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Established 1844. 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 oflice 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, JUNE 30, 1922. THE STRIKE ON. i The Press and Banner does not believe thaj two laborers or a whole set of laborers have any more right to combine and strike in order to enforce their demands for higher wages than two manufacturers, or two railroads have to combine to put freight rates up or to put labor prices down. Labor should command on the market its market price, and so should every other service. 1 But considering the strike now or dered |or railroad employees we may j concede the right to strike, and the right to quit the employment of the railroads in a body. Having conced ed that, we are to consider the rights of the public and of other people. I One of the outgrowths of com bines, (and among these are labor unions) is a disposition to believe that the country was created and government and society organized for the benefit of the combine only. The ideas of the labor unions in this regard were expressed in our hear ing some years ago by a member of mn nf fVio 1 aerialntivp H^IpCJltionS to Columbia. Replying to a suggestion of another employee of the railroad that the offer to submit to arbitra tion a question then in dispute be tween employer and employee was fair, the member of the delegation, declared that the arbitrators could not render justice, or would not between the parties; then giving his reason for so stating, he said, "They do not know what we want." And that is the whole law in labor un ions. It is not a question of what is right to the employer, nor to the public, but it is a question of what the labor union wants and how near ly its members can come to forcing the demands which they make. - j i r _ r j_i_ _ _x_ i me truin 01 tnis siaieiiieiiu tan not be better proved than by the or dering of the present strike. The new scale of wages fixed by the La bor Board was fixed by a three cornered tribunal constituted by law for the fixing of wages. The rail roads furnished one set of judges, the labor unions another set,.and the third set was furnished by THE PUBLIC. The public represents the country at large and is supposed to be fair and impartial as between la bor and capital and their respective contentions. The labor unions sub mitted their rights to this tribunal and the^ward has been made. The railroad judges and the judges on the party of the people who pay the freight have agreed on a fair and equitable scale of wages, we assume, j but the labor unions do not think so. What the latter think may be offset by what the representatives of the railroads think, and we have left the judgment of the men who represent the public, the worker and the capi nlilf a +U n tv* o r? oriil pays the freight on the one hand, and the railroads and their employ ees on the other, each of whom must live from the income of the rail roads. That judgment is that the railroad workers should submit to a small cut in wages, not such a cut as all other men have been called up on to accept, not a cut to a pre-war basis because we shall not soon re turn to that, nor would such a re turn be entirely fair, although the returns to the farmer of the South and to a great many other people from their labor are far below a pre-war basis. But the labor unions will not accept the verdict of the people, (the verdict of the represen tatives of the public on the Labor Board is the verdict of the people whom they represent). They strike. ' Well, as we stated, we shall not for present purposes deny their right to strike. But having quit their em ployment, the public which has heard their case and which has rendered its decision on the merits of it, should be prepared to enforce its decrees. 5 We believe that, it will be so prepar- R ed. The public has a vital interest in the running of the .trains; their prop er operation means life to a great many people, it means a chance of a f return to normal to all of us. Hav- d ing such interest and the people hav- g ing a right to have the railroads c operated the public should be pre- ( pared to see that the railroads f are allowed to operate their trains t and to do every uma an nciwoai jr * to their proper operation. This government has been too f long submissive to the dictates of h the mob. Only a few days ago we d saw something of the results of the \ timidity of the government. A few <] people brought into a mine to oper- ( ate it were set upon by five thousand 1 a strikers who had quit their jobs, butjn who assumed to themselves the right to say that other people could not e work. Those who sought to work as t they had a right to work, on ' their a own terms, at such places as they saw fit, and for such wages as ap pealed to them, were cowardly mur- . dered, burned at the stake, drowned, their bodies mutilated, and other hor- ^ ? -? ? ' AA?J moe fll o rors were cuuimiucu. xuov na* v?.?