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PAGE TWO Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six Months - $1.00 Three Months v.50 Advertising Representative 4 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1922 A COUNTY AGENT. There is discussion still of taxes and of ways and means of paying charges. The people are crying for lover taxes, and lower taxes they xitUFt have. But there are extreme Yiews on the subject of lower taxes, and there u such a thing as killing the goose that lays the golden egg. We cannot afford in every case to dispense with the Usefulness of an agency we now employ simply be cause it will reduce expenses. On .the other hand, even in the hardest times, it is sometimes economy to make a small outlay if the the out lay promises results. , Some years ago, perhaps only a year ago, we dispensed with the ser vices of a county demonstration agent in this county. Without going into a discussion of the wisdom of what we did then further than to say that we believe the delegation did what at the time seemed to it the right fthing to do, we are of the opinion now that with the change in condi tions which have come in the past year we have reached a point where the services of a county demonstra tion agent in this county are almost indiqpeatfble. A year ago we ex pected to go on making cotton just as we had in the years past. We had gotten over our scare of bollwee vil, and we were interested chiefly in vakii)g, a small crop and getting rid j s siirnliiq nf entton ? 'viTTi^r ' ? ~ carried oxer. Today we are at the t beginning of a . year when no man c knows whether he will make a bale, f or two bales, or three bales of cotton f to the pl&w. Farming in a boll wee- c vil section of McCormick County, n just below the Abbeville County liqe p last year, we learned that the boll o weevil does not simply cut off a part, c a third or a half of the yield of cot ton, but that under certain condi- c tk>&3 he destroys the whole crop. On farm* where we gathered eighty bales of cotton in 1920, we gathered seven bale* last year. 1 There will be years we think ^ from such information as we can get (^ when the damaee from the boll wee- . , t vil will be greater than in other years, but howeveir much, or however ^ little the damage, the boll weevil is here to stay, at least until somebody ^ discovers the means of destroying ^ the whole breed, and that day does not seem near just now. Such being , t the case we must raise cotton, and r we look to see the people plant cot- . ton etill, under boll weevil conidtions. We are afraid that the people this year will proceed to plant a large crop or cotton just as they did last year. If they do disaster awaits them. We say that the people must learn to grow cotton under boll weevil con- ] ditions, and in order to learn, wheth er this year or next, they need the services of an expert to advise with them and show them how the work is to be done. 11 Then again we cannot expect to I, plant a large crop of cotton and work | , it slowly as in the past. We must; plant a small crop and work it fast. The few acres in cotton will not sup port the farm as heretofore and we ] must plant other things. We need to , know how to plant and grow substi- j tute money crops, or additional mon- , ey crops, to the erfcl that we shall not! be dependent on the income from!. cotton alone. We have been advising . the growing of peanuts. Others think ( well of PTrtwinc swppt. nntat.nps. the curing and shipping of them to 1 Northern markets. But before we can do either we need a leader. We need a man who can acquaint himself with proper methods of growing these crops, of gathering and marketing them. And that is the work which a county demonstration agent can do, ,i i? we secure the services of a good 1 ' I man. i i There are other ways in which i \ ' bhe se-rvices of a county agent arefj iraluaible. We have just read, in the Anderson Daily Mail a letter from a, farmer in Anderson County in ftrhich he asserts that the services md help of a county agent in his :ouny had saved enough hogs from ieath from cholera to pa^ his en tire expenses for the year. Other services not less valuable which others might suggest make it -wise ve think to have a county agent in his county. In saying this we do so with a full realization that the tax load in ;his county is heavy. We have (been imong those who tried to