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monday, DECEMBER 5, 1921 BENET GIVES OF S. A. / _ gives lewis perrin chief C line this way?how the how IT yc ? Editor Press and Banner:? During my very pleasant visit tc Abbeville last May, i several times ? J- ?n? put the question to my menus? u*. ? you know who deserves th$ credit oi haying brought the Seaboard Air Lane Railroad to Abbeville?"^|o my surprise I found that not one oi them knew. Since it happens that 1 know all about the beginning of the movement?it would now be called * the "driv<?"?which' succeeded in bringing the S. A. L. from Monroe, N. C., to Abbeville,v and on to At < kuita, I feel that I owe it to the mem ory of a good man who now sleeps in Long Cane churchyard to tell the people of Abbeville who it was to ' whom the credit is chiefly due. That man was Lewis W. Perrin. His char acteristic modesty kept him from say ing much about it himself; but the late William Henry Parker ? and J " were witnesses to the fact that it was Lewis Perrin that first suggested the enterprise, and that the informatior he furnished was the egg from whicl: was hatched the extension of the great railroad from Monroe to At lanta. -ft will interest?perhaps it will amuse?vour readers to learn how the thing was done. I doubt if anj other great railroad enterprise evei had a beginning so strange and sc small. And yet, you know, great trees from little acorns grow, great riven from small fountains flow. This i: how it happened:?One evening Mr Parker, Mr. Perriji and I were sitting just ^outside my office, door, the olc . law Kange, which you, Me. Edi' " tor,' remember well, just behind tht J' V . -* *. * did Court House. We ^iree, deeplj ' interested in the welfare of our towr and county, were wandering whai could be done to bring about the con jStwtetjon of a great trunk railroac 4 that would run through ^Abbeville We were quite despondent. Severa schemes had been tried, and effort! made, and money spent; but all ir vain. It looked as if Abbeville wpulc have to content itself with being th( terminus of the branch 'line fronr Hodges depot. "Suppose 'we try to induce th< Seaboard Air Line to cjme this.way,' said Mr. Perrin. Where he had go: h"s information I never knew; but hf ' told us that the S. A. L. had reachec ^ Monroe, N. C., that the aim was tc , carry it on to Atlanta; that the dan ger was that it would run througl r our state by way of Columbia, -ant ' -w? to Augusta; but that legislatm authority had not yet been asked for He said he believed if we could gei the other towns along the route t< join with us and agree to issue bond! in aid of the railroad, we might pre ^ EDISON AND FORD WILL GO TO MUSCLE SHOALJ Detroit, Dec. 1?Thomas A Edisoi who wilt accompany Henry Ford ii an inspection of th^ Muscle Shoals Ala.f nitrate and waterpower projec ' afrived here today in Mr. Ford's pri vate cai\ Mr. Edison was taken im mediately to the Ford home at Dear bora. Mr. Ford and Mr. Edison wil d scass details of the Detroit manu facturer's offer to the governmen / for the Muscle Shoals plant and ex ^ pect to leave here for the south to morrow or Saturday. A number o: engineers of the Ford organizatioi will accompany the party. How lonj a time will be spent at Muscle ShoaV is not known. It is understood, how ever that the inspection to be madi will be of the most minute nature. EVERYBODY WORKS IN SOUTH CAROLIN/ x Washington, Dec. 1.?With the ex KonUnn r?f hut three states, more per sons ten years of age and over, ac ^ cording to population, in South Caro lina, are engaged in gainful occupa tions than in any other state of th Union, Nevada, Rhode Island an< Massachusetts are the three ahead Fifty-five and three tenths, or 674, , 357 of the total of 1,219,316 per sons in the age classification were s< engaged. Of these 77.6 percent o 468,589, were males. South Carolini I has the largest percent of gainfull; nprMiTvpd females in any state, o: 33.4. : HISTORY L'S COMlh RED1T FOR BRINGING TRl : MOVEMENT STARTED AND ) RKED OUT. vail on the S. A. L. company to ? the road through the upper pa j the State, passing through G: ? wood and Abbeville and on to Al ' and Atlanta; that, besides, this much the shortest route, and from competing lines. It was ev : that Mr. Perrin had carefully co ; ered the situation. i We discussed the matter a I time. We then took a bold step. formed ourselves into an exec committee,?self elected,?Mr. 1 er, chairman, Mr. Perrin, treas Mr. Benet, secretary. On a pr postal card we issued a call for a vention of delegates from all towns along the proposed route Monroe to Athens,?the convei to meet in Columbia on a day nj to consider the advisability of ing Municipal bonds in aid of S A. L. railroad. As secretary I m the postal card call to the mayo all 4he towns. I can with "the in eye" *see that postal card now, our three nalnes subscribed as ' cutive committee." . In a few days I began to re I favorable replies. No one seem< 11 question our authority, nor tc 7 whom we represented, or who el us. The day came for the conve ^e had summoned. We three we Columbia.