The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, January 21, 1921, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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JUUDAX, JAIVUAKX 21, 1?Z1
PROHIBITION IN NEW YORK
If there is one place in the United
States \4here prohibition is not want
ed it is fn New York City. In view of
this a statement from any responsi
ble source which would seem to jus
tify the enactment -of the national
prohibition amendment, or to prom
ise the enforcement of laws made to
carry out the provisions of the a
mendment are interesting to those
who would like to see liquor driven
from the country. The statement is
more than interesting, it is encourag
ing.
, The New York Herald has been
investigating conditions under the
prohibition laws and has % sought in
formation from all parts of the coun
try on the effects of the law. Strange
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as it may seem, must uj. uic ?wui
ern and Western cities report that
the law has been of great benefit,
while the mayors of some of the
Southern cities make a contrary re
port. In Charleston, where nothing
succeeds unless he, she or it, comes
from Abbeville, Mayor Grace reports
conditions very much worse than they
would be with open bars. Perhaps in
many cases the reports embody the
individual opinions of those who
make them, rather than furnish a
correct statement of the real effects
arising from an enforcement, or an
attempted enforcement, of the law.
However these things may be, we
say it is encouraging to have the'
judgment of a great newspaper like
v , the' New York Herald that prohibi
tion is doing good and that the law
is going to be enforced. This is what
the Herald says:
"The New York. Herald published
Sunday an illuminating account with
facts and figures of our first year of
national prohibition. While the rec
ord is not all that the friends of pro
hibition could wish, nevertheless it
is perhaps quite as good in the situa
tion as might have be$n expected by
close thinkers.
Conversely it is a record that will
g've hope to the millions of surface
tu.iikt s who fiTr. ji.i-.i'.y at war w:in
national prohibition. It will encour
age the vigorous and determined an
ti-prohibition propaganda now of na
tionwide scope that has the backing
of unlimited money.
In the opinion of The New York
Herald, however, the opponents of i
the Government in this fight against
national prohibition are certain to be :
beaten in the end. The Government,
with its boundless resources, will
compel obedience to its laws. ^Defy- 1
ing law of a State is one thing; defy
ing the law of the national Govern- 1
ment is quite another. "The mills of
the gods grind slowly, but grind ex
ceeding fine," and so grind the mills
of the national Government
So long as national prohibition is '
embedded in the organic law of the
land, just so long will America be 1
dry except as her laws are broken
and defied by her citizens. And law
breaking in the long run is a bad
business for any one, especially bad
if^jthe be a United States law.
j-^The only way by which America
cat again become legally wet is thru i
afis amendment to the Constitution of
V in: .
the United States nullifying the
Eighteenth Amendment which declar
ed ; for national prohibition. And
what do*s it mean to get through a
constitutional amendment? It means
that a bill setting forth the proposed
amendment must be introduced in
Congress and passed by two-thirds
of both houses. This is the first step; '
the second is much more difficult. It
requires the ratification of the meas
ure by three-quarters of the States of
the Union. Failing of such ratifica
tion the measure falls by the way
side.
The framers of this Government
wore most wise in making it difficult
in the extreme to alter or amend our
national Constitution. In view of |
this very difficult process the wonder I
is that the dry amendment was ever
i
put through. But now that we have i
it, now that it is structurally a part i
of the Constitution of the United ;
States, now that the women of .the ]
nation have the ballot and must be i
reckoned with by State legislatures
and by Congress, there is no chance i
whatever that America will so com
pletely reverse herself on the liquor 1
question within the span of a genera
tion, if ever, as to put through an- <
other constitutional amendment that '
will make, this country wet. J
To be sure the Volstead act may be
amended by Congress, but any ]
amendment, says the Supreme Court :
in effect, must hold true to the spirit <
and intent of the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
Considered apart from this phase i
of the matter ,however, and solely
on the record of the first year of na- <
tional prohibition The New York i
Herald inclines to the belief that in
the situation, with the application of
a law so drastic and so revolutionary
?more drastic and more revolution
ary than, perhaps, was wise as a first
move in the process of eliminating '
alcoholic beverages?the Government 1
has by no ' means made a failure '
of its colossal undertaking. Indeed,
with no tried men in the work of en- J
forcing prohibition the wonder is, in
calm, straight thinking, that the Gov '
ernment did as well as it did with
many of its men unfaithful to th (
confidence placed in them and with- '
out the aid and cooperation of the 1
States of the Union in the work of 1
enforcing the dry law.
Only two or three days ago The
Vftrlr WorolH HionnccpH a A itnrn-*!
ally the question of the cooperation
of the States with the national Gov
ernment, urging that through such
cooperation alone could national pro
hibition become substantially suc
cessful 90 long as the rest of the
Worfd remains wet. The States of the
Union that voted for the Eighteenth
Amendment* may well consider their
responsibility in the outworking of
the law which through their ratifica
tion they made an organic part of the
underlying structure of ou^ national
life."
The Abbeville Press i and Banner
?
informs us that "they are still mak
ing liquor on Little River." When
they stop making it, will be a sensa
tional story.?Anderson Daily Mail.
THE "MAN ON THE MONUMENT"
GROWING OLD.
