The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, January 12, 1921, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
Established 1844.
THE PRESS AND BANNER
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
The Press and Banner Company
Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Entered as second-'^ass matter ai
post office in Aoheville, S. C.
Ter, qs of Subscription:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1921
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THTHRAN ON TAXES.
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In his speech to the House of Rep
resentatives, on taking his seat as
Speaker, Mr. Thomas P. Cothran, of
Greenville, had a good deal to say
about taxation which is interesting
to those who have been paying enor
mous tax burdens and to those as well
who have been assessed the same
burdens, but who have not paid.
Speaker Cothran calls attention to
the fact that as late as 1908,?just
twelve years ago,?he introduced a J
resolution providing for a constitu
tional limit to appropriations of $1,
250,000. The appropriations for 1920
amounted to $6,000,000, nearly five |
5 ties-what was then thought to be aj
proper limit, and this year the legis
lators are asked to appropriate $9,
000,000. Notwithstanding the many
new government agencies and enter
prises which have come into existence
since 1908, the Speaker believes we
may still limit appropriations to $5,
000,000 and keep within the limit, i
Speaker Cothran also calls atten
tion to the fact that as long as the
levy is statewide, the people do not
have an interest in seeing that prop
erty is equitably assessed. He advo
cates, as the Press and Banner has
been advocating for several years, i
measures which would provide for the J
assessment and collection of a proper
pro rau of the taxes by each com-j
munity. He believes that the amount!
nf thp stttp annronriations which Ab- i
beville County should pay should be
fixed; and that in turn the amounti
f I
which the several townships, or school j
districts of the county should pay,!
should be fixed, and that the local j
communities should then assess all |
the property of their several commu-1
nities and levy a tax sufficient to i
laise the part assigned to each par- \
ticular community.
There is no doubt, as the Speaker
takes great pains to warn the mem
bers, that there is an insistent de
mand that the burdens of taxation
shall be lessened. Any just measures
looking to that end will have the sup- ,
port of thoughtful people. (
We still believe tljat if Abbeville .
County were required to pay a cer
tain proportion 01 tne state appropri
ations, instead of having a levy of j
so many mills common over the whole
state, the assessment of property
would be more nearly equit- .
able. Every taxpayer, in that
event, would have a more di- ,
rect interest in seeing that his \
neighbor returned his property for .
taxation at a value corresponding to i
the valuations placed on other prop- |
erty, as Mr. Cothran says. Every tax
payer, seeing that every other tax- 1
payer in his district was paying on
an equitable assessment, would be
,t'ne more willing to assume his just
burdens of the government charges,
and would return his property at Xhe
same percentage as that at which his j
reighbors' property is assessed.
1920?1921.
TVip Olrl Ypar nnpnpd in a hlnzp of
almost limitless activity and prosper
ity. Farmers and mechanics were as
prosperous as merchants and manu
facturers. The demand for labor ex
ceeded the supply. No one who want
ed to work lacked the opportunity.
The Old Year ends, and the New
Year will open, with many people out
of employment, wkh stagnation
everywhere as compared with the ac
tivity of twelve months ago; but it is
in the power of the American people
to make the New Year, before it clos
es, show prosperity as wide and em
ployment as general as was the con
dition twelve months ago.
Inherently every condition justi
fies optimism and activity. We have
had no epidemics of disease to sweep
over the land, no drought to destroy
our crops, no floods to wash away
railroads and bridges, and no earth
quakes to shatter down our struct
ures; we have simply been suffei'ing
from the unwise action of men in fin
ancial leadership wholly incompetent
for their task.
We have been paying the penalty
for the nation's cowardly surrender in
1916 to the railroad brotherhoods,
which inaugurated an era of turmoil
and unrest in labor and created the
impression in the minds of millions
of people that they had a right to
bring on a revolution and demand tha
all of their wishes be fulfilled just as
the the railroad men had accomplish
ed their aims by the nation's coward
ly breakdown when the pistol was
held at the head of Congress and the
Administration.
