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JT AVJI^ J n V/ Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly I Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six Moaths $1.00 Three Moaths .50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1922 CANNOT BE DEFERRED We can put off the painting of the house the present year and maybe next year, we can do without a new automobile, the old suit of clothes can be cleaned, pressed and maybe "rebuilt" as the tailors say in order that we may do without a great many things without material loss or inconvenience, but we cannot defer for a year nor for a month what we owe to the children of this state in the way of an education. The schools must run. The Press and Banner is not a mong those who think the present 1 plan of distributing state appropria-j> tions for schools is the best plan, but) < it is the best plan until a better plan is worked out. It should be followed and the necessary appropriations^ made the present year to keep the 11 primary schools, the graded schools j 1 and the high schools in operation for t full' forme , ( K m A child who leaves school in the middle of the term will be discour aged. He may not enter the school again. If he does he will not obtain tpe full training he is entitled to and which is necessary in order to meet the requirements of the higher grades and of the colleges. We are all poor and most of us would be glad to say that we have nothing and owe nothing. But if we owed twice the amount we now owe we would say that the schools must run. The fact is that the people, while ^temporarily in bad financial condition, are not insolvent. The country,is not insolvent. Better timesi are ahead, and while it may take a{ long, stiff pull to make the grade we < will make it. When we have made it, | ] let us not then reproach ourselves with having neglected the children who had to go along with us. The matter of educating them cannot be deferred... It is a task for today. Wr ?c? THEY WILL COME BACK. Richard Spillane, writing in last week's issue of Commerce and Fi nance quotes a Western banker as follows: "I am a direcetor in telephone V oropanies in five States of the graiii Our records show an unprecedenUo pumber of tele phones discontinued fri the farm * Regions. Inquiries as to the * cause brings the invariable ans r Wer, 'We cannot afford it any losger. "Our investigators report the most drastic economy through out the agricultural belt Sales of gasoline are abnormally low. Automobiles are used less than in years. When the farmer goes to town he hitches up his horse to a wagon or old buggy instead of cranking up his car, as has been his custom. The farmer is not spending money for 'gas' or anything else if he possibly can avoid it. The prime reason is ' that he has\iot the ready mon ey and he can borrow now from the country banker only for ur gent necessities. "On a recent journey I went V into oouin uskuui. a I aimer who has a considerable acreage told me he and his wife had tak en account, of all their household and personal possessions. They t>elieved that by the most rigid of care and economy they could scrape along for several years without purchasing any more clothing or household uten , sils. It would require much of patching and repairing and self denial. "I wonder if the people of the East appreciate the situa tion,^ the farm. I do not know tlr&t wkat I have outlined is typi cal of the whole agricultural district, but I do know that nev er in the last decade was such rigid economy practiced in the < section of the West with which i I am familiar as is manifest to- ? day. * < "The farmer goes to the vil- \ lage or countx-y store less today t than in many years. He buys t only what he urgently needs. He t has faced liquidation with a stoic c resolution that commands my * respect.'" f It is this ability of the people of the agricultural sections to practice r economy that brings hope to the country. Those of us who have been T > * reared on the farm know that it mat- F ters not how hard the time, and u how little the money, the farmer who tried can always so manage his af o fairs as to keep the outgo inside of j he income. Thirty years ago it was -0 i hard task to do this but many did p t then. In the years since times have b mproved and they have had the tele- ^ phone, the automobile, and other s things which have helped to relieve $ ;he monotony of life in the conutry, 8 jut now that the times again de- ^ nand it, they are going back to the ^ simpler ways of living, and they may )e depended on to live within their neans. What they are doing not only :ommands respect, but it furnishes ;he country with a guarantee that ve will in time go forward again. The :ountry will "come back." If in the cities we learned quickly ome of the habits of economy which he people in the rural sections are juick to adopt, we would sooner see ;he skies brightening. It will hurst he merchants, and it will hurt oth ers; it has already hurt them, this ;conomy of the people on the farm, :ut it will hurt them less.than if the >eople went on buying without the ibility to pay. When the crops grow igain, business will pick up; when he prices received for the new crops ustify it, the farmer will again be i buyer, if a cautious buyer, and bus ness will look upward. As the writer named well says: . "If weather conditions favor him his yield per acre will be large. If prices of wheat, corn and oats, of cattle, hogs and oth er products are fair, he will have a reward that will bring back to