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== I ' Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER I ABBEVILLE, S. C. ? . ? The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. B?" Entered as second-iiass matter al fost office in Aoheville, S. C. ftL r j Tenoi of Subscription: One Year $2.0(1 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ? WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1921 K r* \ - - ? IOYALTY TO THE SERVICE p ' The Harding administration prom ises a revival of business methods in the management of the departments at Washington. For a long time, during which the leaders of both parties have been to blame, the departments at Washington have been . places where political followers were anchored at good salaries and with lit* tie consideration for the public service. These departments are now being reorganized and a good many reforms are being adopted, one of rvoffmrv riA n WlilVJl IS UIC 5VWVIU5 4.IU V* V 0 number of useless office-holders, p. Yesterday a more important ruling was announced. It was to the effect that those employees who could not co-operate with the heads of the departments in carrying out the proposed reforms, but who busied themselves with obstructive methods and criticism of the plans of the administration would in the future be called on to walk the plank. jf+r That is as it should be. There is too much of this not only in the pubBr -' b ?A?n?*y?A Kiit 4*1 riT*i^rof q Knncinoco 1IV SCI Vive UUb *11 wuu^iiiv^ as well. During the last few years - when help has been hard to find, there has been a growing disposition on the part of the employed to usurp the offices of the employers and run business on their own ideas rather ^han according to the instructions - of the people who are responsible for running expenses. The people who do not invest money in enterprises and who have never made any to invest, and who have not been conspicuous by their success in life generally think, or seem to think, j that they know a great deal more about running the. business of the man who built up the business than he does. They are arraogant in the assertion of their views, and when they do not prevail there is a* disposition to criticise the owner and employer to other employees and to the public. Such conduct is subversive of good service. To be true there are many valuable suggestions which employees may make to their employers, and a good employer is always ready and willing to consider any suggestion from a good employee for the benefit of the service to be performed. Soch suggestions made In the prop. ... er spirit are to De courted, but the final decision in the matter of one's own business must be made by the owner or manager, and that employee, whether in the government service, or in private employment; who knows more than everybody { . else who cannot obey the rules of the establishment, who desires to assume the management of the establishment without authority, and who criticises his employer to people on the outside, has passed his day of usefulness. He should mend his ways or quit, and if he refuses to do either, there is but one end to mm in well regulated establishments. MAKING A WILL. Most people plan some time tc make a will. A small number do so, Lack of a will causes all sorts oi trouble and complications frequently A will improperly drawn is also a source of trouble. It looks now as if the lawyers oi the country, this section, will not b? so very busy this summer. It woult be a fine thing for you to take ad vantage of the situation and havt your will drawn. It can be done s< as to carry out your wishes and youi estate will be safeguarded in the waj it should be. Strikes us that it is i fine time, even though it is so hot, tc think about wills and the like. Ge1 your lawyer to draw yours now whih he is not busy.?Index-Journal. The above taken from the column! of our esteemed contemporary if well said. None of the lawyers witl whom wc have talked take any exceptions to the suggestions made, and lawyers generally know how to : "except." But the matter suggests a question to us. A man who has property even in the shape of obligations due him may always make a will dis*| posing of his property including these ' I obligations, but as Col. Barber, j of Richburg was wont to say, "We I have examined the law, and we fail ^ I to find anywhere in it where it says' that a man may dispose by will of f the obligations he owes the other fel. low." As most of us owe the other j fellow more than he owes us, have ,|we anything the subject ot cr.sposi-i Ition by will? I In the matter of making wills j most men now will find themselves in 'the condition in which Col. Ball, of I Laurens,- once described a fellow at! torney. Court was in session, and the ! judge was sounding the docket. A i young lawyer had ^good many cases ,!on the docket and as each of these | cases was called he arose and anj nounced with great dignity, "Ready, Your Honor." The thing went on a , little while and then finally Col. Ball, , jas the young attorney again an- , | nounced "Ready," exclaimed, "Yes, always ready, but never prepared." For the benefit of all the faithful , wo Hflcivp to sjiv that we have seen , I Col. George Harvey's picture in the . I New York Herald. He was still wearing his dress suit and was standing ( ! beside a duke. ( 0 If the Boll Weevil doesn't soon !get busy in some sections the busi-|j | ness of "ruining" the present cotton crop must be done entirely by the < j dry weather. 