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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. Entered as second- iiass matter at *ost office in Aoheville, S. C. Ten di of Subscription: One Year ? Six months . Three months T $2.00 $1.00 .50 ? / 'MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1921 A COUNTY SOLICITOR One of the candidates for Solicitor in this circuit last summer is stated to have said at Greenwood that the best> legal talent of the eighth circuit was not n the race for solicitor. We do not say that he was correct in the statement, nor do we say that he was not correct. In many circuits, it may be said the office of Solicitor is not held by a lawyer of commanding ability and of large experience. The! primary election laws as administer ed in this state have had their infiu i ence in putting men of medium or ; low ability in the office of solicitor as well as in many other offices. The fact is that the time is fast ^pproach s ing when it will be impossible to get good men to offer for offices of any , kind. y But if we had the best trial law . yer in the eighth circuit, we do not know that he would get better results than are already had. The fact is that it would be hard to find a better pros ecuting attorney than Governor Cooper proved himself which he was solicitor of this circuit. The results he obtained in the office were not better than the results obtained by . V Mr. Blackwell, a lawyer of less expe rience at the bar. V I What is really needed is a prose cuting attorney in every county. The . trial of cases depends, not alone on the ability of the lawyer who handles the case in the court room, but also upon the proper preparation of the evidence in the case, and then its proper presentation. A prosecuting attorney in e\ery county, knowing , the witnesses, and beirg ah'e 10 ac quaint himself with the f*ic:s of every case, would be in much better p'jsi ton to present the cases to the jury than a lawyer from anotheir county. There would be other advantages in having a local pr.osecuting attorney There are many cases which should never be sent to the circuit court, but which find their way there. A local attorney conversant wifch the facts could have these cases tried by the magistrates of the county or throwp out. Ther^ are cases which a local attorney would know in advance could not be tried at a given term of court. In these cases there is no rea son why the witnesses should come to court at the expense of the county. In all cases the magistrates, who are not versed in the law, often bind over witnesses who are not material, a county attorney by investigating the cases to be tried might discover this, and save the county the expense of bringing these witnesses to court. In other cases there, are often material witnesses who are not bound over. A county attorney would discover this in advance and have the witnesses at court. A county attorney should be charged with the duty of attending all inquests and with making an in vestigation in advance of all cases which he expects to present to the grand jury. A county attogmey charged with these duties would be ready to pro ceed with the court the day the con vened. He would know what case? were to be tried in "advance and he would have the witnesses presents By having only those who are needed he might save enough to the county in witnesses' fees and in time which would otherwise ,be lost to pay his salary. On the other hand the ends of justice would be served. Men charg ed with crime would be brought to justice promptly and their cases dis posed of. Even if these 'county attorneys were elected by the people, we are of the opinion that as good men might be obtained as the men who now fill the office of solicitor in the different circuits. We think it would be better to have these officers appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate, but with out power in the senator from any county to prevent the naming of a I certain man because he is objection- 1 able to the senator from that county. ! In other words there should be no 1 "senatorial courtesy' and no other po- 1 litical clap-trap, but the whole senate j should pass on the appointments in a p judicial way. h County solicitors might be secured j at salaries much less than circuit so-!1 licitors. The fact is that the salary;! paid the circuit solicitor and the com- j > __i ?:? ?