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Established 1844. r THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-~iass matter at tost office in Aobeville, S. C. T?nu of Subscription i One Year - $2.0# Biz months . $1.00 {Three months .50 Foreign Advertisng Representative | AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1921 WOMAN HITS STRAIGHT FROM SHOULDER AT NON ADVERTISING MERCHANTS "What's the use of me advertis ing? Everybody in this town knows me and my store." The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Advertising Club offered a pize of $25 for the best essay on "Why I Buy Ogtside of Pine Bluff." A woman, Mrs. Rob ert Rogers, won the $25. Notice how she gives it to the local merchants, straight from the shoulder. She wrote: "One reason why I buy outside of Pine Bluff is the lack of advertising among the merchants. .'True people 01 toaay Duy inrougn advertising, in Pine Bluff and out. We have catalogues sent with des ' criptons of goods, and while there may be just the same in Pine Bluff, we don't know where it is or who has it. The merchants say: 'Why don't you look for it. Here we are, at your T service.' "True enough, but we all follow the advertisement columns, and a good many times are led out of town by papers and catalogues of other \ cities. | ' 'Take tht working girls and there are many of them, who have not the! time to go from place to place hunt ing certain articles. We have the catalogues and papers before us and know just where we can get the arti cles wanted. So we sit down and or . der certain things sent on approval, and one satisfactory purchase makes another. 'Ths is very much easier than spending time and energy hunting from store to store for articles that are neither displayed or advertised. "Another reason is incompetent clerks. No merchant would think of having an untraned bookkeeper or stenographer, and yet we have to put up wiwi uutrouieu Daicopcv ple, some even lacking courtesy, oth ers in knowledge of good. Why not have meetings where the salespeople coald hear good lectures on selling methods. Every customer is differ ent. One slrould learn how to ap , proach prospective customers. "Courtesy sells as much goods as advertising. Another thing, so few know how to show their stock. For instance, in a place like Pine Bluff I should say nine-tenths of the custom ers are known to the salespeople. Yet . we go in and are misled instead of being shown what is within our means. We are shown some very handsome, high-priced articles or else something too cheap, and we i, come away dissatisfied. * ."We then pick up a paper or cata logue from another town and see just what we want and order it. The mail order houses try to please and " thereby catch a ,ood deal of the trade that migh, be kept in Pine Bluff." Another thing this essay proves: There's no good in saying. "There's no use in adverting to women; they'll shop around anyway." This woman didn't, and the fair presump tion is that hundreds and thousands of her sisters in Pine Bluff and other towns are followng her example. It's the advertiser who gets the business, locally as well as national ly. SAVINGS. Savinars built the railroads?hired the men who made the tools, paid the I wages of the men who cleared the j light of way, cut through the forests, made transportation and travel pos sible. Savings built ships?bought the cargoes which ships carry?sent the ship on its long voyages and allowed of surpluses in necessary commode ties to be brought to market. Savings set the grocer up in busi ness and put the plow in 4he farm er's hands?Savings did it all. All! that we call civilization was planted and watered by savings. Until men learned to save, they were like the Eskimo, clad in skins and living on what they could kill? or they were savages wearing fig leaves and living on fruit in the top ics. It was only when they began to have something ahead, to store up surpluses, that men started to be bet ter than savages. Savings brought the fruits from the tropics to the markets of the North. Savings took the manufacture of the North to the vinelands of the. South. When you turn on the electric light or pick up the tlephone or start a new record on the phonograph it is not only somebody's work of yester- , d$y or last year that you are using? it is last year's work, built on the work of thev preceding generation built on the work of a hundred years ago, built on the work and savings of , men who lived before America was , discovered, before Rome and Egypt , and Babylon. Por the.man who made the electric rlf; 1 light could not have done it without the steam engine, and the man who made the steam engine could not have done it without the forge and the man who first forged iron was living on food raised with the help of ] wooden plows. j But, in evety case, the accumula- 1 tion of wealth began with somebody's ] savings?getting a little ahead as a ) start for going further ahead. And ] the only way anyone can get ahead, I any of us, or all of us together is by ' saving. If we spend all we earn?put i nothing by?sooner or later adversity < will come