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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. I ? j The Press and Banner Company , Published Tri-Weekly j Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. . j _ 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 j FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1920. V .... I THE COUNTRY'S TROUBLES * ? I Col. V. D. Murchison has handed us a clipping from the Southern Cul j tivator with the request that we pub-' * lish it. We are sorry that we cannot publish the article in full, but it is long and some of it may be omitted.' There are some parts of it, however,' worth quoting. Among other things the article, which is contributed by W. C. C., of Cleora, S. C., suggests that the reason prices continue to soar is that the people continue to buy and the higher the prices, the more they buy. The writer says that instead of people refusing to buy things which they might do without and at the exorbitant prices asKec, they say, "I am going to have it if I can get it, regardless of the price." There is something in this. There will never be a recession of prices in groceries, clothes, building materials and in the price of labor as long as the people are willing to pay the prices asked, and as long as they are falling over themselves to have these things at the prices asked. The man with the groceries is not fool enough to sell an article at one dollar when there are two men quarreling about who will get the article at two dollars. The man who has lumber to sell i will not sell it at forty dollars per thousand so long as there are men who are "just dying" for it at sixty dollars per thousand. The man who charges one dollar per honr for being a carpenter and for carrying bis 1>?<utuA? Any] aew avAiinJ ?AHr knilflJ uauuuci. uuu pt* n c?i.vi*uu J VM? ??> ? ^ ? ing will never work for fifty cents per hour so long as Somebody else, as well as you, is begging him to walk around at the dollar per hour. | If the people want the prices of things to go down, there must be an! end to so much buying, so much use-J building, and such continued demands for things which may be had yithout buying them, and for things * which are not essential. People may put the price down by producing more themselves and Dy reducing . their demands through economy ai\d in other ways. Until they do, the prices will stay up. ^ The article further suggests that one of the troubles with tlie country is that too many people are moving to town, "looking for an easy placea do-nothing job?but get Dig money for it, at least it looks big to them." After all he thinks the big money is not so big after the expenses are paid, but these people lie says can koo Knf nno cwlo tVio mipstirtn nnrl ~~ " I that is "the do-nothing side." It is a " fact, we believe, that a great many people, and most people for that ^ -matter, residing in the rural sections, believe that all the hard work is done in the country, and that the people in the towns and cities do little work, but live most of the time on the work of others. This belief induces numbers of people, who do not like the slants of the sun anyway, to sell the little farms, the farming materials, and the cow and pigs, and to move to town in order to live easy. There never was, though, a more mistaken idea. In the towns if a man wants to work and get along it is an eternal grind from one year's end to the other. and never much to show for it. Those people who try to live without work soon find themselves misfits in the communities in which they live, and entirely disallusioned as to the towns and cities being places where the people live without work. It is to ^e regretted that a good many more people do not share the experience of W. C. C. Of himself he psys, 'The farm is the best place for me. I broke up, movea to Atlanta once. Four months was enough of city life for me. I came back to the dear old farm, where I reckon I will live and die. There are too many people in the cities and towns depending on the old farmer as they call him and not enough farmers to supply the \ . ountiy and city too with food." : In this way the writer again states ,he truth that the trouble just now is hat production is falling off while .he number of people who are to be fed from the products of the farm is constantly growing. And there wiiloe r.o let up in the prices which these products bring on the market until :.ie people demand less and produce more. _ j Fortunately, we think, the people will soon learn that city life is not everything. There will be a movement back to the farms we believe. It will come when the people find that the farmer is coming Into h'is own, and when people in the rural ? IftQvn Kir nav. seuuiuild ucgm V\J iszam w<?