-We found Columbia ] lobby swarming with delegates. | newspaper reporters were at wit's end to know what was up. had heard nothing of a conver They were puzzled. The "Exec Committee" had to answer i questions.'" 'V - The conveatioif met after su wo'c siiiWr "AVMotiiT*/! f Vio tMittytk t the call wds explained. Resolu t in favor of the scheme were ado . great enthusiasm was manift I Best of all, General Hoke,, of I Carolina, was there. He was 1 counsel of the S. A. L. and had ;! to assure us of the /avorable att i' of the railroad. This, too, was di I Mr. Perrin. It was he that aske . I as secretary Jo invite him. The i Jing was a great success. On my jtion it was agreed that the coi ; tion should meet nfcxt time ii ' town of Greenwood. At that me t! in Greenwood the important bus ?Jwas finally settled; and the S. - II was soon being constructed >j Monroe towards Abbeville and . lanta. 11 When we see how greatly the 1' has benefited by the coming o ! 1 .1 J " A 1 ; great ranroau, it is meet aim p. . that we should gratefully reme t how much we owe to what wa > quietly done by the unassuming 3 bevill'an, Lewis Wardlaw Perrin . . W. C. Benet. > SHARP RECOVERY SHOWN IN MARKS IN EN?L London, Dec. 1.?German r underwent further* marked rec< on the London exchange mark? day. Heavy buying sent the rat 750 to the pound sterling, ag yesterday's close of 890* profit - ing'sales by speculators caused l'casional reactions but purchases - {dominated. The recovery was as: t by optimism regarding the ne$ tions proceeding between Dr. 'VS Rathenau, former German mil of re-construetion and the fint heads of the British governmen regard to Germany's forthcomir parations payments and the pos ity of a moratorium- v CUT IN FREIGHT RATE J Chattanooga, Terin., Dec. 1. nouncement was made here by the Southern 'railway of per cent, reduction In freight on carload lots of commoditi take effect some time in Dece: T4- Kit millW -| it Id pi upv/ovu kJJ W44V. *?* ? v e make the reduction apply foi i experimental period of six m 1. on carload shipments of wheat, - oats, grain, flour, meal, hay, s . alfalfa, unmanufactured cottor 5 bacco, cotton seed and product r cept cottonseed oil and cotbo i meal, citrus fruits, dried fruits f vegetables, horses, mules, catth r calves, sheep, poultry, eggs, bi ' cheesg and wool. El TOE Mori JAPANESE PUN 1 HUGHES AND BALFOUR ADVIS ED OF POSITION?AMERICAN AND BRITISH NAVAL EXPERTS STAND TOGETHER ON ORIGI NAL SUGGESTION. Washington, Dec. 1.?Japan's pro posal for a 70 per cent, fleet as nec essary to her national security, in stead of a 60 per cent, fleet has been formally ^presented to the United States and Great Britain. A J?!-_i n F1 port; Darl and bacc cont Gro\ socit the < the jnakt Care tend long We utive ?ark urer, inted con the from ntion amed issu ie S. ailed rs of ward with "exe ceive sd to > ask ected ntion nt to Hotel Tfce their They AQmirai^uarun iuilu, scmvi u??i?-|a gjj anese delegate, has communicated it j,acc personally to Secretary Hughes and Arthur J*Balfour. It is said in Jap anese quarters to have the full sup^ port of the Japanese cabinet and the diplomatic advisory council in Tokyo. \ American and British naval ex perts standing together on Secretary Hughes' "5-5-3" plan as the only one fair to all powers, regard the j Japanese proposal as wholly unac ceptable. In the opinion of soflne of the American delegates the situation is delicate but not without hope that the Japanese ultimately will accept the original plan. The seriouspess of the turn of af-1 fairs, in the opinion of the Ameri cans, is that Japan in'persisting in'as a her request for a 10-10-7 ratio, mak- pro(j es a stroke at the fundamental idea j on which Secretary Hughes' proposal] is based. Japan's proposal, it was disclosed was based not on a calculation of I the strength of the existing American Brit:sh and Japanesfe fleets but upon 1 her estimate of necessity for national | I ition. I security. It was pointed out among