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Established 1S44. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Px-ess and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Mondav, Wednesday and Friday. i Entered as second-class matter at' post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 -Three Montbs" - .50' l Foreign Advertising Representative1 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION: 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1922 | J WORK TO BE DONE. Sometime ago the Press and Ban-' ner urged on the people about Abbe-J ville the planting of a sweet potatoj crop as an additional money crop. As. is usual good advice in Abbeville j goes unheeded. Though, it must bei said, that a good many people are) thinking along the lines which we! discussed and there is interest in potato growing. Only recently two or three enterprising citiaens had speak ers here to discuss the matter. In this connection attention is called to an article in The State of today sent from Fort Mill, which m part is as follows: "About a year ago the Fork Pota-j to Growers' association, composed principally of farmers in the lower i section of Fort Mill township, was! formed with the purpose of growing curing, and marketing sweet potatoes and, with the sale of the last of last1 year's crop, Ladson M. Massey, sec-j retary of the association, has made a report of the operations which in clude the sale to dealers of 900 bushels and to seedsmen of 200 bush els, while the families of the mem bers were bountifully supplied throughout the year. The sales were made in Fort Mill and Rock Hill, Winhrop college 'being supplied from time to-time, and the average price obtained was around $1.50 per bushel "The beginnings were on a small scale, a storage house of 2,500 bush-i els being built, in which were stored during the year 1,800 crates for cur-1 ovnorimoTif ic /*AriciHprpH SO i 6uccessful that planting on a much1 larger scale will be done this year I and to care for the product another storage house of 3,000 bushels capa city is being built, and still another of 2,500 bushels capacity is in con-' templation. It is the intention of the local association to join the state association as soon as the production is sufficiently large to make car; load shipments. The Puerto Rico' variety is grown exclusively, and con sumers testify the superiority of the "cured" product over that of former, days when the potatoes were kept! under hills. S. C. Armstrong, presi-' dent of the association, is given much credit for the success of the past year, and he is satisfied that po tatoes are a very much more profit able crop than cotton, even at 20 cents per pound, under boll weevil conditions." If the people about Fort Mill can make money out of potatoes there is no reason why we cannot. If we plant and grow potatoes and cannot sell them, we can at least use them in feeding- the neonle on the farms who do not grow potatoes and who must! be fed every year out of the stores. ! Nor is it too late to take active ' steps for a potato crop in Abbeville township this season. Just now the County Demonstration Agent is busy with Cooperative Marketing. As soon as the the bend has been turned in I that fight he will be ready for some-! thing else. Why may he not appoint] himself a leader and arrange for the | growing and curing of 10,000 bush els of sweet potatoes in this neigh borhood the present year? There is plenty of time for planting the po tatoes. Farmers may yet shape their planting operations so as to give anj acre or two on every farm to this i crop. We can build the curing house in the summer while the potatoes are making, and in the fall we can house a crop of potatoes which will bring into this neighborhood at current prices about $15,000. The matter is worth consideration. It is worth more than that, the plan should be adopted. We have a live county agent now. Why may He not lead the fight and get the Abbeville Sweet Potato-Growers Association in action, and that within the next ten days? AN OFFICER WHO SCORNS THE KLUX "ASSISTANCE" The Ku-Klux Klan is not confining its grotesque and silly "publicity stunts" to the South altogether. It is "pulling" a lot of that sort of stuff j here and there, at other points] throughout the nation?wnerever ;i can get together an audience of one sort and another. The other night, "on top of a mountain visible from Patterson,' N. J.'" one of its "flaming cross stunts" j was held. The idea in "the flaming cross stunt" is to get on a high hill somewhere and wave these things a round so as to give as much mystery and spectacular effect to whatever it is that is going on as may be?and then start the solicitation crew out to see now many new memuen may ^ be rounded up at $10 each?don't forget the $10 each. The New Jersey "stunt" was ac companied by a