University of South Carolina Libraries
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 ax post office iD Aoheville, S. C. T?nu of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 WEDNESDAY, DEU. 10, lyzu WELL DONE, ABBEVILLE. The County Savings Bank, in ac cordance with the announcement in this paper, opened its doors for busi ness Tuesday morning at the usual hour. The City of Abbevilly immedi ately made a deposit of about $11,-. 000 in the bank. Each of the other banks of the city made a deposit of $2500.00. In addition to these de positors, the regular deposits amount ed tA_m>arlv fivej times the usual daily | deposits of the bank. Following the suggestion of the Press and Banner, several of the business men and firms of the city, who had never be fore done business with this bank, made deposits with it. All of this sounds fine, but it is a finer thing to be able to state that not a single depositor of the bank withdrew his account during the day. It was about as quiet about the Coun ty Savings Bank building as it was on law range yesterday, and that is say ing a good deal. The Press and Banner this loom ing feels like taking off its hat to the neoole of .this community. They have ; ' shown that they have the community j spirit. A little mony now counts fori Y a good deal and with the losses which /i most people are sustaining, in one, < business and another, people are ' . afraid to lose. But their conduct to-' wards this bank shows that they had rather lose a little more than show the slacker spirit. They had rather lose a little and be good neighbors I than secure their money and with draw into their selfish shells. That is one reason why we believe that Ab 1 beville is a town worth while to live in. We may be slow, we may be want ing in many things, but when the scratch comes and some of our people are in trouble, the time has not yet come when others will refuse to go to the rescue. It should teach us that we can do things if we would only ^)ut our shoulders to the wheels. There is another thing we should say. And that is that the depositors in the bank, and the other banks of the city, as well as the city fathers, have testified in the most convincing way to their confidence in the busi ness integrity and ability of the men who stand behind the Ciunty Savings Bank. This co-operation and sympa thy should lend inspiration to these officers and stockholders as they re new their efforts for their institution and for the up-building of the city. > To the people of Abbeville, we say in conclusion, you have done mighty well. ERRING ON THE SIDE OF SAFETY While the closing of the County Savings bank in Abbeville was need ' less and its directors were over fcautio is, as the state; bank examiner intimates, their behavior contains something more than usual of en couragement. The directors of tnis bank were not quite sure of the con dition of their institution and they were offered a heavy deposit of pub lic funds. They erred on the side of safety and had their bank investk gated before they would risk accept ing the custody of other peoples' ? ... TV, ? noAWP f A 11C WQC 9 \ symptom of honesty afld integrity of a little higher order than is com monly observed. One is impressed that in the town of Abbeville pre vails an old-fashioned notion about banking that might well be extended to many a city of millions of inhabi tants. Were the excess of prudence that has characterized this little Concern in a small town to be illus trated by business men everywhere, we should never hear of a failure. We infer from the press dispatch that the County Savings bank of Abbeville is one of the soundest and most trustworthy institutions that we have in this part of the world? however, we do not mean to advise that the example of its directors be imitated.?The State. TURKEYS. Turkeys are too high. The price of | turkeys, should be the same as thej price of cotton. When cotton sold for i twelve cents, we bought turkeys atj twelve cents per pound. When cotton went to forty-two cents, we paid the same price for turkeys. Cotton is now seventeen cents, and twenty cents, at the outside, is enough for turkey meat. Most people would like to have a turkey for Christmas, but a good many people will not. They will not throw off on cotton by paying more for turkey than they do for the fleecy staple. TAX PROBLEMS } A ARE CONSIDERED / 1 ^ashi: ington, Dec. 14.?Methods of raising sufficient revenues to offset losses through the prospective re peal of the excess profits tax were considered today by the house ways and means committee as the second Ertep (toward tax revision. Tho* con mittee at previous sessions has con sidered changes in the taxes on in comes. ' ' * ' The day's hearings brought from the treasury an estimate that "more than a billion dollars" were outstand ing in uncollected taxes, most of which the treasury spokesman, Dr. Thomas S. Adams, said was trace able to inability to audit thousands of corporation returns. Dr. Adams tkqf the rpvcnnp bllTVRU had not yet completed the work of aud iting returns^or the year 1917 be cause of the gigantic administrative burden of tax collection. v Majority members of the commit tee revealed at today's hearing a j virtual agreement with respect to re- j peal of the excess profits tax. Their immediate work, it was said lay in iinding a substitute levy which would produce an equal amount of reve nue. Although the committee will take up its regular schedule of hearings tomorrow and probably will not reach tax Questions during the day, mem bers said tonight they expected to continue to delve into the iptccacies of corporation taxation until some