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Established 1844. ( THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company { Published Tri-Weekly f Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-tiass matter at foft office iD Aoheville, S. C. Ten <> of Sabtcriptiont One Year $2.0? Six months $1.0# Three months .50 Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PREfjS ASSOCIATION / MONDAY, ,AUGUST 1, 1921 j RAISING REVENUE. Just now the House of .Representatives in Washington is busy with the new tax law under which revenue for the runnin of the federal government is to be raised. Ail kinds of schemes, in addition to those which have heretofore been tried, are being discussed, and the country is being ^ "felt out" so to speak on the new| schemes. One of the proposed measures forj increasing the income of the govern-j ment is to raise the postage rates on1 ' _ letters from two to three cents. Itj ' - ? ii?i il:. __a: i? i seems cO us inai tins is eubuciy m-i advisable, unless the rates on other' mail matter is first increased to an! amount to correspond with the pres-; ent rate of first class matter. As it is, now it appears to us that first class mail matter is paying about all that is being paid to the post office de-j partment, while other matter is es-j caping its just part of the mail-car-1 rying burden. , Perhaps the greatest nuisance with ( which we are harassed in the matter of mail is the receiving of circulars. A business man can not go to the post office without receiving in his mail from one to a dozen circulars. Some of these are issued by Government ncenoies. snmp hv mail nrder houses. ~ ? some by country-saving associations, and some by other agencies. But none of them, we think, accomplish the result intended, and all of them combined impose a terrible burden on the mail-carrying agents of the government. These circulars are carried, . we believe, for one cent, and many of them at that price are much heavier than the ordinary letter. It is as much trouble to handle one of them as it is to handle an ordinary letter, and we fail to see any ground on which they are entitled to be carried by the government at one-half what it costs to carry a letter from one noint in the countrv to another. We think that the law-making power at Washington might cut down the expenses of carrying mail considerably by increasing the postage on these circulars, because at increased rates fewer of them would be carried and that the income from this source would be increased at the same time by the increased rates on the part still carried. We agree, too, with the suggestion that every government agency must bdy restricted in the amount of mail which is carried free of cost. Especially do we concur in the suggestion that congressmen and senators of the United States should be required to pay postage just like all other orAM J AnnAAinlltf 4-V* *1 4 uurary muikais, miu capctitwjjr wiau i the government should be spared the exxpense of printing and then distributing through the mails without cost the speeches which we receive from time to time, many of which have never been heard of before, and many of which perhaps the alleged authors could not understand if they undertook to read them. VILLAGE'S FIRE SIREN . SERVES 30-MILE AREA Washington, July 31.?Hyattsville with its far-famed "whispering" fire siren, can now take a back seat. Rock ville, right over in the next county, has just obtained a fire siren which is a fire siren. It may be heard from 20, to 30 miles away. The new siren has been put in the -courthouse tower. When the siren is operated all work automatically ceases in the courthouse, while the inmates run around wildly, looking for cotton batting and ear muffs, always kept on hand in case of fire. GOOD ROADS TALK Highway Auociation Starts Campaign for Organization Columbia, July 31.?An intensive publicity campaign for good roads is being planned by the South Carolina Good Roads association for the near future. The organization will take advantage of every method known to impress upon the people of state the necessity of permanent highways being ibuilt by the state, it was said yesterday. The newspapers, the billboards, the moving picture and other agencies will be used in the campaign.' Already posters are being printed emphasizing the fact that "bad roads ! cost more than good roads." "Bad roads mean loss and isolation; good roads mean prosperity | and communication," reads one of j the slogans being