proclamation, circu lated around the neighborhood, to the effect that the Ku-Klux Klan is an organization that would not for a minute "tolerate religious or race hatred"?but leaving it up to every one to believe that or no, just as he might elect, until he got on the in side and found out the real truth. The proclamation then went on to say that fche organization proposed to "stand four-square behind the offic ers of the law in the fulfillment of their duties"?but it failed to give the names of the militant members proposing. The idea seemed to be that they would "stand behind" with out disclosing ineir laenxity ana neipj enforce the law behind masks, cowls, shrouds, etc. The prosecuting attorney of the district, however, does not seem to have been unduly impressed by the proclaimed lofty and patriotic pur poses of the organization. After the "stunt" had been "pulled" he took occasion to say that he has no knowl edge of the existence, really, of a Hon in his district: that the "sDec tacle" held forth on the mountain, top might or might not be a real Ku Klux Klan affair; hut, whether it was or no, He isn't looking for any such assistance as that in the execution of his duty. He says that he will look after the administration of the law in his community, as he has been com missioned and sworn to do, prosecut-j ing to the full extent ALL persons] who violate it?including societies' and organizations, as well as individ uals. To quote the prosecuting attorney directly he says: "The proper place for the punishment of crime by in dividuals is in the COURTS, and not in secret order societies. No individ ual has the right to take the law into his own hands." And, he might have added, when the taking is effected in secret, behind masks and cowls and shrouds. The reason why the Ku-Klux Klan is going to pieces and the reason why it is finding it necessary to resort more and more to cheap forms of spectacular "publicity,"' is because, as The Georgian and American re peatedly has said, there is no place' for it, no necessity for it, no use for j it in our present scheme of civiliza-! tion. We shall make more and swifter i progress toward better things with out the Ku-Klux Klan than we ever may hope to make with it; and that is the reason why it is on the verge of collapse?that is the reason why it is about to "play out" not only as a money-making scheme, but as what ever else its apologists loftily claim it to be.?Atlanta Georgian. Dr. Charles P. Stelnmetz of Sche nectady, a scientist whose authority is well established, declares that the theory that light und sound are j transmitted on waves of ether is no longer tenable, being at variance with Dr. Einstein's theory of relati vity. As the conception of ether put forward by scientists is almost as hard for laymen to grasp as is the theory of relativity itself this as sertion will not trouble the rooters in the baseball .parks.?New York Herald. DR. L. V. LISINBEE 0PT1METRIST ...Office Over... McMurray'# Drug Store. 5SJ ABBEVILLE, S. C. DOTE DISCUSSES SITUATION FOOLS THE BOLL WEEVIL Deer eclditoral?as the munt is bout out and i has not rit you a letar in sum time i seet myself tonite at niy mullit stand on S. mane streat to tell you a few pints bout the sit teration. the boll weavuls is already here and the flies is cummin; the tater bugs in on tne taters ana me muss eetars air gittin there bills sharped to bite; the flees is growin on the dogs and grass is cummin up; but the wust sine i sea of trubble is the poHertishuns cummin out. The bole weavul may eat up the cotton and the flies may spile the vittals; the tater bugs may stroy the taters and the muskeeters bite yore ankle; the flees may git in the bed wiff you at nite when it is hot and crawl a little and the grass may eet up the corn; but what is to be feered is that the pollertishuns will tell the truth on eech uther, in which case it will be wuss then if they tole a ly. I sea that they has cort a still on the plais what jim Tullis has rented and that jim and frend Self has been in the jug but jim got out and left Self in. well, that is whar jim made a mistake if he war in it, bekos he snood kno that Self will tell the whole tail and a little more if he think jim dun gone back on him. the rool is that if you go inter partner ship with a man in eether merchan dize, coco-cola, or licker, is to take it equl and bare yore part, mind you i doo not say that jim and Self has made enny licker, or is in it; if they made enny all i can say is that they has bii\ a little stingy wiff it on South mane where it is badly needed, But a cirkumstants not menshuned in yore papar bout the whole cirkum furnts is that the day they kort jim and self and the still is that Col. Gor dan White kort corp. Kerr, of the dutch Kalone, plantin out a mint bed, which do not say that the corp. wai in the still