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Established 1844. 1 THE PRESS AND BANNER 1 ABBEVILLE, S. C. I ^ 1 The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-i\uss matter a: post office in Apheville, S. C. 1 Ter\o? of Subscription: One Year $2.0') Six months $1.09 Three months , .50 t -?; : Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION \ .. 1 ' ; A WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1921 STAMPING OUT CRIME A judge in South Carolina recently delivered to the grand jury the "most forceful" charge ever deliver. , ed in the local court house. The I last judge before him did the same 1 thing, and the one before the next ] to the last did the same, so that we , Jin ay at ivaot o<*jr i? v x--~ , gress in "forceful" charges, that is ( if we accept the view, of the news- ^ paper writers. We do not know whether the judge's charge was forceful or not. We assume that it was, He had a ^ ^reat deal to say about lawlessness, and about crime being respectable, . and there were high sounding phrasv*s, end there were words severely . ondemning crime. j But then there was the administration of the law by the judge who delivered the "most forceful" charge. He commenced by fining men for breaking the law. He proceeded by allowing men who had broken the! law to purchase their freedom. He * helped to make crime in South Carolina respectable by making it a luxury of the rich, and something not to be enjoyed by the poor. What does the man who makes two thousand dollars in five months in the pursuit of a criminal avocation care when he may with a part only of his ill-gotten gains pay the law's penalties. There is nothing more reprehensible in the administration of law than this, th'ng of allowing men to purchase immunity from the punishment their orimes merit. Until the judges in South Carolina, state and forlorol qIIVo loom fl*ie +Ua ! M?*aw| tvni ** MiiOy blic 11IVOI forceful charges" will continue to be as "sounding brass" and "tinkling cymbals." ABOUT ADVERTISING One of the good merchants of the c;ty came in to see us one day this week. He had a complaint to lodge, he Said, about something we have written about the merchants. He demurs to so much of our indictment against the merchants as alleges that they do not advertise, in so far only as he is concerned. In saying that the merchants in Abbeville do not advertise we, of course, spoke of them collectively. 1 4. :-e 1 ?.v?nup? v"^ uivivuani,, ne speni several thousand dollars each year for the purpose of advertising, could * not keep trade from going to other # points where the merchants do ad. ' vertise?advertise, we may say, consistently and scientifically. There are some merchants here who do spend money for advertising, but if it were ! submitted to John Wannamaker to \ say from the amount of business they do, the amount of floor space they occupy, the number of clerks they employ, and .he wide territory they serve and the amount spent for ad_ ve'rtising?we say if it was submitted to John Wannamaker to say wheth er any merchant in fact advertises, - we believe the answer would be that he does not. This paper appreciates all adver-j tisements which come to it. Theyi help us. There is no pleasure in un-i dertaking to give the people of Ab.j beville and of Abbeville-. County aj county paper at a loss of from one I hundred to two hundred and fifty i dollars per month, and those who as- 1 sist in carrying the burden have our thanks. If the newspapers are to make the town a larger town than aj country cross-roads town, we feel, that they have -fche r'ght to expect the business people of the town asj v 'a whole to help the'ni perform the | task. If the business people do not,, that is their business. A man has a, * . . v r ( right, in one sense, to make his busi-jc ness just what he wants it to be. He has a legal right to refuse to support j the enterprises of the town which con tribute mor(fc to make it grow than Rny other enterprise in the town, but -1 ive question the wisdom of such re- " fusal. If the town does grow, if peo-je pie are attracted to it, the merchants o know who get the benefits. The work 11 Df the newspaper is for others, and'f it is most of all for the people who j o arc engaged in trade. j a If a man runs a store in a town s of five thousand people which does | o an annual bus'ness in clothing, we n shall say, of twenty thousand dollars, p and if he spends for that department an average of from eight to ten dol- v iars per month for publicity, in our ii judgment ne js not property auvertising his goods. Ke may honestly s think he does, but we have a different n opinion. Mr. Hugh Wilson used to p say that when certairr substance^ e are analyzed, they are found to eon- t tain certain elements and "traces'" v of others. He thought some preach- a ers showed "traces" of religion, and g we may say for some of our mer-; chants that they show "traces" of o the advertising spiri^ We hope that; they will improve. If they do not they ^ v ivill pay the penaity^along with the c newspapers. The trade now going to r Greenwood is a verification of the h truth of our statement. ' h But whatever we may think, and 0 ivhStever they may think, we ask our11 readers to look through our columns! with every issue and to read the ad-, * rertisements contained in this paper, j s We are willing to guarantee that the n j f merchants who do use our columns i j