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Established 1344. 'J THE PRESS AND BANNER 1 ABBEVILLE, S. C. i I be Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly ! Uoaday, Wednesday and Friday. __ Entered as second- iiass matter at ' toet office in Aoheville, S. C. 1 ' Vv Ten o? of Subscription: One Year $2.0?!' ' Six months 51.00! I 1 Three months .50: ' ( Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION . WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1921 v . UNHARNESSED POWER In the current issue of Commoner, ij' 1 Mr. Bryan's magazine, he has the following to say: ^ . "In a fight to the death the farmer 1 will die last. If big business thinks it can bleed him without limit it had ] better consider his resources. When it comes to the pinch he can stand hotter than anv other class. ? V Food is the first necessity, and he can feed himself. He can raise all that he and his family need, but if , i.a raises no more than he needs the J rest of the people will starve. The far Tver's surplus supplies the world? , suppose the surplus fails? \'The farmer can raise the material necessary to clothe himself and family?wool, cotton and silk, but if he ibises no more the'rest of the people T.il! ?0 naked. It is the farmer's sur" plus material that clothes the world ?suppose tne surplus iaus: 5 "The farmer can, if necessary, pro tiuce his own fuel. He can raise his own wood; he can burn corn cobs . - end even corn if he must, but what -"ill become of ^he -railroads when the farmer neither buys nor sells? ^ '"What will become of the packers when they have no meat to pack? And what will become of the grain gamblers when there is no ' market grain to gamble on? What will bev ' come of the little stores when the i"'' " * z farmers cease to trade? And what will the wholesalers do when the Utile stores close? And what will the manufacturers do when the whole infers go ont of business? And what will the clerks in the stores the work 4 .. \ ers in the mills and the railroad em;.loyes do when business stops? And . what will the banks do when they can not grow rich loaning the people's . money? What will afl the people do , when nobody needs them? What? Go ] to work WITH THEIR HANDS and wring a living from Mother Earth? 1 that is the last resort as it was the 1 first. "Will the middlemen continue to lord it over the producers of wealth, ^ or will they learn that they must 1 SERVE if they would live, and serve , I for a reasonable toll? The flower that 1 blooms in beauty on the stem should ^ not despise the roots that do their ^ work in the dirt. The roots will live I. J when the flower fades?not only live but furnish the sustenance for new flowers, season after season. So with the farmer, he lives near to Nature's', heart, he draws the milk from Nature's breast and Nature will protect him as a mother protects her child. . He will be last to cKe in the struggle!. for existence." , i It is undoubtedly true that the' farmers are in better position natur-. ally to take care of themseles than j other men, but they do not do so.: And there is a reason why this is true. The merchant and the manufacturer, if either succeeds, must have surplus capital. Anybody, of course can do business profitably in good times, without surplus capital, but in times like these through which we \ are now passing, it is the surplus capital which carries business men over. - The men who are failing and going % % into bankruptcy are mostly those who have not the additional capital necessary to bridge the difficulties brought about by depression, or deflation, or just plain hard times. And th-'s is the farmer's trouble we. think. Few of them have extra capital. In fact most of them, even the property owning* farmers, are 1 Au ? ueuvurs ui yuici peupic. xiicy uionage to get along and have a good t'me just so long as everything looks upward. When they make a little noney they are tempted to buy more N property, or to buy things which are N not necessary and still do business N >r. a credit. We do not say that they N should not do this in any case, nor N !o we say that no farmer should go ;rto debt in the first instance to se;ure a homestead, or a home. But ince he has it, we say that the next :hing he should do is to establish a urplus fund for hard t:mes. He! T should have money in the bank. The 5 banks will pay reasonable interest on money at all times, and it may be; withdrawn from most savings banks j an thirty days notice. The farmer! S tvho has enough surplus of this kind i. may finance a crop of cotton forj1 twelve monthhs or longer without j borrowing money. If every farmer in | the eountrv. or even half of them I were in th's condition, the farmers!f ! 