Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?Established 1844. t THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, 8. C. X. w 0 ? The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly 1 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. ?* Entered as second-liass matter s ost office in Abbeville, S. C. Tana* of Sab?erfpUoni One Year $2.0 Six jnonths $1.0 {Three months .5 &v Foreign Advertising Representative ^ AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATIOl FRIDA?,-AU<JUST 19, W21 A FREE: AMERICAN* An*:, Richard H. Edmunds, editor y,6 the Manufacturers Record, calls-^i to task for calling him a republican Mr.- Edmunds says-that in the recetf elections he sought to register" independent democrat, but that whei he was denied this privilege he reg ifctered as *a' democrat, presumably because he intended to support th< ^inlrn+ in \Taw)onfl UVMIW1?V1V OWW UVAVV 1U .1U?1 J*??U He, however, voted for Harding fo: president,, or for the Harding reiect ore which is the same thing. He sayi that he never votes the straight party ticket in any election, but tries to vote for the best men regardlest of party. Under these circumstances w< must admit our error. The Press and ?Banner stated Mr. Edmunds is s republican because of the policies which he advocated. But on second I thought we would not have said that he is a republican. We should have said that he is a free American citizen, who consults the business interests, and welfare of the country and especially of the South in casting his vote and in the policies whicl he advocates. He is neither a republican nor a democrat. H$ is too broad to be partisan; and too well informed to be led around. If we had more like him we are persuaded thai a there would be a better administration of affairs in this section. TOO MUCH PUSSY-FOOTING The Press and fanner finds itseli in full agreement with those news papers in and out of the state whicl think that the law authorities hav< made the state look ridiculous in its | efforts to. land Fox and his compan[ ion fn the penitentiary for the kill j ing of young Brazell. In the last sev | eral years we have heard a good dea! j about law and order ; the talk has been loud and long, the tones have [ . / been sonorous and the rhetoric fine | but when it comes to action, there has been nothing but pussy-footing. If the Governor of South Caro lina wanted to bring Fox and his companion back from Augusta to the p ( penitentiary, manifestly the way t< have accomplished the result woulc " have been to send the sheriff for the r" prisoners with enough force to ac complish the result. If those ir charge of the prisoners were attacked and an attempt made to take the prisoners by force, the sheriff anc his assistants should have met force & . with force, even to the taking of the life of every man who defied the laws of the state and sought to se1 the constituted authorities at naught The law has given the sheriff and the : governor authority to enforce the law; the mob has no authority at al except the authority made up. oi brute force, and it should put the people of the state to shame that the men with authority have been run ning all over Georgia and South. Carolina and away from a mob, ever} member of which should have beer arrested, lockedittihvand tried at i special term of jCouft called to dea with emergency caws (that is if spe cial terms of courffshould be callec in any cases, the wisdom of whicl we doubt.) Of course it will be said that som< good man, some deputy, some sol dier. or mavbe some member of precious mob, might have beei wounded or killed and more bloo< would have , been spilled. Well, n< doubt, but we will never stop th? mob in South Carolina until we ar< willing to shed blood. The mob wil never hesitate until its member learn that they will not be so gentl; and tenderly dealt with as in th past. It has taken the spilling o blood to secure liberty in this coun Itry; it took blood to free Cuba from| the dominion of Spain; it took blood and an ocean of it to quell the lawless hords in Germany; and it will take " it to wipe out the element amongst us which on any and every provocation seeks to make monkeys of law officers and execute the laws in its - own way. When the mob understands $ that an attack on a sheriff, on a jail, - or on . the law officers anywhere , means the spilling of blood they will ; go home and await the ordinary pro. cesSes of the court. ' ! Until something is done the hypo. critical talk about "law and order" Should cease. NO NEED TO WAIT. * fc . . -v y * * If it is imperative that the new school building be erected at once, and we believe we need the room for - the students which will be coming ' ffr&^there is no need to await a sale *' of the bonds authorized before be^ ginning work; that is, if the banks * ra Abbeville are as much disposed