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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-^ass matter ai post office in Aoheville. S. C. Ttnu of Snb?cription: One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1920 3 A HOLIDAY. In order to give the employees of this paper a holiday, which their faithful services to us and to the readers of this paper have richly earned, the management of this pa per has decided not to print a paper Monday afternoon. The paper will come out as usual Wednesday and regularly after that day. The office of the Press and Banner will be closed tomorrow and Monday. t * * 1 J*? * - ftnnlf . We take cms opportunity m uu?..? v the people of Abbeville for the sup- t port they have given this paper in the a P4St twelve months. The subscription j list ?f the paper has grown. We have s been encouraged to believe ^hat the ; people appreciate the efforts which \ the men and women who work here t are making towards giving the read- ] ers a good paper. While we thank t yeu, may we not hope that the Christ- t mas season will find all the readers of the paper happy and contented, s and that the new year will hold in I store for all of us much for which we t will be thankful a year hence. 3 HELPING THE HELPLESS Miss Blanche Rcep, the Superin tendent of the County Hospital, is sending out notices asking the recipi ents to give one dollar to a fund to be used in treating children in the community?white and black?who are in need of medical attention, and who are unable to pay for this atten tion. Miss Reep called on the Press and Banner this morning to explain that the fund to be created was to be used under her supervision strictly for charitable purposes. No part of itj goes to pay physicians, nor is the sum i <* in anyway a contribution to the hos- e pital or any^of its helpers. It is to I h* Kolelv for medicines, nursing, [ t etc. in the charity wards of the hos? J n pita]. ; The call at this season, even though the people haye little money, should meet a ready response. Most people are always willing to give' when there is need for money to help starving children in other countries, and we tsay nothing against these appeals. But we are toid hp last week's Har Vey's Weekly that there is not a school in the great city of New York where there are. not children under nourished. In some of these schools the per centage of such children is small, in others it is very large. All around us are people suffering for bread and for medical attention which* they do not get. As we enjoy the season with those who are well, 11 we might think of these who on this * p day or days are suffering, and of the little children in our own land who 0 need to be fed and who need to be made well. ;3 Miss Reep will continue to receive . donations and contributions to this fund during the holidays. In asking the readers of this paper, if they |. have not already done so, to contri-j( bute to the cause, we feel that we j t ask them for something which is j' ...UM. T _i. iU *U?.j worm wmie. tue wnc muusauu i ^ dollars for which Miss Reep asks be | contributed. It will do the communi-l ty good to give this amount. THE ONLY WAY OUT i A strong appeal has been made by' the Abbeville Press and Banner to the people of its county, both white and colored, to "work out their own j salvation" by buckling down to the 1 conditions as they are. The situation < was never worse than it is now., 1 "The amount of debts is several' I times larger than ever before,": says our contemporary, "when we i had hard times. For that reason ] there are more people in want than at any other time in our recollection and their distress is more aggrava ted." "There is no way to get ont! of the fix in which we find our- j selves except to work out. Every man must go to work. Hcmust earn his own bread. Nobody can sit down and expect to be fed." The landlord cannot pay to keep people up in idleness, the merchants cannot and neither can the banks. We suggest ed this to some industrious negroes a few days ago and it did not seem to appeal to them. Neither does the warning that the days of high wages and indifferent service are over ap peal to them. But they must come to their senses. People cannot pay the wages which have been paid in the past; people will not be satisfied with the Bervice which