5 would be able even now to wield a |" power which would tell in the prices, ;>f the commodities which, they pro-| duce. Nobody could "lord" it over j4 lihem. But until they do this the! power of which Mr. Bryan so elo-J quently speaks will go unharnessed, j PRINTS ON PAPER e OF SOUTHERN PINE;; 1 Birmingham, .Ala., Jun 19.?Thej Birmingham Age-Herald tomorrow 11 morning will be published on paper 1< manufactured from Southern spruce j * pine, which grows along the banks; of the Warrior river and in the hilly j sections of north Alabama, covering1 - i many thousands of acres. The paper was" manufacturd from j' wood shipped to Northern mills and |( is declared by experts to be the equal! * in every respect of the newsprint!1 'nsde* from Canadian spruce; r The .Alabama pine which is unfit! foi lumber contains an unusually!2 fine liber which has a thin bark, vir- j1 tually no heart and contains only a11 trace of rosin. It grows for miles. < along the Warrior river, averaging' from four to 24 cords to the acre.! It requires one ton cf wood to make1 a ton of paper puip. i \ " i < FIRST FOUNTAIN PENS L ?? !] Manchester Guardian. jj In a revie\v of'Professor Week-ij ley's "Etymological Dictionary of j j Modern English" surprise is express- j ( ed that the Professor should be able!s to quote a reference to fountain J c pens in an advertisement published! so far back as 1788. i ] As a matter of fact this form of! j writing implement .must haye' been j e known nearly two centuries before!{ this date, for Mr. E. S. Bate, in his' T 'Touring in 1,600,' shows that travel-1 c lers wrote with them at that time, j ] By the middle of the eighteenth century they had come to be called by i j bheir present name. A Dictionary of j T Arts and Sciences published in g 1754 defines "fountain pens" as "a j pen made of silves, brass, etc., con- ^ trived to contain a considerable c quantity of ink and let it flow out T by gentle degrees. To use thd pen ^ the cover must be taken off and the j pen a little shaken to make the ink a run more freely."* British patents were obtained for fountain pens in 1809, one being granted to Joseph Bramah of lock fame and another to F. B. Folseh c for a stylographic as well as a foun- I tain pen. Apparently it was not until I the '70s of last century that foun-jt tain pens came into anything ap-:i proaching a general use. jt i WHALE OR SERPENT? |i MAY BE BIRD OR DEVIL \i - |l Georgetown, June 21.?There is i quite va lot of discussion among j fishermen and others concerning the' i large fish that was washed up on 1 North Island beach recently, some | ? claiming- that it was not a whale but 1 nature of a sea serpent, tTiat mytho- j' logical creature that has existed in i the imagination of seafaring men in. 1 all ages. The big fish on North Is- ] I land was about 100 feet in length. J It stretches 90 feet on the sand at < this time, the prey of sea birds and \ < vultures. The bulk is said to be j much smaller than that of the ordi-j nary whale,, and this fact gives') Knlin# + Vio+ -nnrliQno if ic . J giVUUU XVI WCiiti bunv tiw aw *w> ? some other form of leviathan. A de- j i scription of the fish has been sent to i Clemson, together with photographs ^: taken by A. G. Trenholm. These have been sent to Washington, and a report on the find from these au- ! thorities is awaited with much inter- 1 est. A part of the jawbone about j eight feet long was brought up from ( the beach by one of the -visitors as souvenir. }, kVVVVVV V \r V V ^ ^ V HITS BY HAL V k, - V k V V V \ V \ V V % \ \ \ \ "German vessels will be bomlbed." t's mighty late in the war to begin hat: Forty-five weddings were anlounced in Monday's edition of The >tate. Seems to be the open season. "Irish sympathizers divide convenion," says a headline. That is not urprising. That's the Irish's favorte occupation, dividing. King George and Queen Mary of England are visiting in Belfast tolay.' It' a safe that their inurance companies are worried. The .railroad companies want low!r wages and the workers want higher wages, it is said. Well, why don't hey swap jobs? ' l The United States Chamber of Commerce opposes giving bonus to :x-soldiers. No use to protest; promses don't cost the country anything. "9 ; The United States treasury has :oined 20,000,000 silver dollars ;ince last March. If that's on the iquare there ought soon to foe snough to go round. Out in Alabama the farmers erected a monument to show their appre:iation of the boll weevil. In this >tate the b. w.'s are erecting memo-ials to themselves. Oil operaters are protesting igainst high taxes. They uught not nind taxes. According to their prospectuses they make fortunes every lay. PATIENT MISSING Columbia, June 18.?A wide =eaidh is being made by authorities1 >? the State hospital for C. C. Dunn, a patient, who disappeared :rom the institution a little more >han a month ago. A description of -he man has :been sent broadcast and ;very effort made tt> locate him