Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EstabEshed 1844. f THE PRESS AMD BANNER ABBEVILLE, 8. C. The Proas fend Burner Company ' ^ :' Published Tri-Weekly ' Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 11 ; .1 Entered as lecomKiass matter at |Nt oiBee in Abbeville, S. C. I Tinu of Sabccriptioat One Year |2.09. Wz months $1.09 Three months .59 - . i- s ^ i - Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRES^ ASSOCIATION - jMONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1921 ^4 T /' '' " " " " . { ' in* 'V . ' ' \ | THE WAX HOME.. ''' ? ' <xovernor Cooper calls on the newspapers to furnish the evidence that mobs have been riding over the, country hunting for the slayers of young JJrazeu witn tne purpose 01 lynching them, but the newspapers I I called on the governor first. " We are not sure, but it appears from his statement that the goveror has some doubt about the statement that such persons have been hunting V- for the murderers. Is it that the govfrnor has not heard that a body of m*n appeared at the jail in Augusta and demanded the prisoners? Or has the governor not. learned a body Of .masked men searched the car in which the sheriff of Lexington CounV ty 'was going from Charleston to Columbia? By the way why didn't the sjaeriff arfest the five men, or rather & it is stated young boys, who came into the ear. masked for the purpose of taking prisoners from him, if such he fcad had, and lynching them? Where was Judge Hammond, of Augqpta, when the mob from South! v Carolina turned up in Augusta foj the pprpose of storming the jail? Instead of waiting to. advise Governor Hatdwick that the governor of South Carolina should say something a little; different from the conversation between the governors of North Cari v oliaa and South Carolina, why didnt be [call on the sheriff ^of his county to )shoot it out with the mob, and hate an end to the lawlessness? r( We said last week that it would the spilling of blood to stop the! I mob. No sheriff, no governor "and no, t- othVr officer will ever stop the mob? if he is afraid he will hurt" some of ; them. In Knoxville, the other night >, a mob stormed the jail, and twenty-1 -t-jL _ M JA- 1 A 1 X. eigm ox us memDers were pasen to hospitals. Six machine guns were put at places of vantage about the jail where they could sweep every street | leading to the jail, and notice was served on every lawless man in Tennessee that the law is supreme and is not to be set at naught by even a mob. In Massachusetts last week an effort was made to storm a jail and take away three prisoners. The sheriff defended his jail and the gov^ i eienor called for enough reinforce' ments to make the prisoners 'safe. There is no doubt in the minds of any man who read of the proceedings that if the mob had made a fury ther attempt, it would have received pS what was coming to it. The sheriff didn't take his prisoners and hide] them' in first one jail and then in another. He made the law as bold as a lion and with the full power of authority behind him he defied the lawless element which would have none of the law's orderly process. When we get to think more of orderly government in this state, when officers have a due regard for their ; v . oaths, when we have a governor who tfill order officers to shoot to defend the law. and when the blood of men St ? j- S r 1 who defy civilisation is not regarded as "innocent," yre shall be able -to stop.the mob in South Carolina. n i/.| . # EXORBITANT RAILROAD . RATES MUST BE REDUCED Germany is now supplying to California and the entire Pacific Coast all the coke which that section is usinj?, according to a letter from the Matthew Addy Company, iron merchants of Cincinnati. And yet we have been told that there was no danv ger from German competition. In discussing this subjct, the Matthew Addy Company points out that this condition is largely due to exorbitant freight rates. In olden daysj the freight rate on pig iron fromj Birmingham to the Pacific Coast was I' jp . ' Sl"' | * $12.32 per ton, but today, it is $22.40 per ton, and they add: "All the iron that is needed on the Pacific Coast is coming by sea, most of it from Belgium." * * *'"In the older days the rate to California on Connellsville coke was $11.30 per ton; the present rate is $19.76 per i/n." And then mention is made of the fact that the coke that is being used pn the Pacific Coast is coming from Germany. The old freight rate from Birmingham to Cincinnati was $2.75 per ton; now it is $4.50. The freight rate on pig iron from Birmingham to St. Louis was $2.75; today it is $5.25. "The South," the Addy Company writes, "hats just about gone ouit of the pig iron business, because freight rates are so high as to practically build a wall around the Southern furnaces." y, The situation in the iron and coke ?ra'4e, so clearly outlined in this