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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 a' post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year |2.0C I Six months J 1-0C J 1 ; Three months .50 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1920 Harding used to be a regular news paper devil in his own nome sown. Wonder if Harding promised those - negroes a car load of watermelons? Not all the Republicans will be found "at the feet of Gamaliel" when' the actual count is taken. i The latest rumor about the Don-. /aids-Due West-Abbeville railway is that Vic Howie is to be engineer and Truman Ste'vens conductor. Joe Hughes says if they get the jobs the stockholders may as well give them the railroad, too, for they will soon own it. , * i Wp imagine that "Maior General" \ _ -r? <=> - I Belser et al of Columbia who hava ^ lately imagined that they were t\e whole American Legion in the State feel since the Spartanburg convention yesterday, like Major General Wood felt Sunday morning. The steam roller hit them full THE SMELLS OF THE CITY ? It takes all kinds of people to make a world so we judge it takes all kinds of smells to make a city. Granting this to be true Abbeville is some city. ?If you want to get a whiff bf anything from pineapples to Limburger cheese and worse just mafte a tour around the square and a block off on i?fA flio armor** MIC DUCCIO A Uiiiwiig 1UVV W?iw V, one of these hot days. May we suggest that the board of health try oat their noses on some of the places ' - to be found in the "heart of the dfcr" and see if they can ten without looking where pineapples are sold and where cow hides and other such * difeous wares are stores. Some of the smaller shops have absolutely po ventilation at the rear and the aromas have no other exit than the front door. An ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure. j "DO IT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA"^ A number of our representative, citizens have gone to donsiderabla' trouble and expense to advertise the ) rally to be held by the South Carolina Development ooara ootn nere ana ai Due West Friday afternoon. These < citizens are all men whom we know i ' and inwhom we have ample confi- (i dence. If the Development Board ^: were not a good thing for our peo- j pie to be behind with their loyal j: support, these men would not be' 1 pushing the movement for all it is worth. j i So it is up to the rest of us to at- i . tend one of these meetings Friday i / and find out for ourselves just how 1 much good there is in the thing. The slogan "Do it for South Carolina" aptly tells the whole plan in five words. With Mr. Baker, Major Tillman, and Mr. Armes to make the addresses, even if it were only a lot of hot air, the effort put forth to attend the meeting would be worth while for these excellent speakers can make hot air sound refreshing to the tired citizen. But we believe that a great good will be accomplished for South Carolina, and incidentally for Abbeviiie County, by the Development Board just as Isoon as the whole people get the spirit in their bones aiifl push the old Palmetto State for ?11 . she is worth?and she is worth mil i lions in every sense of the word. I GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR COTTON % For 50 years the Government has been gathering data on crops and periodically issuing condition reports. "The worst on record" is the way ' this report the first of June summed up the situation. It is true that some gocJ cotton crops have been made in years when the early condition was unfavorable. It is too early, of course, lo prophesy with any degree of reliability upi / on the ultimate outcome of this sea bfl sons crop, but to say the least, the to prospects are exceedingly poor for a or number of other reasons besides the he low conditions of the growing crop, qu It is apparent now from all the ag reports so far issued, that the large w? increase in acreage expected has not materialized. A great many people 0f who imagined that "40-cent" cotton wj made millionaires out of cotton i0( farmers overnight have said that the C( farmers would this spring rush in w] and increase their acreage in the re hope of taking advantage of the high- wj er prices. But the farmers who are T1 payiag $2.25 for corn, 1.50 for oats/fin $45 for hay and from $3 to $5 per se day for laborers, frequently with pi; board thrown in, do not se^ 'much so profifit in "40-cent" cotton, find the an prevailing price has not been such a an incentive as has been popularly 0t supposed. ' th Furthermore the early season was pr so unfavorable in most sections of pa the belt that planting was delayed an until it was impossible to put in' as ca much acreage as many really desir- da ed. mi I On top of these hindrances the an * ' -e 1-1 -11 tO alarming snorrage 01 iarm jauur mi over the &outh, which will prevent crops that are-planted from being adequately worked, is apt to cause erl uneasiness as to' how they will be P^ gathered. Ip0 In speaking of the gloomy outlook 1?' for cotton the Houston, Texas Post ^ concludes its article: . "In the face of such a situation, it . is