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rAua rvuA Established 1S44. 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 .50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1922 COTTON GROWERS TAKE NOTICE! Under the above caption^ the Am erican Cotton Association has the fol lowing, in part, to say: The campaign for cotton acre age control and crop diversifica tion is as imperative in 1922 as it was in 1921. If the cotton acreage is materially increased and a large crop is produced the present financial depression of farmers will be intensified with no possibility of paying off debts. Reports indicate that a much larger percentage of live weevils are passing through this unusu al mild winter than ever before in the history of the insect. The whole cotton belt will be alive with adult weevils as soon as the crop is planted, up and grow ing. Exr?f?ripnce has 'been olearlv demonstrated that the boll wee vil cannot be successfully com batted when more than 6 to 8 acres of cotton ar? planted to the plow, followed by intensive ^and rapid cultivation, liberal fertilization, in the old cotton states, and the intelligent use of. poisons. To plant more than 6 to 8 acres of cotton to the plow in Abbeville County this year, in the judgment of the editor of this paper, spells dis aster. Our reasons for so stating are these: In the first place, those of us who planted cotton in the infested area found out last year that 12 to 15 acres of cotton planted to the plow, which was poorly fertilized and but indifferently worked, meant a to- ( tal crop fa;lure. It was only the early, bolls that opened. We made about an average of one bale to the plow. It is easy to see that had we planted les? cotton, fertilized it well, worked it out early and then* cultivated it xapiaiy, we woum nave maae mucn ^ more cotton on 8 to 8 acres than on ( the larger amount of land planted; in the second place, whether we plant a small crop or a large crop of cotton the chances are that we will not make more than two or three bales to the plow, evidencing the import- ( ance of planting a small amount of | cotton so that we may plant and cul- j tivate food crops, looking to the lat-s ter for a subsistence and to cotton! only as a money crop. In the third place, and this is most important, we must remember thatj Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisi-j ana, Mississippi and Alabama have had the boll weevil for a pood many; years already. The people in these j states have learned how to grow cot-j ton under boll weevil conditions i while we have not. With favorable seasons the cotton farmers of these, states may make enough cotton, with-, />,,* +U- 4. e r> 1!-- i uui UIU Ul OUUU1 OHIOlintt | and Georg'a farmers, to supply the wants of the world. If they do this j and our'crop at the end of the year! consists of two or three bales of cot-( ton and r.o food and feed crops,; where wi!! we be? The threatened' want and privation will be here on. every hand. The Press and Banner is firm in | the conviction that the people of this county are face to face with a, question of greater moment than any J question which has come up for so-; lution in the last half century. The people can solve the question and! solve rt correctly if they will, but we are afraid that they will not do l so. They have been warned so often, ;mi have as often planted cotton only that we have misgivings as to their doing the only logical and imperative j thing at this time. We need leaders in Abbeville Coun-j ty at this time such as we have not needed in a long time. The forward looking men in every community should take a hand :n the present situation. As they are their brothers' keepers iij other matters, so in -fchis'g ; crisis, and we facc a crisis, they e 'should undertake to persuade all the s J :c iple in their several communities, * I and especially the negro farmers, and c j . .:r as able should compel these, to j, j plant crops which will mean bread ^ for the people and feed for the farm animals for a twelve month. a ? j I ADMISSION TO THE BAR 'n I | A Judge Benet Writes Interesting Let-j d ter on Timely Subject. j c] , To Editor of The Press and Banner: j A Your excellent and timely article j e; 'in last Wednesday's paper, on the, t< subject of "Admission to the Bar,"jt< gave me great pleasure. The subject i a is of the utmost importance to the j a: public as well as to the legal profes-|si :x*- ------ n n rl I _ | Sion. i agree witn yuur dvuoiuivi ?**v* llf kindly criticism of the recent action of the American Bar Association. e] 'That body of learned lawyers know j better than the public knows, how j necessary it is that some action must | be taken to maintain the high stand- rj ards proper to their profession. There ^ is no doubt that during the last for- ej ty or fifty years there has been a manifest lowering of those standards jin the United States. In every state of the Union, unfortunately, there are numerous members of the bar who practice law, not as an honor able profession, but merely as a mon ey-making trade. By them the ethics of the profession are ignored. Many e a?? om tntollv ionorant | Ui lllCllif MA w vwv?