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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND B\NNER I ABBEVILLE, S. C. I ? ,, , ine h'ress and Banner Company j Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. , Entered as second-Liass matter ax{ port office in Aobeville, S. C. . | Tcnu of Subscriptions * One Year $2.00; Six months $1.0# Three months .5? PamJot AHvprtisnc Reoreaentative | AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION! * FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1921. STRIKING. Press reports are to the effect that the cotton mill operatives in North Carolina and about Rock Hill have gone on strike. Everywhere we hear of strikes. The truth is that strikes seem to be more the order of the day than.good hard, honest work. i The strike should be outlawed. It ' is immoral and should be declared illegal. The owners of the cotton . f mills, if they banded together for the purpose of reducing wages would be * ? __a J guilty OX cm immonu act, >nu mc set should be, if it is not already, ' an illegal act and severely punished * / as such. The same is true of the em.ployees of these mills. They have no moral right and should have no le. ' \ gal right, to strike. The strike as now , / earned out in modern industrial cen^ tres should be prevented by the ? strong arm of the law. I ^ Of course every employer should have the right, on reasonable notice, > to dispense with the services of any employee and every employee should - have the right at anytime for any reason, or without reason, to quit \ the employment of his employer on like notice. But When . he quits, we deny that he has the right to under. take to persuade another worker who ' is satisfied with his employment to quit also. He has no more right to do tins uian tne employing ciass nas .to Blacklist a laborer and refuse to give him employment. A party who quits the employment of another should stay quit. This thing of a kody of men banding themselves together for the purpose of striking and then claiming the right to picket r the property of their former employer and -prevent other men from going to work is so contrary to the principles upon which our government is founded that none but weak. P 4>" kneed politician would ever countenance it or allow it. < . "We have stringent federal laws against trusts and 'combines but these 11 seek to exempt labor unions from 'f ' ? ' the penalties provided for infringements of the law. And there is no excuse which can be offered, we tfrnk, for these exemptions except that the labor unions have the votes and the politicians want them. There is no reason in either law or morals why the same law should not apply SjrF :y to labor and the resultsof labor (capital). The man who has labored and saved the results of his labor has become an employer. What he has made should be as well protected by the law as the money which the laborer draws down every week. But it is not. The man who has saved and who has become an asset to the country by his industry and economy is branded as a capitalist, and then as a "malet factor of great wealth," and as ''undesirable" and t.VlP flnrl To j. . .. ?-r I W unions would have us believe R. ~ that none are desirable except those sf- ' -who spend all they make as fast as they make it, and who are striking, instead of working, for more. There was never a better time than 1 , . now for textile workers to strike in gepv- 2 L > so fat as the m^ls ate coi^cernMv The cotton mill* arff makifig.-n?t&ing and they have large amounts of S^'.v, cotton goods on hands. They will welcome, we think, the si- . strike which has been declared. , Only consideration for the i'\ people who work for them has kept a large number of mills from closing already in order to stop losses. The fr - workers do for the mills what the mills hesitated to do for themselves. But aside from this we think the day has come when the strike should be I pr6perly met. This country \ should no longer allow itself to be held up as it was during the war, and as it will continue to be held up unless the laws are enforced. ' The strike everywhere can be whipped if the arm of the law will guarantee in fact as It does in words I that every man has a right to work where he pleases, and for whom he pleases, and at such times as he, Tfc yleases, and that every employee has like rights, and that no body of eith; er employers or employees has a! * right to band together for the pur-j pose of denying to any other person j or business these fundamental rights. 