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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1922 |r
THE ANTIDOTE TO STARVATION ^
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A gloomy picture of the agricultur- t
a] outlook in Abbeille county is'j.
painted by The Press and Banner?!g
gloomier, one suspects, than is fully!},
justified- That much truth is con-!^
tained in these paragraphs, though,! j
is not to be denied: ja
"Already the negroes are coming '<3
to the landlords and to the merchants t
for the purpose of getting every J e
mouthful of supplies on which to j
raise a crop. Most of them are going j
to be disappointed. The landlords injc
many instances are utterly unable to ii
make the advances; in either in-Jd
* "* aIIaW fVft Ian/) f
dUiiivc buoy picici vv aiiuw vti^ i?uu w
to rest for a year rather than hazard s
the necessary money on so flimsy i;
security as a crop to be grown by a J b
negro tenant Not many white people a
are in so destitute circumstances, but s
a white man who can not finance him-'
self the present year has a thorny J g
path to tread. The negro tenants and p
laborers had as well learn that theyjt
can no longer farm out of the stores, g
Those who receive supplies this year h
will not get more than enough to hold J t
body and soul together. If they do f
not produce enough corn and meat at, lj
home to put them through the winter a
nothing awaits th^in^gypept stravation v
We think it unlikely that merchants s
and landlords will be disposed, even p
if they are able, to make advances to1 a
those who do not go to work this year, c
and lay aside something for another b
year."
The State has repeatedly directed
attention to the serious plight of the n
poorer people on the farms, especial-: r
ly those without land of their own. |f
Beyond the borders of the South are c
people who imagine themselves jb
friends of the Southern negroes, who j t
exercise themselves greatly about the t
deprivations of tha negroes' political \*
rights but who shed no tears and lose' s
no sleep when they are out of work c
and have little prospect of earning a ii
comfortable livelihood. J n
As The Press and Banner observes, b
the serious factor in the problem of t(
1922 is that the white friends who so tl
"long have looked after the welfare of i e
the negroes have as much as they can a
do now to care for themselves. ja
We think that our contemporary is(d
unnecessarily alarmed when it uses^ti
the word "starvation." Land is so a
abundant in the South that healthy I a
people can at least dig a living out h
of it?if they will only dig. The ur-jo
fent necessity to do that is what The, o
Pre& #nd Banner emphasizes and it^
would be well if its readers would j
take its words to heart. a
"Negro tenants and laborers canjb
no lonsrer farm out nf thp sfnroa " 1 li
That the sun rises and sets is no more o
certain than that saying. But all who!
are willing to work will have plenty 'y
to eat, for the land will be more a
bundant than usual and almosf any
thing and everything can be raised
ujjon it. The year will be hard andjv
painful to many poor people, but'tl
they need not be hungry or lack' v
shelter.?The State. [fi
THE "COLORED BROTHER'
We reproduce from the Commer
cial-Appeal of September 7th the
following extracts from an article
written by S. F. Davis, of Indianola,?"V
Miss., on the negro, whom he regards tj
as "the Creator's Masterpiece." That g
the writer is thoroughly familiar with e
his subject is shown by the interest- a
ing, amusing and truthful manner in n
whieh he handles it: !a
"The negro can lie down beneath.j
the scorching rays of a noonday sun*>A
and sleep the sleep of the seven sleep- j<
ers of old without suffering any evil fi
effects from it whatever; or he can t<
weather the fiercest winter gale, clad p
only in a pair of cotton overalls and!
a bloe Jumper. He can also wear an ti
overcoat to a Fourth of July celebra- cl
;ion, or a pair of linen pants and an ^
ilpaca coat to a Christmas tree and 1
)e perfectly comfortable. And,
Grange as it may seem, anybody's
:lothes will fit him and look nice on
lim. There is nothing else like him
mder the .sun. He sees all things, 1
lears all things, believes all things 1
ind has implicit faith in everything M
le sees or hears and stands ready at '
ill times to step aboard of anything!1
hat comes along, from a young mule !1
o a flying machine. j1
"Wireless telegraphy is nothing (
lew to him; he has used it for ages; '
ivery negro's mouth is a transmitter!'