*.v -0 i of those ethics. To act honorably and ' honestly in the interest of his client, '? at the same time to act honor ably and honestly as an officer of the court in administering the law, j as the oath he took requires of him, j that, in brief, embraces the main i ethics of the lawyer's profession. So | many lawyers fall short of this that lit is no wonder that the American j Bar Association is anxious to rid their profession of members who are , unworthy of it and who are every where bringing reproach on what should be known as an honorable profession. s i The sacred ministry, medicine and law, these have always been called, and regarded as honorable profes sions. It has always been held that' a 1 as clergyman, a pnysician, a lawyer, iu;p] be worthy of his profession should j a< be a man of good character, goodjte education and good manners, in'j w short, a gentleman, in the true sense-0i of that fine old term. To the credit tu of the clergy and the doctors, in J spite of a few black sheep in the's^ clerical flock and numerous quack jjn doctors, they have been more sue- ^ cessful than the lawyers in maintain- . ing the high standards of their pro fessions. YV The remedy proposed by the Bar er Association to cure the admitted se evil, is to require that the applicant 0r for admission to the. bar must have ijr had two years of college training and w] must be a graduate *of a three-year nv law school. or This proposed remedy, it seems to r& me, does not touch the evil com- M plained of. It provides for a good nc education; but the legal profession is not suffering from lack of educa tion. The disease it suffers from is lack of good character. .Will a five years' college course cure that dis ease? Will it rid the membership of the bar of the ambulance-chaser, the railroad wrecker, the damage-suit pettifogger? These are the men who lower the standards of their profession, the men who make their living by bringing suits for damages m contingent fees, men who hunt up and ask to -be employed, men who sometimes employ touts to uring suits for damages to their of fice, men who rush to the scene of c. vailixad accident or send their agent there to secure lawsuits for the injured passengers. No five-year college education can 'ian<ro the character of such men. iias always socmcd to me that the cu:'toii! <>f bringing suits i'or damages on con'.ingont foes is ir.ori: than any |th':ig ehe, the cause of the lowering sa J of i':>e professional standards. I re gal d the contingent fee as the curse of the legal profession. I wish the | American Bar Association and all i I)nr associations would secure legis jlstion making it unlawful to bring | a suit on a contingent fee and mak ing it also a sufficient cause for dis bairrng the offender. That would just be returning to the ways of our forefathers. It is j still the rule in Great Britain. I re member when one of the leading , barristers in London, a Queen's coun sel of the highest rank at the Eng ish bar, was disrobed of his silk own and disbarred, his name strick-J1' n from the rolls, because it.was:*1 hown that he "had a pecuniary in-1a erest in the event" of a certain! ^ ause in which he was counsel, had, t( i short, brought the suit for a con-! ingent fee. Jn Contingent fee cases were rather i*' novelty in South Carolina when n came to the bar. In 1877, I re lember after a railway accident in .nderson County, several suits for amages had been brought, and on a hange of venue they were tried in .bbeville. I remember when I was mployed by Mr. C. C. Featherstone > assist h'm, how astonished I was > hear that the lawyer's fees were 11 r*anr\\rekvrr THiza 11 contingent U? . JL ny. mounts sued for, however, were P nail compared with the large sums P ow claimed. e< The contingent fee practice has SI aormously increased since that time j tie in large measure no doubt, to the . reat development of the railroad . rstem and to the growth of facto-! . SI es and industrial, corporations of 11 kinds. It has had a very damaging Tect upon the morals of the legal rofession. Let me relate an appro bate incident: Thirty-odd years *o I was talking with a lawyer in is office in Atlanta. At that time I as counsel of a railroad company, he Atlanta lawyer said he was sur rised that I would be the attorney I a railroad, that no corporation >uld employ his services; that it as far more profitable to fight cor 3rations in suits for damages; that i then had just brought several suits 11 rising out of a railway disaster, and ' a was sure his fees out of them p ould be more than $50,000. Before aving Atlanta I had a talk with Mr. ammond, member of Congress and leading lawyer. We talked about le other lawyer and his big damage lt; lit business. "Yes," said Hammond, 111 ie makes his living that way. He is y( terror. Some time ago a fine young wyer came to Atlanta and hung it his shingle. I was sorry to learn ^ lat he had written a letter to a man J? t ho. had been injured in a railway cl saster, offering his services on a: mtingent fee, I was interested in * ie young lawyer and spoke to him e: > a friend, telling him it was un x>fessional to solicit business. He m Imitted that he had written the let r, 'but,' said the young man, 'I as too late. Mr So-and-So got ahead : me. He had telegraphed and cap ir?d the case." ^ The same Mr. So-and-So actually r ole a case from an Augusta