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fAUr* IVY \J Established 3 844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company ! N Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday, j Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Foreign Advertising Representative} AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION', i 7 Terms of Subscription: One Year Six Months Three Months $2.00, $1.00 .50 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1922 SCHOOLS AND ATHLETES Everybody is willing to admit that''{ there is a place for athletics in the! ^ colleges of the country. But few, we | j think, will contend that the colleges are intended to develop athletes in stead of scholars. ' According to the schedule of one ] of the conservative "old denomina- | tional institutions of the 'state, as'i published in the papers of the state j( a few days ago, the baseball team i * I of that institution is to play nineteen ] games with the teams of other schools ' and colleges, some in the state and < some without the state during the ] spring .season. If half of the games'] are played on the home grounds, it \ means to at tne memoers 01 toe team referred to must be away from the' \ college campus for from ten to fif-j teen days during the season, perhaps j ? for longer. If a member of the bas^ r ball team is also a member of the1 football team, and the football' team j has an equal number of games to1 play during the football season it means that the player is away from the campus on work days for twice as long. If he happens to belong to 1 the tennis team, or to the track team, it means more time lost from studies.' All of this suggests to us that there should be a limit on the num-l ber of teams cf which a single stu-! dent may become a member. If he is a member of the football team, he should not be allowed to be a mem-, . ' -i ber of the baseball team, and if he' is a member of the baseball team he should not be avmemlber of any other I , team. If the students are to be devel-! j ' -oped by athletics all should have a 1 chance. The whole student body can- t no# "be developed physically by train- 'f ini. >' TV. PaUI -- T 1. n I a icn i jr UUUU3 III i/CUip seys. ' Then too the number of games of * football or baseball, or tennis, which 1 the football team, or the baseball' team, or the tennis players, may play' * away from the college grounds' should (be limited. We see no reason why suffie'ent development may not be acquired by the athletes if the games are limited to say five at home and five away froih home. Of course what we are sayinfc will not apply if the colleges think it as important to develop athletes as it is to develop scholars, but the peo ple generally have supposed that col leges were organized to develop scholars. If a college must put out a pro lessional baseball team as an adver tisement of the college, why not make the schedule for the vacation period and then have the team play all over the territory from which come the students and athletes of the college? - The Plain Truth To Tht People. The State. "The present year is going to tell a tale which & good many are just now beginning to think about. Unless i ^ white people look after their farms 11 and see that they are planted in crops j i which make,food for the people andi * feed for the live stock, both they and < * the negro tenants who work so large. a parr ox toe lands of this county, | are going to look starvation squarely j in the . face . before another' 12. c months. Of course there is a remedy, a but what availeth the remedy if no-;i body will take it." j <3 The Abbeville Press and Banner^ served its people well by the plain | speaking of the foregoing paragraph. (t No reason exists for anyone in Abbe- a ville to suffer for the necessaries and ? comforts of life. A good living canjc be dug out of Abbeville's ground n though not a stalk of cotton grow, be- o cause the land is good and abundant. The soil of Abbeville propei'ly tilled would support three or four times the t number of Inhabitants of the county, ii Many an old country haB a pouplation r I ' - - ' - j ' / .v ' ' V*-. " | ... . v of m6re than 300 to the square mile * and its people thrive, excspt during and after a great war, and some of, these countries have harsh climates and soils that originally were poor or 1 barren. J The last ?