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I AUU I VVAV Established 1844. The Press and Banner Abbeville, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. 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 MONDAY, MAY 31, 1920. MR. H. G. CLARK. With this issue of The Press and Banner Mr. H. G. Clark, who has labored with us for more than a year, is leaving us. Mr. Clark came to Ab-j beville with the experience of a good' newspaper man. He has lived up to, his reputation. The Press and Banner, takes this opportunity to acknowl-' edge its indebtedness to him for the nhilit.v. zeal and good judgment dis-j played in the management of its af-J fairs. . We part with Mr. Clark with the' hope and expectation that wherever! he may be called in the future he J will be a faithful representative of, the profession to which he has attach-, ed himself. In the language of an-j other, "we wish him mighty well." | i THREE ABBEVILLE -MOTHERS. ! j At the sixtieth anniversary of the Womans College at Due West last' Saturday, there was a home-coming of the former graduates, and in the exercises of the day the rolls of the different classes were called. When' the second class was called, Mrs/ Sallie Wideman Bradley and Mrs.' Lucy Calvert Thomson were present r to answer. Mrs. Eugenia Brewton Hemphill was a member of the third # I class, but was prevented from being present by illness. These graduates of the six-ties make their homes in' Abbeville. 3SlSL! i No other town or city within the( confines of the Associate Reformed) Presbyterian Synod, we aare .say,' can boast of having three living rep-jresentatives of the college as it was a half century and more ago. Abbeville feels proud of havmg the distinction of being the home of i these good women, who have added! so much to the life of the city and whose lives are so representative of the work of the college of former1 days. Each is the mother of a large', family Qt an(* these children ' today rise up to call them blessed. j, irxA chnii we not say, too, thatj Abbeville is a good town to live in, ] I when we can have this distinction. 1 Surely the water must be good, the1' town must be good, and we know,1 the people are good. j' THE MEANEST EMPLOYER | i The meanest employer in thef Unit-( ( ed States is not the steei corporation < the Standard Oil Company, the rail-j way companies, or any other wicked i private enterprise. It is the United! States Postoffice Department. Speci-| {c A ' tically ana personauy, *?. ? Sidney Burleson. Mr. Burleson is a1 man of economical tastes and domi-! i peering temper. He has the backing of a congress which, when dealing with the postoffice, is fanatically fru j gal. The consequence is that the post-| office employees?clerks, carriers and officials of all grades?are among the most poorly paid workers in the coun | try and that the postoffice service is going to pieces. Ten years ago a postal employee,' although not paid in proportion to j his service and responsibility, was able to live in fair comfort; now the! great mass of the clerxs and carriers J cannot get along decently on their | vnars ntro the nostal ser-! vv a^to. xvu J wv.. ^ ?o- * vice, despite the burden of political appointees it was obliged to carry,' was as efficient as any private busi-I ness; now, any one who mails a let-! ter is gambling on the chance that it will arrive, on time, at. tne right address. I Before the war a carrier of some, years' experience received $1,200 a' i >rear, which had a purchasing powe of approximately $2,400 at the pres 2nt time. With the war bonus o 5150, which thrifty Mr. Burleso: ;hinks might now be discontinue*: ;he same carrier receives *1,650. Hi purchasing power is thus only elev jnsixteenths of what it was in 1914 But .$1,650 is the ultimate salary o in experienced carrier, attainabl only after four years' worK as a sub stitute and five as a regular employe After serving his apprenticeship a a substitute, he begins, on nls fift year, as'a regular carrier at a*-salar of $1,000, plus the temporary 10 pe i- 1 +V?ic? 1c 7 VI QP cent. uunu^, (inu mio u ?$100 each year until the dizzy max; mum is reached. The fatuity of the Postoffiee Dc partment does not end with the paj ment of starvation wages. It adds t this the further folly of paying th substitute carriers at any hourly rat which is greater than that paid th experienced carrier. The substitut carrier who becomes a regular car rier thus has to submit to an actun reduction in his earning power.' which in many cases?perhaps mos ?he cannot afford. More and mor of the work thus tends to be done b; substitute carriers of no experience who have been employed under i suspension of the customary physi cal and mental tests. Even this prac tice, which puts a premium on ignor ance and inexperience, does not pro cure enough men, and the regula carriers and clerks are greatly over worked. Justice to these useful public servants demands a substantial increase 11 ?