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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 at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months ^50 MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1920 MAJOR FULP AT IT. The Press and Banner has i been fortunate to secure the X "I; services of Major Fulp for the summer. The Major is an old newspaper man and knows 1 how the work- is done. He 1 < finds I lie work congenial and besides lie feels that The Press and Banner will / he of service to him in i some work lie expects to do in the county this summer, an-' nonncement of which will he made shortly. Major Fulp will : have charge of tlie news and 1 i 1 business ends of the paper until September when the schools open. I, WHAT ARE THE FACTS? ;. i l: Under the above caption, The State ^ ? has the following to say: "In his debate with Governor Allen ' of Kansas, Mr. Gompers, president of ! the American Federation of Labor, ! assprted that the onlv ooint at issue < was freedom. Any abridgment of the < right of a man to quit work, he said . constituted involuntary servitude, ! forbidden by the United States con- i stitution. Mr. Gompers declared that < , * he was opposed to the use of violence in connection with a strike, but , contended that the workers had a ( right to organize to quit work when- , ever they pleased and asserted that it was wrong and unjust to attempt ^ to make it a crime. "In this expression will be and should be general concurrence, presupposing that Mr. Gompers does not defend a right to quit work in viola- 1 tion of contract." j1 The Press and Banner is in accord : with the proposition that any abridg- i ment of the right of the individual i (not under contract forbidding it) i to quit work constitutes involuntary 1 servitude. But we deny the right of a majority of men of a given calling ( to organize in advance for the pur-' < pose of striking and forcing demands ( ^ii;pn other men. Such other men, if ] "t^y are to be forced to turn over t I the results of their labors, or the la- t bor of others, to meet the demands , of these strikers none the less are ( the victims of involuntary servitude. f It is morally wrong, and has been de- c clared legally wrong, for employers i to band together for certain pur- j poses. On what ground is it contend- ^ ed that employees have a moral right ( to band together for like purposes? j Is a man who joins a labor union and is forced to strike against his judg- , ment any the less a victim of invol- j I untary servitude than he would be . were he forced to work against his ] will? The whole difficulty in mis . strike question is that the laws a- , gainst immoral combinations of capi- . tal are not made applicable lo com- , binatiolis of labor of the same character. The State perhaps knows that , the only real reason that capital and 1 labor are not amendable to the same principles of law is that labor has the votes and capital has not. There Is no reason in law or good morals why one should be exempt from restrictions applicable to the other. Labor Eepresents men's work; capital represents the result of men's work. We t are not able to see that one is more sacred than the other, nor is the one entitled to more protection than the other. ; Discussing Mr. Gompers pretended opposition to violence in case of^ / strikes, The State further pertinently a says: ' I c "Declaring that he was opposed to; c: the use of violence in connection with1 g any strike," Mr. Gompers touches the 111 heart of the whole controversy be j p tween employers and employees ! f Once he ana the federation make that! t "opposition" effective, once th : p strike not attended with violence, 0 shall be the rule, antagonism to ; v wards unionism will disappear. i j, "What are the facts? Is it not true ! u that when a strike is ordered and one. I 6 group of workmen obey it and another continue on the job, contemp-in tuous and insulting epitne:s are ap- c plied to the non-strikers? Is not the; r right of men not to strike often prac- v tically denied by men who do strike?