drunken || men to identify liquor, even a yard f j \ off, from the man who has been |I drinking it. So when the main case II | = comes to trial I shall certainly testify 11 that it was liquor, whether I swallow ed it or not." VVVVVVVVVVVVVVW1 w v i ^ The picture at the Opera V V House Wednesday night will V V be Elaine Hammerstein in the V V "COUNTRY COUSIN" and V V will take the place of the V V Minstrel Show which has "oeen V V advertised for that night. V V See this picture, it is going to V V be a good one. V v\.VVVVVVVVVV\VV Winthrop College SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of! vacant Scholarships in Winthrop I Onllnra/v ivi/1 f/vn fUo q/JmicciAn rt-f I V^UUCgC C4IIU JLWt bllC OUIIll^lVIl Wi. | new students will be held at the | County Court House on Friday, July j 2, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When Scholarships are vacant after July 2 they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for Scholarships should write to President Johnson before the examination for Scholarship examination blanks.^ Scholarships are worth '$100. and free tuition. The next session will . open September 15th, 1920. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. 5, 7-7ton Fri. ^ * ??? BONDS ON DEP< >ND DEPARTMENT" of this i deposit, thus protecting th ^ nr tVipft and plirrnrmt.incr 1 coupons. In accordance witl ons are clipped when due, an ailed to a given address or th of the owner in the Commei s Department with interest Cent, on Savings Deposits. ?ck Boxes?Rent One and Fe Savings Ba SAFE SER\ HERE'S A PRACTICAL PETTICOAT English W a |f for Petticoa wl ' Wffl double ad^ Beauty and FITRITE Petticoats made < rial launder beautifully an< that silky effect. 'Trimmed in many attractiv ed effects, with shadow pi front and back?they offer i be desired for street and eve MRS. JAS. 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