But- we can put all these things be
hind us. We have raised abundant
crops, our barns are bursting with
r>f frinH anrl fppH. The shelves
of the world are bare of the things
that we can produce and have in
abundance. We only need courage
under the leadership of the hour to
go forward to a greater prosperity
than that which ushered in the year
that is now passing out.
Then, up with the spirit of opti
mism! down with the spirit of pessi
mism! Let all Americans unite for
the upbuilding of the whole country,
for putting aside class hatred, for the
greatest efficiency in work and the
largest pay which the business can
stand, for suppressing graft and hon
oring honesty, for that patriotism
which can find expression in working
or the business advancement of the
country as wholesouledly as it work
ed for the saving of the nation from
barbarism.
The future is ours; the opportuni
T- it-- i
ties limitless, it we maxe tne must ui
the situation, the coming year wil!
bring an abundance of prosperity to
eery section and to every industry.
Put your shoulder to the wheel!?
Manufacturers Record.
SIGNS OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Financial retropects and forecasts
at the end of the year reveal an un
usual conflict of factors. In The An
nalist Mr. Noyes reviews the war
years with the conclusion that most
expectations were disappointed, and
in no year more markedly than in
1920. No one foresaw that its for
eign trade would be unexpectedly
good, while its domestic trade was
more or lesfe discouraging. The two J
trades are so interrelated that neither
can thrive without the other, and
there is doubt how far the politicians
will allow freedom of action to the
economic factors. Dr. Anderson com
putes that the ratio of foreign trade
to domestic rose from 10.7 per cent,
in 1914 to 10.3 per cent, in 1919. The
ratio is probably larger in 1920, and
in 1921 conditions call for a policy
of encouraging the world to pay its
debts to us. Rather there are signs of
a disposition to antagonize those who
would pay us in goods. Also there is
an inclination to establish a merchant
marine, not tfy goodness and cheap
.ess of service, but by cripping those
who would compete with us in world
service.
On the other hand there is distinct
encouragement in the prospect that
the money market of 1921 will re
verse that of 1920. Our banking sys
tem has managed its affairs so wisely
that it was stronger at the year end
than at the previous New Year.
Therefore it can afford to release
funds for productive purposes, so
far as it judges that to be wise, since
the occasion for controlling credit has
passed its crisis. There is a better
outlook for the railroads. Labor and
ai c gj?jug vi j
ing as profits and wages decline to
gether. That is better than quarrel
ing over the division of excess pro
fits and wages too high to be earned
or paid under normal condition. The
nation's income may be less, yet a
larger share of it may be saved than
when thrift was despised and even
the poor set examples of extrava
gance.
In economics as in politics we are
at a sort of interregnum, where
high and low, great and small, are
free to make up their own minds. The
man of small means who sees his way
through hia own affairs and acts with
decision and courage will contribute
to the general welfare perhaps even
- . ,1
more than those who are perpiexea
by the breadth and complexity of
their undertakings.?New York
times.
NEW YORK VISITORS
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Mr. and Mrs. John Hill, who are
here from New York on a visit to
home folks, are the guests this week
of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hill on Ellis
street. j
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DELPH McDILL AN EDITOR |
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It has been our pleasure to see an
pdvance sheet of the Columbia Dis
trict Astonisher, a small newspaper
gotten out by the District office of
the Southern Cotton Oil Company at
Columbia. This paper circulates a
mong the employees of this big con
cern and Abbeville people will be
pleased to know that Delph McDill is
the editor of it. Every line in it is
bright and sparkling, the good jokes
among the men are well told, the
poetry is along original lines, the
skits are bright, and the paper as
a whole must be a welcome addition
to the life of the "S. C. 0. C. 0.,"
people.
The office at Memphis has had a
paper for a year but it has had to
c?Qr?rv>-> rJ nlono cin/?o fVin A cf ATllvVlOT !
tai\t OtWJIU puvv WtIV
has made its appearance.