( a "Has not the spectacle been pre-; d sented in nearly every city, including Cplumbia, of an industry suspended t for the time by violence or threat of violence declared by Mr. Gompers is . v strike or their "sympatmzersT" I. 12 "Conceding that the opposition to ^ vioelnce declared by Mr. Gomp.ers is sincere, why is it not effective? i "No one will say that during a strike employers resort to violence.! What they -want above a;i tnings is peace?the peaceful operation of . their factories, mines or trains. They ^ never deny the right to s:r::ce, but th?v do ask that the non-striker shalt ^ not be interfered with in his work, s< that he shall not be intimidated, that c he shall not be insulted. They demand ' for the humblest worker trie same CI security in his vocation, the) same ngriL iu stay un trie juu nee nuiii iiiu- ^ testation by word and act, that they r) tliemselves enjoy as workers. ; "How many strikes are unattended ivith violence and in hbw>many is the ^ threat of violence thougn it be not^ carried out, kept in the background, yet always dimly visible, to .influence ^ he result? i 11 "Mr. Gompers and the federation C( should do one of two things. They cj should put an end to violence in t: strikes or they should cease to pro- y claim their opposition to it. His de- y claration in the debate with Governor n Allen will not impress the public so tl long as the violence that he decries t< characterizes two out of three strikes a ordered." Any person wno tells you that c strikers are opposed to violence in w I case of strikes and when violence is 11 necessary to enforce their demands I takes you for a fool. Violence is the backbone of the whole structure, and , i " the wherewithal to achieve the re-' ? a suit whenever it is necessary. The violence to which the striker ulti- iS> mately looks is not less represensible p i than the strike itself (and by the st strike we mean a strike by a combi- b nation of the majority, or all, of the ^ men of a given calling so as to en- 0 for<?e demands by coercive meas- v , iis jres.) . ei Had the State demanded when the' lemocrats were in power that the f? Sherman anti-trust law contain no w I ;xceptions in favor o? organized la-' w lor it would have represented a bet-^ er cause. If organized labor Is a good fI) hing, (which we deny, sinGe its 111 ? j t ^ vhole purpose is to seek ends of its >wn by coercive measures and withm >ut any regard foi*, or consideration >f, the rights of others,) ;r snould at V ' l*1 east be able to obey just laws passed 'or a bad institution like capital. A lo food man at least should be av>ie 13 fx )bey the same laws which a bad man tc s able to obey. \K We have been told that the labor 1r< anion is necessary for laboring men n order that they may secure just . , 01 rewards for their labor. We do not ^ relieve it_ Unorganized labor in this ommunity is commanding more hi ivages today than the best of the men sj who are organized. A man may sc- tl ;ure in every calling what his ser a vices demand provided he makes his t' services remunerative to his employer v The really efficient man may always " secure employment at high wages be ' cau.<e efficiency commands better than forco. An efficient man may sell ,( !iis labor without the system oi' "col lective organizing," a system invent [ S( i-d to draw pay for men who do no si want to work. I si When we speak of organized la-, bor in this connection we speak of it n , f* in its relation to the community and ~ with reference to its practices In the c past. All men who work at all, either, in the fields, in the workshops, or in the offices are laboring men. There' re benefits to be derived in all the' allings and professions from J assoiations and organizations. These or! anizations, however, should look to up-!:*t of their members along roper lines. It is not out of place j or them to seek better living condi- j ions, and even better wages by pro- ! er methods. But the strike is not ] ne of these methods. The strike,'] ,-hen it represents organized action j i 5 morally wrong and should be put inder the penalty of the law. As Govrnor Allen says aptly, the part can^ ot be greater than the whole. One lass cannot hope successfully to | ule a whole community, especially; rhen that class is in the minority,'] nd the majority must bear the bur-1 ens. j Every man should be his own maser, fix his own wages, attend to his wn business, work for whom he j rants and how he wants. Any organ- j nation which actually or effectually orbids it is a menace to the commu- j ity and civilization. !i "IS YOUR GIRL