and we find ourselves de- 1 pendent upon others?charity for our < everyday needs. < When we save, we do something ' besides get ahead in the world on our own account. We help others. What- ' ever we save in one way or another 1 is mingled with the general prosper- ' ity fund by which the world advances ' The deeper the necessity for sav- [ ings idea- be implanted the more se cure will be our American institu tions. Red flags are never found in the hands of savers. *'* * f i . \ Measured in money, the contribu tions we made to winning the war would be approximately 20,000 mil lions?for this amount of money is really the net war debt of the nation. The more quickly we can pay off this war debt the better it will be for all of us. Work and Save. Let us not forget that this debt must be paid off with productive work?honest sweat? wasteful expenditure is criminal in a time like the present. The big problem facing all of us is for each of us as individuals to realize our responsibility. Produce?Yes, Produce?but Save, Save, Save.?Exchange. MINIMUM WAGE FOR WOMEN %The Ohio legislature has up for consideration a bill to create a mini mum wage commission and to set up machinery for investigating wages and working conditions of women and children in gainful occupations. It authorizes inquires either on the ini tiative of the commission or on that I , of twenty-five or more persons em-j ployed in a particular, trade who may file-with the commission requests for an investigation. In either event it becomes the duty of the commission to set up a wage board for the occupation in question On each such board employers, em ployes and the public have equal rep resentation. After a thorough inquiry it is the duty of the board to report its findings to the commission which then has power to act. If in the com mission's opinion the findings and ] testimony taken by the board indi- i cate that the welfare of the women and children are endangered or im paired, the commission then establish es a minimum rate of remuneration below which the wage scale for able bodied workers in that trade shall not fall. ' The principle here involved is not new. Already thirteen states and the District of Columbia have such legis lation, as have several Canadian prov inces. Its constitutionality has been) upheld by the courts of half a dozen states and by the supreme court in the famous Oregon case. Those who see the wage issue in the proper light and who attempt to adjust scales of remuneration to ac cord with earning capacities have I been little affected by minimum wage laws. In fact the minimum restriction has served as a source of protection against less scrupulous competitors who have little regard for their em ployers' welfare. Conditions affecting the employ * ovn nnidlv pVlOTlOnnC UlCIlt VI V UiJUVil Mi V v.-w..e 0. Fewer and fewer work for "pin mon ey," while an increasing proportion now bear family responsibilities. Their disinclination to organize which relates itself to exception of marriage opens the door to abuses that cannct. be imposed on male employes. The obligation of the state to protect these workers by assuring them ade quate wages and reasonable working conditions is accordingly greater. The principle of a minimum wage for women and minors is sound. The general assembly, with the co-opera tion of labor experts and the welfare organizations that have given the subject extensive study, should b<! able to work out an effective meas ure for protecting the health and maintaining a proper stadnard of liv ing in occupations where they maj' now be denied.?Cleveland Plan Dealer, (Ind. Dem.) "LAST OF THE MOHICANS" NOW A LIVING HISTORY Critics have placed Maurice Tour neur's new picture "The Last of th<? Mohican's," by J. Feinmore Cooper, [n a new category of film produc tions. It is called a permanent photo - ?1?" mpsnc if will ^/I?jr WiWOCiVj n?*V44 VMWV ?." live when the ordinary entertain ment film has passed on. This is for several reasons, the first being that Tourner proved he could make an iborbing entertainment out of Coop er's famous story, and at the same time preserve the historical and educational value. The Opera House >ffers this extravagant production Friday. "The Last of the Mohicans" is a ?tory too well known to need repeti tion, but the sweet love tale, with the humor and- pathos thrill's and ex siting moments, is one that wiiil :ause every beholder to gasp?then laughs then gulp?or it is intensely human, intensely real, and replete with historical events that thrill. All the ability and knowledge of the great Tourneur has gone into this production, which comes as his first through the new Associated, Producers of which he is a member with Thos. H. Ince, Allan Dwan, Marshall Neilan, Mack Sennett, George Loane Tucker and J. Parker Read, Jr. An all-lead cast, especially select ed by Tourneur, appears in this story. The scenic backgrounds are exquisite in their rugged beauty. , ONE OF THE TROUBLES (From the Christian Advocate) We recently ran across an article which gave some very practical and homely reasons why America was in >uch a disturbed and restless