_:j i! Dinea salaries nuw paiu lu tuumjf <?l-. torneys of the severai counties in; any circuit would be almost sufficient! to pay a good man in every county! for attending to the the duties of this; office. A prosecuting attorney from New-!' berry, Laurens or Greenwood will al-!! ways be at a disadvantage in the j handling of cases in this county. We should have a prosecuting attorney i here who knows the people and who! could handle lofcal cases. i THE REAL RAILROAD ISSUE Recognition should be kept clearly j and continually in mind of the r^al i issue now before this nation in res-| pect to the railroads. There are num-; erous subsidiary issues, some of them; of actual importance, some of them quite ..insignificant, save as red her-! rings drawn across the trail. Rates of i wages, rates of fare and freight trans-! portation, Federal control of intra-1 state lines and traffic, and various! other topics, all deserve serious at-! tention, and doubtless will receive it j in due time. But above them all looms I the one supreme question of the fun-! damental status of the roads. Shall! they be owned and operated by pri vate corporations or by the Govern ment? That, and nothing else, is the real issue. The/Plumb'Plan is not dead. It is J not even scotched. It may appear to i be in temporary eclipse, but that is I only because its propagandists be lieve that th^ can work more effec-l tively under covet than in the open., With marvelous ingenuity the advo- j cates of Government bwnership are j using as grist all that comes to their mill. We do not for a moment sup pose that the Brotherhoods of Rail road employees are unanimously in favor of Government ownership; but it is obvious to anybody who can see a fraction of a degree beneath the: surface that they are being made so to appear, and that their requests, claims or demands, .no matter how en tirely detached therefrom, are being i utilized as arguments for Federal ac-l quisition of the roads. The Plumb j. Plan propagandists are, in fact, emu- j lating the tactics of Brindell in "play-i' ing both ends against the middle,' or using both roads and Brotherhoods for their own purposes. In some respects, it is true, the' Plumb propagandists overreach them-j selve^ They do this notably in their j charge that the railroad executives are practicing sabotage, in one form j. and another, in order to make the I roads seem poor and in need of gov ernment aid. That charge is not true, , and it is not new. We heard it long ago, in thf days of the McAdoodling; to the effect that the executives were! damag&ig their own roads in order to j. .'.iscredit Government control. It was . not true then; but if it had been, what could we say of a repetition of the practice now? Having committed sa botage under Government control in order to discredit that control* they are now again doing it under private], control?for what conceivable pur pose? There is no possible purpose that would not in the last analysis militate against private ownership. Railroad executives may not always conduct their operations with much more, wisdom than others display in! governing States and Nations, but they are not as thick-headed as that' would imply. We have no objection in the world. to a fair and square raising of the is-j sue of government ownership, be- j Cause we have no doubt that in such.! , i* : ' V>> a '.jfcase the ArhericaVi people will see I to it that it is rightly decided. But| there is grave objection to having it | put forward behind the mask of other! issues,' and to having it promoted by1: means of wholesale and plausible but! unscrupulous misrepresentation. I There is, moreover, serious danger in having the campaign conducted in the ' one-sided manner that has recently: characterized it. We refer to the con-1 i irasi Derween tne two siaes in pre sentation of their cases. For it must frankly be said that1 the labor organizations present their | < side of the controversy far more ef-11 fectively than do the executives of the roads. That is not because they have a better command of facts, of logic, qr of intellectual power, but because they address themselves to the public instead of merely to the Labor Board, or the Interstate Com merce Commission, or the President; and in these days, with the long-neg lected Tertium Quid of the mere common Citizen beginning to sit up and take notice, that party is likely to win which, makes the most direct and convincing appeal to the popular mind, the popular sentiment, the pop ular judgment. What is desirable is that tne rail road executives shall realize that the ultimate and supreme issue to be de cided is not that of wages, or open or closed shop, or any such thing, but of private ownership or government ownership; and that it is in the last analysis to be decided not by boards or commissions, but by the American people. If they will realize that, and act upon itr there need be no doubt as to the result.?Harvey's Weekly. SV^EET POTATO day AT Lodges, Friday march 11 i To those interested in Sweet Potato growing: On Friday, March 11th We are go ing