Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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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-i/iass matter aij post office iD Aoheville, S. C. nrpnxrronA v nrp oo 1 Q9n ' Ten as of Subscription: One Year Six months _ Three months $2.00 $1.00 .50 i YT X j 1/liV. x?/?rfvr A BETTER RULE. Hon. J. Wm. Thurmond is about to lose his place as District Attorney for ' - this district, it is stated, because of ( the fact that Senator Dial would not, vote for his confirmation at the last j session of Congress. There was no. complaint, so far as we understand ^ Imatters, that Mr. Thurmond was not: performing his services as District ^ (Attorney in a satisfactory manner, j |The fact is that he was making a ,-first class officer, and his previous! ,term in office had given him the ex- j jperience which justified the expecta-( Jtion that he would continue to serve, I 1 ithe government acceptably. i t The reason Much Senator Dial as-| teigns, as it is now stated, for his op- j [position to Mr. Thurmond's appoint-1 ment was that Mr. Thurmond had j ;not been a political supporter of his at sometime in the past, and' we , be lieve that he also states that ait the ; death of Senator Tillman Mr.' .Thur-j ;mond voted to allow others to enter 'the race for United States senator. <This Mr. Dial takes as a lick at him, on the ground, we suppose, that if other men had been allowed to enter ft-he race he might not have been nom inated. A good many men, it will be remembered, wanted to go to the .United States Senate at-thpt time, ; but several refused to enter the dem ocratic primary for that office out of respect for Senator Tillman, who' haB ^rendered long and valuable services fin fho ciatn onrl rniucmmnnf A ornnd i , 'many people thought he should die l( {in office. When he died during the j ( | campaign with no strong candidate in j, (the race against him, and after the . j lists were closed, $Ir. Dial knew be ling in the race, that he had a walk- ( jover if nobody els^ entered. ^ i Whether Mr. Thurmond, if he fav ored allowing others to enter the race c was right or wrong'on the question, ] need not now be discussed. There 1 was a good deal which might have t been said on both sides of the ques- I tion. But, certainly, his position in t that matter had nothing to do with his fitness for the office to which he ( has been appointed. Mr. Dial as the senator from South Carolina follow ed a bad precedent in insisting that one of his friends be appointed to i that office. He had the power, but i we deny that he had any moral right, r to refuse to allow Mr. Thurmond to j i be confirmed as district attorney, orU to insist on the appointment of some other person, because the one was ] not a political supporter of his, and t the other was. If that is the kind of < politics which Mr. Dial practices, we ( j think he is on the wrong road. > t: We (fcjiot. know that .the govern- ? 1 ment Vi&bloes anything if Mr7 Thtrr- 1 x mond is not confirmed. It is stated \ that a lawyer who is a republican ' will be appointed to the office, but j that will matter little if he performs his duty faithfully. Personally we would like to see Mr. Thurmond con firmed, but we would not oppose the j i appointment of any man who might j i be named for the office on account cf ji political affiliations. The country,' needs faithful service in all offices, ji and a man should be appointed to of-j fice on account of the services he is i capable of rendering and not as pay-! \ merit for political obligations. We commend to Senator Dial and i ; all other office-holders an editorial < from Monday's New York Herald on this subject. It lays down a better, i rule, we think. It is as follows: "The Place Hunters." "If The New York Herald were a : person instead of a newspaper, and as a person were tt?e President of the 3 United States, it would say to the. two or three million place hunters that th%- Govei'nment has no jobs open to them. 1 "It would say that the Government ' will call to its service only such men j as the business and industries of the 1 country have called to their service 1 and such as, proving efficient, have been retained in their service. "It would say that the Government is not in a position to experiment with untried men or to undertake to work out, in its service, men who have failed to make good elsewhere. "It would say that the old theory that 'to the victors belong the spoils' is antiquated and demoralizing, and means nothing short of waste and in efficiency in the Government