lett**. in tvnical of the' conditions nre i -tt ? ? :? tfajlipg; in, nearly every line of business; in. this country. Freight rates ate-exorbitantly high. They are destructive of business. They were made Whfeh Cotton was selling at 36c. to 40c. a pound, and pig iron and coke at more than double the present prices. Since these freight .rates were .established prices of everything have been cut right and left, and railroads cannot prosper at the present rates, because present rates destroy business. There can be no thorough economic development of this country until the railroads voluntarily, or by the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission, are forced to bring rates down to a more normal basis. The Manufacturers Record -for twenty years or more advocated a higher rate than that which prevailed, believing that the railroads were not then getting a freight rate which would justify the expansion of railroad facilities, whicB we have so persistently advocated. But the present freight rate is absolutely unjustified from every point of view. It is destructive of business. It has thrown a great burden upon the country. It is permitting European coke and iron to drive out the coke and iron of Pennsylvania and the South from the Pacific Coast, and is hampering and in.manycases making impossible the development of our domestic exporv. urHue. Unless- the -railroads voluntarily and promptly take the lead .in bringing about fL lower freight rate, they will inevitably create a hostility to railroad interests which will prove ait destructive as were the legislative activities years ago,""" by the states and the nation alike, against all rajlroad interests. A quick readjustment of freight rates, preferably by the wisdom of the railroad managers, is the safest and sanest course for their own preservation. He will be a narrow-minded railroad official who fails to see the signals of danger in presvof ftp on/1 TirV* a Af\*\a y* f aIta xacco auu nnu uuco nui van.c prompt steps to bring about a reduction in rates.?Manufacturers Record. V . HARDING ALSO WAS A FAINTER NOT AN ARTIST Washington, Aug. 20.?rEveryibody in the country prdbalbly knows by this time that Warren 'G. Harding before he became President, was an editor. But few can remember when he was a painter, and a good one. He proved his craftsmanship Friday. On ihis way home from the executive mansion, across to his office, he stopped to watch some of the painters engaged in the business of making the White House white. "Here, you don't know how to do that," the President jokingly remarked to one of the astounded workmen. "Let me show you." * Taking the brush, he'dipped" it In the! paint-pot and went to work. ' "When did #ou-learn .the trade, Mr. President?" asked the men. "Why, on the day President Garfield was shot I got my first contract. It was for painting a Baptist church near Marion. I did it too," said the President. EXPORT LOAN OF $40,000 MADE TO SOUTHERN BANK Washington, Aug. 20.?The War Finance Corporation Friday approved a loan of $40,000 to a Southern bank to assist in the exportation of cotton. The name of the bank was not made public. ;] Folded fiiltc Prore Money Scarcity. [J ! Index-Journal. . An observer of men and things i seated on the iron Tail in front of the Postal Telegraph station late ; yesterday afternoon dreamily watched an old negro carefully fold a one t dollar bill and still more carefully nnolrof mmrn lAnlttipr mirw t which contained it. "Have you noticed the number of bills being , handed across counters with creases , in them " he asked a friend standing nearby. "When you see, dollar bills with creases in 'em, times are hard and money is scarce. People , don't keep money til it wears itself ( out when its ' plentiful and easy to get. I'll bet you a dollar myself tihat , half the bills being handed across that counter over there," indicating a ten cent store, "have creases in them like they had been/ ironed." From the way paper money is showing its creases, you would think the country had turned tight wad." The spea^pr's companion grunted a comment at bis friend's philosophy and hastened fco remark at the brevity of 1 a passing skirt. NO SPLIT SEASON. Judge Memminger Continues Baseball Injunction in Sally Charleston, Aug. 20.?Judge R. W Memminger of the state circuit court, before whom yesterday 3 hearing was held here on the South Atlantic Association "split-season" controversy, to determine whether or not the expartite temporary restraining order issued by Associate Justice Watts against President W. H. Walsh be continued or dissolved, today filed an order adjudging the return of the defendant insufficient and continuing in force the temporary injunction pending final determination of this action. i .. , This order is regarded as a virtual knockout for the rest of the season. , r THE PLACE YOU DREAM OF There still remains one place on earth, inhabited by white people, where there's no work?and no taxes, no laws, no police, no tag days, no strap-hanging, no alarm clocks? and nothing-to-worry about ; v ** Tristan da Cunha is the place. ' It's an island in the South Atlantic ocean, 1500 miles southwest* of St. Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon died. The Tristanites are descendants of the relief garrison of British soldiers stationed there during Napoleon's captivity. Tristan is such a healthy place that nobody ever gets sick, so there are no doctors. Once the people "had a chest of medicine, but about 10 years ago they got tired .of having it around ip the way, so they ditched it into the sea. You've dreamed of a place like Tristan. It's the sort of paradise you yearn for when life gets your gopt and you'd like to crawl in a hole and pull the hole after you. Only about 100 people live on Tristan, but they boast that no one ever wanted to leave. The only ship that ever visits them is a British cruiser that drops in once a year. No other contact with the outside world. If you could stow I away aboard that cruiser, you'd find, at Tristan: An inland 21 miles around. A snowclad extinct volcano rising in the center. A small village on a fertile green peninsula. Nothing to make people work. Nothing to pay taxes for. The inhabitants eat fish, wild fowl, birds' eggs, clams, fruit and wild potatoes. When they want meat, they go out .and kill wild sheep or cattle. Clothing and ammunition are obtained from the crew of ^he cruiser by bartering skins of the seals that sport oniTristaifs #oc&y Ihoretf. ' * * Tristan is said to be the only white settlement" in'-the world that litis ik? urgttiu&eu guveriiiiieiit. ' Inherited discipline from the people's soldier-ancestors, along with such an abundance of everything that there's no reason for committing theft or other crimes, has made laws and organized government unnecessary. The nearest neighbors are 1200 miles away. While everybody in Tristan has all he wants and is contented, there's nothing worth stealjing by invaders. Hence, no worry about wars.?Index-Journal. Watch the label on your paper. COOPER IN COLUMBIA Governor Return* to Cepitol From Greenville. Columbia Aug,. 20.?"Governor Cooper, who has been summering in Greenville, returned to his office in Columbia today to handle the situation in regard to the holding of the two prisoners in Charleston, C. 0. Fox and Jesse Gappins charged with the killing of Wm. Brazell, Coumlbia taxi driver. The governor arrived shortly after noon and had a conference with Sheriff Alexander Heise, of Columbia. After the conference it was stated that the governor had Tfot made any plans of action regarding the recent crime situation in the state. It is expected that he will make some statement late this afternoon oV tomorrow. - < ; As to the question of whether the Governor would send for the' two prisoners held in Chterlestort it was stated the Governor' had reached no decision. A large posse of men and officers left Columbia this morning for Blythewood to take up again the hunt for the man who killed the policeman. This is the third day that the man hunt was continued, without success. The bloodhounds which tore in use were found to be of little value and they were sent back to their owner. \ NECK TOO LOW Dress Revealed Juncture of Neck With Clavicle Bone. tii i?? on A?vo mi*. abeth Naden, young and pretty, was arrested Thursday for wearing a dress that exposed more of her neck than Wilbur Glenn Voliva believes is proper. According to the warrant her dress "was cut so low as to partially show or expose the neck and shoulders of the wearer lower than the juncture of the pit of the neck with the clavicle or collar bone." , Volivia who backed the dress ordinance, rules that such a dress is "immodest, vulgar, in descent, sugfces tiye of low" vicious morals, and tends to debauch the innocence and purity and degrade the best interests of society if worn in public or in places within public view.'* , She will be tried Monday and is lialble to a "fine from $50: to $200 If proved guilty. bleaSe may run Say* He May Be Candidate For Governor Newberry, Aug. 20.