to have "Sweet Potato Daj^ at Hodges in cooperation with the sweet potato growers, fanners and business men of this section, the Extension Service of Clemson College and the railroad companies. Farmers from the entire Piedmont section should attend this meeting. It has been demonstrated beyond a doubt that the potato house is a prac tical thing and should mean lots to the farmers. This meet:ng is intend ed to give those present first 'hand infnrmo+inn ac t.n thp TV><SJBthilitipS nf the potato hcuse developing the po tato industry. Experienced potato growers from Georgia, United States Government experts, extension ser vice experts, and farm agents of the ra'lrpad companies will be on hand and discuss all phases of potato grow ing. Demonstrations in seed treating, bedding, packing and grading will be given. Exhibits of small potato hou^e, diseased potatoes, harvesting imple ments, packing tables, crates, etc. will be there for your inspection. A sweet potato roast and dinner will be served by the people of Hodges. * Let me urge you to attend and bring your neighbor to this very im portant meeting held solely for your benefit. I am sure that this occasion will mean much to the futuc-j pros perity of the potato industry in thi3 section. Come and bring youi' neigh bor^ W. A. Rowell, Co. Agent TWELVE MILL LEVY FOR COMING YEAR (Continued from Page One) from $2,250 to $2,400 and the sten ographer from $1,200 to $1,500. The comptroller general's office was ?iven the duty of disbursing tke pensions and consequently received an increase of $566,297 over last year as a c^irect appropriation, all this being for pensions in lieu of the abolishment of the state pension board. An extra clerk to be known as the pension clerk at a salary of $2,400 was allowed. A provision was adopted in the section relating to Ihe attorney gen eral providing "that the attorney general is hereby required to rSnder all legal advice ' and perform all legal service for all the departments of the state and that no counsel not connected with the office of the at torney general shall be employed by any of said departments for such service: Provided that this provision shall not apply to the state board of health or the tax commission." The provision was^orginally aimed at the tax commission and was adopted but later reconsidered and rejected as to the tax commission. BIG LOAN MADE FOR SEABOARD Washington, March 3.?The Inte sfotfl Pnmmnrnn pAmmiceiAn Worl. nesday approved a loan of $20,173, 000 to the Seabcar^l Air Line Rail road to enable the carrier to 'meet manuring indebtedness. The smallest screws in the world, used by watchmakers, are so tiny that they look like dust. An ordi nary thimble can hold about 100,000 of them. Some of the smallest are only four one-thousandths of an inch across, and can hardly be seen by the naked eye. DEATH OF MRS. BRITT j Mrs. W. H. Britt died at her home about nine miles from Abbeville last Friday and was buried Saturday at I Buffalo church. Mrs. Britt was Miss I Georgia Kennedy before her mar j riage and she is connected with many of our people. She was a wo man past middle life and had so lived that her influence was always for good, the center of a happy home and beloved by her neighbors. She is survived by her husband and four grown sons. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cason attend ed thp funeral from Abbeville. _ GERMAN PROPOSALS WILL BE REPEATED/ Allies Certain To Reject fhem for Second Time?Berlin Delega tion Plans Arguments London, March 6.?Unless new instructions are received from Ber lin, Dr. Simons, the German foreign secretary and head of the German delegation on reparations, will on Monday, read a long statement de signed to refute the argument made iby Premier Loyd George before the conference on Thursday. This state ment will probably be followed by counter proposals which even the most optimistic of the German dele gation do not believe the allies will accept. I In such event the reparations con ference will break up, the German delegation will return home and the penalties outlined by Mr. Lloyd George enforced. Dr. Simons and his colleagues, in collaboration with the Berlin-cab inet with which the foreign minis ter is in constant touch by wireless have spen\ the greater part of the time "since the delivery of the ulti .matum in drawing up a reply there to. The foreign minister will present figures in an endeavor to -prove that Mr J Lloyd George's statement re specting German taxation was inac circnte atiH will nsV fllliAq t.n sue gest a means whereby Germany can meet their economic demands. He will point out that while the German income tax is small, German in comes are proportionately small ow ing to impoverishment due to the war. 