state jf mind. It is said that a prize was offered for the one who would give the,best solution to the query, 'What is the matter with America these iays?' and the prize was awarded to rhe Illinois Bankers' Association Bulletin, which reported as follows: "Too many diamonds, not enough J ilarm clocks. "Too many silk shirts, not enough sf blue flannel. "Too many pointed-toed shoes, ard lot enough square-toed. "Too many serge suits^ and not jnough overalls. "Too many decollette, and not snough aprons. '"Too many satin-upholstered li- j mousines, and not enough cows. "Too many consumers and not snough producers. "Too much oil stock, and not en ough savings accounts. "Tnn tmiipVi onvu n-f tVio'-recults ,if hard work, and too little desire to, emulate it. "Too much desiring short cuts to j wealth, and too few willing to pay the pricc. "Too much of the spirit to 'get while the getting is good,' and not enough of old-fashion Christianity. Rev. Busshardt Attends Funeral Rev. J. W. Busshardt went to Greenvale church, near Donalds, Sunday to attend the funeral of the r\? \fr? TT.nffonc jvsuj's oua- vx iui Mr. Busshardt made an extended trip going through Due West and Donalds and returning to Abbeville in time to preach in the afternoon at the County Farm. Hereafter he will preach at the farm every first and third Sunday in the month. ENGLAND HAS INTENTION TO PAY INTEREST London, April 26.?Great Britain is planning to pay this year interest on loans from the United States amounting to m are than $160,000,000 j ..This announcement was made in the House of Ccmmons this afternoon by Chancellor of the Exechequer l,namDenam woeu ue muvuuv.cu ?& new budget. During the last fiscal year Great Britain reduced her indebtedness to America by $300,000,000. England still owes foreign countries, chiefly America, 14,645,000,000, .calculating the exchange at $4 to the pound. Taking the gloomy view of the country's financial prospects for the coming year, the government has re frained from mitigating the crushing, direct taxation. By drastic cuts in the national expenditures the chancellor has brought th$ estimated budget figure down to 974,000,000 pounds. Great Britain's deadweight debt is now 7,578,000,000 pounds. An inter. listing experiment in after the war financing, which the goveitiment is attempting this year, ie the immediate flotation of a conversion loan at 3% per cent iin orcler to reduce the dan l?erously heavy floating debt. The of fer applies to all 5 per cent war bonds maturing betw??n now and 1925. This 'indicates the view of British financial experts that the State no longer nfeds offer hteh interest on national se I curities. "We have ceased to borrow. We have begun to repay our debts,' said the chancellor. "We have restored our internatioral credit and make it -clear to those who doubted that we Bhall still maintain this country as the premier financial center of the world." 4 A WI BEn / T w EST11V chur 75'ft a gr< givmg as nev tjhe church h< figures show cipating have ' Scriptures sa] more than is A church m< willingness to paign has brc 9 The Rec Since -Novembe the t? lviemuersiiijj n Sunday Congr Sunday School Prayermeeting "As there ws formaince als COST DROP ONLY WILL START BUILDING?HOOVER Washington, April 26.?Both la bor and material cost must drop be fore America's shortage of 1,000, 000 homes can le overcome Herbert Hoover secretary of commerce, said today. "'Thisre must be a recession from the war level of costs," ftaid Hoover "Readjustments in this as well as other industries are necessary to a revival in construction work to re lfcve the congestion felt over the en tire country." Reports to the Commerce Depart ment reflect a gradual decline in building matrial prices. You are cordially ????d F ree Dem * = === O lorara Given at our 3toi son next Friday , April 29th We urge every one U stratiloru We can rec MILLER a] They Prayed They Pledged They Prospered -IOLE LO fTER TH ^ HALF... IONY is almost univ ches which heartily 1 Million Campaign hav< ;at quickening. Not er in the pa^t, but ev< is been stirred. On th that churches which not prospered propor ^ "There is that whic meet, but it tendeth IV lCU-A^ auvjjllj wwv^w ? rise to its opportunity night a te3t which is i :ord of Abbeville 3r, 1919, when the Chui i 75 Million Campaig icreased egations Increased , average attendance.... _ j_X 1 , average attendance .... as a readiness to will so may th< so out of that which ye have."? See the Spinsters Conven tion at the Opera House, Mon day night, May 9th. Laugh and grow fat. Under auspices of ihe Abbeville Chapter U. D. C. W. A. HARRIS FUNERAL SUPPLIES EMBALMING and Auto Hearse Service PHONES Day 395 Night 134 ? invited to attend [ * . . on^tration e by Miss Peter and Saturday, and 30th > attend this demon ommend this coffee. nd EVANS AF IS IAN ersal that the went into the s experienced only are they ery adtivity of ie other hand, are not parti tionately. The h withholdeth no poverty". use of its un y. The cam illuminating.... I j jLyg|ju3Lo ch pledged to n: .... 30 per cent .... 50 per cent. 68 per cent. .. 300 per cent. ere be a per il Cor. 8:11.