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^Avru a WAV I Established 1844. ? THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly . Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I Entered as second-tiass matter at tost office in Abbeville, S. C. . T?nu of SubtcripUoftt One Year $2.00 Six months 1 $1.09 Three months .60. MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1921 If line fences were longer, we might have civil war in this country instead of simple homicides. . 0 r? What has become of the old-fash ioned man who didn't owe anybody and whose word was his bond? _?-o We do not think the fact that Col George Harvey is opposed to prohi bition will be anything against him when he gets to England. 0 /. , If we only had a campaign party traveling around the state talking hot talk, we might be able to get - through these hard times. : ?0 Isn't it about time that somebody inquired as to the whereabouts of George Warren late candidate for the United States Senate? . ?0 Cows have gone down, and cotton has gone down, and a good many other things have gone down, but the price of beef keeps up the high cost of living. . 0 Out in Arkansas where the people have found out all about good roads, they are drawing guns on the road commissioners and forcing them to resign, but they tell as that they are about to draw guns on Uncle Jim to make him sign up, so that "we farm ' v ers" may be enabled to get a little money. AGAINST THE PROFITEERS We read in the papers that they are still after the profiteers. Some in ventor having a grudge against the bootblacks has invented* a shoe-shin 1-.*-- ?l;.l -t- ? a _T. ing mat nine wmcn snincs two tsuuea at the same time and all for a nickle. All you have to do is to drop the money in the slot, put your feet in position and get the shine. You not only save a nickle, that is you do inj such places as Abbeville where they charge a dime, but you save a lot of valuable time, because you get two shoes shirked in the time it formerly took to shine one. Likely we will have one of these machines in Abbeville shortly unless he shine-boys decide to head off the machine by themselves shining shoes for a nickle. They cannot, of course, . shine two shoes at once unless there * is a partnership arrangement, but time is not as valuable now as money, and we can afford to wait. THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL If we are to have a new high school building, by all means let us get a new location for it and build it where it inay be seen and where it will be a credit to the people of the city. Of course if the prices asked for lots are so high that a lot cannot be purchas ed, and if lands near the present high school building may be purchased at a small figure, the board of trustees might listen to the economy argu ment. But we are building a school which will stand perhaps for forty years. In that time the~btrilding on the present high school lot will have become de lapidated. It cannot be made to pre sent a very good appearance even now. To build a new building costing seventy-five thousand dollars at the rear of the present building would s be hiding our light, to some extent at least, under a bushel. But there is a more potent argu ment still against building _ on the present lot. We cannot secure suffic ient land at the present location to have tennis courts, baseball - * and room for o??~ T\" -*"~r SftUvlties. The tfay&rou^ now ^ by the basebau team is private property. We do not know *>&en it will be built tip. The spools must have a place where the pupils may enjoy the sports which go - along with school days. Therefore, it is advisable we think that the new school be located where sufficient! I lands may be had for these activities. We have no place in mind, in par ticular. Some places have been sug gested which may be good places, or may not. We have not inspected them, and therefore express no opinion on any new location. But we tfre in favor of building a first-class, up-to-date building, we are in favor of building it where it will reflect the most credit on the city, and we are in favor of building it-where we may have all the room necessary. WHAT BIG JUCH ^ >AY U. S. COLLECTOR ,,..,(By Whit Hadley.) New York, April 1.?Did you know that two men in the United States confessed to the collector of internal.revenue, "Big Bill' Edwards that their'net personal incomes last year were in excess of three million dollar*? *' K*. T 3/tin v.. Did ye^-^now that John D. Rocke feller n$j>nly had a personal in come ^oj^siity million dollars but drew, a ,chi$k for $38,400,000 and j mailed it to the government as his in I come, tax contribution? iSome a mating figures, running close to the billion dollar mark, are made public by Edwards through official reports now in the hands of the commissioner of internal reve nue at Washington. Twenty-Eight Huge Income*. Twenty-eight gentlemen admitted it seems, having incomes ?during ifton to nnn nnft ? ? wkilo 13 nth 196V VI ?p?rfyWV |WV M|/ ?. -w WW. ers said languidly they received be tween a million and a half and two millions. The late H. C. Frick had $11,250, 000 income and out of it the govern ment got $7,160,000. Two other men frolicked about with seven million and a half and each paid the government $4,800, 000. They were George F. Baker and William Rockefeller. Edward S. Harkness and J. Ogden Armour were taxed to the tune of $6,250,000. .They paid the govern ment a flat four million each, while Henry Ford and W. K. Vanderbilt as well as Edward H. R. Green, hav ing each five million dollars worth on their hands during the year, dis posed of $3,200,000 of it by sending jit to the government In the form of 'a certified