1^. All we need in this country to hanI Wt die the situation is just laws and a! _ . p& strict enforcement of them. |, ' to* jce WHO ARE "GOOD RISKS?*' j 82 i j av "What sort of people in money mat- 25 ters are most trustworthy, most hon- j est? ' ! Fat men, profane men, and, above. all, married men, are considered the' I So best risks by surety companies, ac. | * - j?:-v xt Tiruufl,, cording w> rreucucn. A-*. ?vj. | resentative of the National Surety, ^"c T# Company of New York. m. Profane men give vent to their, cussedness by cussing and rarely appropriate to their own use other peopie's money, he asserts. Fat men are ,, I tn good feeders and consequently are ^ "too satisfied with the world in gen- J ^ eral to inflict harm upon their fellow j ^ men." Married men, because of the love they bear their wives and famiap lies, are more honest than bachelors pc by a ratio of 6 to 1, he says. mi KaciaHy the Chinese lead in hon- ^ esty, Mr. Withey declares, but he isjs\ uncertain as to whether or not tnis' ^ is due to higher moral standards or 10f because in the past death has been ar the penalty for theft in China. An_ jn glo-?axons rank next in dependabil- co ity in conserving: the possessions of 53 others. The races of Northern Eu- ^ rope are more honest than those of1 tn Southern Europe, Mr. Withey holds,-as adding, "However, when Ole Oleson q7 goes wrong he makes a wonderfully ac [thorough job of it." Among Jewsj jg statistics shdw environment is a con-1 th siderable factor. A Jew residing on^j the East Side in New York is a poor se risk, yet in the average community be the Jews are ranked equally with!cr Anglo-Saxons. j ye Women are far more honest than at imen. according to records of surety , po statisticians. v When women do go I wrong, it is due either to vanity and j mi love of finery or quest of relief from tw poverty, according to the same au-!ac thority. -The "crank" or "nut" makes j bi! an excellent risk, Mr. Withey utters co this warning: "Beware of the sleek, I du suave, oily person who agrees with'co everything that is said and rarely, if in ever, expresses an opinion of his ot] own." - It Who is the very best risk? The mi man or woman who saves, according ly to Mr. Withey. If you spend less than cli you make and invest the difference, ba your rating as a risk is A. No. 1." P? The above is from the Greenville tbi Piedmont. The writer is not mar. ar; ried. But he is honest. We do not ed know whether his honesty grows out ab of fat or profanity. Speaking of profanity there should C* be a good many honest men about Abbeville. We also have some fat men. It will be observed, however, that the writer does' not say that all ' fat men are honest. Some fat men are in the furniture business. i MAJOR LEAGUE CLUB WANTS ERSKJNE MAN "Lefty" Beard, the star Erskine college pitcher, is being sought by the big leagues. Connie Mack has made him several offers and the Chicago White Sox management sent him a telegram telling him to report and name has terms. When Columbia was in Greenville, Zinn Beck, manager of the Comers, sent him a message requesting that he report r,to the' Comers and there pigp. ifrHlontfract. ;3$??rd, however, lias declined all \>ffers?rfid v^fll return to Erskine next year to finish his course. Beard was one of the best college pitchers in the State this sea son and made a big reputation. His hurling was always of a high order and he lost several games in which he allowed but three or four hits. It. +V Q+ noll/Mwoi? 11 now with the Athletics, played for Erskine and Carl Cashion, former Washington lirst baseman, also starred for Erskine and Davidson. The Seceders have always centered their major efforts on baseball teams and every year put out a mighty creditable organization They have won the State title a number of j I times and -when not first generally J finish near the top.?Greenville I Piedmont. IL COTTON CONDITION IS 6 tf lit Compare* With Co>ndition ol: 62 J J Last Year?Condition in South ? Carolina ia Given at 58 I and Texat 71. E Washington, June 2.?The condi- | ? m of the cotton crop on May 25, I is 66.0 per cent of a normal, the de-!I rtment of agriculture announced I . day. That compares with 62.4 per ? nt a year ago, 75.8 two years ago,j| j .3 three years ago, and 76.7 the^ erage of the last ten years on May g Ji No forecast of production or acre- J I e was announced. - ] Condition by states follow: p ] Virginia 77; North Carolina 65; - J ?uth Carolina 58; Georgia 63; Fior- J a 60; Alabama 57; Mississippi 60; J j >uisiana 57; Texas 71; Arkansas 70 J mnessee 69; Missouri 75; Oklaho. i a 74; California 75; Arizona 84; 1 i I other states 95. ft Revised figures announced today E j ow the area under cultivation at | e end of June last year was 39,- I 3,000; acres, while the area pick- ( was 35,878,000 acres, yielding ? 