him the telephone and the au tomobile and the semi-luxuries that are not luxuries, but arti-' cles of utility and worth. "He should have them. "The farm is the backbone of Amerca. It may seem*weak to day, but it is not. It is strong, probably never was stronger than now when the farm is stripped for the greatest task in the world?the turning of the count less miles that makes the furrows into which go the seed, and from , which come the foods for the millions here and millions be yond the seas." Just as the people work and econ imize for the next few y*ears, just o that extent will the country pros >er again. THE FARMER COMING BACK The farmer^ purchasing power is" ncreasing slowly. This comes about hrough recent advances in prices of principal farm products and some lecreases in prices of other things. This is a hopeful sign. There may be jccasional recessions in prices of 'arm products, but the low period >eems to be past and the trend is jpward. The stiffening of the prices "or hogs :'s especially encouraging. SVith hogs at present prices, the far ner is getting from 50 to 75 cents a bushel for his corn, depending on nis nearness to market. There is no class of people who ad just their-jriirchafies to their income >o quickly and so effectively as the farmers. They are in the habit of economising1. They can live for a time largely within themselves. They i have no false shame about wearing a Did clothes. They believe in paying c for what they buy and they do not t like to incur debt. Therefore, even r prosperous farmers have been econo- I mizing rigidly during this period of ' agricultural depression. They have a been waiting until they feel reason- e ably sure that prices of farm produces ? have hit bottom. Once they are satis- ] fied on this point they will begin to buy what they need. I suspect that .1 increased purchasing by farmers will i come moire rapidly than people have 1 been expecting.?Secretary of Agri- 1 culture Wallace. JEWISH RELIEF. The Jews in the United States have :ommenced a nationwide campaign for the relief of the Jewish orphans, ind others as well, in the war-strick sn countries of Europe. While the vork is being done by the people of he Jewish race, the help given is to >e distributed in the countries where he Jews predominate and no dis :rimination is to be made as between aces in the distribution #of the unds. Because all people of whatever ace are to be helped, and principal is because the Jews in the- United States in all the great calls during he war made patriotic responses, the eople generally are asked to contrib ite to the fund being raised. Mr. Sol H. Rosenberg, of this citv. tas been designated as the manager f the campaign in Abbeville county. Ie has accepted the place with the mderstanding that he will give the ieople an opportunity to contribute, ut that he will do no canvassing. We relieve the sum the people of the tate are expected to contribute is 100,000. Most of this sum will be iven in the larger cities we imagine, | ut Abbeville County should make a rilling response to the appeal for elp. The people of the city should all on Mr. Rosenberg and leavev heir contributions today. Tomorrow he matter will be forgotten. In Ab eville County, as elsewhere, the Jews rere the biggest, most willing and lost earnest helpers during the war enoa. xney asxea no questions, duii ave. We hope that the people of ne county, recalling these facts, will ome to the assistance of those in harge of the present campaign. We an all give a little. * ASSENGERS ON SOUTHERN GIVEN "ON TIME'* SERVICE! Washington, Fab. 18.?During he year 1921, the Southern Rail way System operated 179,835 pas enger trains, many of them being hrough trains operated in connec ion with other lines and covering istances of from 1,000 to 1,500 liles. Of this great number of trains, 72,182, or 95.1 percent, ran on jhedule or made up time while on lie Southern, and 106,277, or 92.5 iercent, reached final terminal on ime, according to. announcement iade by Vice President Henry W. ii\ler, in charge of operation. BROTHER WALTER ARRIVES Brother Walter Smith was in own Saturday. He read in the 'ress and Banner Friday of Dote's ickness and of his desire to obtain ome good "flu" medicine. Opining hat some kind friend would send )ote a half pint or so of the desired j iquid, Brother Walter arose early j laturday morning and hurried | own to Brother Dote's mansion on j louth Main. , . I "Wfalter didn't even knock at the \ oori He walked in and found Dote t his desk preparing 10 write a j >tter to the Press and Banner on he latest developments in. tax mat es. Walter expressed surprise at >ot& being able . to sit up after : rhat be had read in the Press and tanner. "You must have got some of hat medicine you . were asking or," Walter suggested. "I did," said Brother Dote, "and took it according to my own direc ions." With that Walter coughed as ickly as possible, and declared hat he was not feeling well him etf, and was afraid he would have case of the "flu" too, unless as le stated, "I take' something for it ight away." "Have you got any eft?" he asked Dote. Laying aside his pen for a little yhiJe, Dote reached in the bottom ight hand drawer of his desk and landed Walter a fruit jar. Walter ooked at it and didn't see anything n it; he shook it and -didn't hear '* ? 1- - * m: a., i mytning mase, a iuss ime "u mcui :ine. He then opened the jar and urned it up so far that it cut his lose, and "I aint got a drap yet," ?e told a Press and Banner man. 