The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, August 24, 1921, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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Established 1844.
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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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( Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24,
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T LEGISLATION -NEE&EB ?
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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
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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
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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
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| 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
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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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
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)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'
$21,000,000,000 at the close of the
World War.
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Beauty is more than shin deep
these days.
Let your lights so shine that the
cops can see them.
Ma-rines toP&na-ma. Ma against
ma may make a tug of war.
It's a wise man that knows his
collars when they come back from '
the laundry. .
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Motes are not so numerous in
men's eyes now, though we do see J ^
a lot of beams.
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Lamp posts >that.; formerly .$er v.?d h
as anchors for drunks are now useful
for nothing but holding lights. j
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For Vacationists. (
Count your redbugs befoije they
are scratched. - ^
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If President Harding is such ' a j
?ood painter maybe he will add aj<
uwie coior xo mis associauvn 01 nations
story.
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Marriage, we suppose is called a h
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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
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"Deibate on Farm Relief Bill g
Ends," says a headline. Oh, well,'|
There'll be more debate before anyjg
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.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.
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Congress is going to take a vaca- |
;ion. By the time the next session j|
jegins, the lawmakers will , think of^jl
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a few more; liberties that ought to
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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
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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
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a Saturday afternoon.
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attanooga was $145, no1
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lornhill was $145, now ..
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ARE FOR CASH 0
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5 opportunity to supply y
jarth and at a low price
Yours to please,
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[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,
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SPECIAL MUSIC BY
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AT NIGHT SHOWS ONLY.
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Adults - - - 40 Cents
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will give with each | ,
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le number to be an- jS
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