'The amount, the Germans assert, has already been paid on account of reparations will be restated and Dr. Simons hopes that he will be allowed to repeat his argument made at the opening of the conference that large sums are due to Germany on ac count of state property seized in German colonies and other terri tories of which she has been de prived and which have not been taken into account by the allies. It is a question, however, whether the conference will listen to such arguments as these. The French pre mier, M. Briand ,is credited with the assertion that all the Germans have been summoned for on Monday is to accept or reject the terms of the allioc oc lni^ rlnwn at Pari* -u/itVi +T10 modifications mentioned .in, Mr. Lloyd George's speech. The Germans through Dr. Strauei the German ambassador at London, and Lord D'Abernon, British ambas sador to Germany, have made efforts to get in touch with the allies for private conversation with some measure' of success. There wa9 a conferenec this mornirtg between Premiers Lloyd George and Briand and Dr. Simons at the the residence of Earl Curzon bi|t nothing is forth coming as to what was actually ac complished. Mr. Lloyd George haf gone to Chequers Court, his summer home. M. Briand and his' colleagues will! spend the wee'k-end at Lympne, while Count Sforza and M. Jasper will be entertained privately in town. , A report emanating from Greek circles that the ' allies have with drawn their offer of an inquiry by a special commission into' conditions/ in Smyrna and Thrace is denied in both British and Turkish quarters. STANDARD OIL CO. OF INDIANA MADE 20 PER CENT NET Chicago, March 4.?A net profit of $40,973,484.10, after deducting Smsisimo fovic nv 9fl HPT f?PTlt flTI an actual investment of $203,869,123. 82 was earned by the Standard Oil | Company of Indiana, for the year ! 1920, according to the annual report I submitted today at the stockholders ' annual meeting at Whiting, Ind. ' Without income tax deductions earnings were $61,377,803.20. A re serve of $20,404,319.10 is made to meet estimated income taxes for 1920, leaving thfe company a net profit of $40,973,484.10. Of this $3 193,569.43 was received in royalties on the Burton and other processes owned by the company but not in cluded in the book value of the com pany's assets. As against a capital and surplus on January 1, 1920 of $135,117,-' Now come the Pigs?the Ca and, the Lambs. TIME for your work horses a their winter's coat ?TIME to tone them up?gn spring house-cleaning?and dri\ Dr. Hess Sloe A Spring Conditioner and 1 Your COWS that have long been < i* 1-?? i?i? ** UawaI Alaoneinrr i j ine SYSieUl'lUUUJK, Uvnti-VISOUOMIJI Dr. Hess Stock Tonic. Puts them i calving. It means more milk. Your BROOD SOWS will be relieve Sut in fine fettle for farrowing bv i tock Tonic,?which means healthy with an ample milk supply to nourisb Your SHOATS will be greatly ben Dr. Hess Stock Tonic. It anves out tt the appetite and makes them thrive. Feed it to^ EWES before lambin fevered udders and scouring lambs, time to stimulate the flow of milk, it I early market \ | ' Dr. Hess Stock Tonic contains Ton i Laxatives for the bowels, Diuretics Vermifuges for the worms. Why Pay the Peddler Tvyi McMurray Di Tell as how much stock you have. We hi ! liffl j ^rgj3J3J2JSJS?03?3i2M3JSJ3f3?3J5ISfSJ3?2Ji Vict HE great the worl for the-' exclusively, becai vinced that only their art into y< beauty.... Here ate a few o, Vidrola XI \ Mahogany, Oak or Walnut $150 Vidrola XVI Mahogany or Oak T1 The Really Musica F7,jJEJ2JSJS!BIBfBJBIBIBI5?5I5JBf5iBIB/BEISJ5J5f5fSJi 256.81, the company reports capital of $203,860,123.82, of which only $4,136,463.67 is in cash, the re-, mainder, in keeping with the com pany's policy of using earnings to expand the business, being invested in properties, merchandise and se curities. Outstanding capital stock .of $88,038,312.50 is reported on De cember with $30,000,000 on Janu ary 1, 1920. Cash dividends of $9, 116,678.00 were paid during the year. * Ives?the Colts? nd mules to shed re their systems a re out the w^rms. k Tonic Vorm ExpeDer an winter feed need appetizing effects of in fine condition for >d of constipation and t course of Dr. Hess 8igs, and a mother iiem. efited by a course of ie worms?stimulates e time. It prevents Feed it after lambing isuring lambs for the. ics for the digestion, for the kidneys, and ce My Price? ng Co. rve a package to sait.' Dr. Hess Poultry PAN-A-CE-A will help make your bens lay now. use Killer Kills Lie he rol a est artists of all d make records Victor Company use they are con the Victor brings >ur home at its I f the many styles: Victrola XIV Mahogany,\Oak or Walnut ^ r- ? 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