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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-itass matter at post office iD Aoheville, S. C. Ter, us of Subscription: One Year $2.Co! Six months $ 1.00j Three months .50' i WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1920 . BOLSHEVISMS) Some days ago the papers carried the news that certain storekeepers in! Alabama had been served with notice1 to close their stores and keep them1 closed until cotton went up. The pa-: pers yesterday stated that notice had leen served on ginners in Anderson county to close down their ginning! plants until cotton went to 35 cents per pound, the notice being given by, a type-written paper, with a match stuck into the paper indicating the means to be employed in enforcing the order. 1 We cannot bring ourselves to believe that any band of people in this section would undertake to enforce l such an order. We prefer to think; that all this work is the work of a crank, or of a practical joker. We hope it is. But at the same time, it must be remembered that there is a spirit of anarchy in the land. Two weeks ago an effort was made to blow up the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co., in New York. A man was arrested yesterday in Pittsburg loaded with dynamite under circumstances indicating that he had the explosive for an unlawful purpose. Men have been quitting the5r employment in various sections of the country these many years, as they had a perfect right to do, and then have undertaken to keep their employers from obtaining other labor, which the employers had a perfect right to do, and in order to circumvent the employment of others resort has been had to assault, murder and other crimes. It all spells anarchy.. And we need not fool ourselves into thinking that there is no such thing as anarchy in the land. It behooves all of us to be on the watch. Constitutional government and the inalieriable rights of the people may only be preserved by the government being strong enough to protect these rights, and by electing men to office with nerve enough to enforce the law. For crimes growing cut of a spirit of this kind, the law should be ruthlessly enforced, so as to speak a warning to other evil-i doers. We have been comparatively free from the ills which have beset other sections of the country, large-1 ly b^fause our people are for the' . most part native Americans, but "eternal vigilance is the price of lib- [ erty," whether of the nation or of the individual, who has a right to control his own. Whether the notices-served in Anderson County are the work of mischief makers, practical jokers, or what not, the officers ot the law should apprehend those who have given the notice, and the people should know what kind of people they are. They should be made to know that they are tampering with dynamite and not with cheap cotton. On the other hand, if it shall appear that some misguided persons have decided that the proper thing to do is to take the matter of regulating the country into their own hands, the sooner they are given proper instruction at the hands of the law the better. South Carolina is no more the place fori the night rider and the house-burner than it is 'for the-^yncher, the n^urderer or^ny other crimi-' nal. Arson is a crime against the law,' as is the burning of a gin-house and if property be destroyed in this state as has been done in Alabama by an' outlaw mob, the perpetrators of the' deed should be hunted down and punished to the extent of the law, and no mercy be shown. To that end let every law-abiding citizen lend his enorts. 1 _______________ I The first consignment of grain received at Naples from Odessa early this month was reported to be in such a condition of putrefaction that a large portion of it had to be con-1 d?mned. ROOSEVELT USES "GOOD OLD WORD" Applies Term "Trimmer" To Repubcans?Can Not Be Placed. St. Louis, Oct. 5.?Speaking before a large audience in the First regiment armory here tonight, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic vice presidential nominee, charged the Republican party managers with having "mapped out and conducted a campaign of "trimming" the American people." "American voters," he said, "hate aman who says one thing and does another, but they hate something worse than that?a man who says one thing one day and does another the next. There is a good old word that has not yet been used in this campaign?the wood "trimmer." Before November 2 the voting public is going to know who that word fits and they will vote against all that it implies." Calling attention to a statement hv Senator Hardinf in the morninc papers approving1 "what Senator Borah has said in his public address." Mr. Roosevelt declared "if the English language means anything at all, it means that Senator Harding is at last being driven into a corner?it means that the American public has received from him a direct approval of Senator Borah's opposition to our going into a league of nations, not merely "the league," but 'a league.'/ "Governor Cox and I favor going in," he added, "and we are wholly willing that it be made clear to every American that nothing of our coins- in shall' take awav in the slightest degree our existing rights under the American constiution, including the right of the congress to declare war to send our troops overseas." M. Roosevelt accompanied by Breckinridge Long, Democratic candidate for United States senator, addressed a large open air gathering at Cape Girardea* this afternoon. "The difficulty which Will Hays encountered more than a year," he said in his address her? tonight, "was that of reconciling irreconcilable differences. He did this by attempting to divert attention from those differences and this could only be done by creating false issued. At Chicago, by use of 'trimming' language, a platform was devised by 'trimmers' which a Hottentot on an Eskimo could equally swallow. It means everything and it meant nothing. "The straw that broke the back of the patient public was the admission in Baltimore by the Republican candidate for the president that he had no specific constructive program on foreign affairs." CONVERSE ALUMNAE CLUB Dr. Snaveley, Dean of Converse ~ n i J I vuni^t*, was litre ?