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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 office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00! Six Months $1.00 Three Months .501 i AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ( Foreign Advertising Representative | ?? , WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922 j ' I TOPSOIL ROADS I If any argument were needed to ^ support our argument of Monday for care of the roads now being built in this county, it could be ( furnished by the roads from Ware Shoals to Greenville. These roads were constructed just as the roads of this county are now 'being con. j structed. They were evidently wel^ built To a person who was doubt-j ful of the value of the topsoill roads they furnish evidence that these roads are of a more perma nent nature than some have thought. The conditions of these roads leads us to believe that by the expenditure of a reasonable amount of money each year, and by constant care and attention, these roads may be made very sat isfactory. Without this care, however, the roads will not be satisfactory. On the way from Ware Shoals to Greenville one strikes stretches of these roads which are badly wash ed, and where the wheels of the car! jump out of one hole into another, | causing a constant bumping. In 1 xT_? 1? l Otner places wnere wie iuaua been cared for, where they are scraped and kept smooth, the roads1 are as satisfactory as when first i built. As suggested, they present a study in the upkeep of good roads. Those charged with this duty might well take a ride over the roads in-1 dicated. The time would be well spent. Lessons can be learned which will be of immense profit to him who undertakes to keep up the roads here or elsewhere. vnnvr.rp innnrs According to the Anderson Trib une the judges of the state should be selected from the younger lawyers, rather than from older lawyers at the bar. And Anderson has about four whom the Tribune would like to see performing judicial duties. | The Tribune overlooks the fact1 that most of the judges who now "have one foot in the grave" went on the bench while they were still young men. The fact that they are now old is not because of their years only, because few of them have reached their "three score years and ten," but largely because of thc( exacting duties of the office of circuit judge. The ju^dge of the Anderson ! Circuit has been on the bench a good many years. He was an active mem.1 ber of the bar when he was elected circuit judge. He is not an old man 1 in years now, but the work of the circuit bench, we believe, is largely responsible for his present physical' infirmit:es. (And while we are saying that we may say too that no man in South Carolina deserves better of the: state than does Judge Prince, be cause in spite of infirmities which! would have caused many other men j to have quit work and deemed them selves a confirmed invalid, he has continued to do the work assigned him, and with credit to himself and rai-fVi rrvn o + V? ol Q ctofo \ I Another thing the Tribune over looks. A man at thirty-five, if he is married, likely has a family of small children. To them he owes much more than he does to the public. At the bar he is enabled to be at home, to assist in the rearing of these chil dren, and by fair opportunity he may be enabled to give to them a college education and to start them on the way of life. But not so with a circuit judge. The duties of that of fice take him away from home and from his family; the income from the position is about sufficient to keep soul and body together, if he lives frugally and with due regard to his position, with the result that the young lawyer who goes on the bench, neglects his family, throws away the 1 \ opportunity to accumulate a little perhaps for the infirmities of old age, lives a life of unceasing toil, if he does his duty, cuts ten years from his allotted time on earth in almost every instance, and when he has about run his race is discredited by the people whom he has served be iio ic nM and infirm, and is spoken of as a kind of pensioner of the public. No, neighbor, the young lawyer of fair promise, with family ties and with some regard for the future will not be found who is willing to serve the state for the salary now offered 3 circuit judge. Besides men of ripe experience at the bar, who have learned to serve, and who are not be. ;et by schemes for personal advance ment, are the men most able to dis aense justice on the bench. We may relieve them firom some of the bur iens of the office by allowing them :o live at home and to preside in ;heir own circuits, and after ten ^ears on the bench, we might even fViA^r Ka licfo/1 QC ClinPT* VTIU^ lliab bti^jr Kf\+ i<OWVk wv.