lawyer, this wise: A negro wno naa Deen e Augusta lawyer's servant, was se smly injured :n a railway week, was a clear case for damages, hale the lawyer was in correspond ice with the railway company to ttle it out of court, the negro went i a "scurzhion" to Atlanta. When 03 nping about at the Union Depot, a lite man asked him, "What's the s* atter with your leg?" "Got it hurt ^ t the railway." "How much did the ilway pay you?" "Nothing yet." arse James in Augusta aint got [ thing for me yet." "You come withj e." The white man was the tout or|Ju ckal of Mr. So-and-So. He took the j ^ gro in a cab to the office, and the ;gro readily gave his case to Mr. So-! a' id-So who agreed to pay him J25 I month until the case was ended. | w !1 this was told me by the Augusta w ivyer himself, a most excellent man. 5- to Mr. So-and-So, he amassed eat wealth, and was as successful politics as in damage suits. N< May 1 add just one more incident: will show to what dishonesty a image case and contingent fee at rney will on occas'on descend. I ve the facts as related to me by e late Mr. Ben Abney of Columbia, uring the trial of a suit for dam :es against his railroad, Mr. Ab ?y was cross-examining a negro' itness:?"Sam, didn't you have a i cc ise against this railroad two years Lj. ro?"' "Yes, sir." "Didn't you get^ 1500 damages?" "No, Sir! the jury ^ .id fifteen hundred but my lawyer! ,'d only threo hundred." There is |.; fine example of the contingent fee|^; wyc-r, member of an honorable pro-. ssion! With reference to the suggestion { f the Bar Association, the weak; )int is that it provides only for lit ary and professional education, othing is said nor suggested as to te character of applicants for ad ission to the bar. And yet it is far ore important that they should be )ung men of good character than lat they should be thoroughly well lucated. There is food for thought the saying of an English Lord b< hancellor who was consulted about or he appointment of some one to a igh judgeship in India: "First of 11 he must be a gentleman. If he nows a little law, so much the bet jr." Like yourself, Mr. Editor, I am ot opposed to Law Schools. But I [link it would be a great mistake to lake graduation at a law school a re-requisite to admission to the ar. The door should still be left open or young men who have read law in ie office of a lawyer of good repu ition, a leading lawyer. That was ie old ^lan, and it worked well, 'hink of the Abbeville bar of forty Rn,f i caia i uiui, iuvuvwaii) homson, Parker, Noble, Lee, Coth an,?a bar that for character and rofessional ability could not be sur assed. Not one of them had attend i a law school. They had learned leir Law in a law office under the jpervision of a good lawyer. Of the :ading lawyers of Charleston at that me, several of them had "read law" 1 the oflke of- James L. Petigru, nd they were justly proud of that ict. In one respect that old plan is bet- . ;r than the law school plan, it is iore likely to secure young men of ^ ood character. Any young man able!, > pay the fees can enter a law school j, ut the old lawyer, in whose office | ( sung men desire to read law, is very j, articular in granting permission, I >r he becomes as it were sponsor j, >r their good character. And his per-1 ^ >nal influence and his manner of ^ inducting his business in the office I nd in the court room are of great I ilue to the young student. The late | harles Francis Adams read law, notj i the Harvard Law School, but in i le office of Dana & Parker and of I, lem he said, "They were two menf ith whom personal contact was in i' ^lf an education." Similar testi-i iony could be given by many law-|' ers concerning the men in whose, fices they "read law." j1 It was not my intention to write 1 1 j > long a letter, but I know the sub- ' ;ct interests you, and I hope the let-.' ir will interest your readers* My>' lief purpose was to assure you that:1 agreed with you in the views you ,' tpressed. That was a wise saying of | le witty Disraeli, "The agreeable J an is the man who agrees with me."!1 W. C. BENET. H Grimshaws, N. C. y March 13, 1922. I1 jl (ISTRIAL IS ORDERED IN CHAS. D. JONES CASE ( !< Lancaster, S. C., March 23.?The ' iry in the case of Charles D. Jones,' inker and merchant, on trial here' i a charge of breach of trust and J1 isappropriation of funds, was dis-'1 larged by Judge Bowman at 2:30.< clock this morning and a mistrial xiered. The jury reported to the sheriff | tortly after 2 o'clock this morning .1 iat it was "hopelessly disagreed" * id Judge Bowman, who had gone > his hotel, was sent for. He came ' rectly to the court room and imme ately discharged the 12 men. The| iry got the case about five o'clock f rednesday afternoon. j i The outcome, of the case does not feet other indictments against j ( >nes, it is said, but none of them! t ill be tried at this term of court,! I hich is expected to adjourn today, j 0 BONUS FOR BABE FOR HITTING HOMER i New York, March l4.?Babe Ruth's; intract carries no provision for a I >nus on each home run, as was re-i >rted from Hot Springs the day the I ug/rer came to terms with the Newj ork Yankee club owners, it was ficially announced today by Col. | icob Kuppert, part owner ox tun ub. The home run slugger signed a mtract, with an option