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Established 1844. .
THE PRESS AND BANNER
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
The Press and Banner Company
Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and UTiaay.
Telephone No. 10.
' Entered as second-iiass matter ai
post office in Aoheville, S. C.
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One Year L ' $2.01
Six months $1.0(
Three months .5(
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1920
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' / WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO!
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Everyday somebody tells us thai
ther^ is plenty of money in the country,
and in the next breath they ask
* us, "Where has it all gone," In oui
article a few days ago we gave {
^ general statement of just how it had
J taken its departure, from "here1
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* aDOUl, as uupuce viage ui mc uupreme
Court, would put it The
truths we sought to elucidate are so
, clearly^ and succinctly and conyinci
ingly stated in an article in the Spartanburg
Journal of Wednesday that
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I we are reproducing it The article
\??ys:
"According 4:o/statistics compiled
by the State Highway Commission
$115,400,250 has been invested in
automobiles and motor vehicles ,/in
South Carolina. By way of contrast,
it is stated that "the combined investv
( ments in all theVbanks of the State"
aggregatei $42,000,000; that the cap<
ital invested in the textile mills of the
! State is about $117,000,000, and that
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v % the total amount of capital invested
in all industries in South Carolina
last year was slightly more than $201i
000,000. * n
"This'year, counting only nin-:
months, there were 94,511 cars in
South Carolina of the average value
- of $1,275. This was an increase, compared
with 1919, of 20,212 cars; compared
with 1918, ai^increase of 35,708
cars; compared with 1917 an in
, crease of 54,337 cars. Last year the
consumption of gasoline in South Gar..
' , ' olina was more than 32,000,000 gallons;
the consumption in the first nine
' . - months of 1920 has reached 31,758,
830 gallons, an average monthly consumption
of 3,539,750 gallort^. II
was reckoned yesterday by the ownei
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of a car that the average price of gas'
pline for easy figuring could be giver
* at 30 cents the gallon, which woulc
mean that the average monthly expenditure
for gasoline in this State is
$1,0*61,925, or $12,735,900-the year.
"The figures, which are taken from
''the. Columbia State, are staggering
they probably explain irt some measure
the dislSress among certain of the
t fanners, which has been emphasized
recently, and possibly they may have
had some bearing on the advice recently
given to the banks on the subject
of loans. It is iiard to believe
, that the value of the automobiles in
Smith Pnrnlinn is within ahout . $2.
000,000 of the capital stock of all, the
cotton mills in the State; that tKe investn^ent
in automobiles is greater by
j j $100,640,250 than the investment iq
horses, $99,566,250 greater than the
total investment in milch cows, and
$93,224,250 greater than the invests,
ment in hogs. It would be 'mighty
interestin' ceadin'' if the Highway
Association would go a step fuxfcher
and find out the aggregate amount of
loans made by the banks of the State
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uii aubuiuvi/itco, nuv* iitaxij ui uic
are used for pleasure and how many
for business." N
\ And yet we know a good many people
who are planning now to get rid
of the old car and get a new one next
' year. A car is bad enough' in ha*il
times, but one without new paint-is
a calamity. Why do people think
that a car is worthless after the pjripl
ii comes off anyway? < ^
And then again may we not sugjjk?
gest that John D. must have a fine
|fl time these a^ternoo^^w
ing in the "juice" causing John D'i
mill to grind out the shining sheckeli
t, each happy hour. Somewhere we reat
a prayer by a drunkard, we think i
was, where> he besought the Goo(
Man to give him a barrel full, with i
little leak in the bung, and that hi
might be allowed to lie on his bad
and let the liquors drop into his opei
mouth. We have forgotten just hov
tha matter ran, but we know now tha
John D. would have the drunkan
"beaten a city block" in real enjoy
ment, even if his prayer might b<
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answered?yes, even in these dry
times.
Even the old darkey who. prayed |
for flitters and "New Orleans 'lasses \
to sop my flitters een," as told by the
story books of years ago, is a back
number in the land of happiness.
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THE LORD MAYOR EATS.
