The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, December 17, 1920, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
Established 1844.
THE PRESS AND BANNER
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
1'be Press and Banner Company
Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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post office in Aoheville, S. C.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1920
GO TO WORK.
The Press and Banner has had
something to say with regard to the
duty of people in dealing with the
debtor classes of our people, and es
pecially with regard to the negroes.
We are unwilling that people here
should suffer, and there are many
people, both white and colored, who
are going to suffer unless the people
are mindful of them and helpful to
wards them. We have said this before
and we now repeat it.
But this does not mean that peo
ple who are able to do something to
help are going to help people who do
not help themselves. There has
been a disposition on the part of some
"Mole to sit down through the win
ter months and live on what has been
made and gathered in the fall, or to
look to the landlord, or the merchant,
or the bank for the capital stock for
this idleness. That day has passed.
No man will be helped through this
winter who does not go to work. And
a man who does not go to work is go
ing hungry. The country has been
stripped of the crops which have been
grown and they have either been sold,
or they are in the Warehouses pledg
ed for the payment of .debts which
they will not pay in full. The landlord
cannot pay to keep people up in idle
; ness, the merchants cannot and neith
er can the banks. None of them
should do so.
' We suggested this to some indus-1
>._ ? 0 farv and I
mvu) uc^iuta ( *vn ?w ~0
it did not seem to appeal to them.
. Neither does the warning that the
' days of high wages and indifferent
service are over appeal to them. But
they must come to their senses. Peo
ple cannot pay the wages which have
been paid in the past; people will not
be satisfied with the service which
has been rendered in the past, and
the man who works for his bread
must find it out. The Sooner he finds
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u uui une ueiLci.
They say that this is deflation, and ;
that it is so gradual that there is no
evidence of a panic. If that be true, j
let us pray that next time they will'
send us a panic, and that the panic ^
will come "so gradual" that there j
will be no evidence of deflation.
The truth is that the country is in
worse fix than we have ever known
it. There is no more security now
than in times of other depressions.
The security for debts will bring no
more in dollars and cents on the mar
ket. But the amount of debts is sev
eral times larger than ever before
when we had hard times. For - that
reason there are more peopl^in want
than at any other time.,in AUf.recoJJ^c
tion, and their distress is^ore
vated. At other times of deDresson
the stocks of the merchants, while
they remained on the shelves, were'
worth on the market what they had
cost. But now a stock of goods which
cost fifty thousand dollars in Septem
ber is not worth thirty thousand dol
lars. Hence the merchants who have
at other times been able to help can- i
not now do so. The banks have bor- j
rowed so largely to help the farmers'
' and they are collecting so little that j
no money can be loaned. In times of |
-4.1 j :- i 1 x
otaer uepresbiuns we nave neara tne j
bankers in Abbeville ask men to bor-1
row money and buy cotton to keep it
from being sacrificed. But that can
not be done today. The country is tied I
hand and foot, and the amount of j
help which can be offered is not much. (
. And as indicated in the beginning
there is no way to get out of the fix
in which we find ourselves except to]
work out. Every man must go to work :
Every man must do his own work. He j
must earn his own bread. Nobody j
can sit down and expect to be fed.
We advise the white people and '
the colored people to seek employ
ment and to accept the wages offer
ed, at least until times are somewhat
improved. Nothing will be gained by i
idleness.
FIRE LOSSES REACH '
$2,000,000 PER DAY j
I
The loss from fire on buildings j
insured and uninsured, with the,
maintenance of the Fire Depart
ment and Water Supply Service,
costs the Vnited States more than
$2,000,000 a day. Last year 15,219
persons were burned to death and
17,641 were seriously injured. Eigh
ty-two per cent of the dead and in
jured were mothers and children un
der school age, and 92 per cent of
the fires were caused by careless- j
ness or neglect.
These figures wee given by T.