The design for the front page is
unique in the extreme, bearing the
letters S. C. 0. C. 0. each succeeding
letter smaller than the othSr which
makes the design appear a series of
half circles with a straight line
across the center. It is airartistic af
fair.
The Astonisher will be issued
twice a month. Mr. McDill is to be
congratulated on his success as an
editor.
NOT BY HIMSELF.
(The Columbia District Astonisher.)
A concern in Columbia recently
received from one of its debtors the
following letter:
"Dear Sir:?I receive your letter
about what I owes you. Now be pa
chent. I ain't forgot you and soon as
folks pay me I'll pay you, but if this
was judgment day and you no more
prepared to meet your uod than l
am to meet your account then you
sho going to hell.
"Good by,
"R. E. C."
LARGE CROWDS
ATTENDING SERVICES
The evangelistic services being
conducted in the Baptist Church
every morning and every evening
are attracting large congregations.
Dr. B. B. Bailey of Shelbyville, Ken
tucky, is doing the preaching, and
his sermons are not only clear ex
positions of the Gospel of the
Christ, but are couched in the most
chaste and beautiful language.
They are so simple that a child may
understand, yet they manifest the
deepest thought and most reverent
study. Abbeville church goers are
fortunate in being able to hear Dr.
Bailey. The services will continue
for about a week longer.
house in the United States run en
tirely by women, with women as
heads of all departments is located
in New York city in connection with
the National Board of the Y. W. C
A.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
BRANCH OF THE
BANK OF MT. CARMEL
located at Calhoun Falls, S. C., at
the close of business December 31,
1920:
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $40,752.51
Overdrafts 734.27
Currency 3,398.00
Gold 35.00
Silver and other Minor
Coin 853.36
Checks and Cash Items _ 164.00
TOTAL $45,937.14
Undivided Profits, less Cur
rent Expenses and Tax
es Paid 2,962.66
Due to Banks and Bankers 14,119.57
Tv>/]iiM/]un1 nnnci f c
subject-to check $27,493.39
Savings deposits 1,276.93
Cashier's Checks 104.59
28,854.91
TOTAL $45,937.14
State of South Carolina,
County of Abbeville.
Before me came H. W. Lawson,
Cashier of the above named bank,
who being duly sworn, says that the
above and foregoing statement is a
true condition of said bank, as shown
by books or said oanK.
H. W. LAWSON.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 3rd day of January 192L
JOSEPH HICKS,
Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
B. F. MAULDIN,
J. W. MORRAH,
W. H. HORTON,
Directors.
FIVE DOLLARS FOR A NAME I
The McMurray Drug Company is
going to give away some genuine
money and every child in the county
who goes to school can enter this
contest get this five dollars. The
McMurray people are to open up
their music parlor soon and they
want a short, snappy, bright name
for the parlor and they will give five
dollars in gold to the school child who
submits the best name. A school can
enter the contest as a whole and ten
dollars on the purchase price of a
Victrola will be given. Competent
judges will award the prize and an
nouncement will be made shortly af
ter the first of. February when the
contest closes. Think up an attractive
name, send it in and get this five dol
ars in gold.
NEWS FROM THE
WM. H. COBB COMPANY
Mr. Wm. H. Coob has been in Ab
beville for several days looking over
his business at this place. Mr. R. E.
Henry, who has been in charge at
Abbeville, has been promoted and
will go to Columbia to take charge .
of the store there. W. C. Hoyer
will come to Abbeville and be head
man at the store here. Mr. Hoyer ha3
been in Columbia for several years
and is an experienced business man.
His wife will come to Abbeville be
fore the fir\ of February. Miss Em- :
ma Harris will have charge of the
store until Mr. Hoyer arrives.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry have made I
many friends in Abbeville, who con
gratulate them on this promotion
and wish them every happiness in
their new home.