service.) "It would say that the test of a man's qualification for public office is the measure of his efficiency, con sidered always in connection with his personality and character?this test to apply alike to those now in Gov ernment service and those to be drafted into the service. ' "It tvould say that both the person nel and ability of Government em ployees must be brought up to even a higher standard than the very high standards obtaining in such great or ganizations as the United St&tes Steel Corporation, the Standard Oil Com pany and the Pennsylvania Railroad, and thq^ ^iis is easily possible, be cause the 'Government alone has the moral right to commandeer to its ser vice from the ranks of all business and 'industry the most efficient of their forces. "This is about the pqeition The New York Herald would take in respect of Government employees and in respect of place hunters generally. Moreover, it would so simplify its work as' President of the United States that it would have time for the really big interests of the Government for it would turn over to the heads of departments the selection of their forces, saying, 'It is up to you to get your own crews, and with your own crews I shall hold you to a strict ac countability for results.' " CONGRESS WILL WORK RIGHT ON; NO RECESS Washington, Dec. 21.?By aband oning the usual Christmas New Year recess for the first time in years. Con gressional leaders plan to put through a heavy program this week and pre sent several pieces of legislation to the nation aa'holiday gifts. Farmer relief measures hold th|c leading places on the program which :ontemplates final adoption of the res olution to rewve t^^Var Finance Corporation, passage^Rhe House be fore Christmas of the emergency *ai ff bill relating to agricultural pro ducts and action on several other im eortant measures. The House will adjourn Thursday, >ver Christmas, until the following Monday, while the Senate, with its loliday program still uncertain, par ially leaned toward an adjournment >y means of three-day recesses un il after New Year's Day. GOVERNMENT WINS IN ELECTIONS OF SPAIN Madrid, Dec. 20.?First reports :rom the general elections held in Spain yesterday indicate a govern nent victory. Unofficial estimates ire that the majority for the mon-' irchists parties wilf be a large one. The Socialists attribute their joor showing in the industrial cen- j ;ers to the recent campaign of syn-' iicalists against the workers parti-1 :ipation in the elections. Although j Noting is compulsory, tens of .thou sands of workers simply cast blank j aallots. f. _ . The. city of Madrid returned six nonarehists and two' Socialists. EARTHQUAKE KILLS 400 Buenos Aires, Dec. 21.?The' number of persons dead and injured j in last Friday's earthquake disaster is now estimated at more than 400.! This fi|=ure is based on reports from! Pblief parties in the affected zone. Earth tremors occurred again to-, day. Wide stretches of territory are' being; flooded with water, which J continues to gush from crevices' opened by the earthquake. Relief, work is being earned on with great ( difficulty. Large numbers of tents sent from: Mendoza have been received in the 1 stricken villages and are furnishing: shelter to hundreds who have been rendered homeless by the disaster. Resources of the banks in the United States exceed the combined bank assets of all other leading na tious with $53,000,000,000 assets in national and state banks, savings j bank trust companies and private banks. ! "DARDENELLA" IS A JOYOUS REVEL Loud-Pedal Musical Comedy With Harem Beauties a Jazzy Jambouree "Dardenella," that "jim-jam gem of a jazzy jambouree and riotous feast of revelous joy," delivered much more than the usual 2.75 per cent, of promise in performance at the Armory theater last night. It de livered some more this afternoon and will make its final delivery to night. It is a musical comedy with the soft pedal muffled. Harry Manners, a baked bean I salesman, lets his millionaire uncle | in Morocco do all the thinking for I his tomorrow while he thinks only ' of wedding the daughter of Josiah Jpettibone, the pickle king, with a weakness for women otner tnan nis militant wife. He has an especial weakness for a vaudeville star who drifts to the same seaside hotel. The militant wife, who is also a militant mother, has made a choice I for her daughter. Immediate and ' drastic action is indicated to the bean salesman and he consults the j pickle father. He lays before him a hypothetical case and the dad ad [vises elopement and offers to fi . nance the