md every ear a receiver. If anything''
>f importance happens on a planta-j
ion tonight, every negro for forty i
rules around will know it oy morning;
"Saturday is his special day by,'
:ustom and common consent, and if j1
rou have any business to attend toj(
n a delta town on Saturday, attend 1
0 it early and get off the streets *
efore you get hurt. A negro cannot
ee you Saturday unless you owe;1
lim something, and if you get in his ?
vay he is liable to step on you, sit 1
lown on you, or back you up against ^
1 brick wall and smother you to;c
leath. He does not usually do thesej<
hings, or any of them, through any: *
vil design, as many sometimes sup-!s
ose, but he simply cannot help it if M
ou get in his way, for he is busy and ! *
annot look out for you. Saturday ' 1
s his 'rashions' and news exchange' t
ay, and in addition to having all j c
hose things on his mind, he has to e
hake hands with every other negro
a town and hug every negro woman 1
ie meets. You had better take out
n accident policy or get off the
treets Saturday.
"The standard 'rashions' for a ne
j
;ro is a peck of cornmeal, twoj
iounds of sugar, 0x13 pound of coffee,1
hree pounds of aa'it meat and one
-allon of black molasses a week, but
e can consume all of this at one sit-j
ing if necessary, or if he is working
or you and boarding himself he can;
ive a week on three soda crackers, j
box of sardines and five cents'!
I
forth of cheese. In other words, his,
tomach is bu;lt on the same general
Ian of an old-fashioned accordion,'
I
nd either contracts or expands ac-:
ording to the pressure brought to',
ear upon it.
"He is also immune to nearly all
inds of poisons, and can swallow the
lost deadly drugs with impunity. I
emember of having a negro working
or me one time who was having
hills and was suffering with severe
>ackaches. I got him a bottle of ch?ll
onic to take and a bottle of liniment
0 rub his back with. The linimenti
:as labeled in box-car letters. 'Poi-1
I .
on; For External Use Only,' and I
autioned him about it when I gave
t to him, but for three days and
ights, before I found it out, he had
een rubbing his back with the chill <
Dnic and taking a tablespoonful of 2
tie liniment three times a day before ft
ach meal, with excellent results. On ?
nother occasion I was sick and had s
negro to wait upon me, and the ?
octor opened a can of antiphlogis- *
ine to make a plaster for my side, <
nd left the can on the kitchen table, t
nd when my negro went in to get <
is supper he mistook it for a can c
f peanut butter and ate the whole ?
f it without ever discovering his l
r'stake. f t
"He is likewise a great admirer of c
rt, and in nearly every negro's home 5
e it ever so humble, there hangs aj'l
fe-size crayon portrait of hiipself; t
n the wall right opposite the door,
'here you will be sure to see it as c
ou come in the door. The rest of I
is surplus money he usually spends i
or entertainment preferably an ex- I
ursion, but anything else in motion t
rill do. I have frequently stood on t
tie street corner on a cold, cloudy '(
rinter day and watched as many as 1
fi- ? * * * 1 1
ily negroes, wno wouia not average t
0 cents each, and none of whom had <
n clothes enough to flag a flat car, <
linging to a merry-go-round as it (
rent round and round, grinding out t
hat well-known and much-beloved t
lelody, 'Oh, Billy Bailey, Why Don't i
'ou Come Home?' and their frontj*
eeth shining like the keys on a baby i
rand piano, while hundreds of oth- i
rs, who did not have the price of I
ride, were standing in half-frozen 1
shoe-mouth deep, cheering them J
s?frey came round. r
AA11 things are pleasing to him.
1 circus or a funeral is equally en
jyable, but a protracted meeting,
ollowed by a big baptizing, or a j 1
irm of circuit court followed by a s
ublic hanging is his chiefest delight.
"Whenever a negro tires of coun- 6
"y life he moves to town, acquires a g
tiarcoal bucket apd a tailor's goose, r,
forms an alliance with some white *
nan's cook, and with his living thus 2
issured, opens a cleaning and press j
ng establishment. He then goes out :
Monday morning and gathers in the'
Sunday clothes of the white clerks of
iown, and after wearing them him-:
?e!f every night during the week, he ?
*ets up Saturday morning and treats ?