-?In a speech at Jolly street picnic today former Governor Cole L. Blease reiterated his statement made at the Filbert picnic a few weeks ago to the effect that if he had had his way the United States would have stayed out of the World War, that the only thing it accomplished for this country was new made graves, widows and orphans and a tremendous war debt which raised taxes almost double. The ex-<5bvernor declared that he was being urgeed even by his personal enemies to run for Governor in the next primary and that unless some younger man of proven ability came out for the office he would make the race. The ex-Governor denounced the high taxes of the State ar.d said that Governor Cooper's pardon record was worse than his. More than 2,000 people were present for the picnic and addresses. KINCAID GUILTY -f? Jury Convicts of Second Degree Murder.' Morgantown, N. C., Aug. 20.? Guilty of murder in the second degree was the verdict of the jury in the case of Sidney A. Kincaid, Burke Cdunty commissioner, charged with this murder of his wife on July 18, last. ' ' -'' Judge Bryson announced he would pronounce sentence tomorrow mornfVifl ^aliharotor] nn V10IIT ftnH a half. The trial had been in progress since Tuesday and was heard by a jury selected from a venire of sevi enty-five men summoned from Lincoln County, on motion of the State, Solicitor Huffman opposing trial by a Burke County jury. Mrs. Kincaid's throat was cut with a fruit paring knife in a scuffle with her husband on the back porch ;of their'home, according to the evidence. TWENTY-SEVEN HURT 1 Effort To Lynch Nefro Meets With Resistance at Knozrille. Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 20.?More than 27 persons were wounded two seriously, at 9:30 tonight when deputies guarding the Knox County jail fired on a crowd which had crossed a "dead line" in approadiing the jail with the avowed purpose o1 demanding Frank Martin, a negro, held as a suspect in a criminal assault (ipon a county school teacher Thursday. All of the wounded are white. Two are women. Most of the wounded were curiosity seekers who were standing to one side upon the courthouse lawn, which is 30 feet albove the street level at the corner where the jail Stands. One officer, Deputy Sheriff Charles. Lewis, was wounded in the arm by reutrnfire,( from: the crowd. Following reports that the school teacher today had positively identified Martin as her assailant, large crowds began gathering in the vicinity of the jail before dnak tonight. Several times the crowd, started down the hill on Main street leading to the jail. They were turned hack by police. Efforts were made to hold them a block distant. iGradually some of the bolder ones edged down the street. There were proibalbly 200 men and boys in the crowd that gradually approached the jail. Several hundred other persons many of them women, were in the court house yard looking down upon the scene. As.^he crowd in the street came within 10 feet, Sheriff Cate stepped under an arc - light and demanded that they daperse. He gave warning that an imaginary line between two telephone poles should not he crossed. As a dozen men passed these poles the sheriff picked up a shot gun and fired over the heads of the crowd into the air. Four deputies who were with him then fired two volleys. Two men in 'the court house yard , and two or three in the street fired revolvers in reply. 1 . _ MARINES SENT TO STOP MALLORY LINE MUTINY * / I Washington,' Aug. : ;20.-r-Mutiny aboard the iefcawhip Alliance of the Panama Canal. Railway Company en. route to New York was reported to the Navy Department Friday by the commanding officer of battleship squadron No. 2. , The ship's master requested a guard and two officers and 20 marines have been placed aboard the ship. *. j I EXPERT R i . . sSI i I f a /\ ? d a-ivrto V/M, i after a it righl work cheapl; the sta mainta \ If you you ca be rea< tye reti workm ness ai PARTS?OU We ha tied fo .well a pared users c We ha good s Irolet p prepar Inccu. Abbeville Agent for Ch FARRAR GETS MORE TIME . New York, Aug. 20?Lou Tellegea has given Geraldine Farrar an extension of time in which to file an answer to his separation suit. She is expected to submit countercharges next month. Miss Farrar is reported * to have left the home of her parents here. Whether she has started for the Pacific coast could not be ascertained. - w /? .Gossip has it that the naiqe? of persons prominent in New York musical and social life will be drawn into the suit. . "Mt * ' V .^. i Caruso j this golden- throated j Tenor will never sing again. / IN JUSTICE TO YOURSELF . YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME OF HIS RECORDS. , come in and hear them. . ' /-y THE ECHO "The Really Musical Spat ia Abbeville." DRIVE AWAY II IFS AND ????' lAilif " Use i FRIERSON'S FLY DRIVER. 4 Money back if you are not satisfied. . t : * SO Cents per Bottle. 1 ^ i < == i, [ . .. i\: The McMurray 'Drug Co. ^ / / ??i^?Ml?) ; Si I : people do repairing, I -T . fkshion. But we do || t. We do efficient i as promptly and R y as is consistent with I mdard of service we II lin. I leave your car here n rest assured it will B iy for service when R urn it to you. Our K ten know their busi- I id take care to do it. I / ) AND NEW I ve recently disman- S. ur second hand Max- R irs, and we are pre-. ^ ; to furnish parts to R if this car. , ' R ve on hand also a R upply of New Chev- R arts, which we are R ed to install at vour R Motor Co. I ivrolet Cars. B Hi K v 9