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x v wav . Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER * : ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company ! Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second class matter at tost office in Aobeville, S. C. L .' One Tear .. / ,6ix months . Three months 92.00. $1.09 .50 mm .WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1921 / ILL-TIMED AND MEDDLESOME ' Over in Georgia a wealthy planter is on trial charged with murder. Like a great many farmers who operate on a* large scale this farmer was accus ' tomed to take negroes charged with crime ont of jail and work them pend ing trial And it is charged that, like . farmers in other sections, he found one excuse andv then an&ther to keep these negroes on the farm and from attending court and standing trial. Out of his practices grew charges of peonage. . Following these charges, preferred by the Federal authorities in Geor-| v 1 vgia it is also charged that a wholesale . slaughter of negroes took place, eveiy negro who it was thought would give1'testimony against the defendant Being murdered either by Williams or \ by his orders. So far eleven bodies ; Slave been recovered which it is charg- j ed are the bodies of his victims. Following these discoveries, all of which were made by the proper of 4 fleers of the state of Georgia, the Governor and other\ officials of the state, and Federal officials of that state, whose duty it is to investigate matters there and to prosecute cases arising in their jurisdiction, com menced vigorously to investigate the matter, and also commenced prosecu tions against all parties alleged to be \ ,' j connected with the Unlawful practices ' on the farm in question, as well as of all persons charged with murder.. ' ' " ' f This is well, and we'have 110 doubt i that the case will be properly prose (cuted and the evidence available will V he produced. The/people of Georgia, .V; * ^o far as the prosecuting officers are concerned at least, will do their duty. They jnay be trusted to do that. But , -while the, public is awaiting the re ? , suit, an organization of the Northj styling itself some kind of a society r or organization for the advancement * ,s of colored people, steps in and is e sues a statement of the questioh and It otherwise undertakes to meddle in .the matter, with no othqr Tesult lilcely to come from such acts of its officers ;i than for the people of Georgia to be come prejudiced against the negro witnesses in the case. They contribute nothing to the evidence. Instead of / advancing the interests of the color ' ed people in Georgia by "butting" into this case, which is already in the v hands of the proper officers, this or ganization is really assisting in ad * vancing tlje acquittal of Williams, the man charged with crime,' because if it can get to the jury that North ern negro lovers, who have too often ! . meddled in matters in the South, in stead of sweeping around their own door-steps, are at the bottom of the prosecution of Williams, it will great 1 V. ly tend to inflame the public mind in his favor and materially assjst him in his case. If the officers of the / . Northern society have enough sense to run any kind of an organization they should know this. t 1 And people generally should know that every locality must run its own , affairs. We may deplore lawlessness here and there, but we may not hope -i" . to punish it except when the Officers V s;. . of i the locality do their duty ' ; and when the people of the particular locality demand the punishment of crime. The intermeddling by outsid ers, especially as in this case, where the officers have already gotten the evidence and have already prosecut ed is ill-timed and nothing short of being criminally meddlesome. The Northern society might do well to ' look after the thieves and thugs which are infesting the cities of the North, killing men in the open day in their own places of 'business, and robbing " and killing people on the streets of the greatest city ih the country, and ^ i.Mi \ avuvv vitc pjcupie ui uu utiie care of their own affairs. If they inight -do so, we believe the ends of justice would be served. There is a lesson which some of out people might learn from the Wil ff ' { v;:, -' ' . liartis case, and that is that peonage is a crime in this country, and that the system of taking negroes out of jail on bond and working them tends ( to the promotion of crime and inter feres with the administration of jus tice. Where you find a negro out on bond in cases of this kind, it is a rare thing that you find him in court at the first or a following term with his case ready for trial. The party who is working him is more than anxious that the relations existing continue, with the result that cases are contin ued from one court to another and negroes continue in many cases to work from one term qf court to an other without adequate pay. This practice should be stopped. We do not say that white farmers should not take negroes charged with crime out of jail on bond. * Often this is the only way by which a negro may obtain legal assistance for his trial nor do we say that they should not give them work on the ' " ? / farms. But when this is done, we are of the opiniqn that the courts should scrutinize the contract between the man charged with crime' and his bondsman, and should see that some just compensation is paid for the ser vices of the former. There should be soipe provision of the law that if the negro is not produced for trial at the next term of court, the bond is for feited, and if he is not ready for ' ' * " ' i trial, He snail not again ue enwueu to bail. The state, no l^ss than the defendant,' is entitled to a speedy trial of all alleged offenders. The public has an interest in seeing that guilty men are