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JT AU?i A'VU4? Established 1844. 5. " . THE PRESS AND BANNER . ABBEVILLE, S. C. 4 t. "" ???????? - The Press and Banner Company 5: I Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. V' ' Telephone No. 10. if.' Entered as secon^-i'iass matter at post office in .lOheville, S. C. v Vy.:-' v ' . Tentu of Subscription: One Year _____ $2.00 Six months * $1.00 Three months - .50 '... : : , 1 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920' ' <' 0" '_______________ ABOUT HIGH PRICED LAND. %; j , -it What will the people do who have f bought the high-priced land? This is a question which is propounded to us every day, not that we bought much of it, nor that the people are 1 concerned about how much we . bought, but because there must be / something to talk about, and certain people are wondering whether the price of lands will stay up, or. whether it will come down with a consequent loss,to those who bought last year when the boom "was on. We think the people .who have bought the high-priced landB, if they ' are high-priced, will keep them. At least, most of them will keep what they have bought. They have paid'as mncti as nn<*.fnnrf.K or one-third of \ the purchase price and the purchased land is certainly, under any view of the matter, worth more than the debt fef. -* Y against it. But will they make money out of the lands at the prices at . which the different plantations have : ' been bought? Not, we answer, if the P??P^e w^? bought the lands move to ; V . town, sit' around the cotton curb, whittle sticks, talk hard, times, and allow negroes to rent the lands at ''standing rent," ahd allow the lands to wash away. And just here is where the .highly ' priced lands will prove worth-while. Instead of lands at ten dollars an V : .acre which might be rented to ten-' . ants; Whom the landlord saw but :v f once of-twice a year, tne lanaiorasi V. . ." > ' who have their money in the lands at i/. high prices, will give some attention! to farming the lands. The lands will ' ,l v ' he improved. The crops will be fertilized. The tenants will he taught how v , 1 to farm, and farming will take on a * j new interest in this section. One thousand pounds of lint cotton is no i return for a farm which costs three. ; thousand five hundred dollars. But if' the owner of the land, works it on shares, or by wages hands, and can - make twelvt hales of cotton, he can pay a large fertilizer bill, keep up his repairs, pay interest on the'money V;' invested and /ril other expenses and have a little left to buy the children 45' ' . t ' * . tow at fhristmim. :y ' . 'rr Yes, one of the good results which V will come from high-priced lands will be the taking of. the lands,out of the hands of the people-who have not contributed much to farming in this section and turning these lands over to people who know how to farm, are not afraid to think and work, and '* i who believe in doing something bev ; . sides sitting around town complaining about the government and finding ?'*" fault with last Sunday's sermon. GOOD COMMUNITIES. ' Which of the communities,of Abbeville County are most desirable for i tlio odfoWiahmont r\f hnmos? If vfHp man from the outside were about to move to this county, into which community would he go? Well, a thoughtful man will say ^ fhat he would like to live near Due West, Donalds, Lowndesville or Abbeville, if he sought to be near onf of the towns of,the county. And.if ' he desired to settle in a farming sec v - tion he would go to .tne Antrevine j section, or to the Campbell section.' And why? Because in these corner'1 munities the people'have'voted tatites sufficient," in" i^meistite;'to -dptfrpfce j'.;good schools. They have btfilt ihbd^rn: school housesi and they seek to. employ good teachers and to run their '? schools for a period long enough to , guarantee good work. They have i caught the spirit of progress. < ' Yes, taxes are high in these com munities. out cne lanas are iiiguei m * \ them than anywhere else in the county. It is harder to get a home in one of these communities than elsewhere, because they are