the American and British that if con siderations of national security were to jDe substituted for a continuation of fleets at reduced tonnage but / * jf.1-. the same rat o as now 5 exists. - . ' > whole basis of the conference would be upset. On the basis of national security, it app] was said, neither .the United States year nor Great Britain wouy agree to the 60 per cent, ratio which the Hughes plan would allow to Japan. v Secretary Hughes and his three colleagues of the American delega tion spefit nearly three hours tonight debating the situation. Heretofore the Japanese claim had been made only informally in the subcommittee of naval experts. Baron Kato'? ac tion swept away at once the deliber ations of the experts consideriijg the American limitation plan. They have had to do only with technical ques tions of tonnage est'mates involved in the American proposal to limit ^ ^? ? ? Al. * vnlo _ roper mber s so r Ab Iieeus UIl MIC uasia vx CAumug illa tive strength in capital ships. Japan has now taken the matter out of that field entirely. British experts are in full ftccord -wiith American that the "5-5-3" pro posal is the ortiy possible road to an agreement that is fair to all powtf-s, particularly in view of the enormous disproportion of the sacrifices in ships |end money the United States has narks offered to undertake. AND . NO CHANGE IN OFFICE 3 very it to e to ;ainst Central Force To Be Reduced, Say tak oc i pre sisted ;otia 'alter Forbes. Washington, Nov. 27.?Col. C. R. Forbes, director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, today an nouned that there would be no sweeping reduction in personnel of j i.?i: t in ig re lie UtJUdiliau&a- | tion plan now being put into effect. This announcement discounts numer ous rumors about Washington that a ssibil-! sweeping reduction in the bureau payroll was imminent as the result of the distribution of the bureau business among the fm^rteen district offices in different parts of the coun try. "Naturally, the central office force of the bureau will be reduced under the decentralization plan," said Col. rates j Foifbes, "but all those employe^ es, to whose work has been efficient and tnber. j satisfactory in other respects will ad to be transferred to the various district -- I -a: ti ...;u v. ! ?An today a .10 an uniccd. a licit win uc uu gcuciai x m duction. "The transfer of employes to the district offices is now being effected simultaneously with the decentraliza ton of the files and feureau equip ment. According to sched&e, decen tralization should 'be completed with in ninety days/' Watch the label on your paper. ||^ IACCO MEN BACK COOPERATIVE MOVE C , a? jthre b Than Two Million Pounds Sign* kidn Jp?Hundreds of Farmers At- fday tend Wind-Up Meetings in t horn orence, Elec. 1.?Preliminary re- i 5 tonight indicated Florence and ^eni ington counties had added twp ^edi one-half million pounds of to-~ ear o from South Carolina*^) thej^er ract of the Tri-State Tobacco vers' Cooperative Marketing As- ^ ition. Such a result would bring * campaign close to 50 per cent of minimum aomunt required to Cita 2 the contract valid in' South By ilina. Hartsville reported an at ance of six hundred farmers and y, ?n up of 350,000 pounds of to- mad - -a jj T . u at Liieii meeting. juauiai ic-? sd 300,000 pounds signed in Tneetmg. Johnsonville reported subscriptions today brought contracts past he million pound c. Timmonsville reported four :s biggest bankers and planters sd up. Twelve contemporaneous ;ings were held in the two coun The field forces are moving to t into Clarendon, Williamsburg Georgetown counties. A score of emporaneous meetings will be in these three counties )day marks *the greatest single s success in the progress of the paign. Slightly more than 26, 000 pounds must be contracted minimum based on the 1920 uction. -i iULATIONS FOR 1922 I irFNSPS rftMPl F.TFD jlumbia, Dec. 1.?State highway irtemnt officials yesterday com/ ;d rules and regulations for'the ng of the 1922 license plates to owners throughout South Caro A definition is given of all terms .as "motor vehicle," "automo " "truck," "trailer," "dealer," other terms. the list of regulations are de qf how the various machines to be registered and the licenses ied for. The same fees as this will be in force and the weights ars and trucks will be the same t present. CAGO EGG POOL . MAKES 930,000 A DAY hicago, Nov. 30.?An egg pool led by three men controls the I supply of Chicago and makes a j it of about $30,000 a day. Rus-j J. Poole, city food