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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-?iass matter ac post office in Aoheville, S. C. Ten ai of Subscription: 1 One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 MONDAY,. DECEMBER, 13, 1920 A CHANCE TO HELP. The editor of the Press and Banner does not claim to be an experienced AM 1I?A UaKaIIA 4-IiaI if NfAd luiauiici. jl>uw vyc uciicvc uiab it wao a mistake to close the doors of the! County Savings Bank. In saying that we wish to disclaim any intent to criticise the officers, friends and ad visers of this bank. We know them Well enough to believe that the ad vice given was what the advisers be-, lieved to be right* in the premises. We understand that the Bank Ex aminer who is now here, and who has madp a careful examination of the affairs of the bank, is in accord with, our view of the matter. We do not know what his final decision will be j with regard to re-opening the doors ( of the bank. Now that the doors of bank have been closed it may be de cided that it will be best for it to li quidate, or it may be decided that it is better for thev bank to resume bus iness. We believe the final decisioh on this point will embody the best thought of the Bank Examiner and of {he officials of the bank and of its stockholders. Anticipating their decision, and be lieving that the bank may be re opened, we desire to say that when, its doors are re-opened we shall have a fine chance to show whether this is! a community with a community spirit of helpfulness, or whether there are in Abbeville only a number of sel fish individuals, who consider them sielves first, and then last, and other ' people not at all. The bank is sol vent. It may not be making money. It nfotr Ka 4-Viof if- will nrkf moL'o wfkri o\r until changes are made, but less mon- j ey will be lost by operating it just' n6w than by liquidating its affairs. The bank can best collect its own as-1 sets, and we believe it is to the in-! ] terest of its creditors that they give it extensions and allow it to do this. The depositors of the bank are per haps scattered, but the combined de posits of the bank do not exceed $45, oOO, we are told. Most of this money. is likely deposited by people in the city who will have every confidence in the bank, and it will not be with-! * drawn except in the usual course of < business. But there will be some who j will be afraid of losses. These we j would re-assure. The depositors of the bank cannot lose a cent, as we See it. Every stockholder of the bank is liable not only for what he has paid in on stock, but for an equal a mount for the guaranty of the pay ment of depositors in full. Therefore, depositors will receive not only their share of the general assets of the lionlr Kllf f U ft** will Un?TA nr o /Irl if nl 1 waiiA, uub vvui uavc as auuiuuiiai j Security this stockholders liability, j Besides the directors and principal) ijtockholders guarantee depositors against loss. | ' These facts being understood, we > 'beg to ask the depositors on behalf of tShis bank that they join with others1 in undertaking to make the re-open ing of the bank a success. It hurts every other bank iri a town for a bank to close. It hurts every business in! the town, it affects the credit of every j business man to some extent. To take j up this bank at this time, and make it a go, will be a recommendation for the business interests of the town and ! for the spirit of co-operation which j will go a long ways towards giving i the people in other places confidence in this commnity. Looking to that end! we should all help. If the bank opens j tomorrow we can all help by refusing J to draw a cent out of the bank. I Every business man in the city, every! friend of his neighbor, every lover 1 of the reputation of this community, I can help by making a deposit with 1 the bank. We hope that the people of (1 this city will show their faith in the;i y officers of the bank, in the ability of i our people to work out of their dif-'i Acuities, and that the community 1 spirit of Abbeville will rise higher. 