has been rendered in the past, and the man who works for his bread must find it out. The sooner he finds it out the better/' The condition in Abbeville Coun L? Ann. I ?y IS HUt IlltVUCl lOiiJ Ulliinv iition in all other counties in the State. The only way to get out is to 1 work out.?Spartanburg Journal. ' CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO HELP COTTON j Washington, Dec. 23.?The ques ,ion of exchangee and ability to get ' :redits will determine largely the ' imount of American cotton which ' will be taken by foreign countries. ' jarticularly Germany, American con iuUr agents said in a report which vas transmitted today to the Senate >y President Wilson. No summary of he reports w;as made by the Stace department, the detailed figures from >ach of the consular agents being ' ransmitted. The reports were gathered last j mmmer in response to a Senate reso-1' ution asking for the amount of cot- j1 on which will be needed during the I rear, the reports of the consuls cov- j "r MAVKN/j M>AM01?a11v All. I ;illig mc ^JCiiuu gcuciauj ^i.w | fust 1, 1920 to August 31, 1921. Germany Needa 700,000. j ^ Between 600,000 and 700,000 bal-j. :s of cotton will be needed by Ger-1, nany for the year ending August 31, i L921, th? American consular agent at j * 3erlin estimated. ' ! > Germany is operating between one- j bird and one-half of her 10,000,000 ( pindles and the market is short of j j he better grades of cotton and the j hort fibred low grade cotton for vhich there has been considerable de-! , nana ana nas Deen iareiy ox ] ndian production. ? Germany before the war consumed z bout 1,800,000 bales of American c <jtton annually he said. "The question of the extension of! he sales of American cotton in Ger- ; lany, is a matter of credit," he as-1. erted. The Germans require six' lonths' credit, the report added, and chile proposals have been put for ward for those furnishing the raw roduct to take the finished productj ( J. iL.*. 1 A *4. I I 1 payment tnis iittd nut gutcuii any . ^ rhere because a German law forbids j creditor to hold a lien on material j urnished to a mill under such terms.! Need* of Others. Belgium needs for the year are es-1 imated between 50,000 and 150,000 j ales. Her demands are confined to] ;igh grade staples of one inch to one j nd one eighth inches in length, the J eport added. Greece's requirements were esti-j nated at about 26,000 bales, and hat country produces a quantity of otton similar to American middling if 7-8 inch in length. Spain's requirements were placed ;t 330,000 bales, with the statement hat the amount of Indian cotton im torts probably be reduced owing to exchange conditions. The consul at Havre reported France's textile industry rapidly re :overing from the war and her im ports of American cotton placed at 595,000 bales as against about 1,000 )00 prior to the war. Holland was reported as largely in . reasing her warehouse spa^e and nanufacturing facilities with a few :o increasing the imports of Ameri can cotton which she intended to manufacture and sell the manufac :ured goods to Germany. A cotton market has been opened at Rotter iam. The forecast of what Japan will svant was declared to be "very un-' certain" by the consul at Kobe and tie estimated the needs at between I 525,000 and 800,000 bales. jl Estimates for Norway were placed. j at about 25,000 bales and for Den-i mark the same number. Liverpool Report. The consul at Liverpool reported I ."0 definite information as to what: t England might need, while the re port from the consul at Portugal said that it was possible Brazil might be able to compete with the American cotton. Mexico City reported no imports of cotton necessary as that country raised enough to take care of the domestic needs. Cotton for Austria was reported to be handled by agents of foreign firms. "THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE" In Eugene Walter's dramatization of "The Trail of the Lonsome Pine," the widely read novel by John Fox, JrT, the author of "The Little Shep herd of Kingdom Come" you see pre sented on the stage the typical moun Ntin community of the Virginia hills. The primitiveness of the people is shown in all its picturesqueness and charm and you will love June and her kinsfolk far more on the stage than you did when you wandered with her through the pages