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Established 1844. I? ( THE PRESS AND BANNER U ABBEVILLE, S. C. u ? w The Press and Banner Company ^ j Published Tri-Weekly u ' Monday, Wednesday and Friday. d< Yi Entered as second-?iass matter at fi: tost office io Abbeville, S. C. "* ; " 'i: f( ?' ^ Tenoi of ^ubscriptloa: ^ One Year $2.0? S( Six months $1.09 Three months .50 tj K b< Foreign Advertisng Representative tj. AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION , . * 3Fk WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921. ^ : GOOD ROADS AGAIN f< The subject of good roads is one cn which we ajl talk. In fact it fur- n< nishes a never ending subject of con- *2 versation and newspaper writing. The to Columbia State has been one of the m chief advocates of good roads in this state. What it has to say on the sub- 15 jec? may be considered as authority, at least so far as its side of the ques-1to . ? .. .. .Id, tion is concerned.. When it says tnati"" these roads must be kept up, it but says what all men of common sense |cc must concede, because it would bej^ folly to spend thousands of dollars |to ior these roads and then allow them jw ? to fall into bad condition, rendering; as them of no advantage over the roads th we now have. j th Discussing the subject under the jar title "Give the Top-soil Roads a j ^ Chance," The State has the follow- j ^ * {. . Wing to say. i w "The immediate problem before the! ; 1 Highway Commission is to maintain I the top-soil roads so that they shall ^ oe in gooa conuiuun wwtrive uiuuuis, in the year. About 1,000 miles of highway are now under the care of ev the commission and from $300 to ar $500 a year will be required to mainly tain each of these miles.. ? "It is not certain that the motorcar t ' license revenue, going to the counties, will be sufficient to maintain -a the links of the state highway sys- lo tem for which these counties are re- th spectively responsible. To allow ans, *e ? of these roads, built from the pro- v? ceeds of feond issues, to fall into b* ruin by reason. of non-maintfenance, he would be nothing short of disastrous si< to the road-building movement and, nc therefore, to the general prosperity. he legislature must come to the res- th cue. It must provide means of cr maintaining in every county its sec^jb* tions of the state highways. . be * 4'The State believes that, for the ti< BP'. , present, top-soil roads, except in the a neighborhood of large towns, will en serve. Cement or asphalt roads in would be the only substitute for its them, and they would cost $30,000 a th mile, as compared with $5,000 a mile re for top-soil roads. If a top-soil road ne ' caa be maintained in first rate con- ici dition for $500 a year and the dif- its ference in interest charges on the na boifds to build it, as comparctfUwith a hard-surfaced road, is $1,500, surely oi the experiment of maintaining the la top-soil road should be tried thor- ad oughly. So far, it is to be doubted to if on any stretch of top-soil road h? constructed so much as $500 has ar bee^ annually expended in upkeep. ,th "The people of South Carolina cr have, at this time, not the slightest re ' idea of committing themselves to a p? state bond issue of $50,000,000, or $25,000,000, for hard-surfaced roads.j ^ They are resolved that the top-soil road, systematically looked after atid ^ kept up, shall have a chance to make ar good." : % We think that what is said above, b? as, to the cost of up-keep of these at rolids will fie found to be ^bout what dj th? Press and Banned tolft the "peoa long time ago would be the cost g ? of-the V??periment". bijildipg, top- C( soil roads. But if by the expenditure 0( of five hundred dollars per mile for jj each mile of road built we may have q, a good road for twelve months in the .. year, we shall not say that the ex- q periment has proved to be of no value. We believe that a road which a| may be kept "good" at that price for every day in the year will be a good investment. What we have been aftaid of is that the roads would not prove to be good even with the ex- 0 penditure. We next feared that after ' the roads were built the people would refuse to pay the taxes neces-I sary to keep up these roads. v ^ As we have said it would be worse |e th?n folly not to keep the roads up^ nee they are constructed. The State ightly suggests that provision must e made by the legislature for the p-keep of those connecting links hich are a part of the state system, one the less must the counties keep p the roads which are entirely uner the jurisdiction of the counties. Jq shall have in this county perhaps fty of sixty miles of roads which le county must be prepared to care )r. These roads will cost us from vo hundred thousand to three hunred thousand dollars. It will cost >mething like twenty-five or thirty lousand dollars annually to keep lem in proper repair. This we must z prepared to spend each year fori lis purpose. Having gone into . the fperiment, we must see it through Yes, taxes are going to be high. fevw4rned you of that in advance, ^hen the. voters of this county voted >r tiJe bond issue, they voted for :?4fexes. That issue has already ?en passed on. The only question >w is whether the people will throw vay the money already authorized ' be spent, or whether they will ake a liberal allowance for the^up;ep of the roads we are building. It now no time to cry about highj ,xes. It is only time to be prepared" ' pay for the things which we have jmanded. We shall hope that the roads will mtinue under a commission Which ill receive enough money each year keep them up and that the roads ill be kept in as nearly perfect shape i may be by the commission. For lis purpose it will be necessary that ese roads be divided into sections id that a section force work every ty in the year to this end, just as e section forces on the railroads ork. Eternal vigilance will be the ice of keeping up these roads?and! a\j means uiimcjr IUI wic JJUIpwsc i id a proper expenditure of thej oney. "the day of low taxes is gone for-' rer. It is now the day of good roads id good roads mean high taxes. PROGRESS OF DEFLATION. American history affords many ,ses of'-finailcial panics or crises folwed by economic depression, and of e thirteen since the civil war none ft permanent ill traces on our dedopment. Most of them resulted in nefitcto the country by driving >me some lesson of too rapid expanan or of unsound legislative, eco>mic or banking policies. We are part way, possibly well rough our fourteenth economic | ^ - 10^4 TTTT_ X. 1 Ml I isis since 1004. wnai lessons win i learned from it to our lasting inefit is still a matter of specula>n.. But one thing stands out like church on a hilL America, harried to panics and periods of severe dustrial depression, has employed 5 accumulated experience to clear e boards of this/ the greatest of all actions, with courage and determiition. The records show that Amera. has gone faster and further with 5 deflation than the other principal ttions. ? We have lopped off 15 per cent of ir inflated currency in a year. Engnd's . reduction of ?10,000,000 nounted to only 2 per cent, of the tal in circulation. France increased sr money by only a negligible nount, while in Italy and Germany e printing press accounts lor incases in paper money amounting spectively to 11 per cent, and 27 >r cent. \ The significance of these deflation jures is enhanced by the fact that iring the year we increased our >ld holdings by $483,000,000. This nount of new money coming to us 'abroad ' might have been the j isis jfor at least an equal amount of itfi&bnal currency. But we slowed )wg|;thf? cwtjput. > IVemand deposits of Federal Reside member bpnks throughout the )uhitjy\.d^c!|rne^J ;f*rom 11,347,000,30 in 1920 to $10,046,000,000 in ?21, a net decrease of $1,301,000,30, a ratio of about three to one as >mpared with currency deflation, urrency and credit deflation in this juntry thus totalled for the year boutr$l,800,000,000. In the other luntries before named the contrac on in creuiL was jicgngiuie. From the dizzy heights of fictitius, pyramided values to the bed>ck of common sense business and nance there is no primrose path. 7e have journeyed ours manfully his far. As we get nearer to the nd of the road the deflation terrors ill" all vanish.?N. Y. Herald. " / = VV \V \ VV^V \V V V V\^ V V V HITS BY HAL V X . > >>\\> \ N > > N > \ > > This is the open season for picnics. N "By their fruits ye shall know them." Peaches and cream. No, no, H. H., planked steak