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? Established 1844. , THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly ( Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second- iiass matter at tost office in .Vobeville, S. C. L y ? T?rvu of Sabtcrfptiont One Year $2.0# Ax months SI.00; Three months - .59 ?\ ?: * Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION - ' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, | ' T _ . ^ T LEGISLATION -NEE&EB ? . __ Some years ago the General Assembly passed an Act requiring all hotels in this stat^ of more than two stories to erect, adequate fire escapes on plans outlined by the Insurance , Commissioner. The law was advisable. The recent fire in Macon. Ga.. rft T * which nearly a score of persons lost |*. , . their lives brings home to us the fact that other requirements are needed in the matter of protecting the lives' of guests in hotels. The Macon hotel was nothing less 6? than a fire trap. The building was of wood construction and four stories I ' in height In case of fire originating on the ground floor and getting a start before being discovered, certain t^ath was sure to result. That is i^hat did result. It is stated by the papers that numbers of guests on the , top floors found their way to the. fire escape, but that the rear wall where it was constructed was in flames so that the fire escape could not be^sed. These people either jumped and received terrible injuries or perished in the flames. |v Had the building been of brick, as |- * it should have been, the rear wall would not have been in flames and the lives of the persons who reached the fire escape would have been saved. ?- i These persons would not have been !,v called on to jump three- or four stories in order to save' tReir lives, receiving Injuries from so doing, some ,of the. injured ones dying as a result of such injuries. Had the hotel been of fire-proof construction, no one would have lost his life from the fire. t, - * E 5 It is manifest that a hotel with hundreds of guests, perhaps, and with stores, pool .rooms, barber shops ' and other places of business connected with it, or in the same building, is a hazardous place to go to sleep on account of the dangers from fire. The number of people about the place, none of whom perhaps are overly careful, but adds to the dangers lurking in a building of that ^ kind. To require that every hotel building more than two stories in ? . height shall be of brick and fire proof construction would be but a just police regulation for the safety of ^ persons compelled ito use these places at one time or another. Before there is an awful catastrophe in this state like that in Macon something should ' be done bv the law-makin? nower in ?' ; South Carolina. | PLANT SWEET POTATOES I'he boll weevils have taken the place of the Germans. What the Ger-' mans didn't do, the boll weevils are now finishing. The reports which t come in from the farms are anything but encouraging. If one-half that is < tolcT of these insects and of the devastation wh:ch they are bringing t9 us is true, then conditions are not far - from alarming. Some two years ago the Press and Banner advocate^ a trip int^ the boll weevil ten\t$$4tt 4tf^<^.;\.^hat ; might ,get re^dy to-itteefc conditions which the weevils make, if our coUn> ( try was invaded' by * these# enemies. Like all other peoples, though, we did not heed the warnings which came to us. The people prefer to sit still until their throats are cut and then to jump up and raise a great noise. It were better to escape in ad vance. But the t'me has come when scfmetiling must be done. We must turn to other crops. There is only the hope left that a cold winter may drive the weevils back below this latitude and ? that we may be saved at least to a great extent. Just how much ground P/wt. JiAno fhoro ?? alone this line we cannot say. But certain it is that we pi." :V | h*- , K / aeggg=" ' ' do not always fiave extremely cold weather in the winter time, sufficiently cold to kill out the weevils. In case the cold weather should kill them all this winter another mild winter would mean their presence again. -The only sensible thing for us to do is to begin to shift to other crops, at least in part. And why not turn to potatoes? Most of the lands in this county will produce huge crops of sweet potatoes. We are informed that an acre of land properly cultivated will make from three hundred to five hundred bushels of sweet potatoes. But If we make on each acre only one h'iindred bushels, we may still make money from planting them. That may be illustrated in this waj: Wb will say that we plant one thousand acres (fifty one horse farms of j^jjenty acres each) in sweet potatoes and these one thousand acres1 profa',?