>0 years the doctrine of i i:ivers:fy'ng farming has been preach- ' ccl 1 o our people, but they refuse gen-. < crally to heed it. They could produce;1 cotton and live. The timer at last has," c me when sclely by producing cot-' '< ton they cm not live. Stern natural < law has condemned cotton as a crop' 1 which may safely absorb most of the 1 farmers' energies. j! For the South Carolina farmer/1 ivhite and black, rich and poor, the ' 1 one recourse now is to return to the! frame of mind of his great-grand- j father. He must again understand ! ] J-<at in the economic sense he is a p:oneer. Out of his lands he must 1 dig a livelihood for himself and his family whether at the end of the year fie have anything to sell or not. That ivas the problem of his forefathers and they Golved it. If he shall work diligently he will product a 'Surplus and some of it will be marketable. In time the market tvill improve and possibly he will be come independent or wealthy, but the notion of getting rich quickly would better be abandoned for the present. The gist of the matter is that the danger of not earning a comfortable livelihood ought not to be greater now than it has been heretofore, though it is not to be disputed that ?ffort more earnest, more constant \ ind more intelligentvwill be requir ed. That the danger of the loss of luxuries confronts the people is cer ;a'n. They will not have in the im mediate future so much money as Kpv havp had in the nast. I And our people are better off than frine-tenths of the people Of the ivorld. The sons of men everywhere ire under affliction. Our hardships in South Carolina are"the reflection >f a greater affliction that has been suffered elsewhere and, with all our :roubles, we are in incomparably <bet ;er position than are the people of Europe or most of the people of the [Jnited States. We have a kindly cli nate and four or five times as much land as we need. Hence, to face the situation candidly and1 work is the tnswer to our difficulties. The wholesome truth spoken to the >eople of a}l the counties, as the Ab jeville Press and Banner speaks it, >y their newspapers would help rreatly. In a few years the people of South Carolina should be more prosperous ;han they have ever been and we be ieve that they will be. >R. SAMUEL A. VISANSKA CONTRIBUTES ARTICLE Dr. Samuel A. Visanska has an irticlp, in "School and Home" a nagazlne published in Atlanta in the nterest of the better schools in 3eoigia. The subject of Dr. Visan ska's article is "Discipline as an Aid o Health." *' Speaking of the article editorial y, School and Home says: "Beginning with this issue of Feb uary 1922, the Management of School and Home announces that a ipecial series of articles on the lealth of the school child, will be :ontributod by leading physicians of Atlanta, Ga. Each of the contribu tors will be chosen from medical nen who- are authorities in their in lividual lines. "The first of the series will be on he subject of "Discipline, as an Aid o Health" and will be written by Dr. Samuel A. Visanska, the author >f "Better Babies" and a physician, ecturer and writer of distinction." It is-our . purpose to publish Dr. fisanska's article in the Press and banner in a future issue. We think t will be of much interest as well a? lelpfulness in S^uth Carolina ,as veil as Georgia. Strike Call Isaped. Indianapolis, March 21.?A formal all for a strike of both anthracite nd bituminous coal miners qn April was sent out today from the head [uarters here of the United Mine Vorkers. Copies of the call were placed in he mails for delivery of officials of .11 of the unions, 3,000 locals, or :anizations, scattered throughout the ountry. The text of the call was not nade public here in the absence of fficials of the union. Another ahipment of Seed Irish Po ttoei just received. These are genu ne Maine grown and oUr prices are iglit. The Rosenberg Merc. Co. GOVERNOR COOPER SIGNS CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACT Columbia, March 20.?The stat< of South Carolina will sell all cot' ton grown on the state farms dur ing the next five years through the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co operative ; association. Governoj Cooper yesterday signed jthe bill pasi jd at the last session of the genera' isseyibly empowering the superin tendent of the pe-nitentiary to sigr i,he association agreement on the part of the state, and Coh A. K Sanders, the superintendent; signec ;he contract immediately there af :er. The governor signed the act in thf presence of Senator Bethea of Dil on and ^Representative Jackson oi Sumter, two of the authors