The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, June 25, 1920, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1920. V
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THE COUNTRY'S TROUBLES
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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
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? 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
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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
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. 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
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ing the same prices that are paid in
the cities and towns they may have as'
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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?
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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
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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.
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CONGRATULATIONS
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While on the face of it it may apc
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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ANSLEY?DERBYSHIRE
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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.
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SPEEDERS
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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.
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