difficult to see how there can be m any material decline in the prices of raw cotton. The world has consumed to much of the excess stock on hand ca at the beginning of the season and foreign countries are in better posi- a tion than last year. With an increased demand and an extremely short crop pr almost sure, cotton prices can fall only in case there Is a general re-! I duction in all other commodity prices." | kh THE DEMAND FOR ICE. j nc ??? ca Ice becomes eacji year, more an! more, a necessity, especially in the no towns and cities which look to water cjj plants for the supply of drinking wa- sjj ter. A few years ago not more than fg, a ton of ice per day was sold in Ab- ^ beville". Now the sales run from sev- ej( en to twenty-five tons per day, ac- 0j, cording to how active the sun gets in the early morning. qU Those towns which are fortunate thi enough to have ice plants, even in of weather like this, barring accidents, ele may feel safe with regard to the ice al supply. But small towns which have up no plants are often without ice, and otl always in a period of hot weather is like that through which we are pass- sys ing. . . vai Syme.years ago two or three big corpoi'ations undertook to take over no! the ice business of the whole country, hei Their plan was to run big plants at yei central points and feed the surplus P?1 ice out to the small cities an-! towns car and thus make a killing. One of the do first results of the campaign whic'i dei they waged was to kill out a'.l the do. small plants in the country, because ne: they manufactured ice at much less eas than the small Dlants could do. and wil undersold them in their own ccmmu- sid nities. But this did not keep up. As mil soon as the small plants were out of ind the way the people began 10 pay and ma are still paying for their want of wil foresight. Wednesday's Atlanta J >u;*- |dai nal has the following on the ice bu&i J <'c: ness in Georgia: ! cJ "The price of ice in Georgia towns bo4 where no ice factories are located He and in towns of 20,000 and less where tea factories are located was advanced my Tuesday morning by the state fair- chc price commission, which held an dui hour's session in the council cham- ha^ ber at the city hall. The price of era ice in cities of more than 20,000 re- ply mains unchanged. noi "In towns of 20,000 and less which mil have ice plants, a price of seventy- wh riAX In lftfc nf 0*fW live V.CUIO 11UI1U1VU) IK AWVO w*. f-. V 100 pounds and less, for delivery sta by wagons, and a price of fifty the cents per* 100 in lots of 300 tbi pounds and more for delivery at the noi factory was fixed. ; leg "In communities which have no th( plants, a price of one and one-half fro< cents per pound, in lots of fift^' pounds and less, and one cent per kn pound in lots of fifty pounds and no; mor6 was fixed." foi These smaller towns it will be up seen are paying much more for ice pei than is being paid in Abbeville, or at even in other towns about here to where the prices are higher than in hu Abbeville. If *he/ Georgia plants are an 4 lying coal on the market of today make the ice the price is not ex- : bitant, though much higher than retofore, because steam coal is loted as high as $8<00 per ton as ;ainst $1.10 five years ago, and iges are out of sight. But the price is not the .bad part the situation. The small towns aya thout ice. Calls are coming to the cal ice plant every day for ice ! >mer, Ga., writes that the people 10 have been selling them ice now fuse to ship it, and that Comer is thout ice even at the high prices^ ley want help. But they will no l id it. They may guarantee them j Ives a supply of ice by building a ant of their own, or by allowing . me resident of the place to. do. it j id then they allowing him to sell at > reasonable price, and by keeping 1 her people out, at least so long as e local man sells at a reasonable ice. It is not that the big ice com ,ny does not want to neip corner id other places, but because the lc1 demand for ice on days like Mor.iy and Tuesday is about twice as a'ch at the plant as on ordinary days d therefore the big plant is unable supply the outside trade. i Unfortunately the results obtained om the manufacture of ice do not icourage the building of other ants, but these plants can be made rsible if the people support them cally as they should be supported.' business which makes money only ree months in the year, and runs a loss for nine months is not an viting enterprise. If ice is a necessity it were better encourage its manufacture lolly. It is better sometimes to pay a' ;tle more and get ice, than to have! lesser price fixed with no ice at the( ro/1 nri/?o onrl rmno nf anv ice. F FITNESS WERE THE TEST Fitness for being President of all e people of the United States is ?t the first quality sought at Chigo and will not be the first sought San Francisco, nor the second, ' >r the third. It comes into the 1 4 oice, but it comes in late and rinking, a poor relation at 'the ast. The first requisite is that the | ndidate shall be one who can , be i icted. The second is that he shall J e who can hold the party tother, which is almost, but not ite, the