and' table board are not the same. If some one would take the set out? of that Irish settlement, maybe they'd speed up. \ The Lily-white Republicans are going to rule in Georgia. That is till all the jobs are taken. Some old truth teller said a dead man tells no tales, but that's all right. The/ ought to take a rest some time. Have you ever noticed how as soon as a man begins to scan the papers his wife begins to skirt the neighbors? If South Carolina should put a tax on bachelors the state would get aXnnf a lrnllinn dollars; revenue from ! Abbbeville. ' / These germs that increase theirj families at the rate of a million a day must have a terrible time keeping up with their family.tree. Down in Georgia the legislature is trying to put a tax on bachelors. If they'd put a licen^ on divorces the state would derive more revenue. Wonder where Washington got| that \lope about famine and pellagra j in the South. Some of the letters written two or three years ago must have arrived. Have you heard of any of your' neighbors starving? If you have,! nl pa cm writ.p snmphoHv in Washine^.on about it so the senate can have some- ! thing to investigate. President Harding wants to give relief to the railroads and agricul-| ture. "Goodness knows both of themj need relief, but if the president will ook out for agriculture God will look after the railroads. A young man in Florida has recently received a post card addressed to him from Savannah while he was' a soldier at Camp Jackson about three ypars ago. Bet the lootnow that censored that card is glad he is through with the job. EDMUND B. LANGLEY. I The remains of Edmund B. Langley, who died in action in 1018, with the army in France, arried in Abbeville Monday afternoon and funeral services were conducted at the home oi Mr. w. M. l^angiqy, ms Droiner, | yesterday afternoon, the burial following in Melrose cemetery. The Rev J. M. Mason conducted the services. Private Breazeale accompanied the remains from Camp Jackson.' Pallbearers at the funeral were all exservice men. They were Thomas Finley, Wade Williams, Julian Roche, Lee Blanchett, Ervin Kirby and Ab. Christian. Mr. Langley was 28 years of age at the time of his death. He was born in Edgefield county, the part now being incorporated in Greenwood county. He is survived by his father, Mr; J. B. Langley, two sisters, Mrs. J. T. Davenport, of Abbeville and Mrs. C. F. Bates of Wi'liamston andj two brothers, Mr. W. M. Langley ot Abbeville and Normn: H. Langley of Los Angeles, Cal. He enlisted early] ir. the war at Akron, Ohio, where be was working at the time. He was a' member of the 118th Infantry, 30th wh&h ;,?aw- mpc^: a?$ion. pji -several 'sectors*-;; &&& '? -v- i v t. nTTTTtrc rrrt vd t? if;,:-.- . IT - BEATS < ALL -;n o t*. lis Mr. Harding, ertswhile editor of the Marion Star, .became President ' i i of the U. S.; Mr. Harvf y of Harvey's Weekly, became ambassador to England ; Mr. iFarringon of the Honolulu Star-Jttuiietm, inas t>een naroea governor of Hawaii, while we were recently elected secretary of the Baggs school board. Beats the world how some of us prominent editors do cjimb and what excellent judgment our people do show at times.? Snake River Sentinel, Baggs, Wyo. While Mr. Harding is picking journalists to be ambassadors, why not send a "make-up" man to Japan?? [Little Rock, Arkansas Gazette. IS IT A SURGICAL FAD? The Press and Banner tells of ' a Dr. Crosby, who is going down to Manning this week to operate on children to remove their tonsils and adenoids. A preliminary examination showed 486 children in Manning with "diseased tonsils and adenoids." A large two-story school building has been fitted up as a hospital in which the operations are to take place. Isn't there sometBing of a fad about tonsils and adenoids? About the tonsils anyhow? Has Nature lost skill in her handiwork that so many defective children should be born in these latter days? "When you aw! I were young, Maggie," we never knew we had such things as tonsils and adenoids, and we managed to get along pretty well and were as strong and as healthy as the children of the present day. If the doctors keep on cutting out people's tonsils it won't be many generations till babies will be born without any.?Newberry Observer. Chivalry ?. Laxineit. Greenwood Index. Necessity 'be the mother of invention occasionally, Jbut laziness also is at least a foster mother of invention, so three young men of Greenwood's dancng set have proven. Going to Abbeville a few nights ago to attend a dance, a tire on their car punctured. They were dressed in all the finery they could muster. They Jooked at the natty creases in their trousers and sighed at the thought of the havoc changing a tire would cause. They looked at the three young women whom they were escorting and heard a car coming in the distance. Then one of them had a flash of inspiration. He explained to the girls and the hoys dived into the thicket beside the road. The girls got out and made show of fixing the tire. A car of men stopped and chivalrously offered to help. Others stopped and the tire was soon changed. The girls thanked their helpers, got in their car and slowly drove off and the boys clambered In. The creases in the 'boys' trousers inad been saved. The story is true for one of the principals confided it to a newspaper man. rEninLnLjnjHJEniiEJZJiiJiL^ jj WE j! Our Frii si !; That on u I j We will sel \ j discontinue | j but expect |j benefit of i j! prices of ou !j Watch for ; [ s saved on yc i! by a little e< ? TLIIC I isnio j NOTHING CH i|?=== || The Co-Op yiu?!iggBiai?!iafitfi!iisraigri! PELLAGRA STORY MOVES PRESIDENT : ** ^ ( Continued from pafee 1) "Immediate and effective, measures of amelioration are manifestly demanded if conditions even approximate the gravity suggested by the public health report. It is unthinkable that we should delay for a single day the inauguration of such measures. Therefore I am writing to ask you the most complete possible report that can be made at once?provided there is anything to add to what you already have made,_ public?and especially for suggestion of proper measures to deal with the situation. "I am also writnig to Mr. Living-] stone Farrand, head of the Ameri-| can Red Cross, in the same tenor and | suggesting that cooperation between his organization and your own mjght be helpful; having in imind the need for haste in making a full survey and in planning relief: measures. I wdsh you both to be assured of my cooperatin and all.aid that, can be appropriately given through the executive department and to know that if full information about the situation shall make apparent that legislative action is necessary, I will on a proper showing foe prepared to _ * - x- 11 I?A*-- m asK Tine requisixe aucnonzauon ir^m i the congress." __ Situation in This State Columbia, July 26.?Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer, declared today that although there had been an increase in the number of deaths in South Carolina from . pellagra, there was no condition of ^famine, and the nicrease was not alarming. According to> reports made to the state health department 'there were in May of this year 28 ? deaths throughout the state, as compared with 20 last_year. In June of this year there were 43 deaths from pellegra, as compared with 29 in June of last year, but Dr. Hayne stated a + (f/\r fViA iinfirfl o+ofA WiUU 14.VA Vliv Vlll/UV/ iJVO tig Ui VO compiled ?oda^r do not indicate any alarming condition. A Family Model. Judge. North-?'When I saw Charley z. ' / / ???? ? ? mwm* BEG TO AD\ ;nds and Ci and After I goods for CAS our Delivery S< to give our cus this saving by n r goods. prices and see w mr grocery bill e conomy on our pi i APPLIES TO ????a? i nrrn a irrrn MUM! AH Eft lerative Mer< Phone 372. a iraraiiiiifzraai^ year ago he was just about to buy a tv^-passenger runabout. IH-d he get [West?{Ho. He got married and bought a-.'one-passenger push-about. , ' 1 ~ | f It Is Here ! WE HAVE A; VICTROLA ; for you. Come in , and let us show you i how easy it is to own THE ECHO "The Really Musical Spot in Abbeville." | t * ' / ip? : ^ Tinn-iir* Seed Just received new . crop Turnip Seed. Rutabaga, SevenTop, Purple Top, Cow-Horn, White Egg, Yellow Aberdeen at : / 50c Pound. The McMurray Drug Co. I i ' _ i ' ' ' .' . . * *..?? iraraiiifaigrafgrafEnLfaTO TSE jl !| istomers 1 Aug. 1st j| ii H and will [j ervice also, i} tomers the j| ; iducing the j j hat can hp. H ach month jj art,, j j |i AUGUST 1ST !j ! :antile Co. f jj I t n na r S !mzntmmrzizjzj2M? /