^ ana Vin"nHrf?d hrtslrpls Pftoh acre! That means one hundred thousaml "Bushels, which- at a net selling pr|c6' <if fifty cents per bushel, will* brin?'fti fifty thousand dollars. That is ais :fnuch as one thousand bales of cottoh will bring at fifty dollars per bale, knd it will take two thousand acres of land to make that much cotton. If instead of planting one thousand acres we plant five thousand acres, we shall have a crop worth half as much as the entire cotton crop raised in this community will bring this year, counting cotton at fifty dollars per bale. There is a market for every kind of crop on earth. The people may wear last year's birds' nests and clothes but they cannot eat the same things oyer. The human system demands, fuel, and there are more and more people to be fed every-^rear; there ia a larger and larger demand for, the things on which the human system must subsist. There will be a market for potatoes when there, is none for cotton; and if there is no market the people may live on the potatoes while they wait for cotton to go up. Half as much cotton in Abbeville County as is now planted, with the other half of the lands m potatoes, will mean fewer hungry people in this country and better fed pocket books. TomoA-ow there is to be a meeting at Hodges of the potato growers ofj that, section. The growing of pota toes is no experiment with the Hodges people. They have a "potato house where potatoes may be stored and kept free from rot, and they are producing them there for profit. There, tomorrow, first hand information may be secured about the amount of potatoes which may be produced on a single acre, how much these potatoes will- bring on the market, where a market may be found, the best way to cultivate these potatoes, the best plants* and varieties to use, and every other kind of valuable information which the people may need can be had. The Chamber of Commerce is appointing a delegation of citizens and farmers to go to Hodges tomorrow for the purpose stated. It will cost you little to go on the trip, and you should be as much interest ed as any other individual in this matter. ( If we find that it. is practical to produce potatoes for a profit, we may return and get ready for next year. A potato house will be planned for us by Clemson College and we may easily erect it before another crop is produced. We will fie ready to store the potatoes when they are made. Enough farmers may be induced to ?hnt a potato crop to insure, proper returns from the potato house. In this way we may render a. valuable service to the people of the; county, and save ourselves from Serious losses. This is a matter which'deserves earnest consideration and,no less, your immediate attention. May the people of the county expect the people at the court house i to- take, steos lookine to the saviner oi ike:farming interests of the cotfn; '' t zz vcj icy/ a::y seven men equal to the responsibility? Former Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams, in a statement to the press issued Ocotber 18, 1920,'* referring to the power of a small committee on the New York Stock Exchange which fixed the rates of money from day to day, against which he vigorously protested, said: "Mr. Lincoln's axiom that God never made a man good enough to be entrusted with unlimited power over 'another man may be supplemented with the suggestion that no four, or six, or eight men are strong and pure enough to be entrusted with unlimited power over the finances of a great country without direct responsibility and accounting for their acts to the public or some other potent and intelligent authority. Power to fix money rates for all, or nearly all, of the banks in New York City and to change them daily, is a grip of the heart of commerce. It permits such interferences as fallible human judgment, whim or interest may direct with the natural and orderly movements of money, the life blood of business. Mr. Williams was quite correct in saying, basing his statement on the axiom of Mr. Lincoln, that no four, or six, or eight men are strong and pure enough to be entrusted with unlimited power over the finances of a great country. And yet seven men' j sitting in JSVashington, have absolute * ? < * A* I power to nx tne money rates ior tne entire country, to control the finances of this great land from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the , Lakes to the Gulf, ancf to dominate every bank in the country. A few banks may perchance-have the back-1 bone or the financial strength to re- K sist the power of this board, but j ^ every bank that goes contrary to its commands does ^o at the peril of its own life. / \ . If Lincoln thought that no < one j man was good enough to be entrusted' { with unlimited power over another man, what would be his thought if t today he could find seven men hold- ( ing their sessions in secret, have un- ? limited power over 'the business life , of every man in America? The power of the slave-holder in olden days, which Mr. Lincoln had in mifid, was ^ angelic, was heavenly in its effect, and definitely small in its power for . .evil,'as compared With the power of seven men who,sit enthroned in the office of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. How much longer will the nation ^ permit such a power to stand against | the welfare of tfhe country, or to have [a. power to so make or break, inflate ^ joy deflate, which 'can change over ^ night tiie value of every security in America of every pound of cotton and every bushel of grain? That is I the power which no seven men on earth are good enough and gregt enough to hold, and suppose tho?e seven men take their cue from Wall street and do as Wall street suggests? Then Heaven help the country! Some radical change in such a 'condition is essential to our ? safety.?Manufacturers Record. JWENTY CENT COTTON PREDICTED FOR MARCH 1 t Since the government issued its* report on August 1st, giving the estimated average condition of the cotton crop at 64.7, or normal, the crop ? is reported to have deteriorated fulJy 25 per cent in the territory betweeen Dallas and San Antonio, Texas, says Sugarman's Indicator. There are well-informed crop specialists in Texas who are venting the opinion that the entire state may not produce more than 2,000,000 bales, They, are very bullish on cotton in Texas and are predicting 20c peri J pound by March 1, contrasting with i { a preva:ling