SAFE?" j Dr. John A. Rice, pastor of Trini-, ;v Methodist church, Sumter, is in / lie limelight just now. The doctor's osition in the spot light or publicity as been brought about by a recent ermon he delivered on the social onditions in Sumter and the dan-; ers surrounding the youth of the ity. I Certainly our girls have nad suf- ] cient Warning and admonition iu < ;cent times but*we do not think it < ould be amiss to quote a few para- 1 raphs from the published sermon . reached by Dr. Rice. t "If the community encourages ombing the hair in a certain way, 1 our girl will comb hers that way. If j ie community *makes dresses in a 1 ?rtain way, your girl will make her 1 ress that way or there will be < rouble. No matter what it costs, ' our girl must do as others do and < ou must *ary the bills. That girl 1 lust have things considered right by < r.ose she goes with, whlcli being in- 1 ;rpreted means by the community as < whole. i "You are aware of t:ie rumors < urrent on our streets the last few : eeks. They disclose certain alarmlg symptoms of putrid social condi- i ons that demand instant and heroic j ieatment. "One of our perils is the automo- j i!e.- It is alarming to see a group of 1 half dozen girls and boys staying ] irough the streets at breakneck peea wixnoui a cnaperone. it is ap- i ailing to see a girl in Tier teens 1 -art to the country alone with a < oy, who, like herself is immature, < ; is unspeakable to see a g:rl sitting ( n the front seat of an automobile be- i vaen two boys while the back seat s vacant, her arms ^ the attitude of t Tibracing both. It is unrnlnkable i lat girls out of our so-called best c imilies are allowed to go into groves i here automobiles assemDie or else- 1 here under cover of night, io come t ack in the wee small hours of the 1 oriil rig toith the blackness o" etei'rial t jrht in their souls; come back, I say i go the rest of the long way in the s rip of the consciousness of an hour's i oral shame. 1 "T 1J 1. - ? A _ X COUIU speaiv. uL uicss <33 anuLiiti i decency. It looks as if women of .? land are losing, if they have not 1 st, the sense of modescy. Dresses r ishioned in the underworld of Paris \ i reveal rather than conceal, are no a cpcr patterns for decency. t "We have been hearing rumors 1 tcly as to certain dances. Look at c lat gij-1 yonder; her head is falling \ ii the shoulders of the man she is ugging to her bosom. The music j ops suddenly, she slowly raises her \ ead and lets her hands crown to her t de. She has desecrated the holiest z ling v.. woman has in this world or ny other world. She has tempted t lat young man, carried him to the ; ory gates of hell, unci she herself ( ns irone there with him. r^ook at t ;at boy and girl reeling out of the > a nee hall to the sidewalk, their arms ; t . ju.hI each other. Look at them ] pain, as they art hygging and kisslg on the street. Nobody may have 1 sen these pictures, but somebody uv something that suggested that jch things were going on. "Men now may talk as they please, lay suggest what their "oul minds ( oncoct and nobody objects, nobody1! riticises?there is no field of honor." ' THE FALL OF PRICES The wave of price reduction, beI I BETTEI m | A check in our hi but it is true just Why?- Well, i: or a hold-up mai your pocket, the ( m ' Now, suppose yo SAVINGS BAN: happen to you ju the check, anoth* still get yourr m Seems Most Log | Count | FAMOUS FOR H G. A. Neuffer, I jinning in New York through the patriotism or the basiness sagacity )f an eminent merchant, sweeps)ver the country. From every section come reports of cheaper goods.' The turn of the tide seems at last ;o have arrived. The price lessening naturally at;aches chiefly to clothing\ and to niscellaneous articles rather than ;o food. Agricultural producers are ess organized and are more keenly competitive than other producers, rheifc prices denied more directly :>n supply and and demand, and are :hus more the resultants of natural economic laws. No great addition to the supply of foodstuffs has occurred, and in the domestic field no no decrease in the demand. The :ost of eating is likely to continue sinner nresent levels for sometime. 