Editor Abbeville Press and Banner:
It may not be news to his family
but the "Man on the Monument" is
growing.qld fa^t; in fact his way of
life has fallen into the sear, the yel
low leaf; "he has shifted into the
lean and .slipper'd pantaloon, with
spectacles on nose, and his big manly
voide, ;turning again toward childish
treble, pipes and whistles in his
sound."
In yesterday's Medium the can
tankerous old bird rails out at the
poor little school children who in
sist upon walking on the sidewr.lks
.nstead of in the street. Will he undo
all that the teachers have tried so
hard to do? Will the poor old grouch
with the marble dome have the little
dears risk their bones and bodies by
walking in the "big road" reserved
oply for traffic and speedsters? Their
teachers have spent hours in front 01
the school building after dismissal
keeping the innocents on the side
walks and out of the streets. But
surely:
"By education they have been misled;
So they believe, because they were so
bred j
The teacher continues what the nurse
began,
And -thus^.the child imposes on the
man."
Mr. Dryden will certainly pardon
us for a few substitutions in his verse
from the Hind and, the. Panther es
pecially when he understands it is
directed at a Marble Man, who in one
paragraph criticises a hostess for
holding a Bridge party while a reviv
al is in progress and in the next pra
graph refers to the evangelistic sing
er as "a drawing card" an expression
iima/i if ult ^ + Vw 1v* f ft .
iiiirgiwiuauscu 11 uy vsiucri wuau ? \
poker shark, and certainly not res
pectful when used metaphorically to
describe an evangelist's choir leader. j
"Men are but children of a larger
"growth;
Our appetites are apt to change as
theirs, i
I
And full as craving too, and full as'
vain." |
I
So we suppose the teachers should
instruct the children to either walk
I
in the streets the five or ten minutes
each day they need to come to school
and to return home from school, or
probably if the speedsters object to
such intrusion upon their right of
way, that the teachers might teach
the children to march in "goose step"
two and two, as the precious little
German children do.
Such things as the proper attitude
[>f respect when meeting Monumen
tal Men on the sidewalks are funda
mental principles of ethics and we
>elieve it ta be more a duty of the
parents to instruct their children in
manners first, rather than the duty
af hired teachers.
i ne great man is ne wno aoes not
lose his child's heart." How insignif
icant must the Man on the Monument
be! We do wish he were real so we
could have him show the school chil
dren how to walk.
Juvenis et Junior.
PLANT LESS COTTON
Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 20?A reso
lution indorsing the plan adopted at
i recent meeting of cotton intrests
jf the South at Memphis for feduc
;ion of cotton acreage, was adopted
just before adjournment of a state
wide conference <Jf farmers, mer
chants and bankers here today.
The action followed a heated dis
cussion of the advisability of going
)n record as favoring the Memphis
Oon wmild nlpricrp fnrmpr<*
Jiuiij nmva i? vmim |r>vv?bw ** * ?,.?
lot to plant more than one-third of
;heir cultivated acreage in cotton.
Dpponenla of the plan agreed that
t was impractical and could not be
jnforced.
F ARMER WANTS TO EN.
LIST SOME OF HIS SONS
IN UNITED STATES ARMY
Jan. 20.?Army recruiting cast a
little ray of sunshine into the life of
in Ozark farmer in Missouri with
;leven children to support on sixty
icres of "rundown" land. Noting
educational features of army life, the
Vlissourian wrote Adjutant General
3arris for special permission to en
ist the second oldest of nine sons
ind a pair of twins, all just under
ige. The hoys are large for their age.<
in a will grade well up to the average
.ountry boy in looks and intelligence'
to said. I
B. T.
Prices
For One We
thing in ou
$3.75 Overalls,
$3.25 Overalls,
7c r\ n_
cpz../ j wverans,
$3.50 Underwe;
$1.75 Underwe.
Dry Goods
50c Outing, nq
50c Ginghams,
35c Ginghams,
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All collars, bridles
duced. We have
for which we are
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of Men's and Boys' Clot]
and Underwear
Started Somethii
You are given an opporl
ty to buy high class clot
and underwear for a ?
deal less than new price:
new spring goods will be,
lots of people are taking
vantage of it. You can'
ford to miss it. Every su
men's and boys' clothing
odd trousers and all w
|j weight underwear is inch
Ill Lllld oCLIC LUI 5pUL CCldJ
one-half of original price
Don't wait for something bigger to hi
?it can't. These are the lowest prices ;
see this season here or anywhere else. <
in today and get some of these rare bargi
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4 Lbs
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. $1.40
7 Lbs.
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11 Lb
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2 Bars
at Half Price
1 0 Lb:
. .25
No. 2
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pads, back-bands, traces ar
just been instructed to reduo
sole agents 20 per cent; also
eat Reductions on Sib
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we are listing a few:
Snowdrift. . . . $1.30
Snowdrift . . . .70
Roasted Coffee . $1.00
s. Rice .... $1.00
; Large Octagon Soap .15
s. Granulated Sugar $1.00
Can Tomatoes . .j ..." .10
Can Karo Syrup . .85
il. Can Karo Syrup .45
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> on all repairs for these plows
toes?Come in and see
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