all taken. The houses are of beter construction and have more modern conveniences. The people do not mind paying a little more . taxes (and the taxes do not amoun to much more than in other districts] because they work with more intelli gence, in a better satisfied spirit, ant they really love to do something t make the community in which the; live worth while. You do not hea the people from these communitie quarreling about high taxes, it is th man from a community without j special tax for schools who quarrel with the government, quarrels abou his taxes, quarels about the preach er's salary, quarrels about the cos of books for his children and thei quarrels with his neighbors, if the; show a disposition to do better b; the community. It is ignorance and prejudice wiiicl is keeping other communities in Ab beville County from having igoo< schools in all the districts. We say i is^ ignorance because the people wh< refuse to vote special taxes have no gone into those communities whicl have good schools and seen there thi evidences of progress, happiness, re finement and culture which the goo< schools are bringing with them Were they to go and see how mucl more valuable a good school renderi the tomes and the lands in the com miinity where it is erected, we imag ine that from selfishness, if from noth ing else, the people in the unfortunat* communities would be * disposed t< take a. step lorwara. We are glad to see that so manj of the districts iri the county do levj special taxes for the support of th< schools. When we rdmember that i has been only a few years since th< practice of voting special taxes ii rural -sections was commenced it ii gratifying to know that the peopl* are gradually, if slowly, awakeninj to the benefits of good schools. Thi past summer a good many Bchool dis tricts have voted enough taxes to re ceive state aid. May we not hope tha with another yefer the people wil have awakened still further to thei own interests, and to the welfare o the public, to which we are all ? s much indebted, if we would . onl; think, and that the work so happil; begun may proceed in this ebuntj We are far and away behind othe counties, remember that, and w must catch up before we are in th running. We have won our own plac of being a backward and unprofitabl people in matters of education, an if we would get rid of our reputatioi we must rid^ ourselves of it. WHER^ THE BLAME LIES. . . > (New York ^orld.) To the members of the America Bankers' Association, in annual cor vention at Washington, Secretary c Agriculture Meredith has taken tt complaint of farmers that they ai being denied banking credit to a unreasonable extent. That is the proper place to go wit V . such a complaint, and the federal rc serve board is not the proper plac< The federal resenje banks do nc lend money directty to farmers o other individual borrowers. They de* only with member banks, throug which ' alone the reserve systei reaches farmers and other borrow If it is then true, as charged b; Secretary Meredith, that farmer "have been denied credit for essjen tial purposes while producers of ex pensive luxuries have been accom modated," the-accusation .lies agains the local or home banks, whethe members of the reserve system o npi If, as charged, farmers' co-op erative associations are meeting wifl bank opposition and discriminatioi instead of help, the blame falls upoi the banks of the neighborhood am not ppon federal reserve banks or tb federal reserve board. TUama AVIANS *\1 A?% f VMAflAtf ntl i 1 IIC1C CAiOVO pcilbj UJ. mvavj am credit for the use of farmers in th i gradual marketing of their crops. 1 they are not getting it and canno get it for this wholly legitimate pur pcse, the local banks are exactl; where they should go. to learn th reason1 why. . ... .. 4 . , WORLD IS GETflNG '):* - "<> WORSE, SHE THINK! Lexingtort, Ky., Oct. 26?The worl is getting worse, says Mrs. Sam I Jones, widow of the famous evange list. "Human life is becoming to cheap," she declared here. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned n< to trespass upon the lands of the ui dersigned in any manner whatsoeve: 1 W. S. Martin. 