*?uiiu<iy <txiu x uca-| day in the interest of Converse College. Tuesday afternoon he organized a Converse Alumnae Club. The meeting of the alumnae was at the home of Mrs. D. H. Hill, and the officers elected were: Mrs. David H. Hill (Miss lone Smith) President; Mrs. Lewis Perrin (Miss Ethel Mills) Vice-President; Miss Mary Quarles Link, Secretary; Miss Max-'" Smith, Treasurer. The other mem: bers of the Club are Mrs. A. M. Smith (Miss Lucy White), Mrs. Paul Kennedy (Miss Leila Link), Mrs. J. C. Hill (Miss Sara Henry), Mrs. James Guyton (Miss Jean Griffin), Miss Helen Porter Smith and Mrs. Bradley Morrah, of Mt. Carmel (Miss Hessie Thompson, Lancaster.) Converse is about to put on a drive for a million dollar endowment. The alumnae are asked to give one tenth of this amount. The mills about Spartimburg, and the trustees, rfc-itf *frated, tfiH- taisfe ?he* rt%t of the atnionntrt?;'.supplement a proposed gift frorh the Carnegie Fund, the whole to total a million dollars. DR. B. F. JONES WOUNDED Edgefield, Oct. 5.?Mr. M. Whar-j t?.n Hudgens shot and it is thought mortally wounded Dr. B. F. Jones, at this place, yesterday afternoon, the shooting taking place in factory town. Five shots were fired by Hudgens, one taking effect in the breast another in the left side the other below the left shoulder. There were no eye witnesses to the affair, but it is aid that they had some words over rent, which Dr. Jones claims Mr. Hudgens was due him. AMERICAN TRADE BALANCE SMALLER i Imports Continue To Gain Especially From Europe While Exports Dwindled In The Month Of August Xispjrt Shows. ? ! Washington, Oct. C?The flow of! ods to the U ut-;1 tSatas from f\u- ] rope continued to increase in Au-! gust, while shipments from this' country across the Atlantic de-! creased. A department of commerce trade summary today showed that imports from European countries during I August totalled $114,000,000. com-J pared with $66,000,000 in August aj year ago, while exports to Europe 1 aggregated $293,000,000 as against! $417,000,000 in August, 1919. j Thus the trade balance for the: month in favor of this country was only $179,000,000. i Imports from Europe for the eight months ended with August ! ..oim.j of ?oqq nnn nnn I vv ti c vaiutu ai* iput/i/juuvjvvvj i pared with $362,000,000 during the ] first eight months of last year, j .while exports in the eight months i were valued at $2,985,000,000, compared with $3,496,000,000 during the first eight months of the year before. Imports from Asia during the month were $126,000,000 against $75,000,000 in August 1919. Exports aggregated $47,000,000 compared with $53,000,000 in August of last year. FRENCH TRY TO HALT PIRATING OF DRESS MODELS j Paris, Oct. 5.?On the ground ; that unfair ndvnn+afro ic hoinrr tal-pn of tthem to copy priceless models and designs, the Dressmakers' Syndicate} of Paris is trying to enforce an in-j junction against news and fashion j photographers. j I "We spend thousands upon the, creation of a model," says the dress-; makers'. "We pay high salaries to ; designers, mcrt of whom are trained ! artists; we carry on costly experiments to obtain the right colors and effects. "The price we sell a gown at is only an infinite part of what en- j volving the model cost us, and we get returns only if the model is re- , peated by us a sufficient number of times. - | "What happens under the present. system? One of our fashionable cli-.{ ents appears at ^the races, for in-j stance, in a new gown. Immediately ^ i File is pnotograpnea, ana rne picture falls into the ha^ds of se2ond-rate ; houses, who make a profession of copying pood models. The result is ;. sheer loss for us." FOR COTTON POOLS j] 11 I Corpus Christi, Texas, pet. 5. ? j Fred Roberts, president of the Uni- j, ted Cotton Growers' association of , America, said here today that he J; would offer a resolution at a cotton i conference in Washington October i 12-13, adoption of which would in-:< sure financing of the cotton crop by < the growers and furnish adi to for-; 1 eigr mills. It would call for the for-!i mation of pools, he said, which j < would be consolidated on a national < basis. 1 MICKIE SAYS: A vjessid, we UUE -m1 le'lC. \ 1 ' ADS AUD AWE CiUvD -ro CifT -0(CVA) J 1 OKVCE VVi fX\OUVUE. AMD TVC U\i- S ] AD ttKiUT AU>WC>, <S\VAU? GUM>[ 'sNJOUOS OU OO? WEEK (\D^NC OOrX, PES. Ut'S "XU? &CNJ ' \ <SO\KKA CAUKN 1Uv I p OEST UUE -tUPtf ?AC? 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France maintains, is unfair disci'imination and adds that if the United States proposes to discriminate against anybody it 3ught not be against her former alies. The French charge d'affairs is unier stood to have called upon Admiral Benson in this connection last week [t is also understood that Great Britain made objection to the North Gorman Lloyd as well as to the Hamburg-American contrast. In answer to their presentations it s maintained by the United States irst, that the Hamburg-American contract is not discriminatory. Sec>nd, that any help this country is able ;o give Germany will be for the.benefit of all Europe for the reason that jntil Germany recovers she will not be able to pay her indemnity for which France, of all nations is clamDring the loudest. 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