of the jill; Harry G. Kaminer, president oi ;he South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative association; R. C. Ham >r, chairman of the campaign com nittee; Harold C. Booker, secretary D. W. Watkins of the extension "orces of Clemson /College,; Col. A. L Sanders, superintendent of the >enitentiary, and W. R. Watkins, the governor's secretary. Senator G. K. Itaney of Chesterfield, who with Senator Bethea, sponsored the bill in ;he senate, wired that he was unable ;o be present at the signing because >f previous engagements. <3ol. Sanders signed the contract for 575 bales, this being 'based on he 1920 crop. The agreement re juires that all cotton grown on the (tate farms in the year 1922, 1923, L924, 1925 and 1926 be sold hrough the association. It leaves op ;ional with the superintendent the lale of the cotton now on hand. He nay also turn it over to the associa ;ion for sale if he deems wise. The joint resolution signed by the jovernor is as follows: "The super ntendent of the penitentiary be, md, he is hereby, authorized and jmpowered to sign the agreement ol ;he South Carolina Cotton GroweA' Cooperative association and therefoj )ind the state of South Carolina bj dl terms and obligations therein :ontained nnd set forth." Colonel Sanders said that it gave lim great pleasure to affix his signa ure to the association agreement. 3e believes firmly in cooperative narketing of cotton and expressed ihe belief that the interests of the ;tate would be conserved by its sign, ng the agreement DRASTIC CUT IS MADE Washington, March 21.?Drastic eduction in Navy Department ?s i ma tea for the next fiscal year tave been mede by the 'House sub ommittee on appropriations in r&raing the navy bill which will be eported Saturday. Instead of providing funds for an nlisted personnel of 90,000 as irged by Secretary Denby, the com littee, it was said today, fixed the otal of 65,000 and authorized the ommissionmg of about 135 of the 41 members of the June graduating lass at the Naval Academy. In round numbers the bill will arry something like $200,000,000 s compared with Mr. Denby's esti mate of $350,000,000. k MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN BUILDING INDUSTRY Washington, March 20.?Marked timulation ir- som* construction is hown in contracts awarded during be last three months as reported to be division of 'building and housing f the department of commerce. The epartment announced today that i 27 states in the northeastern Uarter of the country building con racts awarded in December totalled 101,006,000 and in January and 'ebruary $75,000,000 each. Al l v ??-.it.. :i uuu?n uunutmy, iw was jjyuiyru vut, ties? are the months of least activi y in building, their contract totals omf>are with a monthly average of 73,000,000 in 1921. Civil Service Examination At the request of the Postmaster leneral, the U. S. Civil Service Jommission announces an open ompetitive examination to be held n April 8th, 1922 at Abbveille, S. :.,.to fill the position of Postmasteir t Calhoun Falls, S. C. This is not n examination under the Civil Ser ice Act and rules, but is held under n Executive order Of May 10th, 921. David A. Wardlaw, Sec., Board U. S. Civil Service Exam iners, Abbeville, S. C. IRELAND ON VERGE OF NEW CLVIL WAR Protestants And Catholics In Bitter Struggle in The North?Griffith and Collins in Conference London, March 21.?The dangers of the situatwn in Ireland are em phasized ;by the morning newspapers, several of which take the view that little more will be needed to start ac ual civil war. Sniping between the entrenched forces of either side of the Ulster border has been going on for several days and yesterday ma chine guns, were reported to have been brought into action. Meanwhile disturbance continues throughout the . I six county area of Ulster. ^ * I Moderate opinion in the South fav Jors joint action by the northern and ?' southern governments to relieve the ' tension on the border, According to ,'lhe Times. Dublin correspondent, and .lit is hinted elsewhere that the earn .'est conference between Arthur Grif f f'fith and Michael Collins yesterday 'was partly concerned with the possi bility of securing such action. It was thought this might involve ? a preliminary meeting of Mr. Collins , with Premier Sir James Craig of Ul , ster. * [' Reports of murder, incendiarism , and other outrages in the northern j districts, where the tension between j f . the Protestants and Catholics is most i* severe, take much