0 . ; The ice man trusts that the Cham| ber of Commerce will take immedi; ate action to keep this weather going! for about two weeks longer. Then let it rain. 0 Now that the young Corp. has arrived home after showing the boys up about Lexington, Va., how the thing is done, the young ladies about town have to suggest that he start a contest to see who can send the most candy the most times. 0 If Chief Justice Gary doesn't get his dress suit away from Jack Brad ley, of Greenville Street, and that at once, we are fearing that some of the show profiteers will cut short Jack's career at the Abbeville High i School. 0 SWISS ARE HUNTING JOHN CALVIN'S GRAVE Geneva, June 14.?The spot where O Villi civilly MIO JTiVtCSWlUU iCIUI jiier and theologian, is buried is being sought by the authorities on information furnished by a man who" says he is a descendant of Calvin. The location of the grave has been handed down through the Calvin family uner ipledge of secrecy, according to the man, who is 71 years old, and he is without issue he believed it his duty to divulge the location to the Ecclesiastical Consistory at Geneva. Tradition has it that John Calvin who died on May 27, 1564, was buried "in the common cemetery in \Geneva called Plain-Palais," but the exact spot has not been identified. MACHINES FOR PRINTING London June 13.?Suggestion that I printing from type is likely to be su- | persedfd was made 'by William Gamble at the recent World's Congress of Printers held here in connection i with the International Printing and Allied Trades Exhibition. Mr. Gamble -said that at least three inventors were trying to develop a photographic process to take the place of printing from type. He predicted that the machines : for printing by photographic pro. *es? .would' liapdly- occupy -more l I space than a typewriter, nor be any I more complicated. He expressed the opinion that ? eventually the great printing press I es in newspaper offices would give - place to smaller, swift running and vvit?|n*i?viTVtjr iiViOt'iVaO iliCWIiXIlUOj > which would turn out printed matter : with almost the same facility as the r moving picture operator reels off his i films. > ? t FEW STUDY TOO HA*D I Princeton, N. J.?Overstudy has 3 killed only one student at Princeton 3 in forty years, Dean West, of the 1 graduate school, told his classes. /* "BUSINESS MAN" WRITES TO SUGGEST DOLLAR DAY. Editor The Press and Banner: I have just finished reading your timely editorial in Monday's issue regarding the campaign now being conducted by the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce and The Index Journal to draw trade from the surrounding counties> This campaign is1 hurting trade here and something must be done to counteract such propaganda. To my own knowledge, there is hundreds of dollars going j out of Abbeville to Greenwood and j other places every month because j these towns have merchants who be-, lieve in the power of advertising andi putting forth some effort to get bus-) iness. Good times are not coming again,! thpv must hp brought ami it. will take cooperation and pep and hard ! work to bring them. To this end, I, wish to suggest that the Chamber of j Commerce and merchants set forth a special day'at regular intervals toj be known as Dollar Days and for! every merchant in town to put on a' special sale of some article that will J be big enough bargain to bring in | the people, then for a big newspaper' advertising campaign along with any' ather form of advertising such as1 distributing circulars, automobile' signs and boosting by all. This plan has worked wonders for sther towns and with all the mer. j ihants cooperating with the Chamber jf Commerce it will work wonders, for Abbeville. We at least could give' it a trial and let results show us the1 i'alue of advertising and pulling together and if we succeed at this we will .try something else along this) line and I think Abbeville merchants' will wake up and go forward without' further urging. We have the merchants and the| merchandise and we have a good' town. All we need is the effort so! let's put forth the effort and make' things go. A Business Man. MUCH HEAVY TRAFFIC PRIZES UP PAVING \AIlie Smith and his boys, as well, as Daley Barksdale and his, are hard t/? understand Dn-wn in frnnt nf the lien store of Press and Banner Block Link, also dealer in fine furniture, some of the paving brick have raised themselves or been raised, and the gentlemen first named and their boys have been wondering what caused it. Well, that is easy. All the biggest fafmers in the