job. Then comes the mil ' lionaire's favorite wife. Dardanella, I to announe the death of the uncle and his wish that his nephew should marry the widow who alone knows , where the uncle's wealth is hidden. Following on her delectable heels is the Sultan's emissary with a four foot snicker-snee whose object is to sequester the fortune for his royal master. ; The scorned favorite refuses to hand over the ducat. So the nephew | stages the elopement to the great i cnscomiort ana imm levuuciuawun of .the pickle "king and his militant I spouse and the whole family sets 'sail for the East. All adopt the garb of the country in their sleuthing af ter the gold but are identified by the ' emissary with the snickersnee and are marked for boiling oil when help arrives. There is plenty of action and changing locale into which the choruses, musical numbers and specialty stunts fit naturally. Prom the opening at the Hotel Cheautham at Bevo on the sea, near Beer with its artistic sunken garden and its colored bell hop, to the streets of Morocco and the uncle's haTem, there is not a dull moment." And that same bell hop, with ambitions to be AnfitfA /Trtwi T^otrfAri \ io CAmo a ucictuvc \ a unt i/oj wii / to uu*mv hop. Harland Hogland, the nephew: H. C. Overton, the pickle king, to whom falls the heft of the comedy; Louise Garter, his wife; Miss Rita Lawrence, the daughter; Arthur Jennings, the Sultan's hired man, and last but not least in the direct action of the comedy, Miss Elsie Es monde, the winsome Dardanella, are well cast and all have fair sing ing voices. Possibly the strongest song hits are "One Little Girl," "There's Magic in a Smile," "Hold Me," "The Master Key" and "Mam my's Arms." The three musical en tertainers, Hyland, Grant and Hy land, make a hilarious getaway and the inspirational dances of Francis Palimnda give the artistic sense an opportunity for exercise. Thomas Harding, who wrote the book, and Addison Evans, who is re snnnsihle fnr thp mnsip. wprp larcp contributors to last night's " enjoy ment. ' BALANCE OF TRADE * LOW IN NOVEMBER Shrinkage of Sixty-three Million Caused by Export Decline. Washington, Dec. 21.?America's balance of trade for November shrank $63,000,000 as compared with the preceding month, as a result of a decided falling off in exports, ac-( cording to an analysis of the na tion's foreign trade for that month issued tonight by the department of commerce. Exports for November were valued at $675,000,000, a falling off of more than $76,000,000 from the October total. Imports on the other hand declined only little more than $13, 000,000, the November total being estimated at $321,000,000. The United States, however, at the end of November still had a favor able balance in trade with the other rations of the world for the lirst 11 months of thfe year of $-,494,205, 575. Exports up to December 1 were $7,507,323,420 and imports for the same period were $5,013,117,932. PROPOSED TARIFF BRINGS CONFUSION Democarts Now Impaled On Prongs Of Dilemma?Farmers Ask Action Washington, Dec. 21.?Democrats in congress, especially those from Southern states are deeply embar rassed. They are confronted by the necessity of apparently breaking with the farmer or apparently re nouncing the principle of the Demo cratic party which declares that any protection, save for revenue, is ob noxious. This morning members from the South weer about agreed to support the emergency tariff bill which creates a virtual embargo against^ the miport of agricultural products. The West wants the bill because it protecs wheat, wool and livestock. The Southern farmer petitions for the passage of the bill because it protects his peanuts . against the oriental product. Southern ' Democrats justified themselves in. conviction that the L | bill was temporary and of a nature i identical with anti-dumping* legisla !, tion. They could not understand ,'how their support would constitute a renunciation of their hatred" for i . ' .. ' protection as a permanent policy. j Tonight, however, Southern Demo-' ,!crats are in the air, for Senator & | Harrison of Mississippi; in an im-' /passioned address in the senate, de-r* i clared that the JLfemocratic party [ could not afford to stultify itself i' and that the manufacturing East J was handling a sop to the fanner i for the purpose of demanding pro tection for itself on a scale equally as high. The Democrats of the sen ate, after a caucus this - morning, tentatively agreed to* oppose the bill certainly to interfere with Republi can'plans to rush it to passage prior to Christmas. There Is a