for its con nuance for two additional years at ie same figure if both parties agreed \ olonel Ruppert said. It was first reported that in addi- j on to his salary, Ruth would get! 300 every time he hit the ball for] complete trip around the bags. The Jilt ife. Charlotte?"Saw Jo? at the lovies with Mabel Saturday night, ren't you keeping company with im now,'' Gladys?"No. I asked him if he ked her better than me, and he lid yes?so I threw him over." Siberian merchant is said to have >ught 1,000,000 squirrel skins in le season. - "LOST COLONY" OF CROATANS ? LIVE IN N. C. VILLAGE The little town of Ocracoke, N. C., onec the retreat of the South's most noted pirate and outlaw, Blackbeard, (Edward, Teach) is now perhaps the! most quiet and placid spot in the! Carolinas, if not in the United States, although the little town, now nearing two hundred years old, was once filled with a gang of crooks, it j is today a place free from crime. | There has not been an arrest here, in more than ten years. John O'Neal, after holding office as Justice of the Peace at Ocracoke for eight years, resigned more than a year ago, without having had a criminal case during his admin'istra t:on. The town authorities have not as yet elected a successor. Yet law and order remain extinct. Mr. O'Neal, born, reared and. al ways lived in Ocracoke, says the worst crime he can recall in his home town, was that of assault and battery. , There are only one or two houses here that have locks on the . doors, and the keys to those that are so equipped are never used. Most of. the houses in Ocracoke are built wholly, or partially of lumber from j 3hips which were wrecked ^ on the: treacherous shoals off tbe North Carolina coast. It is said that there is.not a family here but owns its home. There is not a "rent-hog" in j the place! Ocracoke it at the extreme south ern end of a little island of the same name. The island is unique in many respects, lying about thirty miles off the coast of Hyde County, ST. C., of which it is a part. It is g. about eleven miles in length; and varies in width from one half to one ind one half miles. T ft MAmtlnftAn 4VlA ! 110 n ^ ! A o: is A lie butOi |A/pmOtlVll VI tub | is seven hundred; all save fifty of j this number* are natives and live in ihe village. Those who do not ljve :rt the village are coast guardsmen, ivith members of their families hav ing been stationed there by the government. As there are no railroads, automo-J biles, street cars, nor theaters where moving pictures are shown, few of the inhabitants of Ocracoke have ever seen these things. With the exception of the men employed 3y the United States government, as :oast guardsmen and the few mer-j chants in the little jtown, all Ocracoke j ?rs make their living fishing and| mnting. -? x? _ ^ J9 L. livery native 01 me isiunu i? a j Methodist in religion, however, there ;(l, ire two sects of Methodism here, thex Dopulation being about equally divid- A * |A The first settlement, on the .island j vas among the first in America. The i leople are believed, by many histor-i ans, to be descendants of the mys ;erious "Lost Colony," set up by Sir SValter Raleigh, which is believed to lave merged with the Croatans. ,<? "t | Richard Wagner, the great com-.W >oser, was the youngest of nine chil iren. From 20 to 25 gallons of 95 perj ;ent aiconoi can ue uuiawcu num a ;on of dry pine wood. se gi There are weeks in the winter in ri Norway when the sun appears only i few hours. ASHE Fertilizer HIGH GR FIRTIL tO i m buil i (Reg. V. S. Pat. OH ? FOR SAL R. S. LINK, .. J. R. WINN, .. .. SPEER & BOND, Bills! now iney pile up on us .. around the first of the month?and very often we don't have the ready cash to pay them. There IS a remedy?and if you are interested we will be glad to have you ... (frop in and talk it over. We'll tell .you how to Meet the first of the Bonth with a smile? and a Savings Account In the . PLANTERS BANK The Friendly Bank QUARTERLY CONFERENCE The second Quarterly Conference f Aibbeville Circuit will be held at haron Saturday, March 25. Rev. E. . Jones will preach at 11 o'ctoek,. allowed by lunch on the grooad. fter which the conference wiH be , eld. Preaching Sunday at 3:30 by Rev. . S. Jones. Preaching Sunday at 11 a. ra., at ethel and at 7:30 at Grace by tte v astor. The public is invited. J. E. Kilgore, pastor. . MIDNIGHT ( was midnight on the ocean, Not a street car was in sight, he sun was shining brightly, For it rained all day that nigbt. \ I was evening, ana tne rising sun Was setting in the west, nd the little fishes in the trees Were cuddled in their nest Twas a summer day in winter, The rain was snowing fast; barefoot boy with shoes on , Stood sitting on the grass. I warm, dry rain was pouring down, The sun was shining bright, nd everything that you could see Was hidden out of sight. [*he organ pealed potatoes, Lard was rendered by the choir, hile the sexton rang a dishrag Some one set the church on fire.' ?Hazel McCulley. A tempting sweet course was rved in which the color scheme of een and white "was cleverly car ed out.?Newberry Observer. Wo eai always did have a cleve* way : carrying things out at a party. POO Works i! ADE a*> .S51 UbKd a standard I lOT Down .> to a price E BY .... Abbeville Due West Lowndesville.