1 than selfish interests, and that these i things may be done. i In saying this we desire to say that we have no personal interest in the institution. Further than having a small deposit in the bank for a small corporation in which we are interest ed, we have no financial interest in what transpires. But we know that the men who have put their money into this institution have stood back of Abbeville in the past in every movement the town has made to go forward. They have given of their time and money to help the town and they will do it again. Such being the case, it is time for us to show the faith that is in us and do something to help them in their difficulties. Ab beville has a right to expect every man to do his duty. MOTHERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA The nippers of Italy are appeal ing to^yd$ $he mothers of South Carolina, as did the mothers of Bel gium in 1914. It is the same distressing cry? "Give us milk, that our babies may live!" With beating heart we went to the succor of the "Babies of Bel gium;" what shall our answer be to the desolate- mothers of Italy. The need urgent. Five hun dred thousand babies are suffering from hunger and the hunger dis eases. , . ; .. The whole child life of Italy is en dangered, and disaster can only be averted by sending milk in sufficient quantities to tide them over this question; are we willing to make the sacrifice to send it? Milk is the very elixir of life to the baby; but in Italy there is no milk, a milk famine exists, war and disease having felt the nation with out cattle or milk goats. j Will you help to save these ba-, bies? Will you interest your neigh bor, your club, your church society, the women of your city and com munity in saving these babies? It is the work of the Good Samari tan. Your babies have all that a tend-j er mothers love can give them?the some mother's love "Over There" is powerless, there is little to give. It is your privlege now to gve for that other mother. Upon your answer waits the hope. of many a sad mother in Italy. Checks may be sent to Miss Jane B. Evans, Florence, S. C., or to The State, Columbia, S. C. MY TRIP THROUGH FORT MARION (Proper Gander.) In February 1918, while on a camp ing trip through Florida, I had the pleasure of going through Fort Mar ion at St. Augustine. Fort Marion was begun in 1586 ind was completed in 1756. It covers ive acres of land. In 1821 the state of Florida was :eded to the United States for five nillion dollars. The stars and stripes ivere raised over Fort Marion July ;he 4th, 1821. For a long period of time it was ;he strongest fortification in America, [t was never taken by an enemy. I ^o not remember the number of rooms as there were so many and ;here* was so much to see, but I will ;ry to give you some idea of what the nterior of Fotr Marifn is like. As I came up along the sea walls, [ came up a fight of steps that put ne on the first wall of the Fort' Then L crossed a bridge that took me into :he Fort. At the door, I was met by a guide vho informed me that all packages vere to be left at the table. After I lad registered I turned to the right ind went into a room where all of ;he old army suits and old guns that lad been used during the time the tort was in possession of the Span-1 ards were kept. In this room was ilso the wishing chimney where you :ould sit in a little chair before the ire place and make a wish, then ivrite your name in a large book, and >ne year from that day your wish! would come true. I came out of this room into the yard in the center of ;he fort over which there was no -oof. I went up another fight of steps ivhich took me upon the flat roof of the fort. On three corners of the fort ire watch towers. One of these is much larger than the other two. You ?o up a ladder to get to the top of the largest otie. Each tower has little tiny windows from which the watch man could see the enemy approach ing. I then came down into the yard HONOR ROLL CITY SCHOOLS FOR NOVEMBER The following is the honor roll for the City Schools for the past month: GRADED SCHOOL First Grade?Highly distingushed: Sara Neuffer, Albert Gilliam. Dis tinguished: Adelaide Philson, Eliza beth McCord, Claude Harrison, Wil liam Hill, Ray Mundy, William Nick les, Rebecca Smith, Lavinia Wilson. Second Grade?Highly distingush ed: Eugenia Swetenbufg. Distinguish ed: Mary Maxwell, Marnie Reese, Manning Bouknight, Allan Hall, Wal ter Hagen, Edwin McCuen, Edward Roche, Clyde Stone, Mary L. Benton, Benie Evans, William Cheatham, Woodrow Perkins, Frank Dawson. Third Grade?Highly distinguished Martha Aiken, Jane Harrison, Flor ence Sprouse, Frances Wosmansky, Helen Gambrell, Oscar Clarke, Claud I)Ieuffer. Distinguished: Mabry^Mil ler, James Reynolds, Ovelle Gilliam, Frances Johnson, Ruth Mundy, An nie Rogers, Geraldine Carter, Marga ret Culbreth, Norma Flynn, Grace Hall, Susanne Link, Margaret Tel ford, William Martin, Myer Polia koflf. Fourth Grade? Distinguished: Henry Power, Norma Seitz, Ethe'l Bowman, Maiy Chalmers, Sara Evans Margaret Maxwell, Lily Pruitt, Char lotte Reese, Lennie Reynolds, Sarah Thomson, Sarah