8.4 pounds per acres. ? |l New York, June 2.?Return from'I iproximately 1*800 special correa l mdents of the Journal of Com- { erce through the Southern states, | .thering under date of May 27, [ ow very little change in the esti- | ates of cotton acreage from' those | 1 a iuvuwu <*gv? * pi voytvw j for a cut of 27,9 per cent which v dicates that the acreage planted to * tton this year will be about 25,' ? 8,Q00 or the smallest, probably in enty years. Last year the May es. j mte was 33,960,000 acres the same ? in 1919. and in 1918 it was 37,- J 3,000 acres. The next smallest I reagp in the past ten years was in I H5, when it was 32,107,000. In I at year the cotton crop was only I ,191,820 bales, so that it would [ em the 1921 crop will likely fall far J j low this figure. Talk is heard of a ? 1 op of only 8,000,000 bales th;s [ I ar, though it is still too soon to r J tempt any accurate forecast on the | lint. | According to an overwhelmng * ajority of the reports received the | o outstanding factors is receiving | reage this year have been the ina- I lity to secure needed financial ac- j J mmodation, which of course," is ? ] ie to break in market prices for J tton and the world wide falling off ] the demand for the staple and an- ] her season of cold, wet weather. . j is not yet too late to make up for J I jch of the time lost, but it is free- i conceded that the extremely bad J * matic conditions of April and May K ? ve been a source of keen disap- I t intment to those who mislead by I J e abnormally warm days in Febru. ? y and March, had confidently hop- [ to make an unusually early favor- J I le start. ? 1 II JEATHAM NAMED TREASURER I j ? Senator J. Howard Moore has K f recommended R. B. Cheatham ( J of Abbeville to Governor Cooper ? j for Treasurer. This means that ? Mr Cheatham will be named. The J J treasurer is appointed by the ? I Governor on the advice and con- f J ent of the senate, which means J under the practice that he is ] named by the local senator. J W,?W. |j Hits | That will make your [ 2 FEET TICKLE [ j TODDLE?Fox Trot . J MOONLIGHT?7ox Trot 85c. \ \ SCANDINAVIA?Fox Trot . | j "Al^t WE GOT FUN"-^c. | ] CHERIE?Fox Trot I j MON HOMME (my man)?85c C j TEACH ME?Fox Trot [ J ROUND THE TOWN 85c J j SIPPY SHORE?Fox Trot p J UNDERNEATH HIWA1IAN I} SKJES 85c. =n LOVE BIRD?Fox Trot ! ] BRIGHT EYES 85c. J ] If you don't ?ee what you j want in the above list mail us ] your order?we have it. We 9 1 pmy the pottage. THE ECHO "The Really Musical Spot In Abbeville." ? sf aiMinuaiajawE^^ JUl The Month of Roses, I Now let us chan; and make il n Bargains an Well the first question i PAPUl i tvA<ni ( I Read this advertisement thi j CASH MONEY will do duri I this store. SHIRT WAISTS.?We k and Blouses ranging in pr ?June Price ONE HAL MIDD,Y SUITS in \ $6.00 to $35.00?June pi SPRING COATS fro * - r\vr u Ai r | June price, unu nnL.r. DRESSES?Silk, Cre es, from $2.50 to $50.0( HALF. SPRING COAT SUtt June price, ONE HALF. 1 UNDERWEAR?Silk |] if derwe&r all going in this i - z II Big Reduction Extra Special: These prices are for CASH C proval and none taken back. I ??i?^^? | | Don't waste your time I where hunting bargains wh< door;:0 Trade at home, join th ano help make your town a to trade. Mrs.Jas.S * r*r*rii rww l | ABbE-VlLJ aniraiiuiifznLnimjHJEniJ^^^ aa ajaiEizninrarai^^ M ME J the Month ot Brides 11 I ge that a little j j I : a month of || I id Business! =? ji i s where? Answer, at [ ; | RAN'Sj ough and see what your {j ing the mopth of June at J j rr i ss=| ? lave a big lot of Waists 11 ice from $1.00 to $15, [ j F- I * ' Vool and Cotton, from j I ice, ONE HALF. J j j m $12.50 to $35.00, 11 . - I pe and Gingham Drsss- E | I?June price,?ONE f 5 i 1 j fS from $25.00 to $75- J j I I , Crepe de Chine, Un- | g j , ;ale at HALF PRICE. | 1 i Si g . i i in MillinAfv I ft AJftA Jl |ate we are of- QQ j| )NLY. None sent on ap- ] j i ana rasoline trobe else- S sn they are right at your {* e Chamber of Commerce {J better place to live, and jj fnrliran I VUVAAA MAI ? JE, S. C. _ ?j