to ? assist in matters looking to commat niity welfare as are the banks in oth1 er! places. Not much money will be i ~ needed before the legislature is in ! f Session, and the banks should be 5 willing to lend the. amount actually * needed until that time. When the r legislature meets an act may be ' passed which will allow the Board of * Trustees to continue to borrow mon ey. and pledge'the bonds as security , ' until the bonds may be sold at par. t There is not much money in the country just now, it is true, but the > banks will have money before it is I needed for the school building. Peoi pie who are holing cotton and at i the same time owing banks must I aifhor norr nn uri+Vimif aollinop unHnn I V?VMV4 ; or sell and pay up. In addition to > this the present crop is coming on, . and in the next few weeks it will be gin to be "marketed. The money from r it will go into the banks, and when * . the banks are paid, the balance will l go into the hands of private""parties 1 . who will have money to lend. The > hard times through which we have [ passed the present year will not be I with us much longer. It will be no; ; hardship for the banks to carry i1 xi 1 s _ ^ ' .*? .*_! s l I x public officials of the school district 1 in passing over the period in , _ which we find ourselves. A nublic , 1 service which they may perform of^ fers itself. The banks no less than any other taxpayer, and no less than s any citizen of the town Bhould be willing to help in every enterprise of B this kind. i If the banks will not assist in the i way suggested, then we say that we a should make soAkj temporary are rangement for caiTying on the work e of the schools until the bonds may be il sold for par. There is no need to be s rushed headlong against a bfick y wall. Fools have always rushed in e where angels fear to tread. Our enf thusiasm for a good prospect and the i- ambition of a few men to accom - tircse uunus xor a lew moncns ana oy j working their heads a little the mem-' bers of the Board of Trustees should I. be able to sell the bonds in that time , for par as "easily as may the bond ^ dealers, and they are asking par for like bonds. It would be too much to ask perhaps that all the 'banks of the city 'i enter into this enterprise. The bid of : 90 which has been accepted has been accepted with the understanding that the proceeds of sale of the bonds i will be deposited in the National ; Bank, and it in turn adds two per ; cent to the bid, so as to make it appear 92 instead of 90. The National Bank offers the two per cent, for the money on the understanding that the ] money is to remain with it ^r an ' average of six months, which means : that it pays four per cent .for the t money. It will of course lend the ] money for eight per cent discount, 1 which means nearly nine per cent, which the bank will receive for the money. Five per cent, its profit, on . $90,000 for an average of six months j means that the National Bank is to , crpt $22f>0 out. r?f t.ViA trnncn/?tinri anrl ( , of course it may not be willing to pass up a good trade like this. And ( there is no ground for criticism of { the bank as such in this case for j making a good trade. But while we may not expect one bank to give up what appears on the [ face of things to be a good trade for i '\ I it, nevertheless we might expect the < > other-banks of the city to demand an equal showing in. all matters per. taiping to the public and equal favi every other bank in the city. T jffie might expect them perhaps to ( t forward and offer to assist the VVVVVVV V V vvvvv V HITS BY HAL V ^VVVVVV V V V VVVV Dentistry: A very popular form of gouging. Don't judge a cook by tfre families she roasts. 9 Say it with bullets Is the latest fad in Columbia. j Stop, jump and hop! There's a Ford near you. - 4 \ . Dead fish tell, no tales? of how they were caught. Let not your heprt be troubled. It will beat,to-the last; Advnfce to motorists: Go slower and you'll live longer. ? - ' The open season for policemen will soon come again in Ireland Example of supremest nerve: Georgia wants' an apology from South Carolina. No, Zippie. In a diary you get your notes mixed and in a dairy you get your milk mixed. One man says the day's worst curse DUUUlU vici.au iuc mail v/i rrvuion who invented French cuffs. Said the Governor of Georgia tq the Governor of South Carolina: You lynch your's and we'll, lynch ours. The questoin now arises: Which is safer, to be a policeman1 in Ireland or a taxi driver in Columbia? "Democrats Stage Tax Bill Assault,M says a headline. Pretty soon the collectors will stage another one on Bill. it is saia we spena twice as raucn on candy as we do on religion. People just must be amused when they go to church. Greenwoodians, or ites, evidently have nothing to do except tell snake stories, from the looks of the IndexJournal