gotten out by the: association. Another circular calls attention to the fact that while other states of the union are spending enormous sums on state highways South Carolina is spending practically nothing by comparison. If C t+L t YTiWl itsponses that our appeals are meeting with," said President L. D. Jennings yesterday. "The people of the state' are sending in their membership fees right along. A big membership in our organization means a strong organization and every county in the state should have a large number of members. We want as members people who are really interested in good roads and who will get out and work when we call upon them." Presient Jennings announced 'yesterday that B. H. Peace president and editor of the Greenville News, had accepted the position of chair man ior ureenvine county ana win at once undertake the wprk of organizing that county. Mr. Peace is a good roads enthusiast and has given the association strong support through the columns of his paper. "We are very greatly indebted to the press of the state for the splendid support which it is giving us," said Mr. Jennings yesterday. "We felt sure that we would' have the support oflhe newspapers since they always stand for progressive measures. Without their aid we could accomplish nothing in this campaign." HOUSE LARGE ENOUGH Minority Report From House Census Committee Washington, July 29.?Six members of the house census committee, which recently voted to report a bill frvr {nAvaopin/* fUn 1VI iavi taoiiig KlIC lllCiUUCiOlU^F VI I the house of representatives from| 435 to 460 declared in a minority report filed today, that the present total was big enough. Chairman Siegel, who presented the majority report, said that by their reapportionment required after each ten year census. Maine and Missouri would lose one representative and that he annual cost from 25 members would be around $295,000. Representatives Fairfield of Indiana and Barbour of California (Republicans) and Larsen of Ceorgia, O'Brinson of North Carolina, Sand- ' ers of Texas, and McSwain of South Carolina (Democrats), signed the minority report. VESSELS WILL WAIT; PASSENGERS ANGRY New York, July 29.?Some 130 immigrants tonight were bobbing OKA?+ ATI fllA milft liwif UWMV VII WAV Will W AAA 4 AC 11IU1V) OVillt" where off Sandy Hook, bemoaning the fact that the steamer Megali Hel-1 las, on which they had taken passage from Greek ports, carried an excess immigration quota of Greeks. Several days ago it was announced that Greece had sent into this country in July alf the immigrants to which she was entitled under the new restrictive laws. So when the Megali Hellas?the first of several ships in like quandary?thrust her ibow up to the theoretical three mile mark her skipper tossed over his anchor to await for August to roll around. The Americans kept the radio shack busy. Wireless wails came waifoling ashore lodging complaint with the Ellis Island immigration station. But Ellis Island did nothing and A. N. Galanos, ship's agent who said he had heard nothing about the protest, announced the craft would stay where she was until Monday. V V V HITS BY HAL V I \ > >\\>> > N Itstoodarnhottocollectbillssoplease stayaway. ] Don't you wish you were a fish or a polar bear? "Russian communists wear red stars." They ought to be wearing white stripes. Agriculture ought to pick up if all the nations beat their swords into 1 plowshares. . c c In Kansas they say you can get a * meal for 20 cents. Did you ask what K r is the fare? i If it were not for the little dirt g between the rocks on the Anfcreville road ,it would be a stone highway. ^ 8 Do you remember the spanking r your grandmother gave you for go- ^ ing in swimming during "dog days?" 8 e Mr. Harritonoka was once the;a sugar king of Russia. From his name F he ought to have been a banana king. I a r A headline says "Women's votes s to play an important part.'