Alfred Fleming, Supervisor Con
servation . Department National
Board of. Fire Marshals' Convention
V * ' L
which ended its convention at the
Hotel Astor in New York last Sat
urday. Delegates from twenty-eight
States ahd from Canada attenoea
the sessions nd discussed ways and
mens of reducing the fifc-e hazard. |
"Only as we are able to secure
correct statistics on the causes of
fires," said Mr. Fleming, "are we
able to adequately cope with condi
tions that exist and bring to.,the at-j
tention of the peopleJX.the.-,jieed of
their co-operation. is, ^accom
plished by a most accurate ^system
of accounting . established < ,J>y the
Aetarial Bureau, fro^ which any
fire marshal may now secure com
plete tabulations of all classes in
their respective states- ,
"The United States has over 25,
000,000 people today housed in tem
porary quarters and without ade
quate home provisions. If 5,000,000
homes were built in the United
States next week, it would not care
for adequately those who are at
present in temporary quarters. At
the same time, the United States is
burning 889 homes for every work
ing day, causing a loss in dwellings
alone of $283,000. Sixty-five per
cent of the number of fires in the
United States take place in dwell
ings, and most of these originate
from trivial and nrevental cause.
Schools Inadequately Protected
"By a careful survey of the con
dition of school buildings through
the country, it is found that the les
sons learned in the CollinWood
School fire has already been forgot
ten. Boards of Education are elect
ed to take care of, and are made re
sponsible for, the education system
of the country and the welfare of
'the pupils. Over 90 per cent of the
school houses in the United States
are nothing but veritable firetraps.
No member of the Board of Educa
tion has done his duty until he has
given every possible protection jto
the children entrusted to his care. v
"In the last five years $29,271,
000 in value in dwelling houses has
been consumed from one cause?
sparks lighting on shingle roofs. The
average business men with $20,000
will not be satisfied until he has it!
safely within the vaults of the
strongest bank, while the same man
will house his wife and family in a
wooden timber box of a home with
a shingle roof, awaitng the vagrant
spark from a passing engine or
burning chimney.
"The hazard of electricity has
been very much underestimated. In
1919 $15,444,653 in value was de
stroyed from electric causes. Forty
six per cent of this amount is'l
f$}f>ed to the elctric iron. .
r v'At the present time there is a
movement on foot to interest and
C9*operate the forces available
throughout the entire United
States for the education of the chil
dren in the schools, women in the
homes and men in the factories, go
that all may be able together to eli
minate much of the careless waste.
, "During the present period of
price fluctuations and changing val
ues the economic loss to the country
as a result of fire reaches a stupen
dous total. Productioh is hampered,
contracts are cancelled, selling for
ces are laid off, thousands of labor
ers are thrown out of employment
and are required to change their
residences in many places in order
to secure* employment in the busi
ness of their choice while to a great
degree the commerce of the coun
try on which it depends for future
development is treated to a con
stant upheaval."
ROBERT L. CHEATHAM ILL
The friends of Robert L. Cheatham,
the right hand man in the Link Em
porium, on Press and Banner Block,
is confined to his room with an attack
of "flu." His friends hope that he
may soon be out.
MONDELL URGES
RIGID ECONOMY
IN APPROPRIATIONS
Thinks Democrats too Lavish in Esti
mates?Republican Leader Speaks
Cutting Appropriation Bil
lion and Half Dollars
Washington, Dec. 16.?Declaration
in the house today by Representative
Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican
leader, that congress should cut de
partmental appropriation estimates,
especially those from the war and
navy departments, by nearly a bil
lion and a half dollars, started a
round of political debate that occu
pied most of the session.
Representative Mondell's criticisms
of army and navy estimates, made
ill the course of a prepared speech
on government finances, brought de
fense from Representative Hardy
and Connolly, Democrats, of Texas,
for Secretary Baker of the war de
partment and Daniels' of the navy
department. This led to charges by
Representative Mondell, Representa
tive Blanton, Democrat, Texas, and
others that the war department head
"was spending money not authorized
by congress" and that the navy de
partment chief had presented esti
mates "so extravagant that they can
not be aescriDea.
Rigid economy in appropriations to
lighten- the tax burden was urged
by the Republican leader, who said
that the total submitted estimates of
$4,653,800,000 should be sealed down
by $1,400,000,000. Army and navy
estimates were criticised as five and
a half time the highest peace time
appropriation of 1916. The estimates
Mr. Mondell said, also might bo fur
ther swollen indefinitely by deficicn
| cies resulting, he said, from what he
! described as the war department's
policy of recruiting the army , up to
full strength contrary to the .,.r,.der
standing that it should not oe in
creased above the total of 176,000
men contemplated by the appropria
tions made at the last session.