but o far th# search has failed to reveal my clew tq his whereabouts. ^ Mr. Dunn, who was from Plum Branch, left the hospital without jermission, Friday, June 13. He is >3 years of age, five feet 11 inches all, weighs 136 pounds stripped, has eddish hair turning gray, ruddy j Kill A AtTOC? Vl 1 rtltrov l/iut tj iigue ivnrwi id paralyzed and drooping. Dr. Williams said that when the >atient disappeared he was in fair nental condition, but that he was riven to periods of confusion when le was afraid people were trynig to larm him. He had this impression (specially of people in his ow comnunity, so Dr. Williams thinks he vould hardly return to the neigh-j >orhood of Plum Branch but probably sought employment elsewhere. ? FATHER AND SON DIE Vidalia, xGa., June 18.?Death :laimed today Cicero and Fred Matthews, father and son, partici>ants in the battle fought between hem ad members of the* Galbraith amily, near here, on June 6. Cicero /he father of Fred, died at his home lear Alston- at an early hour this norning, while the boy breathed his ast in a 'hospital at a late hour tolight. W. M. Galbraith was killed nstantly during the battle. The families became inolved in a feud over a fight staged between :heir sons attending a district school. .The older members of the families met on a public road and ivithout any preliminaries the fight ng started. Tom Tippett, brother-inaw of Galibraith, was also wounded, i)Ut he is expected to recover. Tom Galbraith and Manny Booth are held in the Toombs county jail an the charge of murder. Thoma1. W. Hardwick will be inaugurated governor of Georgia next Saturday. He succeeds Hugh M. Dor=ey who is now governor. The Georgia general assembly convenes Wednesday. The international convention of Kiwanis clubs meets in Cleveland, Ohio, next week. Mrs. M. I. Glenn of Norfolk, Va., v.v.,-.: V(.b' ca of about $3,000 worth of jewelry last Friday night in Atlanta. HONOR FALLEN HERO Philadelhia, June 19.?Tihe man 1 I who took Graver C. Bergdoll's place when the convicted draft evader, 1 now a fugitive in Germany, failed to ! answer the call, died in the Argonne ' Foresit after being cited by the commanding general of his brigade for bravery in action in one of the most noteworthy battles of the world war. He was Russell C. Gross of this city, j a private in Company E. Three hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry, who was killed by bullets from a , machine nest which later was captured by Company G of the same ' regiment, headed by Corp. Alvin C. I York, of Tennessee. This was revealed tonight by the Overbrook post of the American Legion after an investigation. The post announced it would change its name to that of the fallen hero j arid was planning a memorial to. Gross, "who was forced into service j ahead ol his turn toy tne siacKeri Bergdoll." Gross, who was 23 years of age, j j was the first man called by the draft! | board after Bergdoll failed to 'respond. - I /0F%\ W?Mi !I ra I! f\jJ3J3J3J2J2J2}2fS}3ISI3ft'JcaEJS/2I3JSJi9JSI3?SJ3JSJE Itliillll HI I .J 1| ill t I' ' I ill A- ji \ :n i r Hjli1|| i J! j I 'WSi|ifl I iff 111 i il / I've tri Kiii I* ! I'm through exp No more trying thi every time. They're sorefresl Why? The ans blend of choice 1 There's nothing lifc No other cigaretl sure-enough, all-da; Camel blend. Can O a m a1 n n rti uivc v/duicia a IX J information first h; V ' "Let your conscience be your guide," is the only regulation for bajhers at the Terre Haute (Indiana) t resorts. "If women want ? to use a su< =hoe horn to put on their suits, I sh< don't care," says the police chief. Ca NOTICE OF LAND SALE ^ By virtue of the authority vested ih me by a certain deed of Trust, I will sell at public auction, on the ha 5th day of July, 1921 at Abbeville Court House, S. C., at 11 A. M., or as soon thereafter as practicable, the th< following described real estate: to: All that lot or parcel of land sit- his uate, lying and being in the City of Abbeville, in the Conuty of Abbevilie, in the State of South Carolina, facing on short street leading from 3Ia?:az:ne Street to'Jail Street, and \ lrs.4- T ! wi Dunlinm 'J*'1 ui; wuuiiutu uy iv?l ui otui uutuaunan, by lot of Harriet Vance, by lot of Thomas Culbreth, and by Street separating this lot from lot of G. A. Harrison. Terms of Sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. D. H. HILL, Trustee. June 20th, 1921. 6-22- 3t. 11 WHF.N VACATION T COMES YOU'LL YOU SAVE] Systematic saving is th< which you will be enabl sum which you will neec Our ?100 Club offe which you will have the tion time comes. It is t Deposit $2 now and $8 months. Then we will ..START rlanters "The Friendl The Home of Over 100 i ? -.. i . bU UIU1I CiJ t ?ive me s erimenting. No more switchin s and that It's Camels for me hing! So smooth! 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