* Yes, play is right." ? Dr. Abbott believes that bald s heads will disappear when science learns to stimulate the scalp with P iodine. Then the front seats can be p abolished. v "We'll all be perfect men and ^ women several hundred years hence, r because we all shall be fed on prop- * erly balanced rations," says a Chica- ^ go physician. Thought there wasn't c going to be any such things as food ^ in heaven. t Egg View New? Notes a The following is from Judge: "Lem Bushnell, our marshal, who stood in the road yesterday while he ^ enjoyed a good stretch, brought a strange, big city automobile to a stop, as the driver mistook Lem's movements for some kind of a traf- ^ fic signal. ^ Galileo Sprawl had the (toothache c so bad Wednesday night that he got ^ up and lighted his damp, but it g didn't help any. "A fellotv may be a vigorous 0 sneezer, and yet be lazy * in every other way. "Ote Gimper's horse kicks just as s hard at a flv as it would at Ote oer sonally." p To which should be added the fol- 0 lowing in "our midst": Jonathan Home, the fattest drummer who comes to the Rest Easy ho- ^ el, drove up in a hack this morning ^ and when he tried to get out he got hung in the door and the fire truck had to be called in to pull him out. It was a sight worth seeing, and Blacksmith Strongarm, Groceryiman ^ Beettop, Postmaster . Slowpost, Policeman Hardtop and Major Dingb4 almost laughed themselves to death * at the spectacle. Farmer Water was selling melons off his wagon on the square this a. m., when a boy dropped one and ^ busted it. Lem told him to s eat it and he did. Then another boy c came along and broke one, but Lem * caught on to the trick and as the v boy started to eat it he threw one at ^ him and said "there aurn yr skin, c eat that't too." * v FISHING FOR TURTLES r CATCHES TWO BIG OWLS fc v Martins Perry, Ohio, July 30.? 0 WiJlia Morgan, camping on Oaptina ^ Greek, baited two big hooks with a meat to catch turtles. * Examining the hooks later he v found the bait intact. So he twirled the lines, prepara- * tory to casting them into the stream c again. They caught in a'tree and c he left them there. t Next morning two large owls v were found hanging to the lines, * having been caught while nibbling * at the meat. . * I 20-Cent Dinner Again C Chanute, Kan., July 30.?A war aiiivug i co L-d u i <tii l pivyi ictvi a xicic has completely done away with "war prices." f A cafe which has been charging I 35 cents for meals reduced its prices t to 20 cents and the price of short 1 orders will be reduced accordingly. J 4 PUBLIC HEARINGS ON TAX BILL END rHREE WEEKS MORE BEFORE MEASURE COMES BEFORE THE HOUSE?EVIDENCES OF DIFFERENCE OF OPINION ON CERTAIN PROPOSED CHANGES Washington, July 30.?Public hearngs on tax revision were closed tolay by the House ways and means j :ommittee which will start drafting he new revenue bill after hearing Secretary Mellon, Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair and other Treasiry officers, in executive sessions beginning Monday. Chairman Fordney said today it frobably would take three weeks to ;et the bill before the House. The najority. members of the committee lave as yet had no conferences to ,gree upon a revision program and vidence of a difference of opinion mong them on certain changes proiosed has not been lacking. All of the Republicans have not yet greed to the Treasury proposal to epeal the excess profits tax and subtitute and increase in the normal ax on corporations, but leaderj genrally believe this program ultimatey will prevail. A reduction in the urtax charges to a maximum of at east 40 per cent also is forecast with irobably some other changes in the iresent law. Like the great majority of those /ho had gone before, most witnesses efore the committee today sought emoval of the tax irom tneir paricular industries, but, as Chairman 'ordney repeatedly pointed out, the ommittee got few suggestions as to ow the loss in revenue proposed was o be made up. William A. Brady of New York, nd other spokesmen for the moving j icture industry, including theaters,' sked that the theatrical seat tax, the per cent sales tax on films and he 10 per cent admission tax be reloved. James A. Emery of this city, on ehalf of the National Manufacturers Lssociation, urged repeal of the exess profits tax and the higher rackets in the surtax, substituting a ;eneral turnover or sales tax. Representative Appleby, Republian, New Jersey, argued in favor of tis bills to impose a two cent stamp ax on bank checks, to repeal the | oda water tax and to levy a Federal | o V ^ tr />nn f r> nnr VAvcnnAiirati a w I OA VI IV/i l/J V^llbO pCX UUiOCpUYVCi Ull assenger automobiles and $10 a ton >n trucks, with a part of this to go o the States in lieu of the present itate taxes. Opposing repeal of the excess pro- its tax and the higher groups of surax, Charles A. Lyman, secretary of he National Board of Farm Organzations, said there was a feeling on he part of the farmers that some ilan should be worked out under irhich the vast accumulations of wealth should bear a larger -part of he tax burden. MOONSHINE