- j setting up of a reign of anarchy c where law is supposed to be enthron ed. And as yet the people of Illinois j have been too cowardly to undertake ^ the prosecution of the mob. The la- { bor unions, who always say they ( are against violience, have so far not produced one of the men who com mitted the violence, nor have they ? c offered a syllable of evidence which j would help to convict. And they will not. The mob never does. A long time ago an old man of this community told us that there J would sooner or later be civil war in this country between the labor un- * innc ond fVio onnc+itiiteH ontlinriHpS. It has broken out in Illinois, and it j ^ will break out all over this country i ? unless the people are ready to defend j their rights and to put down anarchy. | The final weapon of the labor unions' is unlawful force?and that means anarchy. When the politicians are men enough to say that any two men who conspire to raise wages by force of the strike are as criminal as two railroads who undertake to conspire for like purposes, we shall get rid of j a force which threatens the very! existence of our government and the, liberties and constitutional rights of i the people of the land. But so long as these politicians are supinely i' cowardly, so long will the force threaten. The time to kill a snake is when it first sticks its head up. We ' can never enforce our laws by tem- 1 porizing with violence nor by counte nancing conspiracy, it matters not by ,: whom fostered nor how attempted^ to be enforced. Let the law arm it- -1 self, and fight if need be. ; Why Not Protect To Illinois As Well;1 As To Mexico? j1 The reader picks up his newspaper, 1 and sees that forty American citi-j zens have been captured by bandits |1 in Mexico and held for ransom. He 1 is indignant at the outrage and a- 1 mazed that the Mexicans should 1 have dared to commit it. But is the angry reader justified in 1 wondering that American citizens 1 should be subjected to such treat- * ment in a foreign land? 1 A week ago more than forty Amer- j ' ican citizens, who were engaged up-12 on the peaceful business of earning |1 a living, were captured, herded and ? bound together. Twenty of them at least were put to death ignoniini- t ously?shot, stabbed, hanged or drowned. J This happened in one of the great- 1 est States of the Union. c These wholesale murders were j committed in the open. Thousands * of men, women and children either took part in or witnessed the massa-1 ere. It was a holiday of horror. A week has passed and no aurest has been made. No indictment has been brought against the murderers, * whose names must be known to thou- ^ sands. No real step has been taken ^ by county, State or nation to bring ? it- c.*1 J uie guilty tu juatiuc. If Americans are fit subjects for[* murder in the United States why Is should not the bandits of Mexico con-1" sider them fit subjects to seize and hold for ransom? How can Americans expect to be respected outside their own country if they permit their self-respect to j be dragged in the bloody mud of the i Illinois coal field??New York Herald ' Practically every man in Japan who does not join a Buddhist mon astery marries. 1R. ANDREW CRAWFORD J DIES IN AUGUSTA HOSPITAL Mr. Andrew Crawford, aged 72, a ormer resident of Abbeville County, i lied in the University Hospital, Au- i ;usta, Ga., June 28th following an i operation. About six months ago Mr. < Crawford suffered a broken leg. A 1 ew days ago it was found necessary 11 o amputate his leg from which he 1 lever recovered. ? In 1902 Mr. Crawford with his ' amily left this county to make their ( lome in Thompson, Ga. Since the 1 [eath of his wife about 9 years ago, ( ie has made his home with his chil- 1 Iren. He visited his son, Mr. W. A. ' Crawford of the Warrenton section ' ibout two years ago, and renewed nany of his old acquaintances. ' His son, W. A. Crawford and neph- : w, Lucius Abies of Abbeville,- also wo of his nieces, Mrs. Terrell Home ind Mrs. Joe Russell of Troy, attend- ] id the funeral. The following notice of his death s taken from the Augusta Chronicle: The funeral of Andrew Ebehezer 1 Crawford who died at the University lospital Wednesday morning at 8.30 i ("clock after an illness of six months, 1 rill be conducted at the residence of lis son, Arthur T. Crawford, 642 : loore Ave., this morning at 10 1 >'clock. Rev. V. E. Lanford, pastor 1 >f the Methodist Episcopal church, < issisted by Rev. C. H. Kopp, pastor i if the Woodlawn Baptist church will ] fficiate and the interment will occur < n the West View ceft&tery. 1 The deceased is survived by four ions: John R., Arthur T., and James 4 >. Crawford of Augusta, and W. A. 1 Crawford of Abbeville and one ( laughter, Mrs. Geo. C. Paschal of ^ 2obbham, Ga., two brothers Robert Crawford of Troy and James Craw lord of McDuffie county, Ga.; three " sisters, Mrs. Mary Lou Puckett of Bradley, Mrs: John young of Troy i ind Mrs. Emma Abney of Jackson irille, Fla., and twenty-four grand- ; children. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor Howard L. Weeks will preach Sunday at 11:00 a. m. on the subject, "The Message of the Memorial Supper." Immlediately following the sermon the ordinance of the Lord's Supper will be ad ministerea. All tne memoers 01 tne church are earnestly requested to be present at this service. The subject for the evening ser vice sermon will be, "What is the Matter with the Church? The B. Y. P. U. wiii hold its first regular meeting Sunday at 7:30. p. m. The program of the evening will be given by Group No. 1. All the young people of the church are cordially invited to attend this meeting. Come and get acquainted ivith this splendid work by and for the young people of the church. The prayermeeting of the church s of unusual interest now. All the members and friends of the church ire cordially invited to attend this lelpful meeting. The Sundav iSehool is makine- a fery earnest appeal now to all the ieachers, officers and pupils to be musually diligent now to keep the attendance up during the hot nonths. At this trylngi time of the fear an extra effort is required to iold the attendance where it rhould be. The effort on the part of the men :o provide the church with modern j 'Auditorium Fans" seems to be | neeting with splendid success. Soon Via nlinv/>Vt unll Vko Ann nf iVlD TMrtSt I :oaifortable places in town. BIRTH NOTICE Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Frank iVelsh, June 29, 1922, a son. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Cochrane of Clover have moved to Due West, Vhere they will be in charge of the flfylie Home, a dormitory for girls it Erskine College. During the past rear Mr. Cochrane was a member of he faculty of the Clover high ;chool.?Chester Lantern. VFTFRINARIAN Graduate Ohio State University DR. M. HARKAVY | FERGUSON'S STABLE Phone 387 Abbeville. S. C. I F. S. COTHRAN WILL PRACTICE IN GREENVILLE J. S. Cothran, nephew of Associ ite Justice T. P. Cothran of Green Mile, has opened an office in Green /ille for the practice of law. Mr. Dothran, a native of Abbeville coun ;y, but who has lived here and is well cnown throughout this section, grad jated in law at the University of South Carolina last February. Mr. 3othx*an expects to practice in all ,'ourts. irior to ms graduation at ;he South Carolina University, Mr. Sothran was deputy clerk of United States court for the Western District jf South Carolina, and he has also seen associated with local law firms. Mr. Cothran has opened his office 3n West Court street, across the street from the county court house.? Greenville Piedmont. DAMAGES TO HIGHWAY PRO HIBITED. The Highway Commission of Ab beville County at a meeting on June 15 th, passea a resolution caning xne attention of the public, to the fact that the operation of Cleated wheel tractors, Overloaded Trucks, the reckless driving of motor vehicles on the County High-ways, the obstruc tion of drain ditches, or otherwise iamaging the public highways are misdemeanors under the law. The Peace Officers of the County are re guested to look out for and appre hend offenders. It cost money to build these roads md the Highway Commission res pectfully requests the people to co jperate with them in preserving them. HIGHWAY COMMISSION Of Abbeville County, lune 19. & 23rd. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO UNA. Scholarship and Entrance Examina tions. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in the University of South Carolina and for admission of new students will be held a; the County Court House July 14, 1922, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be loco fV>nn civf.opVi venrs of acre. When scholarships are vacant after July 14 they will be awarded to those makijig the highest average at examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write tp President Currell for scholarship application blanks. These blanks properly filled out by the applicant should' be filed with President Currell by July 10. Scholarships are worth $100, free tuition and fees. Next session will open September 20, 1922. For furth er information write President W. S. CURRELL, University of S. C.. Columbia. S. C. June 5.-19- and 26th. 3tcol. TIi DISTIL THE BASIS OF OUB ICE and nothing is left i We believe our expei of REAL QUALITY DISTILLED H Manufactured ATTlll A 6 6 6 CURES MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER, DENGUE OR BILIOUS FEVER. IT KILLS THE GERMS. / Mexican June Seed Corn is beat for late planting. We have a splen did variety at 80c peck. $3.00 per The Rotenberg Merc. 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