Smith, Edna White, Emily Morse, Anne Smith, Bill Daw son, Harold Bell. Fifth Grade?Highly distinguished Mabel Bradley; Distinguished: Adair Aiken, Estelle Lyon, Gene Milford, Mary N. Perrin, Minnie Ej Sweten burg, Nora Tutt, James Fulp, Jr., Joe Finley, Doyle Bauknight, Martha alvert, Susan Minshall, John McMur ray. - . Sixth Grade?Highly distinguish ed: Pat Howie, Alma Wilson. Dis tinguished: Elizabeth Corley, Mary. Hill Ferguson, Margaret Flynn, Mar-; garet Stallings, Ecjith Grubb, Floride | Gantt, Frances Jones, Ernestine Mc Cord, Otis McMurray, Irene McMa han, Helen Starnes, Louise Uldrick, J Homer Wilson, Margaret Ab^e, Eliz abeth Beeks, Alma Gaston, Annaj Jones, Grace Roche. Seventh Grade?Highly distinguish-' ed: Anna Jackson, Rachel Minshall, j Margaret Harrison, Ada Perrin; Dis tinguished: William P. Greene, Jr., Ellen Nabers, Stella Seitif' Ttfm Howie. HIGH SCHOOL. Eighth Grade?Highly distinguish ed: Judith Hill, Lily Milford, Jeansie White, Virginia Wilson. Distinguish ed: Emory Penney, Ellis Poliakoff, Augustus Smi^h, Jack Thomson, Lucy Highsmith, >?Gec7rge Wood. Ninth Grade?Highly distinguish ed: Grace Milford, Deby Owen; Dis tinguished: Carolina Chalmers, Mary Shaw Gilliam, Mary Jones, Elizabeth Lyon, Marion Wilson. Tenth Grade?Distinguished: Ad die Bowen, Ruth Coleman - * Eleventh Grade?Highly distin guished: Mary White, Annie Wilson; Distinguished: Janife V. Howie, Car rie Hawthorne, Janie Milford. MILL SCHOOL. Distinguished?J. C. Able, Grace Martin, Eula Dennard, Ruby Robert son, Jack Able, Charlie Smith. J. D. FULP, Supt. again where a gaiicje met me, and took me through the rooms. Some of these rooms were the old prison cells. Other^ fcave been njfcde into museums in whl^f^^^jsiii'ny things of inter? est. TiSili|i^ttS[a^ made the greatest impression '6n me, and caused me to realize the cruelty of the Spaniards in those days, was the death cell. The only door to this cell was about two and one half feet high and about three feet wide and we almost had to crawl to get in. They now have an electric light and fan in there. This is where the Spaniards would cast their prisoners and $eal this only door leaving the poor prisoner with out food or water, air or light. Of course the poor prisoner, not know ing anything about this cell would begin to hunt a place to'get out and would finally land in the quicksand that was in one corner, and there meet his death. After leaving the death cell we went through the old prison chapel, and several other rooms all of which were very interesting. STELLA SEITZ, Grade 7. A Canadian has perfected a pro cess of tannage whereby rabbit fur is fastened firmly to the skin and the fiber toughened, which will open a source of almost unlimited supply for a new low-priced fur. CONSTANTINE WANTS AMERICAN SYMATHY Former King of Greece Feci* Just Like President of United States "Elected By the Vote of the People" Lucerne, Dec. 10.?In a message to the American people which he gave out here today, Former King Constantine of Greece says he feels like an American president as he has been elected by a vote of his people. The message was dictated by many requests and contains the fol lowing introduction. "In returning to my country and reascending the Greek throne which I was forced by the entente and the intrigues of a political party to abandon for three lnog and trying years. I feel more than ever as the president of the United States must feel. I too, have been elected by vote of the people to the high office I am about to fill and which I for merly occupied by the single con stiutional right of heredity." "In this most solemn moment of my life, I am duly conscious of the heavy responsibilities I assume," reads the message. " I feel in duty bound to express to the great Amer ican people my most heartfelt thanks for the sympathy I received from them in my trials. I thank them also for the impartiality they certainly have endeavored to show in judging me and in criticising my attitude during the most disas trous war ever known in the history of mankind. '"I, upon whose family crest stands the device, the law of the people is my power, ever made had at heart the interest of the people by whom I am now called by their express ana waisputaDie win, xo rule. "Mindful of the great upheaval the war was going to cause, I en deavored to follow a line of action which I considered would serve the best interests of my people, - and I feel I did it with enmity toward none and good will toward all. The combination of circumstances all tended to make credible the calum nious'reports that an alert and inde fatigable