however little they may do so, have the goods which they advertise, that' they are the leading merchants in ja this town in their line, that they'willj^ do what they say, and that they ap-1 ^ preciate the trade of the public. And 1 further deponent saith not. I EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY. ;t New York, May 31.?Evidence ofj* returning prosperity is supplied byj^1 the fact that American tourist travel c to Europe is rapidly assuming pre. * war proportions, accommodations on ^ the transatlantic liners havine been t eagerly secured for spring and sum- i * mer sailings. Inquiry at the principal j steamship offices this week disclosed^ that bookings for the various east-! * ! ( ward sailings will soon be closed. Ac- j * cording to the present outlook the * principal companies expect that the I volume of passenger traffic this season will be moi'e than double last s year's record." * Among the thousands' who are * journeying to Europe this season are I large numbers of former service men, I who desire to revisit with their fami- 1 lies tne scenes 01 tneir war ttxperi-1 ences. There are also frequent book- * ings from relatives of men killed in * battle, who wish to visit the graves. c The number of American tourists e who will go to France this year is * estimated at 300,000. Incidentally, c for the first time on record, Italy ? is sharing equally with France in the tourist business. * s FREIGHT RATES NOT ' J RESPONSIBLE FOR f BUILDING HOLD-UP F .-Vwfc- ... - c ' n Washington, May 31.?'Existing freight rates are not responsible for * the stagnation in the building in- c dustry and have not operated to 0 curtail road construction, Edward Chambers, vice president <of the Atchison, Topeka and |Santa Fe, 1 said today in resuming his testimony before the senate interstate commerce committee, wihich is inquiring into the transportation situ- 5 ation. v c "In cities on the Pacific coast and \ fVio Wot?+ "QAnfU ori/1 r* MUVUgilUUU T 1 UV/UWii U11U V East," Mr. Chambers said, "condi- 1 tons surrounding the building indus- r try appear to be about the same. The general report is that a comparatively small amount of build- t ing is being done." f Discussing road building, Mr. f Chambers said that on the basis of I $53,000 the average cost of building 1 of concrete roadwav in accordance with the requirements of the Minne- s sota highway -department, was only t $1,327, or two and one-half per cent, represents the total cost of f freight on material* and the move- t ment of grading materials to and > from the job. "The freight rate is not an undue proportion of the total cost of the t road," he said. t GROWERS OF COTTON TALK OF CONDITIONS (Continued from Page One.) / 97,775 bales of cotton," he asserted Still today we are without markets xcept at a price of approximately ne-third the cost of production, and hen only in a limited way. The armer is being smothered with his wn production. Business stagnation nd paralysis, resulting from the deduction of the purchasing power f the farmer is counting more evefy lonth than the total values of hia n'oduction." Declaring that financing of cotton iroduction was a national problem o continued. ' ! "When a saie system of issuing hort term certificates of indebtedess or debentures cgainst cotton, roperly stored, has been put in op. ration, it will present a new *nai n i * j* _ _ a-?U,. lonai IieiU ior investment, uy mc , /hole people which will be as safe' r.d as attractive ip the investors asi overnment bonds.*' Mr. Wannamaker urged expansion, f American cotton mills. ( J "Every pound of American cotton, /oven into the finished fabric in this, ountry, multiplies the value Of the; aw staple from four to six times,"j s said. "It is therefore an economic ass to ship so large a proportion f the American cotton crop abroad 11 the raw form." The speaker declared that the coton area of this nation was extenive enough to supply the world's j leeds, provided the price paid for! he staple justifies its increased pro. I action by the growers. "Not only can the present cotton j rpa." he said, "be multiolied manv' old, but under intensive and scienific culture the yield of lint cotton ler acre can be doubled and trebled, lowever, we don't have to lave exchanges to sell cotton any nore than we have to have exchanges o sell mules. , i "Let us regulate the 'exchanges! 'urther if we can. But, if not, let is put the axe to the tree. They >ught to have been closed last fall, some of the people in Washington vho have been in favor of regulaion, are coming around to think it >etter to close them. ^ "Let those who are feasting take varning. We tell these bear specu,ators to get their house in order. Congress passed a grain exchange )ill in a jiffy and Southerners sup.. iorted it. "The price of cotton will go- up igain.. We will survive it. Let us jo back like crusaders and preach ;o our people never to go back to >re-war prices. ' Cotton can not be >roduced at 12 or 14 cents a pound inder present conditions." Senator Heflin favored amending he federal reserve law so that the 'ederal reserve board would be ompelled to recognize staple cotton is a basis for credit. He urged that Resident Harding be petitioned to all upon the board to reduce the reliscount rate to 4 1-2 per cent. , Senator Heflin said he would pre. er a law providing an agency to ee that inferior grades of cotton i'ere not sold as better grades., lillions of bales have been sold ictitiously, he declared, and the irices fixed by the speculative exhanjjes to the injury of the grower. This law, he said, should limit the rtle on a bale of cotton to only me person at a time, as in the case if a piece of real estate, under a ecorded deed. . 