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The hunger-striking Lordj Mayor of |
Corl has been given food. The Irish
Self-Determination League, according
I to dispatches, announces the food was
) forcibly administered by prison phy).
sicians during a lapse of conscious)
hess on the part of MacSwiney. .
I In the House of Commons today
Edward Shortt, the hojjhe secretary,
speaking of the incident, said the for?
cible feeding consisted "in holding
the cup to his lips the swallowing bei
ing voluntary."
At any rate, the point is this: Lord
; Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork
has at last had something to eat.
i (And doubtless it tasted good.) , ^
I Perhaps now the disjointed Uni
verse will get right, the price of cot
ton go up, false teeth be invented
! which will not fly out of the mouth
> wh%;a fellow is boxed under the jaw,
jb|bieb quit being fretful when teeth
ing, and conditions in the Kingdom of
; the Hedjaz swing back to the normal.
If.^ver there has been a more^bor^some,
disgusting and ridiculous ,perl,
formance by intelligent people than
i this hullabaloo about the starving
i Lord Mayor of Cork, we never heard
i of it..?Anderson Daily Mail.
WASTED SWEETNESS.
It has just now leaked out. We re1
fer to the news and not to the wine,
because the wine was leaking' when
' the Seaboard Air Line through freight
reached Abbeville last Saturday^ afternoon.
Some wine seller was ship,
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^ pingf a carload to New Orleans. He
1 'kad built ten tanks inside a freight
1 car and all of them were filled with
! the joyful liquid. Just bfefore reach
ing Abbeville one of the tanks began
to leak, and everybody got busy on
the arrival of the car at the shops.
It is strange how fa^t bad news
1 spreads, but it had nothing on good
news Saturday. The car had not been
in the shops five minutes before dry
! men from up town were hurrying
' i hither. Each carried some kind "of "B
" | utensil to hold liquid refreshments.
^ I One had a dipper, another a dish pan,
"'some carried water-buckets, ^nd'oth'
i ers caught it in their hats. One man
1 ran so fast that he lost his hat, and ,
' he immediately took off a shoe in
" order to get his part. Standing room
^was at a^ premium around the car,
' | ?nd a free circus would not have been
1 half as well attended. Judge Hollings
j worth arrested the broken barrel and'
accompanied it to Calhoun Falls.
!i A great marty people who saw the
^ i men hurrying towards the shops
1; thought it was a firef but it was only
' fire-water.
WILL WITHHOLD
PUBLICATION OF
DRAFT DESERTERS
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department wiH withhold from pubj
lication its list or draft deserters until
every precaution has been taken
to eliminate the names that appear
on it erroneously* Secretary Baker
. staged today. + ^
J he number of ^deserters originalported
to the provost marshal
, general was 498,033. Examinations
, of the records . prior to July 15,
'1919, revealed, however, that 151,35^jBither
.had enlisted in the army,
navy or marine corps or had been
| erroneously inducted. During the
. t\oc+ voor +>?a nnmhor Kppti /nr.
[^thet'Teduced by 10,000. At last reimports
the list contained 317,649,
; names. Of these 163,738 cases hftve
t&een disposed of, leaving 17$9il
still outstanding.
Whatever delay has occurred in :
publishing the names is due to the
added:
?[ "To publish the name of an indi1
(vjdual who actually served his oount
try honorably during the world war
1 would do him an irreparable injury,
i (as no subsequent announcement by
pi the war department or by the indif
V*irv?onI# nAmrvTofolw IV
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i} moVe the blemish upon his name or
v mend his his damaged reputation,
t The task of eliminating these names
1 is a tedious one, but the wiork is be-,
- ing pushed as fast as the limited
* clerical force will permit."
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BANKER PROPOSES
' THRIFT CAMPAIGN
Would Last Three Years And Reach
Every Family Without Bank Ac'
count?Would A?k Government
To Economize
Washintgon, Oct. 21.?A. three
year thrift campaign to reach every
family in the country that has no
(bank account was proposed to the
American jankers' Association today
by its committee on public and
private thrift. As a part of the campaign?,
government officials would
be called upon to. practice utmost
economy so as to reduce the expenditures
of the Federal government.