county do their trading in heavy groceries with King Link, and the other day when the wagon came in from the lower place of one of the farmers who has been trading with Allie and Daley, and who therefore has to buy most of the farm necessities this year, and when the wagon was being loaded from the well-stocked stores of the merchant, it prized some of the bricks out of their place. But there is no need to worry, the King will have them replaced as soon as he has a rest from selling goods?and furniture. llf ? t - t we are orrering De?t lump coal at $10.00 delivered-in your yard. 2t AMOS B. MORSE CO. Free ? To get the most pi your phonograph it s timed and adjusted. Beginning June 15 will inspect, clean, oi justments needed on make ponograph ] where there is no br< placed. If there are broker we will make a small of parts. We want every pi" take advantage of th whether you purchas from us or not. THE i "microbe of love" |cf 'proves enjoyable; -?1 i ( Continued from page 1) I into each and every bachelor's point cai of vulnerability. ' 30, Act three shows the result of the I activities of M&dam Cupid Slrf ! band of tiny, fairy-like, assistant ! cupids, with wings ana everything, ^ j Every old maid has hooked her a ! husband and every bachelor has succumbed to the microbe's attack. Even Madam Cupid, whom one WGuld suppose to be invulnerable to the microbe's bite, falls victim and the grand finale shows her a bride, too. The cast of characters included: Madam Cupid, Miss Victoria Howie; Priscilla Prunes, Miss Sophie Reames; Lovie Long, Miss Elizabeth Edmunds; Wanta Man, Miss Howard Hill; Ima Fraud, Miss Ethelinde Pope; Sophie Sweetgum, Miss Gwen Bristow; Samantha Loving, Miss Eva Reames; Arabella Antique, Miss Sara Gibert; Lillie Lonesome, Miss Louise Brown; Left Overs, Mrs. J. M. Wilkinson, Mrs. Fred Cason; Mrs. Henpeck, Miss Lydia Owen; Mr. Henpeck, J. L. Anderson; Billy Bachelor, W. E. Hill; U. B. Careful, Percy Leach; Simon Shy, Jack Bradley; Can't Catch, Arthur v Thomas; Never Wed, Alvin Ellis; Bobby Bashful, Bruce Galloway; Very Bold, Clyde Hagen; Hardly Necessary, Truman Reames. The chorus boys were: Billy Bradley, Sanford Howie, Marshall Leach, Wlliam Hill, Julian Roche, William Hughes, Arthur Manning Klugh. The dancing chorus was composed of Misses Sarah Barnes, Mary Bruce, Eleanor Schroeder, Dorothy Syfan, Ada Faulkner, Ruth Beeks, Mary Greene, Maude Wood, Mary Milford, Elizaibeth Jones. In the Rose Chorus were: Miss Nona Tutt, soloist; Misses Virginia Wilson, Mary White, Elizabeth Thomson, Lessie Kay, Emmie Haigler, Maria Neuffer, Ida Kay, Celia Chalmers, Annie Wilson, Ruby Edmunds, Elizabeth McLane, Marion Cason.^ ! Japanese Dancers were. Misses Howard Hill, Willie Harroson, Judith Hll, Jeansie White, Janie Vance Bowie, Sara Thomson, Debbie Owen, Marion Cason, Florence Neuffer, urace Minora. The little cupids were: Edith Reese, Mildred Hughes, Christine Stephens, Lorena Johnson, Martha Edmunds, Lillie Hilton. Othera in the cast were, Heart of a Rose, Miss Nona Tutt and chorus; Poor Butterfly, Howard Hill and Japanese Maidens. Will have car lump coal at $10.00 per ton next week. L> 2t AMOS B. MORSE CO. " W. A. HARRIS I FUNERAL SUPPLIES EMBALMING and a Auto Hearse Service PHONES Day 395 Night 134 Service j easure possible from hould be accurately t: ith until July 1st we j il and make any adyour Victrola or any FREE OF CHARGE aken parts to be re- | il i parts to be, replaced t charge to cover cost 1 lAMA/wonli ATimov +r\ S HJiiVgl apil VVVUVi l/V LS lis FREE SERVICE I ied your Instrument a ECHO ?????????J |e LEEN WREATHS TRIBUTE s BY THE AMERICAN LEGION v t > t rh? Rich]and post of the Ameri- v 1 Legion on Decoration day, May c inaugurates a beautiful memorial g >tom in sending to the nearest re!a v e of every Columbia veteran of n world war who died either m the 0 ? ---j? --innnTOfc ^^>$1 M. a ff Avoidir weather TLe right Clothes 1 We have them-plenty man is looking for? Palm Beaches, Mob Worst* You'll like these light, make you look and fe comfortable when otb wilted and tired. Priced $13 Parker 4 -the house of Kuppenl SJ3/gJ3J2J5J2JSfSJ5f5f3JSISJSJ5JSI5ISi2EJSI5J3?JS Announc I wish to annoimce have succeeded THE 1 COMPANY and am j Sell and Trade for CITY PROPERTY A1 See me before you s C. H. P Office Over Haskell's. ervice or since the war a green rreath as a symbol of the legion's ribute to the men who havs paid he supreme sacrifice. Each wreath rill be tied with red, white and blue olors and at the request of the leion, will be hung on the front door rhere all may know that these young len have given their all in the name f their country. ~ ' - f 1 ' . tg hot worries :or torrid weather, -just what every ' 4 lairs, and Tropical / ad s. cool Clothes. They el well-dressed and iers armear faerered. A. JLT " W W / 1.50 to $25.00. > ? Reese leimer good clothes ' iClllCUli I ffi I Iel i to the public that I S PIEDMONT LAND J prepared to Buy, 1 VJD FARM LANDS, g ell your property. rwwAf Liiiimij | Store. Phone 396 1 jaa?ss?2SfiffiJ2}Sis?siaE(s?aia3a!ais