^_ lumerary on the bench, and be al. owed to retire on full pay, subject :o the performance of such duties as ;hey are able to perform. There is nothing quite so unsatis factory as a cheap brand of justice. Harvey Appoints Cooper. Columbia, July 11?Governor Har vey has appointed Governor Cooper is the South Carolina member of the special committee organized by the Washington headquarters of the Southern Co-Operative League, to draft a bill aimed at the destruction of lynch law, which will be substitut ed for the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, now before Congress. The Southern league opposes the Dyer measure on the ground that it is unconstitutional and in taking the lead for a bill that will more clearly meet the special Southern committee, one member from each Southern state. The aim is to have the South take the lead in the new anti-lynch law promulgation. To Let Contract For Road Contract for construction of the improved highway from Greenwood to Abbeville will be let Monday by thef sjtate highway djepartment. Contracts for both the hard surface portion, extending about one mile out from the city limits and for the remaining top soil portion will be let at that time. Actual construc tion work is expected to begin within a few weeks after the con tracts are let.?Index-Journal.. DEFENDS TARIFF BILL No Excuse For Increase in Price, Says Willis. Washington, [July 11.?Clothing manufacturers and dealers would not be justified in increasing their prices because of the wool rates in the pending tariff bill. Senator Wil lis, Republican, Ohio, declared today in a letter replying to a protest against the tariff. "If any such increase in price contemplated by manufacturers and retailers of clothing," said Senator Willis, "consumers ought to under stand that there is not the slightest justification or excuse for it in any tariff rate in the pending bill. T|e unfairness and absurdity of claim ing that the new tariff rate on raw wool justifies an increase of $5 per suit of clothes is illustrated by the fact that the total amount on raw wool, if it were added to the pri?e of the suit, would be ninety.nine cents." DOLLAR MAKES JUMP ON PARIS EXCHANGE Paris, July 8.?The dollar made a tremendous jump in value over night on the -Paris exchange mar ket, opening at 12.75 francs as compared with yesterday's closing price of 12.26 while the pound sterling sold at 56.50 francs a gainst 54.85. The exchange market was feverish and there was heavy selling of francs which were the weakest of the lot. STEEL TANNAGE *1 SHOWS DECREASE New York, July 11.?The month ly tonnage report of the United States Steel Corporation made public today showed 5,635,531 tons of unfilled orders on hand June 30. This is an increase from May's un filled orders which totalled 5,254, 228. Watch the label on your paper STATE'S LIVE STOCK SURPASSES COTTON Several Causes of Changed Con dition, Says Dr. Lewi?, Head of Department Columbia, July 11.?The live stock industry in South Carolina during last year exceeded in total value that of the state's cotton crop The interesting, ^ and somewhat startling statement, was made yes terday toy Dr. W. K. Lewis, state veterinarian and inspector in charge of livestock, which includes cattle, hogs, sheep horses and mules, total $84,000,000 while the cotton crop, taking the state de parcmeni/ 01 iignvuii/uic a gouui?w of 776,000 bales and allowing the high average price of 20 cents per pound, values $77,600,000. The above statement will come as an eye-opener to many South Carolinians who had no idea that the live stock industry in this state had grown to such proportion. Dr. Lewis who represents iboth the federal government and the state in the control of disease among animals,, attributes thSs condition to three things: Tick eradication, hog cholera work, and the advent of the 'boll weevil He be lieves that the solution of the boll weevil problem is in live stock rais ing and sees for South Carolina great possibilities in this industry. Since 1914 wnen tne legislature made an appropriation to fight the cattle tick, thus eliciting federal support to the extent of giving South Carolina a separate district, great work has been done in elimi nating the principal drawback, the tick. The federal government has raised its quarantine entirely and the state quarantine rests only on the Coastal plain. Hog cholera, too, has been gradually cut down i through the preventive treatment ; until today the loss through this disease is estimated to be only $50,000 a year. Dr. Lewis has been in charge of the South Carolina 01 s fice since its establishment and to I the untiring efforts of him and of ' his force, South Carolina can attri bute an actual and potential saving ! of about $2,000,000 a year, not to ; speak of the increase noted in live ! stock. In 1914 the farmers of the i state took an actual and potential loss from the cattle tick of $1, i 500,000 and from hog cholera of - i$500,000. Gradually these items have diminished. Referring to that strip of coastal plain' which the state holds in cat tle tick quarantine Dr. Lewis was asked what could be done to eradi cate the tick, there also. "Obser vance of the statewide stock act will hasten the entire eradication more than anything I know" he said. Dr. Lewis' department is known as the Clemson College live stock sanitary office. In 1921 it was made a part of the college with Dr. Lewis as director of the depart-* ment. BIG DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST SEABOARD * Estate of W. R. McDonald, Killed December 12, Brings Action A damage suit for $30,000 ? __* xl. o ? i t Vtqc against ine oeauuaj u .ra.ii. been brought