expert, an-| need today following an investi-j on covering two weeks. V Pnnlo 1ia? ropntnmonrfo^ ft ! sewives' b<jycott on eggs in an, rt to break .the price. e reported that' eggs selling yes ay at 50 and 53 cents as to fresh s went into storage last March n the price was 13 1-2 cents a ?n. W. A. HARRIS FUNERAL SUPPLIES EMBALMING and Auto Hearse 8ervtea ~ PHONES D?r 395 Night 134 You .may se cure a customer with a bargain; but it takes quali ty to hold him... Kidnaped and Killed. , hicago, Dec. 1.?The body of e-year old Margaret Caughlin,' laped Wednesday, was found to dismembered and partly burned f he basement of a neighbor's e. - . ' he *body of the-neighbor, Mrs. _ 3"!s, fifty-two, was found in her s pom with her throat cut from to ear ar/d "a butcher knife in hand. Ait. ur suuin lakulida, :OUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. B Probate Court. tion for Letter* of Administration J. F. MILLER, Esq., Judge of Probate: . ~ F fhereas, Mrs. E. C. Cromer hath e suit to me, to grant her letters idministration of the esttffe and * :ts of J. D. Cox, late of Abbeville nty, deceased. * ? " F hese Are Therefore, to cite and onish all and ^singular the kin 1. and creditors of the said J. D. , deceased, that they be and ?ar before me, in the Court of Date, to be held at Abbeville Court jy Be, on Dec. 7th, 1921, after pub non hereof, at 11 o'clock in the nnon. to show cause. i^Twiv thev 2, why the said Administration ild not be granted. y iven under my hand and eeal of Co^irt this 23rd day of November he year of our Lord one thousand 5 hundred and twenty-one an<l in 146th year of American Inde dence. ub'lishecl on the 25th day of Dec. 1 in the Press and Banner and on Court' House door for the time lired by law. a,-, J. F. MILLE Judge of Probate. JJ2JSJSE!M3SfSlSI2f PLUMBING riNWORK f a HEATING if ' * } ' *' r " i " . Pemoline Super tile md porcelain clean ser, guaranteed to 'emove rust or any dnd of stains frbm 3nai?elware. Reasonable Prices. ; RALPH TURNER DESH MAN! EREC The I Static ?i How's y business Now's a look if ( ready for TI7 J vv e can ai xder for Em for every pu The Press i WANTS wTj I'1 OR SALE?Slightly used," Tip-T#p, Oak Heater. Sizez 23. Apply to E. C. Lucas, 40 N. Main St. >12, 51tp * TATIONERY?Convey the yuletide. spirit with White & WyckoffeV distinctive Stationery, the gift ac- / - ceptable. Our holiday line now on ? . ' display. THE ECHO. ' 12, 5tfc . ' LACK FRUIT CAKE?Ary gizfl at 65 cents a pound. Give ft(e your order early. Phcme No. 1* ; p V: % ?. Mrs. D. A. Rogers. . - c :tL j : .? OR SALE?All v the lumber and framing in large barn. Good * material. See Dr. C. C. Ganibrell . or'Mrs. C. E. Yoder. 3t. pd. 1 ft _ ^ _ _ - 4 V>l5JE OR SALE?I Dort five ' passenger car, practically new, in good shape. Reasonable price. See J. D. Mun dy or L. M. Strawhorn fo^ further information. It. pd. LAGAZINES?Twelve Xmas gifts for the price of one?a yeaite sub^ scription to a Magazine will be a twelve time reminder of 'your ^ Xmas thoughtfulness. We take 3'- "S subscriptions to any magazine pub-" lished. THE ECHO. ?12, 5,-tfc.. : 'OR SALE?About three thousand used brick in good condition. See 4 Dr. C. C. Gambxell or Mrs. C. E. \ Yoder. 81 pd. ?i v-.'/'' rICTROLAS?Make this a musical Xmas in your home* with a.Victro- osjj la and Victor Records. But be sur<i it is a Victrola, look under the lid. Make your selection now while. our stock is complete. THE ECHO.. .y 12,5. ^ tfc. >' . , VALUABLE FARMING AND % Stock Raising land in VOconee County for sale cheap. 243 aotes >v worth $100 p r acire only $20.OqJ*^ 1 Good river bottoms for corir" an*i strong upland for cotton; *pd wS boll weevil b^s been found von my^ farm. An ideal stock raising farm. ... ! I have in charge about $00 $cres that will sell'you with no boll wee- . ~vils at all; Good Schools and . '" .:j 7">2: churches. Will sell half cash and- > j plenty of time on balance.-* Com- - . municate with S. G. BRUCE, An- } derson, S. C. 11, 30-3tc._. s ; ?;?| WILLYS GROUPS BREAK . ': '>3 . ' r - 3aS / ?/ 1 New York Dec. 1.?The Willys V. Corporation for which federal receiv rs were named Saturday in Ohio is 1 rfsolvent and owes more than ?12- ' 100000 acording to an involuntary >etition filed in federal court here / # 'Vi oday. r Aren Brothers arble and I t. 'r aniteCo. gners ufacturers :tors argeat and best equipped moi'v ental mill* in the Carolinaa. geenwood, s. C. >nery our supply ol ij stationery? good time to $ 3ver and get the fall trade. ? so handle your or | fraced stock ryose. ? 5 &JRanner Co. ' |