space in the news-| / paper. The violent denunciations of 0 each faction against the other sug- E gest that apportionment of the blame 4 in numerous instances is difficult and j ? perhaps impossible to decide, but r they show that fierce state of faction- 3 al feeling which dangerously threat- * ens the general peacet , 0 | ' x ih DEATHS FROM SMALLPOX - i e | NUMBERED 508 IN 1920 a ' ! t I Washington, March 20.?Deaths . ! from small pox in ahe death regis- ' ' tration area of the country in 1920 - totalled 508 as compared with 358 ^ ' in 1919, the census bureau an-,' r i nounced today. It was pointe J out however, that virtually the same low ; , rate was maintained during the yearI as had prevailed since 1904, which * was the last year that the death, , rate from the disease exceeded one 8 I per 100,000 population. At the same ; , time, the relatrteJy high death rate % ! , in some cities and states, such as the; rate of 9.2 per 100,000 in Louisiana, i should serve as a warning, it was' said, of the need of vaccination. PLEADS FOR VETERANS v r Washington, March 21.?Former j j, service men who are in actual dis tress should be given first. considera-. j( tion in the national 30-day employ-1 j. ment drive started today by the Am-[5 erican Legion, Arthur Woods, chair man of the emergency committee on j c unemployment declared today in a f telegram to National Commander Mc-! Nider of the legion. Mr. Woods out-' lined a plan for the campaign as fol lows: | "First relieve distress. If there are men in want take care of them.. "Next make sure that a man who needs a job knows how to look'for it. Is the local employment agency well run and do the men use it? Hunt for jobs and keep on hunting. ,It will surprise you how many will turn up if you work and don't miss tricks. Don't wait^?apply at every employ-; ment bureau, advertise, write letters, make calls and get your friends to work for you. And there is a friend in need waiting for every job you unearth. Only don't go so far as to have some! one else fired to make room for your men. "Last st:r things up so as to cre-jw ate more jobs. Spring is here; it|P* is the time to clean up, freshen up, (I paint up, dig up, spruce up gener- th ally. Everybody's doing it. The na tion, your State, your town, compan ies, just people, yourself, do some- 3^ thing that needs to be done. Only do f? . it now?don't wait. Youll get it done m I 1 and you will help some one in the doing who needs and deserves help."| Employed war veterans all overj the United States Col. Woods said,! J r? fr I I liavc TV/iuiiiccicu IV aiu ui 5^^1115 jobs for their less fortunate "bud dies." j It"? not too late for Burt "Nii.ety jdnji" oats. We have a aplendid grade at 80c buahel. The Roienbfg Merc. Co. Earliest mention of shoes is on Egyptian papyrus of about 2200 B. C. 1.. L-" \ :i . ["HE ISLAND IS THE SIZE OFj JAMAICA, OFF NORTH COAST: 'SIBERIA AND 400 MILES WEST OF BEHRING STRAIT. DICOVERED IN 1849 New Yo/&, March 20.?Wrangle sland, one of the most important ands in the Arctic region, has been laimed for Great Britain by a party >f three Americans, a Canadian and our Eskimos, it has become known ] hrough Vilhjalmar Stefansson, Arc ic explorer, organizer of the ex (edition. Mr. Stefansson said the ( Jritish flag had been planted on the i sland September 21, last. , StpfanRson. a British sufoiwrL aid his fifth and latest Arctic ex-|i (edition* made up of Allen Craw- < ord, a son of a Toronto university < professor, E. L. Knight, , McMinni- i ille, Oregon, Frederick Maurer, of ] Jew Philadelphia, Ohio and Milton Salle, of New JBraunfels, Texas, \ eith four Eskimos, was sent by him i nto the northern wastes for the ex- ] rress purpose of claiming Wrangle < sland for the IBritish. ^Wrangle Island is about the size f Jamaica, lying 100 miles off the i lortheastern coast of Siberia and >00 miles west of Behring Strait. Strategically the island dominates v lortheastern Siberia. Mr. Stefans on said only the leader of the par y, Crawford, knew of the mission f the expedition. The Americansl ie said, became connected with the ixpedition purely through love of idVenture. Although Stefansson said he knewj ollowing the Wrangle Island land ng, he has just made the fact pub ic. He said he intended sailing this pring for England, to present Bri ain's new possession to th? British 1 irime minister. / ^ Wrangel Island was first discov- I1 red in 1849, by a British naval ex- j' edition under Captain KeHet, who I ailed close to the land, bat did not J' ;o ashore, the explorer said. In cap-j, ain, discovered the island, which it j v&s assumed was the same sought by Jaron Wrangel a Russian, in 1825. n . 