- ^ ?1? even tnougri uie wings ui me suiuic bonus have to be clipped and a fev cents added to the tax rate. But th< policy is costly as well as unjust. Th( ruination of the postal service is < tax that falls heavily every day upor every one who uses the mails. Mr Burleson is one of the most extrava ga^it cabinet officials who ever clut tered the country witn *his blunders ?New York Globe. WE NOMINATE Time to increase'the acreage ir food crops. Time to plant late gar den crops?to make up for th< omissions of the earlier spring Time to talk of many things, "oJ cabbages and kings' and the for? thought, the prevision and foresigh' bf an astute man are thus wordec in The Journal, of Spartanburg:. "Does anybody Know who wil run for the Legislature from Spar tanburg County at the primaries ir August? Would it not be a wis< thing for the Democrats of th< County to be thinking hard aboul the best men in the County foi service at Columbia?" Spartanburg, the greatest count} of South Carolina, should send tc Columbia at least one man of brilliant intellectual endowment of wide reading and information ,of ripe experience .of acquaintance witJ] all parts df South Carolina and of the United States ,a citizen singularly fitted for a legislative careex by reason of the stern self-control wherewith he has resisted the temptation to enter political life until his training for it was completed, Spartanburg should elect to the legislature by a unanimous vote Major James Calvin Hemphill and in that way contribute to the progress and importance of the whole state.?The State. CHANGE IN PARDON PROCEDURE ANNOUNCED (Greenville Piedmont.) Gov. Robert A. Cooper, while ir Greenville a few hours to speak ir the interest of the Soutn Carol: nt farm development board, today an nounced on important change in th< procedure of considering petition: for pardon. The change was sug gested by the board of pardons an* was approved by the governor. Ir conversatian today he said he though the suggestion a reasonable and gooi one. The matter was brought to the at tention of the governor in the fol lowing communication from th board of pardons. "The board suggests to your Em cellency that if it meets with you approval you promulgate regulation requiring and petitions to b< published in a newspape in the county up which th< crime was committed, for two weekprior to the meeting of the boarc the fact that the petition will he pr< sented. "The board also suggests to you r Excellency that it would greatly -far cilitate our work were the petitions f required to be completed and in your n hands a reasonably length of time I, prior to the meeting ol tne ooara. s This is in order that tne board may - familiarize itself thoroughly with the i. record of each case before attemptf ing to pass upon it. e! "In concluding the board would >-j state to your Excellency that its ace'tion in every particular was by the .si unanimous vote of the board. h| "All' of which is respectfully suby mitted." r d RIGHT TO STRIKE POINT AT ISSUE American Federation of LaboK Pres, | . ident Attacks While Governor Of State Defends. e New York, Mav 29.?The relations e . of capital and labor; the right t? strike an dits legitimacy as regards > the effect on the public; the Kansas j industrial court law and its significance to the future of the working t man, were intertwined in a remarke able debate tonight in Carnegie hall between Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Laj.bor, and Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas. - I 1. Governor Allen's main contention J was that government has me right to the nnhlir* acainsi, strikes c when its welfare is imperiled, while . Mr. Gompers held to the argument j that no law can prevent a man from stopping work if by doing so he may j benefit himself and his afmiiy. GomP' pers labeled the Kansas Industrial court law the "un-American slave J law" and Governor Allen declared 21 he had taken away from Gompers his J divine right to order a man to quit . TI work. * J The oratory of the debaters was punctuated with frequent cheers and 1 boosts by adherents of each side, and .'occasional questions were shouted . from the floor and the balconies. * , In support of the right to strike, | Gompers declared that the coal miners strike took boys out of the mines; . that the textile workers' strike 1, brought children out of the mills and , i put them in the school room, while the _1 strike in the needle trades broke up fjthe sweatshops when laws had failed Jto do so. J Governor Allen's industrial com1 ftiandment was: "You shall not con1 i < j spire to shut down the industry nec1 essary to the welfare of the people." "When the general public says we i have had enough of this," he said ?: "it's over." i' "Who controls the divine right to L ' *x ?a 11am T-Tn uroo qyi L 1 quil WOl'A i /llicii asncu. nv. ? * swered Tvith cheers and boos. i The debate called for no decision, ': the committees in charge having pur ' posely divided the house equally be-> j tween supporters of each speaker, j 11 Mr Gompers in championing labors i1 privilege to strike, electrified his pari tisans when he said with much emo-. ?i' - " i '' tion that the working man wno would .; not try "to better his conditi.-n w^S ja poltroon to*himself and society." [; Governor Alen stfored a i?oint with . i his friends with the assertion that if [! there is to be government or justice, ,! there?can't be any part greater than i j the whole. >! He alluded to the attitude of the ['American Federation of Labor in the .(approaching election towards un- ' i' friendly omcers ana a inuvemcub uu unionize the congress of the United. , States." i1 The Kansas law does not prosecute ! laboi, Governor Allen said, but it' ' protects labor against capital, capij tal against labor and the public ai gainst either or both. l A feature of the debate wds Allen's ij efforts to get Gompers to answer ! - this question: i "When a dispute between capital s and labor brings on a strike, affect-!ing the production of distribution of J the necessaries of life, thus threatenl! ing the public peace and impairing t.the public health has the public any ,1 o nAn+vnvorcv nr ic if. U Il^IlLS III cuvn <* V?.~ a private war between capital and la>: bor? ^ l-l "If you answer this question in the e'affirmative, Mr. Gomper."