10-18-4tpd. Mrs. R. L. Winn % , . %.* m :.K.' ' r. . ' t M'SWINEY SUCCUMBS TO ) HUNGER STRIKE ON 73RD DAY 1 Began Hit Hunger Strike on Augu?t 0 12th, The Longest Known to the y ' Medical World?Heart Failr ure Given at Cauce s 1 Of Death. ' e ?? London, Oct. 25?(By The Associg ated Press.)?Terence MacSwiney, j I lord mayor of Cork, died at Brixt6n prison this city, at 5:40 o'clock this I morning. His death followed h hunger a strike of more than T3 days, eclipsing P any in the annals of the. medical y world* < . i I MacSwiney, who had been uncon- 1 l scious for several days, did not recover his faculties before he died. Father | j Dominic, his private chaplain, and his j. brother, John ^lacSwney, were .with i him when the end came. Father J ? , t Dominic Was at tne prison all night , and did not leave until several hours 1 . i a after MacSwiney breathed his last. John MacSwiney and the chaplain, 1 who had been waiting downstairs in the prison were told by prison offii cials at 4:35 o'clock that they should 3 go to the mayors bedside, as they . thought death was approaching. The . brother asked for the 'privilege of . communicating with other relatives , . , . 1 wno were Iiuir jjreDeiik,- uui. iaic vwvi) als1 it is said, refused him the use of a telephone. ' j After the prisoner's I death, his brof the*- and the chaplain wei;e.not per- . 2 mitted to leave Brixton prison until t 6:15 o'clock. John MacSwiney im? mediately conveyed word to the wid1 ow of the lord mayor, who was stay3 ing at & West/End' hotel with Mr. and ? Mrs. O'Brien, the former being the ^ London executive of the Irish Self2 Determination League. I Mrs. MacSwiney acompanied by | - her parents and the Misses Annie, and t Mary MacSwiney, sisters of the lord 1 mayor arrived at Brixton prison at r 9:30 o'clock. V . ... ' 1 I f It Is understood arrangements are 0 being made to take the body to Ire? land for burial. ^ News of MacSwiney's death had r* not become known in the?district ar tound Brixton prisoh until after nine e o'clock. Tl* usual large contingent of e police was on duty inside the prison e grounds to prevent any demonstration, but outside and along the road ^ leading to the main highway, there l* were no unusual signs of ' activity. No civilians were waiting there, as they usually did in the early jtyys of the lord mayor's hungef strike.!. '.v It is probable the- inquest will be held at the prisoh today, after which n the body will be turned over to relal-ltiyes. ; ' ['.f * MacSwiney was unconscious for e thirty-six hours before his death oce curred it is stated, Father Dominic, n therefore, was unable to give him the last sacrament, but he administered h extreme unction. ? < ' The cause of MaCSwiney's death was heart failure, according to a ^ statement issued at the home office. , 7 r This statement is considered an indil* rect answer to the criticism of Dr. h Josiah OJdfield, the physician < and 11 publicist who had declared it was r" wrong for the lord mayor's doctors to administer meat juice and brandy. y He said brandy wps a poison and that ? a man at the point of death was very i- susceptible to poison. Dr. Oldfield ad> ded that what he could endure was i- fruit juice. >? t When one of the officials was asked r . i'm . .. f MICK IE SAYS: h >?{ ote wu. a | [QJDtAZ \Vi *tW OTUtC. a /Avio OUT, OOKTCNA I PUT WN W> \UUWS WJSRNOOCN K1V0I see rr % ,M AVi& -rU ?oss, u* *jw 8 / UOUJEBS, * \P NAVMfcVJf NOOfcj SAOS "O 96 MOOC CDVJ6PK500VJ& Y i I \OUN fcOVir NOO LOOSCKi OP e (?JN ^V?Wft.OVW&^ NOUCAVir I f \ ctpccrr A urmjc -two-err AD-?/ |X LOOM OP UKE tUC fcOC&C*r/ 4 - > mm ifv&PB L ? Ml ggjgfc \ 1 . ' ' . v . l' ' ; >,. H i | CQUN1 ' \ .* ' ' / *. 1 : \ .. ; . . - . -r' ' #1 PR ? ' . 