CAR CAPTURED Gaffney, July 30.?Officer C. Y. Lllison and his assistant,4 L. H. Allion, accompanied by a revenue officer aptured Thomas J. Stewart and his ^ord car yesterday morning between Jrover as Stewart was returning to lis home with a load of moonshine. onsisting of twelve gallons of prety fair corn whiskey. The capture I'-as made about 4 o'clock in the aorning after an all-night vigil by he officers. The whiskey and car vere taken charge of by the revenue 1 ifficer and Stewart was brought to Jaffney, where he gave bond for his ippearance at the next term of the 'ourt of General Sessions, which vill convene here next September. James Scruggs, who has made for limself quite a reputation for effi-j iency in running down illicit liquor [ealers, has been commissioned by he Governor as a State constable and vill operate in the western section of Cherokee and the northern part of Spartanburg. This will give Officer Ulison and his force a better op lortumiy zo cover uie uiutrr portiuns if this county. Foreign Born Population. Washington, July 29.?The total 'oreign born -white population of Richmond and Norfolk as announced oday <by the Bureau of Census gives Richmond 4,637 and Norfouk 6, >87. 0 TOBACCO ASSOCIATION | A SETS MINIMUM PRICE Product Not to Be Sold Below Three \ Cent* a Pound?Willcox Elected President. Florence, July 30.?The South Carolina Tobacco Growers' associa- \ tion today agreed upon three cents c as the minimum price at which to- i: bacco should be permitted to sell in y this state, and will recommend this r figure to the Warehousemen's asso- v ciation at its meeting here tomorrow. It is stated that every effort will be g made to prevent the sale of tobacco c for less than three cents a pound and f a campaign will be waged to that t end. A Kingstree bank president j declared today that rather than see d tobacco sell for less than three cents on the Kingstree market he would t. credit any grower's account for the b amount and give him tlie tobacco to v eairy back to his farm. This was h State Senator Epps of Kingstree. f The following officers were elect- t! ed: President, F. L. Willcox, vice t< president, S. B. Poston; secretary, T. f< B. Young; treasurer, J. W. McCown, a The board of directors will be chosen later. One person from each market d will compose it. The executive com- n mittee will be selected from the n board of directors. o The association reorganized for u the next year with the election of ^ the officers named. The matter of establishing a market service was 0 referred to the executive committee. u The Sapiro plan was indorsed. All w of the tobacco counties except ^ Georgetown and Dillon were repre- w sented at the meeting. ti Timmonsville, July 30.?Although ^ prices seem to be gradually improv- ^ ing in the Timmonsville tobacco mar- j. ket as the better grades are brought in, the sales continue light. Some of the best grades brought as high as 40 cents Tuesday and a more opt'mistic feeling is prevalent that the _ c farmers will at least be partially ^ satisfied as the grades improve. For the first time in this market's history a buyer representing the ChinoAmerica Tobacco company has joined the other buyers here. He arrived this week and is doing some buying. j It is as yet uncertain if the' prices will be affected by this new competitor. Compared with other sec- . tions of the state Timmonsville's average has held up wonderfully and ? although no definite information has been gatheted, it is believed this ^ market is now in the lead. The tobacco board of trade for . Timmonsville has held its annual _ eiecbiuii ui uiuccs as lunvno. x ^ ident, W. H. McElveen; vice president, B. K. Watkins; secretary and treasurer, W. E. Lea. One of the ^ important matters taken up was the , purchase of an additional 2,000 bas- . kets for warehouse use as there are g at present only 1,000 in the houses. A new feature this year in connec:ion with the baskets is that each one is numbered and the basket j ticket placed on it is given the same mber. In case the tickets get lost or mixed up the factory men can j trace the basket. The membership e to the board has been reduced from $100 to $25 in order to induce every buyer to become a member. G IN A FEW MORE CENTURIES, WE'LL BE PERFECT t 'Chicago, July 30.?We'll all be perfect men and women several hun- t dred years hence, because we all t shall be fed on properly balanced s rations." o This was the statement of Dr. Ed- 0 ward T. Abbott, dean of the post- b graduate