'Dote -must have been afraid he vould have a relapse and have tak* ? all the medicine to scare it off, I ;oon saw that Dote needed no com* >any so I came on up town." As Walter slammed the door be lind him, Dote again took his pen n hand, ran his left hand over his jald head and tried to get the wheels started to running. He will be heard from soon. \ Iv SCHOOL NOTES. The February meeting of t Parent-Tea.cher association will held. tomorrow (Tuesday) aft noon at four o'clock in the grad school building. A short progr! has been arranged by the pupils the sixth and seventh grades. The will come up matters of interest every patron of the schools at tl meeting and th^ officers of the i sociation hope for a 100 per ct attendance of the members a that each member will enter ir the discussion of matters of vi interest to the schools. Anderson high school basketb teams (boys' and girls'), will pi the local teams on the high sch< court Wednesday afternoon begi ning at 3:30 o'clock. The admissi charges will be for adults 35 cer and school children 20 cents for t two games which will be play one immediately after the othi The Anderson Tribune claim that in the game played betwe these teams in Anderson ti weeks ago that our boys defeat the Anderson boys only with t help of the referee. Everybody w can should com? out Wednesday i ternoon and see Abbeville win wit out the help of any officials. We. e pect to give Anderson the right furnish the referee for the gam and see if they will be satisfi with their defeat for once. UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT LARGEST IN ITS HISTOF Columbia, Feb. 18.?The enro men^ of the University of South Ca olina for the second semester of tl 1921-22 session, which started on tl 6th, is the largest in the history the University, according to a stat ment made yesterday afternoon 1 President Currell, foljowing his coi pilation of the new Semester enro ment. There are for the last part the 1921-22 session 613 students e rolled at the University. Thirty-oi new students entered the Universi for the second half of the session. A ui \ M S< We V ^ I STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE Probate Court. Citation for Lettera of Administra tion. By J. F. Miller, Esq., Judge of Pro bate: Whereas, J. T. Drennan hath made edjsuit to me, to grant him letters of administration of the estate and ef fects of Mrs. Lillian Marie Drennan. late of Abbeville County, deceased, These Are Therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindxed and creditors of the said Mrs. Lillia* i ? , i ; f C Marie Drennan, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Ab t-oi heville Court House, on Tuesday the I 21st day of Feb. 1922, after publi cation hereof, at 11 o'colck in the forenoon,-to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal of the Court this 7th day of Feb. is the year of our Lord one thousasl nine hundred and twenty two and ii the 146th year of American Inde pendence. . * Published on the 8th day of Feb. 1922 in the Press and Banner and on the Court House door for the time required by law, J. F. MILLER, Feb. 8, Judge of Probate. LEGAL SALE. In the District Court of the United States, Western District of South Carolina. In re J. H. HILL, Bankrupt, and H. M. HILL, Bankrupt. Under Order of D. H. Hill, Referee herein, I will sell at the home place of J. H. Hill, in Abbeville County, S. C. on February 23rd, 1922, begia ning at 10 A. "-M. personal property consisting of mules, cows, farm sap plies, farm implements, engines, trac tors, etc., amounting to around three thousand dollars,. . Terms of Sale, CASH, , J. S. STARK, Trustee of .. H. M. Hill and J. H. Hill. Feb. 15. ei. One big union of seafarers has been organized in Japan, with a mem bership of more than 30,000. I You are invited to attend Tie Formal Openint of the\ Fountain at stin-Perrin Drug Vednesday Evenin, February 22N from 8 to 10 O'Clock 'usic by Carolina Syncopal omething free for Everybod 1/FT r ui it ui/cf (^t/i/ui^ ? v John L. Anderson LEGAL SALE. "v-j/l The District Court of the Uaittd States for the Westera District of South Carolina. the Matter of R. T. BROADWELL Bankrupt, In Bankruptcy. Under and by virtue, of an order D. H. Hill, Esq., Referee in Bank ptcy, I will sell at Abbeville Court juse, South Carolina, on salesday March, 1922, to the highest tiid r, the following described real ?e te, to wit: *, . I One acre, more or less, situatt , Jy- . ? and being in Lowndesville, Abbe- | le County, South Carolina, u4 unded by lands of Ira BeB om' iuth and East; Mrs. R. T. Bread ill on the West; Main Street ob b North and known as the Thomson ;v>Vv Also, all that tract or parcel )?t id, situate, lying and being in >wnBhip of LowndesvSlle, County d State aforesaid, fronting ' forty et on Main street, and running ck by parallel lines thirty feet, and nnded by Thomson lot on Soaih d East and Mr. R. T. Broadweft ?n e West and Main Street on' VtMfc Also, all that tract or parcel ' of id, situate, lying and being ia tie >wn of LowndesviHe, County and ate aforesaid, containing two acxts, )re or less, and bounded.on the uth and West by Richard^ Bonds rs. R. T. Broadwell on the - S&sE,' d the Presbyterian Church lot em i North. TERMS OF SALE: CASH, jfur aser to pay for papers and staays. P. E. BELL, Trustee in Bankruptcy of R. T. Broadwell. b. 15. 3wks. T(J igkeit Grade Hemstitching ajK icot Edge work. We make machint id know how to turn out the high it. grade work." i Orders taken for pleating of ai! nds. We operate modern plant and > only the best work. Latest style I ors y Come