tangible policy is developed. Roy G. Elliott of Chicago, repre senting the National Association of Credit Men, appeared before the com mittee today urging repeal of the excess profits tax u.id ^...lplilication of tne general taxation program. SUICIDES WERE LESS . DURING LAST YEAR New York, Dec. 14.?The suicide rate in United States reached the lowest ebb in 1919, with a percent age of 14.2 according to figures com piled by Frederick L. Hoffman, stat istician, embracing the period from 1900 to 1920. During 1919, there were 3,818 cases of suicide reported against 4,569 in 1908, which show ed the highest rate of death by self destruction. Mr. Hoffman stated in his report I ;+ Tiroo Kor/1 nccicm a pjniSA tive factor of the suicide phenomon, but that in periods of economic de pression, a higher rate is noted. Dur ing the eras of prosperity, there is a notable dimunition, he said. The most sinister aspect revealed by an analysis of suicide, is the increasing number or murderers who take their ' own lives lEdiloWtng the Commission , \ of homicide, Mr. Hoffman declared. The ratio of suicide, by geographi cal, divisions as compiled by Mr. Hoff man shows the Pacific coast states the highest, and the Southern states [the lowest, in the record compiled {for 1919. j j THIS PLANE TO CROSS ATLANTIC IN 36 HOURS WITH 300 PASSENGERS Rome, Dec. 14.?King Victor Em-1 manuel was keenly interested today | when told by Gianni Caproni, the air | plane inventor, of a projected giant I plane which would carry 300 persons ! across the Atlantic in about 36 hours Plans for the machine are now being completed, and provisions are being | made for dining and sleeping accom j modations on board the aerial liner. A smaller airplane designed by Sig noi* Caproni will make its first trip in January near Lake Maggiore. This airplane will be capable of carrying 100 persons a distance of 500 miles, it was said. Work on the trans-Atlan tic plane will be started as soon as this smaller liner has been tested. JAPAN INTENSELY INTERESTED IN SCIENCE OF WAR \ Berlin, Dec. 14.?Japan is show ing a renewed and intensified inter est in Germany and everything re lating to German science and its ap plication to war. The Tokio govern-1 ment is inquiring into and gathering results of the German military and naval machines which Japan learned to respect from her experiences in the world war. The Japanese have approached especially certain German naval circles with questions of the possi-J bility of securing the services of U-| boat officers and engineers. She also has asked for the plans and specifi cations of the submarines which were just being built as the German revolution ended the war. The foregoing has been stated to j men on the authority of a high] naval officer with the rank of ad miral and has been considerably dis cussed within the inner circles both of the rmy and navy and the offi cers league. Several officers who ad mitted knowing of these alleged feelers on the party of the Japanese frankly expressed the hope that if! there should eventually come a war ( between the United States and Japan, there would be a demand for their services. Singularly enough, there appears to be a considerable pro-Japanese sentiment among the members of the officers' league, but the same time there is a stronger pro-Ameri can leaning. Only a few engineers, declared to be of subordinate rank and impor tance, are said so far to have gone to Japan from Kiel and it is stated the officers' league is advising its members to a wan amiopmciiu and not take service with any coun try whether actively or in military or naval constructive engineering. A considerable number of Ger ma officers are said to have gone to South American countries to act as instructors. Many foreign agents are busy and muoh money, it is declared, is being spent 'in Germany in. efforts to ob tain possession of secret reports of both the old general staff and the admiralty, especially plans and specifications having to do with ordinance, gunnery and artillery de partmets. SWALLOWED FALSE TEETH Some pepole will swallow almost anything liquid, and some will swallow anything, whether Kquid or not. Lawyer Ciinkscales, (colored) proved the latter assertion Monday evening by swallowing his false teeth. Lawyer is a sport who believes in carrying a full set of eating tools. Last year when times were good he discovered that at one time or at an other, he had lost four perfectly good teeth and he had a small plate made supplying the lost eaters. Lawyer was afraid to take his teeth out at night and lay them out where people could look at them, so he slept with them in his mouth. Monday evening he retired with the teeth in their usual place. He did not go to sleep right away and be fore slumber overcame him he was given to yawning. In one of these yawns the teeth slipped down the Lawyer's throat. When next discov thev were about half way dowrn an4 about to make one less man with the limb of the law. The doctors, in order to save him from choking to death pushed "the plate" on down. The idea was to get the teeth in to the stomach and then take them out by operation. Yesterday after noon the doctors dressed for the performance, but when they made an X-ijay of Lawyer thtey found that the teeth had not lingered in the stomach but had gone on down the alimentary canal and were somewhere in lower regions of the Lawyer's intestines. Finding this, Lawyer was taken to Chester, where he will be again X-rayed and if the teeth by that time have not made their escape, they doctors will go a-hunting for them. All of which shows that a man should not wear false teeth when he is not using