but he war gittin redds to git m it, it seam to mee. i want to git up town sattidy nitc to sine up on the cotton co-opera tion. i think now that i will maik boul a bail on sixtean akers and may bee too bales if the bole weevuls don'1 find my krap too soon, i has tride a new aoage on ine weevuis. au une paipers has bin tellin how to man nidge the bole weavil, and a good menny plans has bin started but none of-- them hits the nale on the hed.' the thing to doo is to fool the weavil. that is my game, so i is goner plant bout six akers in cotan on the same ole field and not wurk it mutch, but to maik the bole weevuls think this is my krap. but the biggest end of my krap i is goner plant down on long kane on a nue ground what i cleered up this winter, the bole wee vil has newer bin in that naburhood, and he doo not even kno that enny cotan is to be there this yeer. the feeld is surrounded by the creak and pine woods and i think i kin git the crop made and gethered befoar the boll weevil git wise, i has not pat tented the plan and if alien Mer kantie want to try the same gaim on the weevil he kin go too it. but alien will hafter doo like mee. I go to the feeld befoar day while the weevul is still sleep and don't kum hoam till arter dark, so that he never sea me goin nur cummin, and i walk back wards goin to the feeld so the bole weevul kinnot track me. I think i got him fooled so fur and if nuthin happens as i say i may have as mutch as two bales to put in the co operation; but i done give it in to my leen as six bales, and gin a mort gage on the crop and plan to fool the weevil to boot, which will keap the rashuns cummin till i kin git a little ahed in the fish bizness, then if things do not look prosperus in the fall i will go inter bankruptcy, let the kredditus have the krap and clame homestid in the fish bizness. there air more ways of riden a mule besides bare back. Yours till fall, Dote. AN OPEN LETTER Tn thp crnnd Tvprmla n-f AMhpvillo County Today your state is calling on you as she has not called since the sixties. The future prosperity of your state and of your county de pends to a great extent on tho stand you take on Co-operative Marketing of cotton and other agri cultural products. You have wonder ful opportunities if you will but ac_ cept them. The thinking man and woman must put this proposition over. If you get up your quota you will have to s;gn up 800 bales every day this week. The Pee Dee and the lower .part of the State are calling to you to come and join hands with them in the breaking of the shackles of the Wall Street gang. If you desire to remain the slave - 1 ?? i_t Ol tilOSe money snarns ana gamoiers, continue to market your cotton as you have for the last fifty years. You have the situation in your hands, will you do your duty to your children, to your wife and to yorur State? Its up to you. If you put it over, every one of you will have to go out and work. It can be done, will you help? I wish to thank the people of Ab beville County for th? courtesies ex tended me during my work among them. Sincerely, T. L. Manning. Shipment of Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Garden Hose, Lawn Mowers and other seasonable goods just re ceived.?The Rosenberg Mercantile Company. NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF AP PLICATION FOR DISCHARGE In the District Court of the United States for the Western District of South Carolina. In the Matter of W. B. Hill. Lown desville, S. C., - Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy. To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt: Take notice that on April 20, 1&22, the above named bankrupt filed his , petition in said Court praying that he I may be decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts prov i able against his estate, except such debts as are excepted by law from , such discharge, and a hearing was thereupon ordered and will be had ' nnAH nrtl/1 An TWqtt 00 1Q 00 uyva ooiu before said court, at Greenville in said District, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appeaT and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. D. C. DURHAM, Clerk. Dated at Greenville, S. C., Apr. 20. gpraaianniiz^^ h w ? ifi w m IC To I in th< of A1 erly i n i ni r AKl OF AB S ' iHnnnnwnnnwnnw ^UuuuUuUOUUlUllll! "Wei It does not necess Clothing. It does mean Clc it does mean per Clothes. It does mean Clo You'll get all of STYLE and the prices $25.00 : gBBBBfaaaaaM F Hi oan on Cottc 2 Farmers' W bbeville, S. C nargined and liirnc iicno BEVILLE U LELCLCUCLCLCUannJCLI 3 ! J MIJ IJf IJIZJ u 1ZJ !>J eal Meaning Of I Dressed" >arily mean "high priced" ithing of correct design, feet fitting, well tailored thing of good quality, these things in our new PLUS SUITS i are very moderate $30.00 : $35.00 - *' .?r? i )n stored arehouse . Prop 1 ? graded. i i BANK COUNTY s