same thing. The third is it he shall not be too independent his party associates after he is icted. This is what the professionpoliticans -want. The emphasis on these qualities, the slurring of ler and more valuable qualities the vprice we pay for the party ;tem in return for whatever adltages there are. in that system. This is not to say that it might t be practical wisdom for the d leaders at Chicago, in this ir of miracles, to disregard the itical rule of thumb and pick a i ididate solely for his ability to the work which the next Presilt of the United tates ought to The qualifications which the ct President should possess can lily be outlined by any one who 1 forget partisan political coneraticns. He should not be combed to the employers' side of the lustrial issue, not to the working- 1 n's side. He should have dealt ;h labor successfully by stan ds of production as well as of nocracy. He should be acquaintwith the exigencies of industry, :h in thes hop and in the office, should be able to modify the chings of the old political econoto suit the technical and psy>!ogical conditions to modern proition and distribution. H? should /e so keen an instinct for demoicy as to be able to find it and ap it where the old formulas do t run! He should have the type of rul of the liberalized engineer, ' Uw/UIfe V\AUf +A Q M /11 ft U fl(#b I"II1,V *\IIWT.-? 11\/T? tv UUItlllV jiis and machines, but undernds clearly the social purpose of ! economic machinery. He should nk in terms of social purpose t of the private rights and privies, which the legitimate only as ;y serve the ultimate common 3d. He should have an intimate owledge of the social and eccmic conditions of Europe, which, good or evil, are bound to iract on our own. He should know ';y isonal experience what, forces are work abroad. He should be abV think of . Europe in terms of man life rather than of cabal.; rl ffnviirnmpnts. Without cuttinsr I \\ V Iotose from laws and traditions, he e should see the international problem as a human, not a political or legal problem. y With these qualities our next v President might not be morally or h intellectually better than the candi- t dates now prominent. But his feet would be on the ground. He would c see what could and should be done as no political-minted man could. ^ He would be the first great social engineer.?N. Y. Globe. ' ARE YOU GUILTY? I A farmer carrying an express package from a big mail-order ' house was accosted by a local dealI The^ ount THE HOME 0 Theodore N. Vail, who Since that time he has railways in the Argenti time to manage a firm jfi With all his industry, 1 ilation for his millions. Cultivate your savirig'l jj part men t. We Pay Five I The attention of all of < ' do just as well as Mr. are young. Begin NOl gjl I Count 1 SOUND ' IN TP SUP ivr n uranf ri nTHF<5 1T1W11 T7 UIAt VJUV & ?YET STYLISH. Good fabrics and ban ' weight SUITS hold tl Palm Beaches, Tropi in medium and effects MEN'S SUMMER Straw Hats, Silk Shirt PARK \ MflRHEHHHBHHBHHHHI1 r r. "Why didn't you buy that biltf of oods from me? I could have saved ou the express, and. besides you' irould have been patronizing a tome store, which helps pay the axes and builds up this locality." The farmer looked at the merhant a moment and then said: "Why don't you patronize your rome paper and advertise? I read it ind didn't know that you had the tuff I have here." MORAL?ADVERTISE in The >RESS ANDi BANNER. >'? <.<* m The Bureau of War Risk Insurance it Washington received and artswerid 400,000 letters during the first six nonths of 1919. \r ^oxnnrtc R; y k/u y in go i_yt >F MISTER FIVE P died recently, begau liis caret improved the Railway Mail S< ne; helped Bell develop the te in Vermont. I j le combined the saving habit, v Industry and saving are an un lablt through regular deposits Per Cent. On Savings \ t m ? l ll i A? A I jur Doys is caiiea to ine auove Vail if you will learn the Savl N. A deposit of $1.00 will sti y Savings SAFE iE GOOD SlMER Tit that are lig.it weight, Cc id tailoring are the reas leir shape and stylish li cai Worsteds, Mohairs ; SUITS $ s, Silk Sock;, Thin Uncle [ER and R _ . . . Europe Take* to CIwwiaJ^Giim ? 1 : j \ The jaws of Europe are v?agging I ? on American chewing gum. "Efforts were made at different time to \ - * . ? ?/ popularize chewing gum ;in the V countries cf Europe, but always without ?uccess until the American ^ soldiers took some over there, after which the gum chewing habit became a vertiable craze. Chewing gum to the value of $2,164,290 "was expurtejd by the United States during, the year 1919 apd England was . the heaviest purchaser. During the war gum chewing became very x v popular in the munition factories of 1 m i j T- i. .1. _t i j&ngiana, wnere it took me piace ox tobacco, smoking being barred. ank I , ER CENT. er as a telegrapher. ' B . 3rvice; built electric lephone nnd found k , vhich built the founbeatable combination in our Savings DeDeposiU. statement. You can !ng Habit while you * irl you. 1'^'fi Bank I SERVICE 1 . ? - VIE I ?ol and Comfortable ? ons why our light 9 I nes. I 9 __J c. I m ana >juimiiici jci gcs j? 10.00 to $35.00 1 rwear. ?3 EESE I '4