them. ' Ho>ratio Blanco, Fombona, jour nalist and poet, held by American militaryvforces in Santo Domingo, has gone on a hunger strike as a protest against his imprisonment and also because of the, prison diet of beans and potatoes. TO PAY $580,000 IN INTEREST Interest on Liberty Bonds of the first and fifth issues will be payable December 15. In South Carolina the subscription to the first issue amounted to $5,968,550. To the fifth issue or Victory Loan, it was $23,471,900, making total of $29, 440,450. Bonds of the first issue which originally paid 3 1-2 per cent a year have been in large part, con verted into 4 1-2 per cent securities. Victory notes pay 4 3-4 per cent. This means that the interest pay ment December 15 on bonds of | these two issue subscribed for in I South Carolina will be in the neigh I ftf nnn a , uviiivvu vjl y vuvjvvy* jl iiv v iiiwu | States Treasury is asking that a 1 large part of this interest as practi j cable be re-invested in such other [ government securities as treasury savings certificates and govern ment savings stamps. In the districts at large the interest payment will be something like $6,800,000. For the whole country it will be about $166,000,000. IMMIGRATION BILL PASSES THE HOUSE Washington, Dec. 14?The John son immigration bill, as amended to prohibit all immigration for a period of one year, was passed today by the | House. It now goes to the Senate where its defeat is predicted by Sen ate leaders. The Siegel amendment exempting brothers and sisters of aliens who :?avo become American citizens was approved, 203 to 76. Immediately after the vote was announced, Chairman Johnson, of the immigration committee, issued a statement saying that "the 250 im I migrants who arrived Saturday on I the White Star lii^pr Adriatic have | been sent to Hoffman Island because ' of an outbreak of typhus among them. "At Gloucester, N. J., 11 aliens have been taken from the steamship ' Haverford and sent to the detention I station suffering with typhus. '"I I FROM T< GREAT I This is positively the year and prices have lines of Clothing, Sh fact every item in ot Down tG Ginghams 10c Yard and u] 36 inch White Homespun . Heavy Outing. ..... . .;. CLOTHING $40.00 Men's Suits $35.00 Men's Suits .... $25.00 Men's Suits *20.00 Men's Suits Hoys' Suits, sizes 3 to prices from $3.9? SHOES Beacon Shoes for Men $1 price $9.00 Shoes, sale price . . $8 and $7.50 Shoes, sale j Ladies' and Misses 8hoes j Reduced Prices. D. Abbeville, 12,987,000 BALES COTTON THIS YEAR Thia is Department of Agriculture's Estimate Made Today?Does Mot Include Linters? Ahead of 1919 Washington, Dec. 14.?Cotton pro duction this year is larger than that of any years ^ince 1914 when the country's record crop was grown. The final estimate of the crop, announced today by the department of agricul ture placed production at 12,987.00p bales, exclusive of linters.1 Cotton nroduction this vear will amount to 6,213,262,000 pounds, equivalent to 12,987,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight exclusive of lint ers, the department of agriculture an nounced today in its final estimate of the season. Production last year was 11,420, 763 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, in 1918 it was 12,040,532 bales and in 117, it was 11,302,375 bales. In computing gross weight bales allowance is made for 478.3 pounds of lint and seven pounds of bagging and ties. Production this year by States in 500 pound bales follows: Virginia, 19,000; North Carolina, 840,000; South Carolina, 1,530,000; Georgia, 1,400,000; f'lonaa is,uw; Alabama, 660,000; Mississippi, 815, 000; Louisiana 380,000; T?xas, 4, 200,000; Arkansas, 1,160,000; Ten nessee; Arizona, 110,000; all other Stater 15,000. Is The average weight per bale this year is estimated at 506.9 pounds gross, compared with 504.2 pounds last year. The price of lint cotton priced to producers on December 1 was 14.0 cents per pound, compared with 35.6 cents a year ago. An explorer and wealthy clubman of London with 40 followers is em baking on a cruise in search -of an island in the South Seas where taxa tion is unknown. rikvc UfllJ 1 5DAY UNTIL XMAS PRICE SM last reduction we will 1 ffone absolutely to the h oes, Dry Goods, Under\ ir store. a Rock Fo . 12 1-2c. 25c. yard. $28.00 $26.00 $18.00 $15.00 years, 20 l in $14.60 M .$8.00 Hats ,$6.00 Hats Men's Heo Cents Ladies' Un $1.38 Ladies anc 0.00, sale $8.00 . $7.00 . $6.50 at Greatly *15.00 i $25.00 i $0 and All Other ( ductions. II POLIAKO KITCHIN TO RETIRE Washington, Dec. 14.?Represen tative Kitchin, Democrat, of North Carolina has informed the ways and means committee of his intention to resign at an early date because of ill health, Chariman Fordney said today. Mr. Kitchin was chairman of the committee during the preiod of Democratic control of the house and had been expected by his colleagues to take a leading part in the fram ing of the new tax and tariff legis lation, hearings on which have just been started. Acting upon the advice of scien tists at the University of California Chaulmoogra oil, which has arrested the progress of leprosy, will soon be used in the fight against tubercu losis. Give HIM , I A Silk Muttler j For a Xmas present ijj Get it from the store | * < I! for men. ?Prices here have i: < i > been reduced One- ijj Third. ;| Parker & Reese | LVL ASHING >e able to make this ottom on our entire vear, Notions, and in nidation [EN'S HATS i $6.50?$7.50 Hats $6.00 ;.$4.50?$5.00 Hats $3.50 vy Underwear, from 85 to $1.25. derwear from 98 Cents to I Misses Long Coats at a Great Sacrifice. Coats . . $11.00 Goats . . . ..... $15.00 MO Misses Goats $7.50 2oods at Proportional Re