Representative Connolly, replying
to Mr. Mondell, cited the Republican
leader's vote $pr the army reorgan
ization bill under which the sf cre
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tary ItClUUCU HiC aim; ?W 0
exceeding the possible under t'ae ap
propriated funds. Representative
Hardy accused the /majority leader
of voting for the measure, requiring
funds and then making it impossible
for the war secretary to obey the
law by refusing to give him the
necessary funds.
When they concluded Representa
tive Mondell renewed his attack, de
claring Secretary Baker's attitude
was "so utterly at variance and so
contemptuous of congress" that all
rules had been disregarded.
"From no won," Mr. Mondell said
"so long a se deal with officials of
this administration it will be neces
sary to add to all bills passed a warn
I ing not to act contrary 10 ine views
of congress."
FURNITURE PEOPLE SEE
BETTER TURN ON JAN. 1.
High Point, N. C., Dec. 16.?Ex
pressions of optimism concerning the
outlook for industrial conditions
characterized the special meeting of
.the Southern Furniture Manufactur
ers' 'Association here today, which,
"was-marked by discussion of business
conditions generally.
C. F. Tomlinson of High Point pre
sident of the organization, presided
anH momhprq of the association from
the Carolinas .and Virginia were
present.
While a number of factories in this
section have been closed because of
industrial conditions, the furniture
men gathered here expressed the be
lie* that there would be a change for i
the better early in the new year.
TRAVELING SALESMAN
OF SPARTANBURG SHOT
AND KILLED BY HIS SON
Spartanburg, Dec. 16.?J> Munro
Inman, well known traveling sales
man of this city, was shot and killed (
this morning at his home by his son,
Manning Inman, aged 21, following a
family difficulty in which several
members of the family were engaged.
Attorneys for the young man state
that the father had attacked the son
with a knife and that the latter shot
in self-defense. The young man went j
to a nearby residence and telephoned '
to the sheriff's office and surrendered.
Legal Blanks lor Sale Here.?
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LITTLE GIRL IMPROVES.
Little Miss Mary Bishop, 10 years
old, of Calhoun Falls, S. C., is recup
erating at the County Hospital and
will spend her Christmas there. Miss
Mary struck her leg against a desk
in school at Calhoun Falls sometime
ago. Inflamation resulted, and an
operation was decided on. When the
bone was exposed it was found dis
eased to such an extent that it was
necessary to take out four inches of
it.. This was done by Dr. Rakestraw.
I The leg is so set that the bone will
replace itself, but this will take time.
Miss Mary occupies herself at read
ing childish stories, and the children
i- i. l__ t /~iv _i_
auuui iuwil may nia?.e ner unrisunas
happy by sending her books to read,
suitable for a girl of her age.
POLICE HAD TO KEEP
ORDfeR AMONG JOBLESS
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 16.?A con
tracting firm advertised for twenty
five men today and such a large crowd
responded that a detail of police had
to be summoned to maintain order.
Applicants for work were asked to
call at 7:30 a. m., but they'beran to
gather at 4 o'clock. Those chosen
were sent to Lake Hurst, N. J., where
a hangar for the navy is being con
structed.
SPARTANBURG MERCHANT
KILLED IN HIS STORE
Spartanburg, Dec. 16.?W. D.
Mitchell, white, aged 68, was found
aeaa cms morning in a small store
near this city of which he was mana
ger with a gunshot wound in his
breast. A pocketbook which he was
known to carry was missing but it
could not be determined whether the
store had been robbed.
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West Orange, N. J., Dec. 16.?
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vmiauuias hiis y col ue <&
festival for three West Orange boys
of ten to 12 years who today were
sentenced by City Recorder John R.
Lander to receive no holiday presents
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year
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take no part in any Christmas festiv
ities and go to bed at 6:30 o'clock
every evening for a month, including
Christmas eve.
The youngsters who appeared in
court accompanied by their parents,!
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were convicted of breaking into a
school and stealing pencils and mon
ey from the teacher's desk, and on
another occasion tieing up the auto
mobile of a local minister so he could
not go home after a church service.
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