check. Va?t Fortune*. These figures appear as personal incomes and do not, of course, rep resent the staggering principles that yielded so golden a flow. If, jfor example, Rockefeller's net 'in/vmiA was sixtv million dollars and this sum represented only six per cent on the principle the principle itself must have been one billion dollars. In lik-e fashion Prick must have had a capital of $187,500,000 to re turn him $11,250,000,000 in inter est. The records announce that 28 of the richest taxpayers are scattered. About 14 came from New York 2 from Delaware, one from Michigan, one from Ohio, two from Pennsyl vania one from Rhode Island, two from Texas and 5 from Massachus etts. Astor'a Stipend. Vincent Astor's income amounted to $3,750,000 during 1920, and he paid a tax of $2,400,000. James A. Stillman, president of the National City Bank, as well as Thos. F. Ryan, Daniel Guggenheim, Chas. M. Schwab, J. P. Morgan and Joseph Widener had an estimated income of $3,500,000, and paid ap proximately $2,400,000 as an in come tax. Henry Phillips, however, and Jas. B. Duke, like Jacob H. Schiff and Pierer S. du Pont, had incomes slightly in excess of $2,500,000 and were required^to pay over - $1^600, 000 as a result. ? Doing Fairly Well. Of 178 who had net incomes of $500,000 to $1,000,000, 46 made from $750,000 to $1,000,000, and 132 corralled between $500,000 and 1 $750,000. The average tax paid v , . each per son in the countr- , ,. L , . j who was subject to tax amor- / o(? ... averaf- $254.85, and the tax rate was $7.08. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The stockholders of the Peoples Savings Bank will meet in the office of the Bank Tuesday, April 5th, 1921 at 12 o'clock. 2tc. W. F. Nickles, Cashier. Italy is importing spaghetti from the United States. THROWS ACID INTO FACE OF SCHOOL TEACHER Arizona Woman is Ruthed to Anoth er Jail To Avoid Mob Violence Jerome, Ariz., April 1.?Mrs. Clarence V. Hopkins, wife of a min ing engineer was rushed to the Prefi j cott county jail today to avoid vio lence against her, following the throwing of acid into the face of Lucille Gallagher, a school teacher. Mrs. Hopkins entered a Testau rant where Miss Gallgher and an other teacher were eating and ac cording to witnesses seized the young woman by the hair, pushed i her hat hack and poured the acid into her eyes, rubbing it in with her hand which was severey burned. ' During the war Mr. Hopkins, Miss Gallagher and another local teacher were in Washington doing war work. ANDERSON JAIL DOORS STANDING WIDE OPEN The "Standing room only'* sign at the county jail has been taken down and Jailer Steve Rogers is today painting another sign, "Rooms for Rent,' for the jail is wide open, and nobody at home. The fact that farmers need help on the farms at this time- is prsbably responsible for the fact that the jail is empty at this time, all of the per sons arrested having been released on bond, and the recent session of criminal court has also released sev eral persons who were in jail. This is the first time in a mighty long time that the Anderson county jail has been empty.?Daily Mail. WHAT WOULD MARK SAY NOW? A congressman was talking at a dinner about a profiteer. "The wretch," he said, 'not only charges too much, but he puts forth his commodity in smaller and smaller packets all the time. I'd like to rend him Mark Twain's ton-of-coal-para graph. "When Mark Twain was a reporter you know, he inserted this paragraph into a report of a wedding: 'Conspicuous among the wedding gifts was a ton of coal that bad been in the bride's family for five genera tions. This was much admired by reason of its quaint, old-world mas siveness, it being much heavier than the tons of coal of today.M?Washing ton Post. BOOZE BY WIRELESS IS LATEST METHOD Chicago, April 2.?Booze by wire less' Yep. It's the latest method in Chi eau'o. aecordinc to District Attornev Charles F. Clyne. Mr. Clyne received a complaint from an amateur wireless operator, who said he intercepted a wireless flashed from the old Twenty-second street district to Maywood recently. It was: "Mike Costello did not get his booze on time last Thursday night. If th:s happens again payment will be stopped." It was not signed. Mr. Clyne has radio men and pro hibition agents trying to trace the booze wireless stations. It may be a flash?not a flask of whiskey from now on. i Who knows? i STOLE BALE OF COTTON , HE FEARS LYNCHING ( Harrisburg, Pa., April 3.?L.. | Cleve Smith, of Turner county, < Georgia, under arrest in Philadel-n phia, charged with stealing a bale of 1 cotton in the southern state, is hold j to be a fugitive and his rendj&on to j the sheriff of Turner county is : recommended, despite piea that j if returned he lynched, in an opinion given t^'^e g0vern0r today i by deputy ^torney General George Rof i x1ie case attracted considerable attention as it was held the man was not accused of what could be con idered a crime. Mr. Hull holds that the charge is a crime in Georgia. The deputy also overruled the con tention that Smith is to be taken back to force collection of a debit or to be harassed. In regard to the contention that he would be lynched Mr. Hull says the man who made the threat has been arrested and that Smith does not appear to be in any real danger. Eight dollars a month is the high est rent paid by any resident of Be paupo, New Jersey. DRY LAWS OF STATE ARE STILL IN FORCE Volitead Act Doea Not Repeal State Law; Suprome Court HoWi In Decision. Colombia, S. C., April 1.?That t.l?e Volstead act doea not rejxjal or supersede the State prohibition laws hi the opinion of the South Carolina supreme court in an opinion by Chief Justce Gary, handed down Friday. The case is that of the