:hem to a gasoline bath, flattens T
them out with a red-hot iron and;
rushes them home to their owners, so j,
that t"hey may wear them Sunday;!,
collects $1.50 for his services in their j
behalf and goes on his way rejoicing, j
But should there be any special oc-j
:asion in town on Saturday night
svhich he wishes to attend he holds
jack the best suit that he happens to
lave on hand and wears it to that,
ind carries it home Sunday morning
f he wakes up in time; otherwise its
jwner can lay in bed over Sunday,
ind he will bring it back sometime
;he following Monday.
"If perchance his fancy does not
un to cleaning clothes, he gets him
lelf a gasoline stove and other para
ihernalia wherewith to defeat the
ragrant statute, and sets up a lunch
iounter, where he serves all such as
:are to come his way, irrespective of
ace, color or previous conditions of
lervitude, with hamburgers, hot cat
ish and beef sausage, and sometimes
iweet spirits of fermenti on the side.
3ut should neither of the locations
ippeal to him, he usually opens a
:olored barber shop with a poolroom
tnd crap table in the rear.
"As soon as the city authorities
jecome obnoxious to him, however,
le again goes back to the quiet coun
ry life, usually right after the Christ
nas holidays, and joins himself to a
lottori-planter, and by his certain
vritten contract duly executed in du- j
ilicpte, obligates and binds himself }
;o cultivate and gather a crop of cot- j
;on on the land therein described, <
md on the strength thereof proceeds ^
;o eat up anywhere from $5 to $300
vorth of grub while he is waiting
for the ground to get in shape to
)low, and it very frequently happens
hat when the trees begin to bud
md when the birds begin to whistle
md the grasshopper begins to sing,
lir. Negro is seized with wanderlust
ind siidderfly disappears, and the
>eople who once knew him know
lim no more forever. Every delta
;own also has its full quota of negro
vomen, whoi like the lily, toil not, j
leither do they spin, yet the Queen j
>f Sheba in all of her glory was nev
?r clad like unto one of them.
"Sureiy the negro is fearfully and
ffdnderfully, made, and his ways are
>ast finding out."
DiREE COUNTIES HAVE
SUBSCRIBED 51,233 BALES
Columbia, March 14.?Three
:ounties, Marlboro, Darlington and
Sumter, have already signed 51,233 ^
>ales of cotton, or more than one- j
iighth of the quota for the whole j
ftate, according to a statement giv- .
in out at the headquarters of the
South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co
iperative Association here today. A
elegram from E. Wallace Evans,
bounty Chairman for Marlboro
ipunty says that Marlboro county
;xpects to sign a total of 40,000
>ales or one-tenth of, the quota of
he whole state before the campaign
:loses. To date Marlboro has signed
Jl,667 bales, Darlington 18,760
>ales and Sumter 10,806 bales. The
Jvree leading counties.
H. C. Hamer, chairman of the
campaign committee, speaks at a
>ig mass meeting of Laurens county
'armers Friday, Saturday, Mr.
lamer and L D. Jennings of Sum
er will speak before the Agricul
ural bureau of the -Greenville (
Chamber of Commerce. Alfred Scar- 4
>o rough, member of the organiza- c
;ion committee, is speaking in <
Jreenville county this week also. .(
Committees of Spartanburg farm- i
rrs who have signed the contract s
ire canvassing Spartanburg county t
iiia week for additional signa- t
ures. This is also .being observed ]
'Sign Up Week" in Sumter. Gover
lor Cooper wll speak in Anderson,
Abbeville, Greenwood and iNew-|
>erry in behalf of the movement.'
n f an Viin
onAa^kaa Kqva ?nf I
LUC uauvo IVi llto o^/tv-viiua um? V
ret been announced but will be an
lounced in a few days.
Good Description
An amateur mountain climber, re
sting his experience in the Rockies,
aid:
'Hjoin' up you can mighty nigh
tand up straight and bite the
[round; goin' down a man want hoto
lails on the seat of his trousers."
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR ALDERMAN
I hereby announce myself as a ca
lidate for Alderman from Ward Tw
subject to action of democratic p:
nary election.
J. M. GAMBRELL.
WAJ. LEE DIES IN CHARLOT1
'Maj. Thomas B. Lee died Mond
morning in Charlotte, N. C. Maj
Lee -was stationed at AJbbeville wh
engaged in the constructioin of t
S. C. and N. now known as t
Seaboard Air Line railroad. The f<
lowing dispatch from Charlol
jives a sketch of his career:
Thomas B. Lee, since prior to t
War Between the States a lead!