of Mr. Fdx's delightful story. In her characteriza tion of June, Miss Louise Price em phasizes the wild mountain girl-'s longing for the knowledge of the world outside of her mountain envir onment and which is after all, the Wrongest motive of mankind. This iramatic success comes to the Opera House Thursday Dec. 30th. Prices >5c, 83c, $1.10 and $1.65. ORCHARD AND GARDEN NOTES ? Clemson College, December?Ex imine peach trees for the borers and Jig them out with a knife or a piece JX wirt. Peach 'trees badly infested with San Jose Scale should be pruned md sprayed promptly with commer rial lime-sulphur, one gallon of spray to 8 or 9 gallons of water. Thorough spraying is essential. Be >ure to cover the entire tree from he top to the base of the trunk. A ine coating of the spray is desired n preference to a drenching. Make cuttings of the "bunch," grapes as soon as pruned. Select 'igorouB, well-matured canes or 'ines of the past season's growth. Divide tbi3 material into cuttings 8 :o 10 inches long, cutting just be ow the lower bud and 1-4 to 1-2 nch above the upper bud. Order seed catalogs in time to surchase a supply of seed for the L921 gardens. These catalogs are a iource of much valuable information egarding the culture of vegetable :rops. Lefjal Blanks for Here.? 'he Press and Banner Company. OPERA HOUSE (ABI COMEDY 1 OH. DADDY! A LILTING, T A SCALE OF A JIM-JA | A REGIMENT OF BROADWAY SINGERS, DANCERS, CC [ AND A HAREM < BEAUTIFUL ( BEWARE OF TICKET * I SPECULATORS NOVELTIES OF 1920 PRICES?55c, 83c, TARIFF REVISION IS COMING SOON AFTER CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Way* and Mean* Commitee Of The Hou*e Adjourn* Until January 6 Washington, Dec. 23.?After a brief hearing on tax revision, the House ways and means committee adjourned today until January 6, on which date it plans to turn its at tention to a general revision of the tariff. While the committee does not contemplate furthetr consideration of tax questions at this session, Chairman Fordney said this did not mean that the new tax laws would be drafted on the basis of informa tion fl-athered thus far. He explained that the committee felt it should start on tariff revision immediately after the holidays and devote itself to tha task until it was completed. It was said the committee felt it should start on tariff revision im mediately after the holidays and devote itself to that task until it was completed. THIS CHRISTMAS BURGLAR HAS A ' \ . REAL HEART Chicago, Dec. 23.?A "Chris;yiae burgher with a heart" heeded the pleas of Ruth Mallri, aged 10, net to take her Christmas presents when she found him in her home yester day noon, on hear return from school for lunch. The burglar was eating her lunch which had 'been left iby her mother before going down town shopping. He took her to the parlor and play ed little jingles and Christmas songs for her. When she told him she would have to return to school he said: "Tell your mother I'll return some day and steal everything in the house," but he left without tak ing anything. ' i , JACKSONVILLE'S NEGRO POPULATION IS 41.47S| Washington, Dec. 23.?The negro| population of Jacksonville, Fla., is' 41,379, an increase of 12,186 or j 41.6 per cent the census bureau an | nounced today. The white popula tion is 50031, an increase of 21,* 702 or 76.6 per cent and all others 48. The field kitchen of William Ho henzollern, which had followed the \ former kaiser in all his wandering I about Europe duimg the war, is on j its way to the United States. SEVILLE, S. C.) MOND. ["HAT'S TAKING TH1 THE BlG'sS The McGregor Com pan-] HROBBING MUSICAL COMEE MAGNITUDE AND REGAL SI M-JEM OF / a FAVORITES MEDIANS DF 3IRLS SPEC The Famous "Darda Solo Musicians is carr by Insuring the Prop* Many Musi Owing to the enormous success of "Dardancl seats and selling them at a big premium. To ?CAPTIVATING AN $1.10, $1.65, $2.20. DISCOUNTED TWO BIL LION IN FARM PAPER Washington, Dec. 23.?Nearly two billions of dollars worth of paper based on production and sales of farm products has been rediscounted by federal reserve banks this year. Gov ernor Harding of the Federeal > Re serve Board, estimated in a special report sent today to Chairman Gron na, of the Senate agricultural com mittee. The amount of such redis counts in 1919 was estimated at $719,266,000, Mr. Harding estimated. The