stae6man, who unluckily Co-Opet Will At a recent mee i j *j mousiy aeciueu iness, and not c announced. We will continu chandise that yc as heretofore, t! goes with every 1 s We wish also to patronage of th< A Me Ha I 1 Co-Operai . out of spite for me, had been blind ed to all the dictates of reason, had caused to ibe spread abroard. "In order to create this false im pression a misinterpretation, well calculated to alienate me from the good will of the entente, was most steadily placed upon my every act, word or thought. By this an es trangement was brought about be tween me and the entente powers, to which I> myself, as well as my people, had always looked as our best and natural friends. "I solemnly declare to the Ameri can people that neither the policy I followed in the past nor the action of my people in unanimously calling me to my throne were actuated by any intention to show hostility, to ward the allies. "More than any one else I realize that the interests of Greece and those of the allies and America have ever been and are now identi cal. I personally am anxious to show it by all the means I possess and am only too willing fo clear up the misunderstanding of which I have been the victim. . "I sincerely hope and believe I will get the support of the Ameri can people whose wonderful quali ties I admire and whose sincerity open mindedness and impartiality I unreservedly rely upon.* FINAL PLANS ARE . COMPLETED FOR RETURN OF CONSTANTINE # ' Lucerne. Switz.. Dec. 12.-?Official notification of the result of the pleb iscite in Greece, and an invitation to return'to Athens and reascend the Greek throne immediately were re ceived by former King Constantine here this morning. The Greek gov ernment notified Constantine it will have a Greek cruiser and an escort of war ships to receive him and his fam ily in Venice on Wednesday. Because of the health of Queen So phia plans had been made for Con stantine and his family to travel by the way of Brindisi, but on account of the arrangements made for hhi re turn his plpns have been changed, and the family will leave Lucerne on an ordinary* train probably on Mon day. . . Professor Feorgios Streit, former till V Vr 1T1V1 VU1 Continue in Bus iting of our Stockholder* I that the compony shoul lose the first of January e to handle the same hig >u have been able to obt* he same prompt, . courte purchase. thank our customers for e past and wish for all ;rry Chrietma y i V\V\T \j\jy i^icvy 1 < live Mercantile I foreign minister and Constantine's chief adviser during his exile, who is reputed to be pro- German, and Captain Stefan Paparrigopoulos, com mandant in the Greek army and Constantine's aid de camp, are pro hibited from returning to Greece by the Greek government in the tele- . gram inviting Constantine to return. Sends Delegate to League. Genva, Dec. 12?Demetre Panas,. a former Greek minister of foreign affairs under King Constantine, ar rived in Geneva today to become the sembly of the League of Nations. M Panas replaces M. Caclamanos, who was appointed under the Venizelos regime. Will Arrive Late in Week. Paris, Dec. 12.?Former King Con stantine^of Greece, whose recall to the Greek throne was voted by the people of that country in the plebis cite held last Sunday, will leave Lucerne, on Monday, arriving in Athens late next week. .. This information is contained in a dispatch received from Athens, quotj ing Demetrios Gournaris, minister of war, and Chief Protagonist of C stantine in the campaign preliminary to the plebiscite. r , Indication that he intended to re turn to Greece was given by Cpn stantme .yesterday in a statement to the Associated Press. His declara tions appeared, to be predicated upon his resumpti9ri of the Greek throne, and he emphasized assertions that he had no ill will against the Eenteiiite nniriiro rvvv? Chicago, Dec. 12.?More than.70, 000 negro laborers of Chicago "and vicinity *have agreed to accept a re duction in wages rather than lose their jobs on account of reduced pro duction, R. E. Parker, president of the American Unity Labor Union an nounced today. He said the Union controlled more than 50,000 skilled and unskilled workers in the stock yards here, the steel mills at Gary,' Ind., and in foundries, factories and docks in and about Chicago. According to Mr. Parker, the unions have agreed on a 10 per cent, reduction for unskilled labor and a 15 per cent cut for skilled laborers and will submit the proposition to their employers. idle Co. dness i it was unani d continue bus as previously h class mer lin here?and, ous treatment their generous is and sar Lompany