:ivil engineer of South Carolina a
for a period a major of engineers
jftneral Longstreet's staff, died so
lenly here Monday, aged 87 yea:
For 18 yfcars past he has lived
Charlotte, still practicing his pi
Session until the time of his deal
During his life he has been conna
id with some of the most importa
engineering tasks in the South. I
irsfc practical experience in railw
juilding was with the Blue Rid
Railroad from Anderson to Knc
rille. He was connected with t
>uilding of the Seaboard Air Li
Railway from Monroe to Atlar
ind with most of that road's exte
rions into Florida. He also was cc
lected during the pest few yes
pith the building of the Piedmo
ind Northern Railway from Chi
otte to Gastonia and the interurb
ine from Spartanburg to Gre?
wood, being the real builder
;hese two roads. He was one of t
jrganizers of the Southern Pow
Company. ^
Major Lee was born in Camd*
3. ., February 28, 183g, a son
3>r. Joseph and Catherine Clarl
Lee. He was educated at the Citad
Charleston. In 1861 he volunteer
^rith Ore's Rifles and served a wh
with the Army of Northern Virgin
Soon he wa3 made a captain of e
Sneers and later a major, wi
special duties around Richmond i
i while. Secretary Meminger,
Jie Confederate State treasury, se
lim with a million dollars in bon
md currency to Texas, one of t
lot&ble exploits of its kind in t
war , part of the trip being ma
jy foot.
At Charleston Major Lee was
charge of Battery Wagner wh
:hat unit stood the withering ti
,'rom 10-inch Federal guns makii
>ne of the noted events in the a
lals of the. Confederacy. After t
ight at Battery Wagner. Major L
emodeled all the defensive work
Charleston harbor and Sullivan ]
and and later sent by Gen or
Beauregard to Florida and fightii
>n St. John's river when the w
:losed. He received four wounds
he battle. I ;I
OPERA HOUSE
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
March 23rd and 24th
RUDOLPH VALTINO and
AGNES AYRES in
"THE SHEIK"
Matinee Each Day at 3:15
IS Cent* 35 Cent*
' NIGHT 8:20
Admission: 25c and 50c
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Civil Service Examination
At the request of the Postmast
3e<n?ral, the U. S. Civil Servi
Commission announces an op
:ompetitive examination to be he
m April 3th, 1922 at Abbveille,
3., to fill the position of Postmast
it Calhoun Falls, S. C. This is n
in examination tinder the Civil Sk
rice Act and rules, but is held und
in Executive order of May lOt
921.
David A. Wardlaw, Sec.
Board U. S. Civil Service Exai
iners, Abbeville, S. C.
iighect Grade Hemstitching ao
'icot Edge work. We make macfcin
nd know how to turn out' the high
st grade work.
Orders taken for pleating of a]
cinds. We operate modem plant am
lo only the best work. Latest styl
slectrically driven machines sol<
on easy terms.
\11 makes of machines repaired.
Singer Sewing Machine Company.
505 Main St. Greenwood. Phone 15!
V. B. Barnet, Mgr.
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New grays and br
and herring bone
that are becoming
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Bristol, Eng., March 11.?The ex- te
traordinary figure of 114 degrees
Fahrenheit was the recorded tem
perature of a girl here, who was
suffering from the grip.
When first summoned to see the
'girl the physician said he waa as
|tonished to find that his clinical
; thermometer recorded a tempera
1 ture of 112 degrees but, thinking
i that the . thermometer was out of
1 order, he requisitioned two others
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Men's and Boys' Gaps from .
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mperature advanced tiro
ppropriate treatment was V'i
plied the girl's tenfcpei'atim
illy subsided to normal 01
outs, and she is norw statec
perfect health.
Medical journals do n6t reel
stance of such temperature
Mowed by the ^
Cost of the Dayton flood riirt^
9, was $67,383,574.
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he latest styles. Pck
2.50 $18.50 Ohd $25.
! Oxfords in all stylf
2S from $3.64 to $&00
s' Oxfords prices fr<
98 to $3.50 a pair.
Dress Shirts from |
$1.00 to *1.
' '' to,
Work Pants from $1
(2.50.
LH'ess Punts from
*6.00.
and Boys5 Summer
Suits 75c to $1.00
tent.
50c to $1,
$1.50 to