keep it :rom being so heavy, but the jeople overruled us. But now that ve have ther load there is but one lanoidiU f+Vnnsy +-/\ dn OTwJ {fl tfl IViidiVIV itraighten ourselves and get ready ;o bear it We can only do this by lard, persistent and intelligent vork. A county demonstration igent we beHeve to be the proper vay to begin to do this. IAS PLAN TO KILL WEEVIL AND MAKE MONEY Greenwood, Jan. 5.?An entirely tew method of ridding cotton of boll reevils has been proposed by a plan er of this section. The plan has few omplications, one merely feeds the ceevils to pheasants. Of course, the refevils and the pheasants must be wrought together so that the latter nay consume the former/ but that is i mere detail, the originator of the cheme declares. Using pheasants to rid cotton of toll weevils is not a mere idle dream. I practical farmer, a planter who :now3 how to turn the undeveloped esources of a farm into profit, has troposed the new scheme. He is Eu gene Barmore, who with, his brother, J. L. Barmore, operates one of the nost diversified and profitable plan ations in this section. Their planta ion is situated between Donalds and Vare Shoals. , English ring-neck pheasants have >een raised at a profit by Mr. Bar nore for several years. The birds are :asily raised and demand fancy prices ts breeding stock, he says. The birds ire ravenously fond of boll weevils ind will keep a cotton field clear of he pests. By clipping the last joint m one wing, the birds are prevented rom flying and may be kept in any iolH pn^lospH with woven wire, ac ording to Mr. Barmore. They do lot eat crops and both cotton and iheasants may be grown at a profit in the same land the planter de lares. . . 11 :heraw county plants 250,000 peach trees Cheraw, Jan. 3.?^The meeting of lie new Peach Growers' Association leld here last summer is (bearing 'rait. Already 250,000 peach trees *ave been planted in several locali is in the county, 100,000 of them in he immediate vicinity of Cheraw. Dthers are still to be planted. A new and paying Industry is thus >eing developed to take the place of )oll weevil cotton. This has also in orostpH nnrsftrvi m?*n ith? ft*tent hat one, Mr. W. F. Bohlender, of ripp ?canoe, Ohio, is now here look ng into the advisability of locating, i wholesale nursery in Cheraw, pri_ narily to supply peach trees to pro tective orchards. This will also lead in time to a canning factory to use up the sur_ >lus crop of peaches and other fruits ind berries. With the development >f these new industries, it is? pos sible that Mr. S. W. . Moore of the Dhio State Welfare Department, who was one of the speakers at the peach growers meeting here last summer, will aslo locate here and interest him self in these industries. New ^Building For Yale. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 31.?An nouncement is made of the appropri aton of $1,320,000 for a new build ing for the Yale school" of medicine, made from funds left to Yale Ibvi1* John W. Sterling, New York lawyer * who died in 1918, leaving his entire c 3ANDITS USE SAWED-OFF SHOT GUNS, GET $10,000 P Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 3.?Three bandits armed with sawed-off shot guns held up three collectors for a t irug company in its store on the bus- v est street in the downtown quarter t today, and escaped in an automobile fa with a sum estimated by the concern c it about $10,000. 0 fortune estimated at more than $L5, 300,000 to the university. 1 } t I IN RATIONS | BRINGS TROUBLE SOLDIER PATIENTS THREATEN "WALK OUT" ?WASHINGTON DENIES ISSUANCE" OF IN STRUCTIONS TO REDUCE FOOD ALLOWANCE. New York, Jan. 5.?Soldier pa ients in tfie Fox Halls, Polyclinic aitj ludson hospitals today threatened to ralk out ibecause of an order reduc ng their daily ration allowance from 1.10 to 80 cents. Maj. William A. )eegan, state commander of the Lmerican Legion, obtained their iromise to hold up pending action by Vasfiungton. Today's development followed an ndignatiion meeting held at Fox Hitf* ist night when 600 disabled veter_ J ns adopted a resolution asking resident Harding not to sign the enate bill to reduce the size of the I ledical reserve corps of the public j lealth service by placing physicians: n a civilian basis with a 20 per cent' ut in pay. Washington, Jan. 5.?Officials of he public health service said today hat no orders had gone forward rom here for the reduction from 1.10 to 80 cents a day of the daily ation allowance in the Fox Hills, 'olyclinic and Hudson hospitals at few York. General instructions, owever, they added, had been sent t various tjmes to many hospitals, autionnig tihem to avoid unneces ary expense and to affect whatever conomies were possible without re tiring the quality or quantity of ood served former service i>aitents. 