disposition however, to await the return ' to Washington o{ Senator Underwood, who was called home on account of the death of his grandfather. The views of the Democratic leader, the tariff expert of thep arty, will pre vail among Democrats, it is ndica ted. N o member of the South Caro lina delegation authorized a state ment for publication. Great Britain exported 26,400,000 pounds of candles in 1919. That is what a wagon that-is what you as a Farm W tor you?ap best buy. in it an out < ar The St rATE'S SENTORS STAGE ARGUMENT ial and Smith in Good Humored Col loquy on Floor About Mill Dividends Washington, Dec. 21.?South Car in's Senators had a lively but good imored colloquy in the Senate this iternoon over, the question of cotton ill profits. Senator Dial arose to remark that ; had been absent some days ago hen Senator Smith was quoted as lying that New England and South n mills had paid 300 per cent divi jnd^ on an average. Mr. Dial declared that he knows of 3 mill'making 300 per cent per an iim and doubted if there had ever ;en any. He could not believe that enator Smith had been correctly in >rmed. The junior Senator also took ex jption to the quoted statement of his jlleague that the cotton mills had iduced tfie price of their goods only } 1-3 per cent. Mr. Dial said that jods which last summer sold at 26 jnts a yard were now selling at 5 ;nts, and that many mills are piling p goods in warehouses without find ig a market at any price, merely to ;ep their labor employed and that ill stocks generally ha? taken a eat slump. Mr. Dial pointed out that any of the big dividendi^declared 7 the mills were stock dividends, not icreasing the value of the owner's ildirifes. He said he himself had some ill stock which had suffered in the icent deeline. v Senator Smith admitted that his atement as to the mills had been in way inaccurate from a statistical lint of view and he said that al lough he did not himself own any >tton mill stock he was friendly to ie great mill industry of South Caro na and had never meant to discharge * attack it. Senator Smith did not free with his colleague about stock vidends not meaning much profit to - I L. ie etuciuiuiuer, *?iu nc twu a lcttvi onj the Federal Trade Commission lowing that'large dividends had been clared by certain mills, whose imes he withheld. Senator Dial called attention to the tet that this-information was not ter than last spring. Senator Smith lmitted this, but stuck to the point hich he declared he had been trying 1 you want wh ?and when yo\ All get. In such an i aeon the best is no 1 .1 . 1 .1 o_ d tnat is wny tne Da The quality you id y6u will get the se of it. So, when y e in the market for the best wagon mony can buy, call on ark Vehic * 10,878,265 BALES GINNED TO DECEMBER 13TH This it in Excess of Last Year By One Million Bales?Report By States is Given. Washington, Dec. 21.?Cotton ex clusive of linters, ginned prior to De cember 13, amounted to $10,878,265 running bales, including 198,184 round bales, which were counted as half bales, 54,467 bales of American Egyptian and 1,291 bales of sea is land, the Census Bureau announced today. , Ginnings last year to December 13, amounted to 9,396,646 bales, includ ing 103,662 round bales, 27,104 of American-Egyptian and 6,236 bales of sea islafcd. I This year's ginnings by states fol low: Alabama 605,939; Arizona 66>794; Arkansas 885,203; California. 37,802, Florida 17,553; Georgia 1,323,752; Louisiana 354,798; Mississippi 775, 519; Missouri 49,592; North Carolina fififl nirl-aVinma Rfirt.184* SnutJ\ Carolina 1,364,650; Tennessee 234, 763; Texas-3,601,&51; Virginia 13, 376. All other states 7,435. HOLD UP EXPRESS TRUCK Toledo, 0.r Dec. 21.?Three armed men early tonight -held Up an American Railway Express Company truck on which waS a. safe containing about $16,000 ia cash and Liberty bonds, seized the safe loaded it on to an automobile ahd escaped. ~ ; All available policemen in the city* have been armed with shot guns and are in search of the bandits. Two au tomobiles resembling those used by the bandits are said to have been seen in the vicinity of Point Place, four miles north of Toledo. The state of Oregon" has J0?ea asked to appropriate . $50,000 to handle the attempts to evade the law by means oif stills in various Darts of the state. to make, namely, that tjie mills were in a better position to protect them selves and their stojckholders. in .a. critical time like this than are .the farmers, who produce the raw mate 1 rial* v: 2n you buy u buy a I important item ne too good in is your need is rvice ou J le Co.