*, now would you protect the rights of the pub: 'lie?" r The labor leaders declined to anss wer it, asserting that it was a catch e question. r Another time while :vlr. Gompers e ; was referring to the poverty of some s workers a man in the gallery shout1, ed: "How poor are you?" ;- Gompers was plainly angered at the | question. He demanded the man's r name amid shouts of encouragement i S. C. LEGION AGAINST NATION BODY ON BONUS Columbia, S. C., May 30.?To consider "Withdrawing from the national organization, in case the national convention should ratify the action of the National Executive m *tnmi MIMI Has arrived in Al | COU Come in and meei mong your frienc j| Open a Savings / just as much as la week, and you wi nice substantial E We pay 5 Per Cen Quarterly. 1 Count | SOUND H IflKiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiBiMiBiiiiiiiiiifiiiii from his followers and when the lab-1 or leader had referred to the disturb- ' er's remark as "a cowardly, ungen- j tlemanly insinuation" the labor man i shouted with glee. One shouted: "You tell him, Sam- j my, that's the stuff." Governor Allen in conclusion charg- j ed that Gomper's remedy for war is ; more war. "Mine," he added,, "is peace condi- j tioned on the impartial judgment of j responsible government.*' Within a year the governor pre- j dieted the best friends of the Kansas^ j industrial law will be the laboring I men of Kansas. Alton B Parker presided, only once' j or twice having to ask for order. 11 Gompers also stilled the audience j with a wave of his han<? when the' uproar threatened to interfere with'] his progress. S. C.-GEORGIA BOUNDARY LINE CASE COMING UP j Columbia, May 29.?Two impor- j tont pending state cases are to be j tried during the next few months, I and Attorney General Wolfe stated I trtrl&v tVint. hp hones to have these \ cases disposed of before the end of j the present year. Both will likely j be in the courts for sometime be- ! fore finally being disposed of. One j j is the Columbia canal case, the I \ other is the case to determine the 1j boundary line between Georgia and | j South Carolina. 2 The canal case is one in which { the state is suing for recovery of i j the canal property, now held by the j! Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric j Co. [ The ^tate boundary case was I brought iby the state of Georgia, to | j Drove that the South Carolina side j j of the streams ditidinfe the two { states is the boundary line. South j Carolina contends that the middle j of the stream is the line, and At- ' torney General Wolfe is .confident that he will win this case. It is now pending in the United States Supreme Court. William Booth, founder of the. Salvation 9rmy, was of Jewish extraction on his mother's side, says Harold Begbie, the general's official biographer. v v: v*. The picture at the Opera Vj V House Wednesday night will V| V be Elaine Hammerstein in the V ^ "COUNTRY COUSIN" and V V will take the place or the V V Minstrel Show which has fceen V advertised for that night. V. V See this picture, it is going to V V he a good one. V vVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Committee in agitating the bonus, the annual convention of the Am- i erican Legion of South Carolina i will be held in Spartanburg June 1 15, instead of next fall. This decision was reached today < at a meeting of the State Execu- I tive Committee in Columbia. The resolution says in part: IM ?R FIVE PER < >beville, and can be foui NTY SAVINGS BAN t him, it will pay you to i Is. Account To-day, (small ( irge ones), increase the 11 be surprised how soon tank account. t. on Savings Deposits, y Savings SAFE piuniiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiginiiiiiiiiF | PROTECT I AGAINS s |' It is usually tlfe unforsec rain storm approaches d son; it may bring devasti standing grain in just a of HAIL.. The Season of HAII ^ y nmhnhlv knnvi/ nf <;r op even part of yovrr seas U iton by the elements, win g in an insurance policy vvi M tection. You probably know of soi U damage of just one passii man's profits for his entii We can write your HAIL inal sum in a good substi i< small?the nrot.eotion I Hull us up or drop us a lin J point to see you. j CITIZENS INSURA1 | W. D. WILKI | ABBEVILLE, SO R O Y A 1 COLUMBIA CAI - On account of the big of food we will be fo: 1 1 ' our regular dinner. Because of the high have to charge 10 cen and 10 cents per glass I R O Y A COLUMBIA CAI "Its action tarnishes the honor and glory which the American soldier and sailor won on the field of battle and its action, if ratified by the next national convention, renders the further affiliation of the So\ith Carolina department wich the national organization harmful to future of the said department." IIIillM CENT | id at the K. lumber him a>nes appreciated amount each you will have . a / s Compounded Jj Bank | SERVICE I RlifflBmillBlillllllllllliililiililM / lilllllillllllllllililllllllllllll YOURSELF i T LOSS j 1 in that happens when a Jj| uring the growing sea- Jj ation and ruin to your Jjj few minutes in the form ? STORMS Is rfere. 1 u >me instances where the jg on's work from destruc en a few dollars invested j| 11 give you financial pro- U ^ 3M me instances where the ||j lg storm has wiped out a ? ne year of Farming. INSURANCE for a nomintial Company; the cost is great. ie and we will make it a s NCE & TRUST CO. 1 NSON, Manager. UTH CAROLINA | ihbmhmi L C A F E SIDY KITCHEN ' increase in the cost reed to discontinue ^ I cost of sugar we will ts per cup for coffee 5 for tea. L C A F E UIYV IflTfHFM 1 ly A IV X M V/? MJL^A 1