figures include eleven districts There was no report from the New York reserve bank as the board said there was a very small amount of farmers' paper re-discounted there. Figures from the other districts fal low: Boston, 1919, $2,642,000; 1920, $2, 979,000. Philadelphia, $2,971,010 and $3, 580,000. Cleveland, $612,000 and $1,753, 000. Richmond, $102,000,000 and $825 000,000. Atlanta $91,300,000 and $280,000 000. Chicago, $47,268,000 and $128, 408,000. St Louis, $220,000,000 and $665, 000,009. Minneapolis, $75,000,000 and $225,000,000. Kansas City, $123,481,000 and $229,432,000. Dallas, $28,997,000 and $44,511, 000. San Francisco, $25,000,000 and $89,000,000. "The special figures furnished by the federal reserve banks in accord ance with your request," said Gover nor Hardin's letter, "are in all cases F J estimates, no exact figures of the to tal volume of loans for agricultural purposes being available at the fed eral reserve banks. "It shoud be borne in mind also that the total amount of farmers' notes rediscounted by Federal Re serve Ranks eives no indication of the amounts advanced by the Feder al Reserve Banks to finance the pro duction and sale of farm products since large amounts advanced to member banks in other districts on commercial and industrial paper are used by these banks for loans to ag ricultural interests." "This docs not answer the infor mation asked for by the committee,'' skid Chairman Gronna. "The state ment that I made in the Senate stands, namely that the board does not'know the amount of money loan ed to farmers." AY, DECEMBER 271 pmilNTRYBY STO /, Inc., Politely Profer iY OF THE EXOTIC EAST, ST >LENDOR NEVER ATTEMPT \ JAZZY JA ;iAL! nella" Orchestra of icd Complete, there jr Rendition of the \6ml Gems A Whirling A RIOT < DAZZL AND F la," speculators have bo-n buying up choic discourage this NO MORE THAN SIX SEATS WILL D ENTERTAINING. SEATS ON SALE HOME RULE BILL v NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE IRISH Dublin, Dec. 23.?Passage of the Irish home rule by the British par liament is not viewed as specially important by newspapers here. It is recognized the bill probably will not be accepted by either Ulster or the rest of Ireland and that the British government may never decide to put its provisions into operation. "Carsonism has received its re ward," says the Freeman's Journal.' The bill was designed as a trap, but it failed to work. Even such modi fied democratic institutions as we possess are threaten vl by it." TIE IN FRENCH CHAMBER Paris, Dec. 23.?The chamber ?f deputies this afternoon after an agitated debate in which the cabi net was sharply assailed, approv ed the first part of the resolution accepted by the cabinet but fatted to approve the second clause by an unprecedent tie vote. 279 voting each way. This ordinarily means the fall of the cabinet. Some of the dep uties held that the cabinet had been beaten while others said they were ready to accept the clause in amended form. Premier Elygues finally accepted the modified form, whereupon the chamber voted con fidence in the ministry 472 to 66X MANY GO TO JAIL New York, Dec. 23.?More than 150 men, previously at liberty under bail on indictments for crimes of vio lence in Greater New York, reposed in the Tombs prison tonight, unable to furnish securities of from $20,000 to $25,000, fixed by judges before whom they mere arraigned today. At the same time police and citizens continued their efforts to combat the activities of crooks till at large. Two hundred and four indicted men ap-; peared in general sessions. Bail was raised to 825,000 each in robbery cases. Barely 25 per cent, of the pris-. oners obtained the required bonds . and the others went to jail. FOUGHT FIRE WITH THE TEMPERATURE 30 BELOW Dawson, Y. T., Dec. 23.?The en tire food supply of this section bdT the Klondyke region was endanger ed by a fire in the General store of the Northern Commercial company here yesterday. The fire depart-' ment assisted t by volunteers ex tinguished the blaze after some damage had been done, working un der great handicaps and with the temperature at thirty degrees below zero. rH. THE MUSICAL RM. !S AT LAST!! aqld upon :ed before MRHRFE Jumble of Uproarious Hilarity OF COLOR .ING SPLENDOR EM1NINE BEAUTY BUY SEATS EARLY 1 I N I BE SOLD TO ANY ONE PERSON . "i AT BOX OFFICE.