*v *JJ ing the same prices that are paid in the cities and towns they may have as' I good churches, as good schools, as many conveniences, and much morel of pleasure and enjoyment than in1 the towns and cities. i There will always be people, as the writer suggests, who say they are going to towns "looking for work, but praying to God that they will never find it." These people are not an asset either to the country or town. They fyelp consume, but produce noth-, ing, and thereby add to the high cost of living. WHY' THE POLE? ! I Standing, a lofty tribute to something or other, opposite the Baptist churclv in the middle of the street is a telephone pole which does not go far towards enhancing the beauty of the street at the formation of the "Y" made by Greenville and North Main streets. This particular section UI UJ1C MICCt ID UCIUg ucauwiutu uj the planting of flowers in the circle which is to contain the Confederate cabinet marker. The pole is "laden with an intricate mass of cables and wires. If it is to remain there during the summer why not ask the Civic club which has charge of the beautifying of unsightly spots and objects about the city to plant a kudzu vine or some other species of Jack's bean-1 stalk at the foot of the pole. - The , proper vine ought in a few weeks rcach the overhead supports wire' and cables and form a splendii canopy under whose shade the nines might roll the various bahiea of. the' /?oor*r\c ttrlttla fYiA Voof tllj 111 lU^n vaina^^a nuuv vuv hvmv of the summer sun beats down. Tf this is not considered practical' let's get the pole down. I CONGRATULATIONS , I While on the face of it it may apc I pear a case of locking the stable af ; ter the horse is stolen, yet we feel constrained to offer congratulations to. Mayor Mars and his board of councilmen for the promptness and thoroughness which characterized the recent investigation into the reported inefficiency exhibited at the fire of early Sunday rooming. Having an opportunity to witness ( some of the methods employed by the investigating committee we were :truck with the absolute disregard,1 I on the part of the committee, as to whofee chickens might come home to roost and that the entire committee was bent or. placing the blame where it belonged, was self-evident. ?? ? SABBATH OBSERVANCE In his address at Bethany last Sab ; bath Hon. J. S. Brice gave wholesome advice to his large aucrience on the subject of Sabbath observance.' He said from present indications he would not be surprised if there was a demand soon for the delivery of mails on the rural routes on the Sabbath. He urged parents by precept and example to train their children to observe 'the day as it should be. In reference to Sabbath mails, he said that Church people are/responsible for them and had it in their pow } er to have them stopped if they desire to have it done. Such is his own r\-f fVi/i enKioipf ffoot* npv i CV/Il V IV tiVIl Wi wnv 0UMJVVV VXMW *.v ..v . er goes for his mail on the Sabbath and he is satisfied he is non^ the poorer financially, and probably better spiritually, for not reading the Sun-' ay ]>apc-r. It was refreshing to hear, a layman with large business inter-: ests bsar such testimony.?A. It. Presbyterian. A WASTED -INVENTION "What did you say Prof. Dippy'sj lasf invention was?" "A muzzle for bumble-bees." "But they don't sting from that end." "So he found found out when he i attempted to muzzle them."?Life. I I * t ANSLEY?DERBYSHIRE _ , ' Invitations have been neceived in the city to the marriage of Rev. Alfred James Derbyshire, Jr. and Miss Ruth Barnes Ansley which will take place at 3:30 p. m., Wednesday, June 30th, at Grace Episcopal church Waynesville, N. C. Mr. Derbyshire is the new\ rector, of Trinity Episcopal church, this city, and the bride is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. James Jefferson Ansley of Abbeville, Ga., where Mr. Ansley.' is pastor of the Methodist church. | After a honeymoon in the mountains of North Carolina the bride j and groom will return to Abbeville ( where they will begin housekeeping in the Episcopal rectory. i SPEEDERS / ?? . ^ Bubber Bates and Charlie Darracotte, cyclists of the city, were speeding down South Main street, Wednesday evening.^ They successfully evaded the cops?as thought, but, on returning to th& city, they were arrested by policeman Barnes, and fined one dollar [ each. Mr. Bryan has sifted out the candi-J; dates, and finds that he can support' either Mr. Meredith, secretary of ag-^ riculture, or Senator Owen of Oklahoma; but as for the rest New- i berry Observer. 11 /?0| ol \ I'J ABSOLW SECl \ I ' No RED I In Withd I YOUR M ! Stai I. tUJ W. H. 1 | BE SURE AND BRING YOI 1 The County ! | JULY ] I AND HAVE YOUR INTERI \ ' - County Sa^ 1 x | SOUND SAI XT::.-'".;--: ?p? Bp 11IMMIIM \ ' ' ' / . OAT 0 OAV GIVE YOl MONE\ . ' J . CH/ 'k > wiiv n.at t T 11J Wt 6 pet cent Oi ^ 1 \ pjn? You may burnish i ' ^ $5,000 and make no fu wish. r /7? TTV yPu may add t $1, $5, or $10 or any a if you desire. THE STANDARI like a savings bank, but on YOUR MONEY. 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