WAS NOT PUNISHED
FOR MAKING OUT
BILLS ON SUNDAY
New York, Jan. 11.?An attempt
to punish a man for making out
bills on Sunday failed here today
when H. B. Divorsky, a manufactu
rer, was discharged in Jefferson
Market court.
"There is no such thing as a 'Sun
day blue law' and a man has a right
to work in his office on Sunday so
long as he is not engaged in the sale
of merchandise," ruled Magistrate
Sweetser.
Eventua
Why N<
W. P. MARTir
Gospel Singer at the I
Church.
Special .Service
The
EVENING WEDDINGS BANNED
BY A PITTSBURG PREACHER
Pittsburg, Jan. 11.?Evening wed
3ings at Calvary Protestant Episco
pal church here are banned, under an
>rder of Rev. E. J. Van Eteen, the
pastor, made public today. This ac
;ion conforms with Rev. Eteen's New
dear's sermon, when in a review of
;he times, he paid much attention to
;vening gowns worn by women. He
:ommented on the "lack of decorum
jften /manifested," and said that
some of the gowns did not conform
with the sacred character of mar
riage.
PROPER GANDER PLEASES
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We have received a copy of Prop
er Gander as gotton out by the class
)f 1920 of the Abbeville high school,
[t is very creditable and we know
;hat as soon as we can find time we
will enjoy reading the book. We had
loped that the publication would
?ive a little more of the history of
;he Abbeville schools, and bring the
history on down, but in looking over
the book hurriedly we fail to find
just the sort of history that we ex
pected, and the book is more of what
the colleges call an anuual, and is
very creditable to the class of 1920.
A.nd in this respect it is well gotten
up. We hope to find time to read
some of the articles more carefully,
they seem worth while.?New
berry Herald and News.
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FOR :: HIGH
Conservative
on Cotton Co
M. B. WAT:
Cotton Factor
Greenville,
Jly=
>t Now?
The avobe is the intr
miliar Advertisem
It is very pertinent q
ble to more thing
Eventually you expec
Church attendant.
Eventually you expe
tive Christian. \A
Eventually you expe<
ru'iiuoi \siuan.
vcntually you expe<
Why not now?
vcntually you expe
Christ. Why not
ventiicilly you expe
not now?
Behold NOW is the
hold NOW is the
2 Cor. 6:2.
\n invitation is exte
services at the Ba
unite with the J
Church.
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Baptist Ch
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MILLION DOLLAR BONUS
GIVEN EMPLOYES OF DODGES
Detroit, Jan. 11.?Distribution of
bonuses totalling in excess of $1,
000,000 to employees of the Dodge
Brothers Motor Car Company, was
made yesterday. The bonus is in the
form of liberty bonds and all shop
and office workers employed by the
company five years or more are in
cluded in the disbursement. The bo
nus amounts to from 10 to 15 per
cent of a years salary and is similar
to one paid a year ago.
FRESH PORK DROPS
2 TO 4 CENTS POUND
IN CHICAGO
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oiricBgu, j an. J.J.,?x-acsui put h.
dropped in 'price today 2 to 4 cents
a pound, making the total fall for
loins 10 cents a pound so far this
year. Loins were quoted wholesale
at 17 cents to 22 cents a pound.
Big receipts of hogs here today
75,000 head, and an equal number
yesterday, were responsible for the
break in prices.
A SURE SIGN.
According to the calender we can
still expect several weeks of winter
weather, but spring is on the way, a
sure sign being the many games of
marbles which have been played on
the sidewalks and in the yards for
the last few days. '
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Loans Made
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*s and Brokers
S. Carolina
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lent.
[uestion. It is applica
s than one.
)t to become a regular
Why not now?
ct to become an ac
,'hy not now?
ct to join a Sunday
ly not now?
ct to join the Church.
ct lo openly confess
now?
ct to he saved. Why
; accepted time; be
day of salvation."?
nded you to attend
ptist Church; and to
Sunday School and
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