recently. Something to worry about: The person who devotes 30 minutes to each meal during the day, spendB 549 hours, or 22 and eleven-twentyfourths days every year eating! .. . - - . A certain wise bird hereabouts says that the man who invented sandwiches took the pic out of picnic, for, says he, who cares about two slices of dry bread with air between? i " plish big results, however, praiseurnrtViv chnnlrl r>i-v+. l'nflliCP US to crn " VA ViV ? "vw ~ 0 \ into any enterprise without the fullest consideration?consideration especially for those who are to bear the burdens. The only way to suggest to a lawyer to commence an action is by paying a retainer. Any other kind of suggestion is impertinent. . It has been suggested that the trouble with the Board of Trustees i>f the city schools is that they have boll weevils on them. We saw Uncle Jim and Col. Bob Link sitting in a byggy behind a mule. Somebody is liable to get swindled. STRETCHED ICE CREAM. Boston, Aug. 18.?"Stretched" ice cream is the latest. .. It is being sold in Greater Boston by many icp creamj, manufacturers, acofrdiftgr'to l$u?fetti '"kultfrtfln, cthairman of the state commission on Necessaries of Life. In other words, "frozen air" is l>eing sold to Bostonians in place of ice cream. This "stretched" ice cream is made possible by a new whipping process. By means of this process nineteen gallons of "ice cream" are obtained from ten gallons of'cream prepara tions. Formerly only fourteen to fifteen gallons of "ice cream" were secured from ten gallons. Because of this new whipping process the ten gallons are "stretched" to nineteen, and the dealer is able to get much more money for the finished product, j This means that the public pays the extra amount. FURMAN PROFESSOR RETURNS E Earl* Keith Pljrlor Back From Cornell Unireraity. Greenville, Aug 19.?'Profe&gor r Earle Kefth Plyler, instructor in <j physics at Furman University, has s returned from the Cornell summer t school, where he pursued a conrse in / graduate physicis during the full c summer session. Prof. Plyler reports B that the Cornell summer school was a idistiftct success, a total of 2,739 students attending. Not many sod- s therners were numbered among jj ' those pursuing special work. The t regular winter session faculty of t Cornell was in elkrge <of the summer school. b Prof. Plyler took his B. A. degree at Furman in 1917 and his M. A. the j following year. After leaving here j he- tagght _. the ..hi^h ,,gphopls of J 'm Jt! *' 'j 1 ! i.1. _ Vl^JL L - -1 Aanevuie amf.iatec. we mgn sopo?{ j of Columbia. While teaching in.$he p Columbia schools, Prof. Plyler took special courses in physics at the University. of South Carolina. He will . begin his second year as instructor ^ in physics at Furman with the open-*C ing of the fall term, September 15. ? Two other Furman professors are p taking special courses of study in h northern universities during the sum- S mer months. Professor Lawrence j si Henry Bowen, assistant professor of d mathematics, is at the University of h Chicago. He took the B. A. degree jp at Furman in 1913, and afterwards^ taught in high schools of the state | h and in Spartan Academy. He will (J take up his fourth year's work at (ir Furman with the opening of the fall o term, September lirth. | w Professor E. E. Gardner, who is T coming to Furman for the first time j p this fall, to be assistant instructor in ^ French and English, Is taking special T work this summer at the University ri of. Chicago. He comes to Furman University from Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., where he taught French ! and English. He is a South ' Caro- |] linian and finished at Furman in 1914. / \' a h SOW'S EAR PURSE. s] F Will Be In Chemistry Exposition In ! si New York. I tJ Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 18.?A silK h purse made from sows' ears, as! 4, chemistry's answer to th# old saying | that it couldn't be done, will be j z shown at the Chemistry Exposition ci in New York during the week of! C: Septembeer 12. | if In announcing the successful re- b suit of experiments, Arthur D. Little 3] I Inc., chemists and engineers of this Jj city, said the silk was not very, strong and that there was no present! y industrial value in the process in- j d volved. It was more or less the pro- v, /Jii/if a/ of mlair V\?if a iL uuvb ux vucuiiobijr at x:X XJ t tx _ iy contribution also to philosophy in' o proving the fallacy of the old prov- j V erb. ] "w In reciting the factors that en-1 A tered into the transition of sows'J ears from Chicago stockyards to a| silk purse such as a woman might | carry, the chemists explained that the! first step was to analyze the silk-[A worm's method of making silk. This c< done, its caterpillar chemistry was A copied in the laboratory. c< ci In 1613 there were 42 members L of the British house of commons