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"The recent orgy of extravagance,"
declared the committee's
report, "has indicated very. clearly
the need for more popular realization
of the need for saving when,
and as the opportunity presents itself.
The time is at hand when thrift
axiu saving win uc xc^axjcu ao uvw
only possibilites, but actual necessities."
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Small savers are to be the chief
source in financing the, normal
growth of commerce and industry,
the report said, adding that present
tax policies offer a serious check to
increased investment by holders' of
large wealth. '
"Not only must the lesson be
taught to the individual citizen and
especially to the wage earner who
has not yet found a place to begin,"
said the report . "hut our government
officials piust also be impressed
with a similiar idea because of their.
example to the citizens and also be
cause of its demand upon the people
saving for purposes which too often
are neither wise nor economically
handled.
"The tax burden upon industry
and commerce and upon the billions
of savings which would otherwise be
used to finance new industry and
new commerce is beyond all1 reason
and in excess of the public need."
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W. Joel Smith said it. .He says that
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they are doing a rushing business at
the store of A. M. Smith & Son. "We ,
come down every morning, open up,
and at night, we herd the catsjclose
ap, and go home." That is what low
cotton will do for a merchant It is
worse than the boll weevil.'
LIEUTENANT WILLIAMS
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Mr. B. .H. Williams was yesterday
elected policeman for Abbeville Cotton
Mill village. The selection is by
the Board of Selectmen; of the village,
and is confirmed by the City
Council. . , .
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5,300,000 . r
A rumor was . posted Thursday
that the number of bales of cbtton
ginned to October 18th., as reported
to the National Ginners, was 5,300,000
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trespass Notice.
All persons are hereby warned not
to trespass upon the lands of the .undersigned,
in any manner whatsoever.
W. S. Martin.
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IN CROP FINANCING
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financial conditfbn of the nation is
as good as it had ever been.
"The federal reserve bank will
function properly in giving member
fcanKS longer rime on coxxon paper.
Credit has been available for cotton
as in other industries and I see no
reason that credit should be discontinued,"
he said.
Savannah, Oct. 21.?The Savannah
Cotton Exchange and Savannah
Clearing association today indorsed
the proposal of the American, Bankers'
association for the Organization
of a S12.000.000 corporation to fi
nance foreign trade. ?
Oklahoma City, Okla.^ Oct 21.?
Gov. J. B. A. Robertson this afternoon
sent a telegram to President
Wilson offered "to, join irt a con?
ertructive or helpful . movement to
husband the interest the cotton
grower." He also seni a message to
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia expressing
approval of a plan to organize
an export finance corporation
to take cotton off the hands of
the growers. ' ' s
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POTATO VINE
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Mr. J. A. Shands, the real estate
man, cajled to see us yesterday and
brought us a potato vane. He did not
know the ^ttriety, but we think it is
the Spreading Adder variety. At. any
rate the vine where it came^rat of
the, ground was an ordinary vine but
it began--to spread and at the other
end ,a distance of about four feet, it
*ras five inches wide^ and as flat as :
the price of cotton just now. The
end of the vine -terminated in a
number of small leaves, much like
potato plants. ' *
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THE MERRIE MATRONS. .v
Notwithstanding the State newspaper,
the Merrie Matrpns were a little
more merrier than usual Tuesday
when they met with Mrs. W. Joel
Smith, and played cards, talked and
enjoyed the refreshments serve<J. |'
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400 CHINAMEN DIE; 1
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-Joking, Oct; 21.-?An explosion 1
and fire in the Tong Chan coal ra\ne i
in Chi,Li province killed upwards of ]
400 men Chinese laborers on Thurs- 1
day last, buit news of the accident
reached here only today. There were
119 survivors. ^ ;
At{ official report by the mining :
company places the dead at 422. The '
explosion occurred in' next to-the
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;he deaths. . / fGrief-stricken
crowds surrounded
the1 mine, carrying off the victims
is they were (brought to ttie s&rface.
ft is reported pat 180 mules were |
taken out Sunday. . ' , . ,
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a successful iekson this year,
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