state against Bill Etartley, of Barawell i?rmntv. convicted on the charge of manufacturing and having in hia possession liquor unlawfully. The case was appealed by Hartley on the ground that the statutes of tbis state in regard to the manufac ture, sale and ^transportation of in toxicating liquors were repealed by the eighteenth amendment to the constitution of United States. Chief Justice Gary's opinion holds that the second section of the amend raent to the effect that "Congress and the severs! states shall have con current power to enforce this article by appropirate legislation/' cannot be made effective by the tieveral states. "Unless they enact statutes making the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverages purposes an offense against the laws of this State. The amendment contemplates independent legislation both on the part of congress and the several states; and the constitutionality of a state statute must be determined as one by a resort to the provisions of the amendment." There is nothing in the amend ment indicating an intention to re peal or supersede the legislation ol the several states," says the opinior of the court" whenever the enforce ment of sych legislation would aid carrying into effect the provision oi the amendment." Under this ruling of the supreme court the first opinion on such a case since enactment of the National Vol stead law, a prohibition defendant is liable to prosecution under both State and Federal statutes, and liable to punishment under both for the one offense.. BRITISH STROKE NOT DISORDERLY Proceed* Without Incident In Lon don?Mice* To Be Flooded. London, April 3.?No serious dis orders have occurred yet in the great mining strike, although a number of the coal mines have been left by the pump men and engineers to be flooded, and the men are said to be displaying an uglier temper, especially in South Wales. Fears are expressed that there may be a much Wider withdrawal of the enginemen and pumpmen and the government is taking all necessary precautions. It is expected that on Monday or ders will be issued for the drastic rationing of coal for lighting pur poses, householders being reduced to one hundredweight weekly and fac tories and business concerns to 50 per cenx. 01 tneir normal consump tion. Food supplies are ample for the present, according to the board of trade and there is no anxiety on this score unless a breakdown is trans port occurs. Long statements were sent out to 3ay for publication by the new chan cellor of the exchequor, Sir Robert Stevenson Home, in behalf of the government, and by Arthur Hender son and Frank Hodges for the min irs, justifying the opposing atti tudes, The miners' representatives iCCBBe the government of heedlessly precipitating the crisis of premature nf rtV?r iftdUS LCUlVTai VJL wuv< v? ?- r , try. ' ; ' The chancellor ignores this point and bases his statement upon the impossibility of asking taxpayers to shoulder further burdens in order to subsidize the coal industry or of submitting to intimidation aimed at forcing the government to agree to such a subsidy. LUMBERMEN TO ADVERTISE A nril ?The National vmw?bv,^r... - Lumber Manufacturers' association at its convention here today appro priated $200,000 to be used in a na tional advertising campaign which, it was said, would "acquaint the pub lic with the truth about lumber prices." The British railways employ 10, 000 female clerks. 19 MISSING WHEN STEAMER IS SUNK Seattle, Wash. April 1.?Nineteen persons, including 16 passengers and 1 three members of the crew of the 1 Admiral Line steamship Governor, 1 mav have lost their lives when the 1 big liner sank off Point Wilson, 1 Washington early today, after she had been rammed by the Shipping Board steamer, WeBt Hartland. A check up of the survivors arriv ing on the West Hartland when the - freighter docked here this morning disclosed that nineteen persons car ried on the Governor we're not ac counted for. BONDS FISHED FROM BANK CAGE WITH GUM Baltimore, April 3.?Using a stick tipped with chewing gum to re.ach a bundle of Liberty bonds in the tell er's cage of the Calvert Bank, three well-dressed men Saturday stole $2, 850 worth of the bonds and escaped before the theft was discovered. Many persons were in the bank at the time. A coin-operated shoe-polishing machine polishes both shoes at the same time for a nickel, requiring only one and a half minutes for the operation. The dust is removed, the ; polish applied and rubbed on every part of the shoe automatically. Suited to1 The Victrola is alwaj whether it be sad or g; your home, you can, at the world's greatest arti you with music and sen; and players will perforn Stop in and let us s, the Victrola and Victor work. Th C0E-M01 QUALITY FE For Cotton, Co Grain, Peanut) QUALITY in plan QUALITY in avail QUALITY in mecl QUALITY in big y QUALITY in profi Dry and drill Analysis as g Prompt, courti THE C0E-M0R1 Subsidiary of The American . Charleatoi FOR SA1 R. E. COX, Abbe A. D. KENN DEBT OR NATION REDUCED IN MARCH Washington, April 3.?The na tion's gross debt was reduced $71, 580,320 in March, according to the treasury statement today which showed the total deht to be $23,* 980,104,375. Of the total federal obligations outstanding, $2,754, 841,000 represents short time trea sury ' certificates of indebtedness, several hundred million of which, Secretary Mellon has said, will be retired during April. An analysis of the treasury's fis cal affairs for the last year repealed little change in the amount of certi ficate indebtedness. The gross debt, however, which consist largely of Liberty bonds and "Victory notes has shown a steady decrease. 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