level of 13c per pound. I On a purchase of 10 bales of May I cotton at 14c per pound* necessitat- j marginal deposit of $100, an j advance in the May option to 20c j pc-r pound by March 1 would give the j fortunate holder an indicated paper j profit of $300, less $4.50 commission j cr.d a small government tax. j Even though the May cotton fu- j tures should sell up to 20c per pound jj v.. VC L* 1 i-l ?1 J ~:i.. I )y inarcii i, Lucre wuuiu neuea&cuny be frequent reactions atod bulges which would give numerous profitmaking opportunities. While trading in cotton futures is highly speculative At .the same-tiipe. wheh you consider | that the Government states a crop of only 8,203?900 bales is expected as I contrasted with 13,365,754 bales last year, 11,420,763 bales two years agolj and 12,040,532 bales three years ago, j one can readily realize' that there j should be real merit behind the pres- j ent upward movement in cotton futures. Canada's loans to war veterans to-1 tal $80,000,000. The national debt of the United I States at the end of the Civil War! was $2,750,000,000 as compared with' $21,000,000,000 at the close of the World War. ^VVVVVV V V vvvvv * < I V - HITS BY HAL \ V V VVVVVVV V V V V VV V Beauty is more than shin deep these days. Let your lights so shine that the cops can see them. Ma-rines toP&na-ma. Ma against ma may make a tug of war. It's a wise man that knows his collars when they come back from ' the laundry. . % I ' ' # { Motes are not so numerous in men's eyes now, though we do see J ^ a lot of beams. .,j: Lamp posts >that.; formerly .$er v.?d h as anchors for drunks are now useful for nothing but holding lights. j j For Vacationists. ( Count your redbugs befoije they are scratched. - ^ ? 1 If President Harding is such ' a j ?ood painter maybe he will add aj< uwie coior xo mis associauvn 01 nations story. 0 I Marriage, we suppose is called a h % ' r slippery business becaue the bride {= ilways slips away immediately after [j die ceremony. The latest thing is atoid to be an | iutomobile thlat can jump. There' G jeems to be no escape for the foot- I ' E jore. . - is 8 "Deibate on Farm Relief Bill g Ends," says a headline. Oh, well,'| There'll be more debate before anyjg ?: ?x / il .VIItTJL 13 put UU'b. % ' *g That lamb that was eaten by the | volf / because of the mud3y water | vas not Mary's lamb. If it had been | hat wolf would have been eaten. E e Congress is going to take a vaca- | ;ion. By the time the next session j| jegins, the lawmakers will , think of^jl ! BIG RE i i i 1 TI17A II ij i w\j n jj The Stark V* ij some Money, j startling reducl j price on all T ? during the mc i BH I The 2 1-2 Bai ! The 2 3-4 Ba 1 The 2 1-2 Ch j The 2 3-4 Ch { The 2 1-2 Th }l j The 2 3-4 Th | THE >1B0VE PRICI li E Lfj This will be your on* -5 very best Wagon on t | The St, BfBfifiRRRfyyyyyaft a few more; liberties that ought to b<s abolished. tt'dUHfci Geraldine Farrar and' Lou Tellegen couldn't get along with each other, it is said, because they arie too beautiful for each other. Most all the movie stars seem to be that way. GREENWOOD TO SALUDA Bub Line Scheduled to Begin Operation Today. A daily motor bus line between Saluda and Greenwood will begin operation Monday. The line will be operated by B. R. Walker of Saluda owner of a 16 passenger, Reo 'bus, which will .be used. At a meeting of business men at the Chamber of Commerce this morning, guarantees were .made;which will insure the bub . . 1 ... ..\T * line, i > -.JV-i't *' \ . i . \ Merchants believe that a' daily bus lirle from Edgefield will bring in an appreciable amount of trade. To encourage this movement, The IndexJournal plans to increase its circulation in Saluda, hiring carrier boys there and distributing the paper free fpr one week. The bus line schedule will permit Saluda citizens [Jf2f3J3I5J3J5J5J3I3fS13M3ISJSJ5JSJ3J2EI5J51SEISlS [Five Gallon a I Beginning today we 1 purchase ofN oil or ga jj entitle holder to one !] Ions of Gasoline, to b a Saturday afternoon. I Duplicate checks will I and one drawn out, tl a nounced in newspape | Sherard I Filling ? migiafiifaiaii!i?!i?!iaiHia5 DUCTIOIS ON IORSE W, ihicle Co. is ob and though this tion, we are goi wo Horse Wag >nth of August. ? I in was $155.00, now in was $160.00, now .... attanooga was $145, no1 attanooga was $150, no\ lornhill was $145, now .. ornhill was $150, now .. ARE FOR CASH 0 TION GUARANTEEI 5 opportunity to supply y jarth and at a low price Yours to please, irk Vehi [to get The Index-Journal ahead of " other papers. * A fare of four cents per mile will I be charged. The schedule follows: Leave Saluda at- 7 a. m? reach Greenwood at 9:45. Leave Greenwood at 4:16 p. m., reach Saluda 7 p. m. The bus line will operate ev- ? ery day except Sunday.?IndexJoumal, Friday. . , LOOK! COMING [ OPERA HOUSE, * FRIDAY and 8ATURDAY MATINEE EACH DAY AT 3:30 I CHARLES CHAPLIN --AND " JACKIE COOGAN . y > . a-INS.^ fijH vi ? >* ; "T H E K ID" Do Not Faij, To See This Dandy Picture. SPECIAL MUSIC BY KAY'8 ORCHESTRA AT NIGHT SHOWS ONLY. -ADMISSION? * Children - ? 20 Cents . 0 Adults - - - 40 Cents s Gas Free! I & will give with each | , s a check which will f chance at Five Gal- g e given away each | be placed in a box g , le number to be an- jS sr each Monday ^ I I UIUU1CI9 I itation. i HBaBBaaaaBBBBEiateBBraaBBiaBg * mfgiaiafiuaiaraigiBiaiiiia. [ SALE I !i 4G0NS I . ' I iliged to raise [j 5 may seem a |? i | i ing to cut the ons $25 each [ i $13o/o() 1 .... $135.00 w $120.00 1 V $125.00 S $120.00 I $125.00 ffi " * ?NLY. SATISFAC- Sj our farm with the J? i icIeCo. ij l( HKifiiflfiiHfifiBHBfm ' _ I