1 ?0 ^ But factories do business on esti-] mates. They commonly take orders far in advance of manufacture. They guess what expenses will be; ind what prices safely can be fixed ' without heaping up unsold surpluses. A manufacurer has a horror of! overstocked warehouses. Similarly j ;he retailer, who also does business i )n estimates, dreads overfilled, shelves. For three years the retail-1 j'r, amazed by a swelling demand ; ,vhich apparently nothing could stop, has been busy retagging, and j .his winter has pushed up his profit j nargin. But he has no desire-to be :aught with an overstock. So he idopts drastic measures to transfer lis goods to consumers, knowing hat if the downward swing gains leadway it will continue down hrough its own momentum. The relief is coincident with the; lowing up exports and stimulating' "Li^mnnftv hrinonnf* UlpUltO. AAlgJlV.1 UIVUWJ w....0...0 . iquidation of overextended busi-1 less. j That prices will drop to tfieir old j evels is most improbable. They did j lot after the Civil War. The new ] vagc scale buttresses present prices ind a wage scale ' is not easily >udged. In not a few lines, particu? arly in the dominant agricultural, >ne, it is not certain that prices j iave gone up faster than farm . vages and cost of agricultural' sup-; )lies. Nor can deflation be carried j :ery far without, creating a condi- j ion the county would revolt igainst. Nor is it desirable to have a sud-1 len fall of priccs. The ill effccts of | i rapid fall are almost as ?i-ave as hose of a great rise. If there is not, ;o be a disorganization of industry j .vnicn wouiu mean iiuii-cjiipiv/^nn-ni/. ind hard times, a cutting-in-two of! cu-ices, for which . many clamor, vould be dangerous.?N. Y. Tri-j june. CARD OF THANKS , 1 ' We take this method to thank ->ur many friends for the kindness | diown us during the recent illness lines sand death of our dear father. May God bless every one. Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Graves, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Riley, Olin W. Walker. I THAN G t ink is better than gold, the same. f you had a $20 gold pie< i got it or some sneak th 3hances are that it would u had that $20 in the foi K CHECK. Then if any st notify us. We would s' jr check could be issued oney*. Which Method c ical to You? ty Savings ITS FIVE PER CENT. SAVINGS DEPOSIT 'resident. ) R. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii In the District of Columbia, women own and successfully operate 129 different forms of business and are successfully engaged in twenty-one different professions. j Hail H ^ Never before have cr H and never have cond H er sm,all grain crop ; m year. Never before have v< I_ , ^ w rw ?? ~ ? ' ^ 1/ ed per acre?as muc Are you going to be to "take a chance" ^ , We would advise yo We woijl'd advise yo with HAIL INSUR I Better come in today l^te is to be lost?or Phone 329?we will CITIZEJNS INSUR/ TTT T\ TTT'll.;^ Ivv. u. vviijmij y Abbevi FAi r One is Cause, the oth< not the only essential but it is an essential, fact. Unless they wei riches thrust upon th I pie of today have be< Saved systematically i matically. They had YOU will have to do cidents, to attain the ? nancial success witnj ; vise systematic depos of a specified propor | We pay 4 per cent, in Savings Accounts. NATIONAL BAN* Abbevill BMB?K, .OLD 'fl Smile if you will, ,1 J ?e and then lost it., . S* j ief picked it from . j| be gone for good. a J *m of a COUNTY ; of these things. ^ j top payment on i and you would >f Doing Business . jjj Bank I INTEREST ON fc'| E. Cox, Cashier || i nwi PH uummi >iii^wwwiw^ . ' ^ Dr. Robert W. Peach, paszor of a Reformed Episcopal church in Ne-' wark, N. J. says there are in the j United States 100,000 superfluous I churches, costing $500,000,000. ail Hail ops looked any better, I itions favored a bumpany better than .this . ' v ou had as much investh to win or as much to sure, or are you going B vith HAIL? W u to act safely. If' u to protect your crop 1] ANCE. | r and see us?to be too m if you will call us up- K call to see you at once I iNCE & TRUST CO; I son, Manager. 3 fie, S. C. lv r ~~~~~ T ? ~ ' [TH | er Effect. System is to Success, to bef sure, Don't overlook that *e born rich, or had i i - 11 ? em, tne weaimy peo- ? zn Systematic. They | r, then invested syste- ! I to Save first, though, the same, barring achighest degree of Fiin your reach. We ad- ' jits at stated intervals tion of your income, terest twice a year on : OF ABBEVILLE, e, S. C.