4 f. , \ p ' : . ' . - i ypt >< I 7 I < . "Make read yourself for knock at yoi INGS ACC( ; return 5 per Thetir with the CA make mone; || ahead, and I s Follow i - ' another min I Opfen i COl and let youi until yojui, set Counl - * . ' i - . - ; V Sound G. A. NEUFFER, Pi ALBERT HENRY, A Br . . V t ' - ' : .' today regarding Mrs. MacSwiney's absence from the bedside when death occurred he replied by saying the restrictions which were recently imposed upon the visits of relatives were urged .by the attending physiqiana as tfital to the-prisoner's own interests. Teirence MacSwiney was forty yiears old and Fas one of the most prominent Sinn Feiners. He started life as a draper's asistant, but became a poet, author and a playwright before taking up politics seriously. Later he became violently anti-English. 'While in Wakefield jail. Yorkshire. m 1916, he met. Murijel Murphy, daughter of a wealthy Cork distilled, who visited the jail -and shortly after they were irtarried, despite much opposition. MacSwiney was elected as a Sinn Fein member from Cork to the " . . ? ... British parliament in 1918; but never took his .seat. He was present at the first sessicm' of the Irish parliament in 1919, when the establishment of the republic was confirmed, and was elected lord mayor of Cork in 1920. For various political offenses,", be had been in jail, with brief intervals of liberty, since January 1916 and in October 1912, secured his release from jail by hunger striking. < MacSwiney's grave will be alongside that of his official predecessor, Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain, who was shot in his own home in Cork on March 20. MacSwiney will be the fourth to be buried in this plat, the others being MacCurtain; Sheamus McGuirke who was taken out of bed in his Galway home and'shot, and TA?Amiak "M"/?Mnofv nrV?A nflrfiniTifltprf I UC1 dUlClll UlVil^Obj *? uv V. v.r?,vin the Easter rising in Dublin in 1916 rAl frieiid iOf ^e-Mae9|vipjey. farajfc? Who ^ccDBap^ied , Mrs. MacSwiflty. when she visited Brixton prison tfiTs morning said the lord mayor's telegram of October 18 to the Cork hunRESCUED FROM WELL Anderson, S. C., Oct. 26.?Rescued Jrt / - - i 11 ...I.:?V.o irom a 4o-ioot weu mtu wmvu ohm leaped with what, authorities declare, was intent to commit suicide, due .to ill health, Mrs. Walter Taylor, wife of a farmer of Townville, 20 miles from here, is none the worse for the experience. ^ t !' !'- ' ' ' * ' * '' ' * 0 ' * 'i " rY SAVINGS 1 ' i r F PA 1 Hfli A, . ' .. \ 7-^A-' ^":V^V W> i '..--'^S' ' . . - ' ' .f ." '.!'>,. V '' '?' ^ ?>;: - / ly,*' follow our advice anc the time when oppprti or door. Be READY wit] DUNT in our Bank and i cent. interest. tie is near at hand, when lSH will find many oppoi y, while the man who <did "make ready" will be lei the above a'dvfce, ,do not I tute. ''.'v l Savings Account Today JNTY SAVINGS BAf i '1' ' 1' r money earn 5 Per Cent. S a good investment, then . : < V /. ' ' i y| ty Savings ] . ' . ; : ? :: Safe :: f ?~ ~~ : . > e&itiebk ? - R. & CH ^ice-President. P. E. BE '* ' t ' " : : l f i . ' V I . . ' ' it- '\i? ' - si , ' , , jT._ '' i. V.- "fi i- i.in it) i' > >/>. i ' i i"1 I n . AJPat I I Wedd II m The Marylai |\ V beautiful Colt l\ ? T silver. The fl< *u\ of reversed c / 'll m simplicity and | the enduring 11 B a safe choice [ 1 J| cTbton, Mm I JA | X/-', ' ?. F. JL.HARF 'yVl. Abbeville, % - ?""""?~~~ ger strjjcers with reference to the v death of the hunger striker Michael e Fitzgerald in Cork jail, in which he c referred to Fitzgerald as having died n for his country and joined the immor- s tals, characterized' the family's attitude. \ j] "Mrs. MacSwiney and the lord a mayor's sisters, Annie and Mary, who s BANK I I jHh jlli I l prepare inity will B h a SAV- I eceive in * ithe man trinities to . : not look . I )ut it off ? Interest, i nwkeit. Service 1 ^ )X, Cashier. fi ILL, Asst. Cashier. B H ' i i'i - ^ tern for the ling Chest | id is an excepdonally' ' , f >nial design in Sterling i>wing outline, madenp>^ J; HM7AA no ? '4k?-'.V 1 IB .ui.vwj ao ouuiiiAuiv *yt v > ; grace. Maryland had beauty which makes it for the large Mwice. : -v :' . sVJN ? . ' 'U ' ' : ?r-: . r? wnAM 1 Wf?i :- ' . So. Carolina irere not present when tin find 6tt& ' ntered the cell, kissed the mayor's i i- i u -it ?xi.. ? ???? #AW neeK Knelt Biieiiuy in piajrci. a *vn loments and then left," the friend aid. "There was not a tear shed by the i aayoress who presented the same toical self-possession she has ihown throughout the long ordeal." -V