3ie exact measures 01 economy el ected in the different hcispitals, it ras said, was determined by the local fficials In chare*4. (No official report has been receiv d tonight of the threatened waH: >ut of fiie patients. Scores of telegrams from Ameri an Legion pbsts, patients in govern aent hospitals and medical organiza ions protesting against the pro posal of the bureau of efficiency to eturn the reserve officers df the pub ic health service to civil status were eceived today iby Assistant Secre ary of the Treasury Clifford. No action upon the proposal has een taken as yet, but it is under tood that the board of hospitaliza ion is to meet soon to consider the uestion and franie recommendations n? iSo^ro+orr M'ollnn LORENCE FARMER SLAIN BY TENANT i. Hiram Munn Dies Soon After the Shooting.?H. A. Quick it In JaiL Florence, Jan. 2.?D. Hiram Munn armer and business man of Florence ied in a hospital here early this af ernoon. Munn was shot in the shoul er with a shotgun H. A. Quick, tenant. Quick has surrendered and 3 in jail here. It is alleged that Munn and Quick irere having an accounting of the ears' work and that a dispute arose ver certain farm utensils. Disagree lent over the disposition of some otton had been settled, it is said, ** loflpol twnnooH rigs. Reports of the actual shooting iffer widely and the facta will not ie known until the coroner's inquest, irhich will 'be held tomorrow morn ng. Quick alleges that Munn was albout o attack him with an axe when he ired the fatal shot. It is said that eye iritnesses who had not boen sub wenaed tonight might tell a dfferent tory. Munn was married and leaves a srife and one daughter, Mrs. James i. Schpman, wife of an Atlantic }oast Line * dispatcher here. Two mothers also survive him, A. A. Hunn of Pamplico and George Munn >f this city. The dead man was well mown throughout this soction. He ias been a candidate for sheriff wice. " <EW GERMAN CURRENCY PUT INTO CIRCULATION Berlin, Dec. 29.?New currency to he amount of 4,500,000,000 marks ras placed in circulation during the hird week of December, it is shown | >y figures available today. The total urrency issue is now 109,000,000, 00 marks. x . i 0 I WOUND POLICEMAN AND GET PAYROLL OF 12 THOUSAND. DID NOT GIVE BANKER AND HIS GUARDS A CHANCE TO HOLD UP HANDS. _ Chicago, Jan. 5.?John Soffel, president of the Maywood State Bank was shot and killed and Louis >S. Sweeney, cnier 01 ponce 01 me su burb, and Arthur Benson, a bank messenger, were wounded today when five bandits fobbed them of a $12,000 pay roll for the Maywood plant of the American Can Company. The bandits did not give the bank er and his two guards a chance to hold up their hands. They ordered the payroll car to stop, and as it came to a-halt opened fire, killing Soffel almost instantly. Chief Sweeney was shot under the right arm and Benson in the side. The letter's injuries are serious. The entire robbery occurred in less than three minutes. The robbers drove away with the money, heading toward Chicago. The scene of the hold-up was only two blocks from the bank. RESERVE BOARD MAKES SURVEY OF DISTRICTS Find* L??wed. Dem*i)d Generally For Bills of Acceptance Bat t Som^vhat Broader Activity -Washington, Jan. 5.?Lessened demand generally for bills of accep tance but a somewhat broader ac tivity, -was reported by th$ federal reserve board today in a year-end survey of conditions in the accep tance /)market9 of the twelve reserve districts. . , 'Hie influence of tax payments coming simultaneously with the new certificate Issue and the year end ad* justments had a deterrent effect on the investors, according to the sur vey. - , A considerable decline in the coun try's foreign trade during 1921, in addition to the fall in prices, result ed in a reduction in the amount of bankers' bills in the New York market, the survey continued, adding however, that there was a steadily broadening market. "A highly imporant development of 1921," the report said, "was the growth of a market for call money lent against the security