school of the College of w Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons h before a large number of osteopaths. Doctor Albbott believes that bald ( heads will pass and gray hair will be t unknown when science learns the p trick of properly stimulating the n system with iodine. Relativity Explained j ? i a _ TT 1 J mrmingnam Age-aieraitu "How many degrees as Professor Doppel the celebrated entoanolo gist?" 1 "I don't know, and he doesn't t know, either. Professor Doppel v doesn't get half as much excited fi when an honorary degree is confer- (red on him as he does when a colleague of his reports by cable from Bombay, Cape Town or Honolulu that he has discovered a new bug. J MORGAN ZIMMERMAN 4 FOUND NOT GUILTY Verdict Greeted With Cheers.?Mother TelU of the Tragedy in Her Home. ? 1 V, Spartanburg, July 30.?Not guilty vas the verdict of the jury in the -ase of Morgan Zimmerman on trial a the Court of General Sessions here resterday. The jury deliberated but line minutes and returned with the erdict. The trial was hard fought from be;inning to end. For two hours today ourt was at ease while the attorneys or the State looked up points of law. he point being raised that one of the urnrs hnH sn CYrrpsspd Viimoolf oc fn isqualify him for a juror. The defendant went on the stand his afternoon and told of the killing, reaking down and weeping while he ras making his recital. He said that ,e had never made threats against his ather and that there is not a boy in he country who loved his father bet?r than he. That he shot because he elt that his father would kill him nd his mother. Mrs. Zimmerman, the widow of the eceased, R. W.' Zimmerman, and lother of the defendant, told of the * listreatment of the husband on many i j cuaaivus auu uic HiUi^UlblCS pon her and the final threat to kill is family and himself. She told of he events leading up to the killing, f how tKe husband and father was nder the influence of whiskey and ras apparently crazy; how he took old of her and she felt t^at her life ras in danger. Morgan came in at hat time and the father made an at ack upon him, getting him down on he kitchen table and how the boy nally got loose from the father and ried to get out but was hemmed up. Ie then shot. Mrs. Zimmerman broke down sevral times as she told of the abuse nd the tragedy following. After she nished her direct testimony the ourt recessed from business for hree minutes to" permit Mr. Zimmer- v lan to compose nersen Deiore unergoing the ordeal of a cross-examiation. Counsel for the prosecution was onsiderate of her feelings and made he cross-examination as light as pos- , ible. , Able arguments were made both by , he prosecution and the defense. The rosecution endeavored to show that he defendant had on several occaions expressed a determination ta J ill his father even going to the exent of borrowing a gun on more han one occasion for that purpose. 'he gun with which the shooting was one was a borrowed gun. The deceased was prominent in the ounty, having served one term in. he Legislature. He was killed in his atyia Mott A loaf inef o-ffoi* /?Amnlo+_ IV4MW ***?J "iJ lUUUy JUUV UJL WVJL VVIMyiW ng his dinner. The verdict was , reeted with applause. SUMMONS Itate of South Carolina, County of Abbeyille. Court of Common Pleas. loy Clement, and the minors Helen Clement and Ruth Clement by ^ their Guardian Ad Litem J. S. Clement, Plaintiffs. against ieorge Godfrey, Jim Donaldson, and if he be dead, then the unknown heirs at law of Jim Donaldson, Defendants. You Are Summoned and required o answer the Complaint in this acion, of which a copy is herewith erved upon you, and to serve a copy % f your answer to the said Complaint n the subscriber at his office at Abeville Court House, South Carolina, / within twenty days after the service ereof, exclusive of the day of sucb ervice, and if you tail to answer xne Complaint within the time aforesaid, he plaintiffs in this action will aply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. J. HOWARD MOORE, PlaiatifTs Attorney. une 27th, 1921. 'o the absent Defendant, Jim Donalson, and if he be dead, then to the unknown hoirs at law of Jim Donalson: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the complaint in this ac ion toether wun tne summons, 01 ^ /hich the foregoing is a copy, was iled in the offioe of the Clerk of Jourt for Abbeville County, South 'aroilna, on the 27th day of June 921. J. HOWARD MOORE, Plaintiff's Attorney.. * uly 11th, 1921.- ltwk 4 wks. ' P