who1 el were under 20. Jtl ? HIHII?I WWW " - If You Had M Couldn't ! How man; tujAies to the capita HUT AS zszom em A u *. J rme soin< . Saving is it?and it dence. Let ILIND MAN ADMITS TERRIBLE MURDER : M El Paso, Texas, Aug. 18.?Ramon tamizer, 20, a blind man, was arested today and charged with mnr- m ler when deputy sheriffs found him w leeping in a shed half a mile from w he house in which Mrs. Conrado ja Llazer, 32, was murdered and her ly hildren, Conrado 4, OpelHa 7,. and & ''annie 8, were clubbed and serious- fi< y injured last night. m "Yes,.kI killed them," was Ramitez's tii tatement, according to Deputy Sher- ra John Boone. "I wanted to kill to hem all. It would be better for ec hem." Blood wdfe on Ramirez's face and ^ Lands, the officers said. Mrs. Altfzar was sleeping with her 8 months old baby when attacked, lerhusband'Jwent' to Tularosa, *N. ^ I., yia8terday.'to "'hurrt f<Jr"W0fk. >' ^ ? | -rA V/ mf'K ^ fOMEO STEPS' ON ftli Ga?. p< M Attleboro, Mass., Aug., 18.?-Ed- ^ rard Alfred Schneider, of Rockville et Center, Long Island, is some Romeo. gI [p smashed all w?cords for marriare m roposals when on a visit to this city * * ' . o0 e proposed to Miss Therest Hamil limons of Albany, N. Y., in the bort period of one-half hour. Schnei: er met Miss Simons and invited as er for an automobile ride. He proosed marriage, was accepted, ax^ ~ ras on his way to the district court ouse within a half hour's time, udge Charles C. Hagerty, after beig convinced that the case was "one f love at first sight," granted a raiver of the five-day marriage law. next trip was to the Methodist arsonage, where Rev. Edward E. Fells made the couple man and wife, he auto ride which started as a joy nvn r* ^t4tnltA<9 o a a V?nnn t r IVIAA n uc woa uuioucu as a iivucjrutwii* ^ CALLED WIFE A LIAR nd ex-Journal. Because Cobb Williams, colored illed his wife a liar and cursed her, e is dead, shot to death yesterday tiortly before noon near Dyson by _ tank Abrams, according to Abrams ? tory. Abrams also is wounded, shot >irough the left, leg and right side. I [e was arrested last night "and I +A fllfl /?A11T1+W IQll 8 Avuguv w VHV vvwMwjr ^??? The negroes w^re^at the home of eke Bowie when the shooting ocurred. Abraims claims that Williams ame up and began using abusive inguage toward his wife. He then cgan to pick a quarrel with him and bot twice before he shot at Wilams, according to Albrams. Williams died about five o'clock esterday afternoon. Death was ue to loss of blood; caused by pistol ' winds in the legs, large arteries eing cut, it was said. The verdict f the coroner's jury was that Cobb Williams came to his death from gun rounds at -the hands of Frank ibrams.'^ i y Two Negroes Electrocuted Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 17.?Will lien and Chesley Graham, negroes anvieted of the murder of Harry lien, a country merchant in Hardin i.. A JUIlty, ttiiu Xl<tJXip VT11UISVXA, a UCgi V, anvicted of the. murder of Isaac ?vy, a ^Memphis jewelry dealer were lectrocuted at the state prison here lis morning. oney You Use It? y times a year do you see make money if you onl ,1 to finance yourself? I expect to get you ithiijg?. . \ U V' if-/;.; lots of fun once you get tpays in rest of mind am This Bank Serve You , PLANTERS Bi | "jhe Jritmdli/ $anl ABBEVILLE, SOUTH (AROI ? . $500,000 NORFOLK FIRE lanufactttrinf Pltiti Covcriaf Two Block* Burn Norfolk, Va., Aug. 18,?Several anufacturing plants and peanut arehouses, covering two city blocks, ere laid waste in a half million ctol- t r fire at Smithfield, near here, ear- \ today. The flames destroyed the itire wharf property on the "Smith>ld river. The buildings for the ost part, were of frame cohstrucon and the fire spread with great ipidity, most of the damage being > peanuts stored or being prepare I for market. ~ LLEGED SLAYER OF PRIEST IDENTIFJED i Redwood City, akf- Aug. 16.? *. r illiam Eightow^,charged WitS* ie murder of SVsither' Patriek r'BJ:" eslin, kidnaped Cohfta priest, waa^: ' >sitively dentified late today by iss Marie Wendel, housekeeper for ither Healin, as the man who call- * I for the priest on the night of-Au isc z and persuaded am to go on a ission of mercy which ended in his * sath. Mrs. Bianchi, %. neighbor, al identified Hightower as the man. . i , Licorice root is regarded by Turks a pest and worse than useless. - ? * Caruso THIS GOLDEN THROATED TENOR WILL NEVER SING AGAIN. x IN JUSTICE TO YOURSELF YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME .OP HIS RECORDS. ; COME IN AND HEAR THEM. thr rrun A X 1JU LlVIAV/ "The Really Musical Spot in -* Abbeville.'* DRIVE AWAY FLIES AND MOSQUITOESUse ^RIERSON'S FLY DRIVER. i ' Money back if you are not satisfied. 50 Cfents per Bottle. The McMurray Drug Co. ? ' * oppor y had low do * - - . - dC-jPOt^ jgP 1 i M v :Jg he hab- " 1 i! i conn. . > i Z' \NK ' c" m J i