promptly tried and sentenced, and that innocent men are acquitted as early as is consistent with the processes of the court. Any procedure or practice which secures the continuance of a case from one term of court to another, except for unavoidable causes, is not in the interest of justice and tend? to en courage the commission of crime. BIGGER AND BETTER IN ABBEVILLE Abbeville'.county has a "Prosperi +tr" oi-irJ o "T.iftlo MftlTTltfllTl." Bet its Prosperity is not as big and as pros perous as ours, and its Little Moun tain is not so large nor so tall, nor so'numerous. Ours is a three-in-one affair.?Newberry Observer. ^ A LOST OPPORTUNITY. < ' f. The Press and Banner runs a head line, "Ben Hill Stills."' It missed the chance of becoming a poet by saying it this way: , , Ben Hill Runs StilL' -r-Newberry Observer, to i | NOT THIS CROjWD We see by the papers that the young people of Abbeville are en joying afternoon dances. Oh well it will soon be cotton chopping time and this will put an end to that.? Anderson Mail. " a ' I MARY PICKFORD WILL SPREAD SUNSHINE \ Mary Pickford as "The Glad Girl" j Harrington, in the New England village of Beldingsville. ? f By superheating steam for loco motives, a saving of 20 per cent is obtained in coal consumption. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The stockholders of the Peoples Savings Bank will meet in the office of the Bank Tuesday, April 5th', 1921 of 10 a'/?1 Anlr UV A ** v vivvm J 2tc. W. F. Nickles, Cashier. CLEANING UP The Water Works people are giv ing the City Park a genuine spring cleaning, which means that they art! raking up the old leaves and giving the animal pens a much needed washing up. Superintendent Town send says that in clearing away the leaves his hands killed twenty-four snakes. This is a true story for there is nothing to make a man see snakeu these days. The animal pens are being painted a comfortable brown and the' whol? appearance of the place has been imnrnved. The Park has jriv 6* r - - _ en much pleasure to our people an<l everyone will rejoice that the clean* up and paint-up campaign has been inaugurated. * ??______ A DINNER PARTY. Mrs. C H McMurray entertained at a spend the day party Saturday having as her guests, Mrs. Sallie Bradley, Miss Statia Wideman, Mm. J C Klugh, Rev. and Mrs Plaxco, Mrs J F. Bradley, Miss Jessie Hill \ and Miss Maggie Brooks. / MUSJC PLAYED IN CALIFORNIA IS HEARD BY WIRE IN EAST Haverhille, Mass., April 5.?Sit ing in the parlor of his home on Fernwood avenue, Brandford, Daniel 6. Ellis listened to the strains of the musical numiber "Way Down in Old Virginia," played on a phono graph jn Aval on, on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California. The words and the music of the number relayed across the continent by radiophone, or wireless telephon e were heard as plainly as if the in strument were in an adjoining Toont . '' WOMAN DECLARES T. A. EARL IS T. U. VAUGHN Tampa, Fla., April 5.?Mrs. T..A. Earl, held for investigation in con nection with the arrest of her hus band at Port Tampa yesterday con fessed today, according to City De tective J. St en sell that the man was T. U. Vaughn, a fugitive from the State Asylum at Columbia, 8.C. According, to her statement th< detective said, Earl pr Vaughn es caped from the asylum about three years ago aixer naving f Deen seni there by the state supreme court; foi alleged attacks on several younj girls. , Earl, forty years ol,d, has beer employed as assistant superintedeni of schools at Port Tampa for th< last three months. He made thre< unsuccessful attempts to take hi! life last night, it was said# hy th< authorities His wife also' tried to eu1 her throat, they said. Mrs. Earl said sh? met Earl whil< employed as a nurse at the asylum At that time Earl told that he was Vaughn. Shey believed he escapec by using keys entrusted to him bj the superintendent. Earl is said t< have spent some time in Canada be fore coming to Plant City, nea] here, where he was employed as i Htl + il Vin m AtfA/1 in "Pollyanna" released by the Uni ted Artists Corporation, will spread the sunshine of Eleanor H. Porter's philosophy at the Opera House Fri day and Saturday. This picture is said to be the best vehicle in which Miss Pickford has ever appeared. The story, written by Frances i Marion and based on Eleanor H. Folrter's celebrated "Pollyanna" books, deals with the life of a little girl, wly made it her business to sjjre$td the spirit of gladness wher eveirj her; pathway- led. The j storyj J briefly, is this: Pollyanna Whitier, played by Mary Pickford, was the daughter of a missionary in the Ozark Moun tains. Her father, an invalid, died when she was ten years of age, whereupon Pollyana went to live with a stern, austere 'aunt. Pnllv OVliVVl UUW1 UV llIUTtU vv Port Tampa. Acording to Mrs. Earl be began corresponding* with hei albout a year ago and shortly after wards she married him at Planl City. He is said to have been mar: ried previously and that his foraiei wife resided at Greenville, S. C. ' * CRUSHERS CONFER ' WITH HOOVES Washington, April 5.?At the con elusion of a conference today betwee representatives of Southern Coti;or seed crushers and Secretary Hoovei the latter said the problem presented by the crushers was mainly one oi transportation. Under present conditions Mr Hoov er declared the crushers can move V I'their product to Boston by way ol England, cheaper than they can ship direct by rail and he indicated thai the government will give considers t;on to some method for affording re lief from existing rates. The con ference he said was one of the se ries being held with the cotton men in cooperation with the war finance corporation. REFRIGERATORS AND ICE CREAM FREEZERS Splendid refrigeraors . at very reasonable prices just received. 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