of bankers' acceptances and treasury accep tances." I ? Acceptances outstanding on De cember 10 were not much lower than on November 10, according to the Fhiadelphia report exports of grain flour, cotton and tobacco 'being the principal transactoins for which ac ceptances were executed recently. Acceptances purchased in the open market during November by the fed eral reserve bank of Atlanta Vfere smaller in amount by 44 per cent than those purchased during Octo wu A considerable decrease in the ac ceptances transactions in Minneapo lis during November was noted, while Dallas reported that the banks of that district had materially reduced their aggregate acceptance liability during th? month. STILL 17,000,000 HORSES AND MULES ON AMERICAN FARMS Chicago, Jart. 3.?Wayne Dins more, secretary of the Horse Associ ation of America today told the members of the American Society of j Agricultural Engineers in session here that farm experts of various states had failed to aid in increasing xhe efficiency of the motive power most used on the farms showed that there were more than 17,000,000 horses and mules on farms in 1921, compared with 264,139 tractors and 534,169 trucks. By improved cultivation methods, he stated, it should be possbile for ono man to operate efficiently a farm containing 150 acres, using a six horse unit and cutting down the need for an extra farm hand ' to three summer months. Now Arckbithop. Paris.?iflather Barer, held prison er by the Turks for many months during the war, has been appointed archbishop of Bagdad. He is a mem ber of the order of "Pleaching Friars." ATEMENT OF THE CONDITION ?OF THE? COUNTY SAVINGS BANK ated at Abbeville, S. C., at the se of business December 31, 1921. RESOURCES ana and Discounts $69,187.15 ^rdrafts 1,900.35 nds and Stocks Owned by the Bank 21,138.00 rniture and Fixtures. _ 7,095.96 nking House 15,000.00 e from Banks and Bank ers 3,100.11 rrency L 89,2.00 Id 27.50 ver and other Minor Coin ?? 236.83 ecks and cash items _ 2,287.91 her Resources-x 2,143.32 rOTAL $123,012.21 LIABILITIES pital Stoclc Paid In $25,000.00 iividnal deposits >ject to check $28,645.68 rings deposits 1,385.63 ne certificates deposit 22,824.50 shier's checks .. 363.11 53,218.82 tea and Bills Rediscount' fd ?_ 2,0<M>:00 la Payable, including. Cer tificated foe Money Bor eo^ed 42,793.39 rOTAL ..... ..... $123,012.21 kta of South Carpjiaa, County of Abbeville Before me came G. JL Neuffer, esident of the above naped bank, 10 being duly^srqrorn, says th^t the ove and foregoing statement is a. te condition of said bankj as show the books qf said. ban?. n a vwrrmatin ,n ' j vt. a. 11 jCi uf jt rreuoenu Sworn to. and subscribed before t this 4th day of January, 1922. W. D. WILKINSON, N. P., S. C. rroct Attest: , C. H. JJcMURRAY, G. A. NBUFFER ' t "D. H. HILL, Directors. Rub'Mjr^Tiam, a pain killer. IAFT FINGER NO-MAN'S FACE TO REPLACE NOSE Hageratown, Md., Dec. 28.?Hav ; lost his nose when he was cata Ited through the .windshield of automobile which was wrecked ar iRohreraville, Michael Feigjey 11 have his little finger grafted on his face' where his nose for srly was. After he finger groups it to tiie face it will be amputated im his hand. Dr. D. ?. Hoff, who will do the afting, removed skin from Feigr 1 r's thigh and grafted it onto his , :e to form a cheek and a lip that d been cut , off in the accident. The operation will be performed ( the Washington County hospital re. i ? 566 cure* Malarial Fever. LILLIAN GISH & BAR.TWELMESS</> C - #WAV DOWN Ipera House, Monday & :> f!... & S& ... i'jiJii-j-.. WANTS ! 41 WANTED?One hundred boys ami girls to join oar ten cento a week I Christmas Sayings Club. Club now" open. County Sayings Bank. 3teoI. OR RENT?A 4-room TSZ r>!_a. .tii xucn^y street wiiq lights. Bent $17.50. R. McAllister. OODRICH TlkES X Are the best in the sell them. Prices Hall, next door Co. I rAHTED?To do prices reasonable, rooms to furnished. OST?Tuesday store. AT WITH ME?Table bmsi fey the meal -or by the week. Phone 1. Mis. D. A. BofooMf. WANTED?All the boys and garii fa town to know that they eu Mb our 10 cents a week Chi pi^ Savings Club and have meney to spend next Christmas. Cennty S#y-. ingB Bank. 1, j Many grown people litvo defective sight because their eyeswere neglected in childhood. We advise all (tarenli^ give serious thouglit to the condttfoit tfrefr children's eyes. Are you a parent? If soy act qaletfyX