1881 several American naval hips landed men on the island. John iuir, according to Mt. Stefansson ?as one of the landing party. But .11 these landing parties, British and j American lost claim to the island af er the lapse of five years, accord ng to the* explorer. "Nobody landed on Wrangel Is- ? and after the Americans were'there n 1881, so far as I know," said Mr. , itefansson. Stefansson claims to have finari ed his own expedition, which sailed i rom Nome, August 8, 1921. ( CALL CONVOCATION. There will be a Call Convocation of , [esperian Chapter No. 17 R. A. M. ( hursday night, March 23rd at 7:30 'clock p. m. The most excellent j [aster and Royal Arch-Degrees to be onferred. Light refreshments to be ( >rved after meeting. F. B. Harrison, Jr. E. H. P. ^ H. S. Howie, Secretary. [ar. 20-2tc. NOTICE TO TftE PUBLIC All taxpayers are hereby notified iat the time for paying Road^Tpx extended to April 1st, 1922. ^ No further time limit will be grant- ^ !. Tax $2.00 per year, and if. said ^ ix is not paid within above limit, ^ arties will be required to work eight ^ B) days on the Public Highways, at ( le call of the Supervisor. R. B. Cheatham, Treasurer. ? L. W. Kjiler, Supervisor. 17 to 24th. rw ? *. -.* If you want to see a real line or j, BASEBALL GOODS, visit our j ..J hardware Store. ' '"r-'-m > The Rosenberg Merc. Co. OPERA HOUSE V THURSDAY and FRIDAY V March 23rd and 24th V RUDOLPH VALTINO and V AGNES AYRES in ^ "THE SHEIK" V- ? Matinee Each Day at 3:15 V v 15c. ADMISSION 35c* V % NIGHT 8:20 V ; Admission: 25c and 50c V . VSVVVVVVVU v i FINAL SETTLEMENT Estate of Mrs. Alma P. McDonald, > Deceased. * Take Notice that on the 10th day >f April, 1922, I will render .a ffinal account of my actings and doings as administrator of the estate of Mrs. A.lma P. McDonald, deceased,-in .fte office of judge of probate for Abbe ville County at 10 o'clock a. m. and jn the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as such ad- C.'i' ministrator. Jv . i ''<*: All persons having ^demands ^ ; gainst said estate will prssent tkem for payment on or beford that 4a,f, proven and authenticated or., be for ?ver barred. N .. % ! R. F. McDONALD,; , ' ' ;f Mar. 13, 1922 Administrator. ? ; , rjZ NOTICE! I ..Take notice, that pursuant to a Resolution passed by thtf* County > Board of Supervisors, for the County )f Abbeville, bids will be received at Jhe office of the. Supervisoryef ,&&& iounty, on Tuesday, April 4, 1922, 11 o"clock a. m. for a taut to >aid County of $20,00(M)0 for ,tke purpose of meeting ordinary Ceoj|tf vr * expenses for the present year.Tax: levy for year 1922, will be pledged " as security for said loan, and the bank or corporationmaking the loan ' ' will be permitted to keep the amount loaned on deposit until expended by the County in ordinary course of business. L. W. KELLER, Mar. 17. '22. ltw-3t' County Supervisor. COPY SUMMONS. FOfr BELIEF. (Complaint Served) - * * /. ' . STATE OF SOUTH: CAROL! IN A COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. ; Court of Common Pleas. W. F. NIOKLES, ; ' Plaintiff agairfst Uinnia T. Vavmvr ' T UlUiiiv M* * m?Awny I Theo, "Alias", Frost Div^'iL^A. Richie, Charlotte/ foriingtoh, James Davia and Arthur Wright. Defendant TO THE DFENDANtB as above 1, f named: YOU, ARE HEREBY SUMMON ED and required to answer the Complaint in this' action, of which, a copy fs herewith served upon ^ pou and to serve a copy of your an swer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office at Abbeville Court House, South Carolina, with in twenty days after the service . iereof, exclusive of the day of roch service; and if you fail to ah rwer th? Complaint within the time \ ^foresaid, the plaintiff in this ac~ ;ion will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint Dated 22 day of February 1922, D. H. HILL, PlninftflT'a AHwrnHV. To the absent defendants above lamed: - Yon and each of yon will please ake notice that the1 complaint in A? above entitled action, together ?ith the smnmoritf therein, of whklc he above is a copy, was dnly filed n the office of J. L. Perrin, * Clerk >f Court of Common Pleas 'for Ab leville County, 8. C.v on the 22 day >f February 1922. 3>. H. Bill, Plaintiff's Attorney. DvAfkorc veil uivyivio INERS JFACTURERS TORS rgeit and best equipped ?on? mtal mill* ia the Careliaaj. GEENWOOD, S. C. . I-?