by the administrators of the estate of Wfc. R. McDonald through W. H. Nicholson of the Greenwood bar. Complaint in the case was filed recently in the office of the clerk of court in Abbeville. Mr. McDonald, who was killed by a Seaboard train here on December 12, was a resident of Donalds in Abbeville county and the suit will be brought in that county. J. How ard Moore of Abbeville will be as sociated with Mr. Nicholson in bringing the suit. The complaint filed alleges that McDonald was seated next to the track near the Pressley Street crossing when he was struck by a Seaboard train. McDonald died a short time after he was struck. The damage suit will probably be heard in tKe September term of court of common pleas in Abbe ville^?Index-J ournal. Ranchers in Arizona make the prickly cactus edible for cattle by burning off spines with blowtorches. Freight traffic on the Mississippi river is carried in steel barges 300 feet in length. CRISIS IN GERMANY TO BE RELIEVED Payment of Gold Marks Reduced. 32,000,000 Will Be Accepted as Satisfactory for Present. Paris, July 11.?The reparations commission decided today to relieve the German financial crisis to tfte extent of reducing the monthly in stallment of 50,000,000 gold marks due next Saturday on the schedule of payment to 32,000,000 gold marks. [Germany had announced her willing ness to pay the whole amount but the commission ruled that in view of the crisis the smaller figure was all that would be required. Credit to the amount of 18,000,000 gold marks was given Germany on her reparations account for deliver ies of dyestuffs made during the last I*-* mnnt.hs to the textile alliance of rc" America for all the allies and also for deliveries of coal which had been made to Luxembourg at the request of the allied governments. These, credits w<jre due Germany for some time, and the officials thought that jthis time was opportune to allow them in view of the German difficul ties. A plant to manufacture alcohol from molasses is being constructed at Anaheim, CaL Photo shows all that remained where a number of strike break not suiting the hiiners they appli I We are Hai IZll -iiVl Ice Water, Lemonad all during the day, s pense. Let DISTILLED W, will do its full share. DISTILLED Wi Manufactured tu, aitiIIa SUPREME COURT DECIDED IV 60 CASES WEDNESDAY Columbia, July 7.?Sixty cases Were dccided Wednesday afternoon by the supreme court, the opinions being handed down at 6 o'clock. several important cases were m- a eluded in (the lot. S In the E. N. Mittie manslaughter * case an appeal from the verdict of 8 the circuit court was dismissed. s Mittie killed J H. Patter at Orange- h burg and got nine years. He asked 1 the supreme court for a new trial, r alleging certain errors in the d judge's chage. The new trial was j a and flip a-nneal thrown out. I C 1CXU>7CU V4?*V* tra.w i One of the famous J. O'Neal Sandal cases was decided in favor of the state. Mr. Sandal of Calhoun county, sued the state in two cases, each for $50,0000, alleging that his two young daughters died from the use of typhoid serum furnished! by the state board of health. In one case Mr. Sandal got a verdict of $25,1500 and'the state appealed. In the other case the state won, and Mr .Sandal appealed. This is the case decided in favor of the state Wednesday atftrnoon. In the case against J. C. Mar lowe, a Greenville man who claim ed to have been a Pershing Scout in Mexico, who was convicted of ' iriiHncr a vouncr man named Mc_ SCENE OF KERRIN RIOT 1 of the supply house after the labor ri ers were killed recently. This building 2d the torch. /ingtneivinae ?I That makes one feel c 1 something REFRESHI j relieve that hot, tired Nj to cool and refresh one u' ingness to go on with th ^ Ever watch the crowds 8ti ing a soda fountain on H convenient and satisfyi * I in the house the cooling Refrigerator FULL of DISTILLED WATE) a, PnnKricr Drinks for eV< ire possible your home al \TER Ice help make this ITER ICE=IT LA! and Sold in Abbeville L PHONE NO. 68. IORSE AND SONS MUST STANl/ TRIAL IN FALL Washington, July 11.?Charles V. Morse, his three sons and eight thers must stand trial here on in ictments charging them witk con piracy to defraud the United States government through, war ime ship contracts with the Emer ency Fleet Corporation of the hipping iboard, the District of Co umbia court of appeals held today, "he applolate court's decision was eached in denying a request by the efendants for -nprmissinn to brinir special appeal from an opinion toy Jhief Justice McCoy of the district upreme court over ruling demur ers filed to the indictments. United States Gordon announced hat the case would he called for rial early in the fall. VETERINARIAN Graduate Ohio State University DR. M. HARKAVY , FERGUSON'S STABLE Phone 387 Abbevillei S. C. leven years, the appeal of Mar. iwe was heard and he was granted new trial. ; . "V^m ifWeather iften the need of NG?sometimes to feelinsr. something ot in the mine at Herrin, 111, ; was dynamited and the job 3 and create a will e work of the day. ; entering and leav a hot day? How ng it is to have right conveniences of a R ICE. ery meal, in fact, ; a very small ex coacnn hparable. It 5TS LONGER Only By M Ci