04' RAILWAYS AFFECTED BY WAGE CUT Chcago, May 31.?'The United Jtates railway labor board today ompleted work on the decision vhich it wll hand down tomorrow, utting the wages of employees of .04 railroads. Eventually the new ates to be established will apply to; ivery road n the country. , Advance estimates of the slash to >e ordered by the board place the igure somewhere between ten and ifteen per cent, with the general >clief that at will be nearer the ower figure than the higher. A 10 per cent cut would subtract ome $300,000,000 from the na on s railway wage bill. Tomorrow's decision will be efective July 1, just 14 months after he $600,000,000 increase of last rear took effect. Switzerland has fewer motion picure houses than other civilized counries. t GOOD PROGRESS X FOR RO AD WORK IN THIS STATE Numb<;r or Contracts Will Be Let' This Week For Roads in Piedmont Section Columbia, May 31.?Bids for the | construction of the road from Sen-! eca to Westminister, a distance of six miles, will be opened June 14 at; Walhalla, according to an announce-; ment by the State highway depart- j meni yesterday. Bids for the con-j struction of the. road from Seneca j river to the Anderson county line, a joint project of Oconee and Pickens: counties will be 'Opened on the same I date and at Walhalla. Thompson and Summey of Burleson, N. C., have been awarded the | contract for the Duiiding or tne roaa j from Newberry towards Chappels, for a distance of six miles for approximately $17,000. The highway department plans to advertise for bids for the construction of the road from Abbeville to Antreville and from Abbeville by Due West, Donalds and on to Horiea Path some time this week, it was announced. This latter road will be top soil and is approximately. 18 miles in length. The department also announced that work on the road from Belton to Pelzer, eight miles would begin within the next few days. Completion of the Piedmont highway through Laurens county was announced, witn tne exception 01 about two miles, aftd in several other counties roads are being worked. Good progress is being niade on the highway from Winnsboro to Simpson an Fairfield county, and a contract is expected to be awarded soon for the construction of the remainder of this highway from Simpson to Ridgeway. Plans are being made now. Contractors are now finishing the Dixie highway in Edgefield county, and with the last work here in the r.ext two weeks thns road will be in * excellent c<ywlition from Greenville to Edgefield. Work will proceed to Aiken as soon as the Edgefield section is completed. LIBERTY BONDS DROP TO *87.50 TODAY New York, May 31.?Liberty 3 1-2 tax exempt bonds, dropped to $87.50, their lowest quotation on the stock exchange today.. Other issues of that group also were heavy. HARDING SELLS HOME Washington, May 31.?President Harding has sold the residence on Wyoming avenue, which he occupied while a senator, to Charles F. Cramer, a local attorney, it was learned Saturday. It is understood the price paid was $65,000, including all furnishings. AAA A TIAI.TC ' ^UU Y IV/lf/i A IvSJLl*? OF LIQUOR LAW IN THIS DISTRICT Greenville, May. 31.?More than two hundred bill:* of indictment charging violation of the national prohibition laws will be handed to the federal grand jury when the United States court for the western district of South Carolina convenes at Anderson tomorrow. i i i -i NOTICE TO JURORS All persons having business in Court General Sessions for Abbeville County, are notified that said Court will convene June 6th, 1921' (first Monday) at ten o'clock A. M. AIM jurors, both grand and petit, are notified to be present promptly at 10 aaIp A 1<h a nil ?n + n npprtf" K nf Vl ^ A1? I U CiUUft.. niau an vviwicooco^ uvuu ivi Str.te and defendants. J. L. Perrin, Clerk. May 31, 121. 2 The June release of ' VICTOR RECORDS Are now on sale. This is the best re lease yet. Come in and hear them. THE ECHO "The Really Musical Spot In J Abbeville." * <J ________ ! ANDERSON OFFICES SEIZED 81 GALLONS Also Secured Big Automobile After An Exciting Chase on The Belton Road. ' 4 ; Anderson, May 3)>f?The sheriff, first deputies- Keton, Clamp and Meredith, this morning seized 81 gallons of blockade liquor and a National six cylinder car and arrested' three men after a hot chase on the J Belton road, in which the officers' offered several shots at the tires of! i the car before the occupants, giving, their names, as H. B. Williams, W. j C. Sttfger and F. C. Crow, drove in : Frank Andrews' yard and surrender-1 ed. i The car bore a Columbia, S. C. tag and papers on Williams indicated he is from there. Crow is said to be from Hall county, Ga. The officers) had previously seized one gallon of blockade at Beeman Iverter's house,! near the city limits when the car containing 16 five-gallon kegs and! one one-gallon can passed, and the! officers followed. The'officers' Ford c.r tore a'niost to pieces in a few * I minutes after"the chase. j 0 I ? | Women typhoid patients predomi-| nate in France as all men w^re vac-l cinated during military service. 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