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W$t ffiamfaerg ^eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. i $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 2S. No. 33. Thursday, August 14, 1919. Think of this, please: If every man in Bamberg was the same sort of citizen that you are, what sort of town would this be? ^ i>I m There are more automobiles in I Bamberg, no doubt, than in any town its size in the State; yet there is a woeful'lack of public spirit. ^ > > m It is said that last winter in some Hp" t Northern cities, during the time when influenza was an epidemic, that pallbearers had to be hired. Now we would be delighted to serve as pallbearer free for some men we know. ^ ' ? ? The greatest liability of the Wilson administration has been one A. S. Biirleson, postmaster general, and the president should have handed him the pink slip long ago. He is one of the most prolific sources of trouble for the present administration. Our best wishes go out to Charleston for next Tuesday. On that day we trust she will be true to the g^rious traditions of that city and bury fK- > forever that most notorious German . I sympathizer and American hater, John P. Grace. He has no business & - in this'country?Germany is his propSi.: er abiding place. * What has hannmp nf that, ire nlant i . ? that was going to be built in Bamberg? We understood some months ago that arrangements were being V considered for the manufacture of Pice here. An ice plant has been in operation for several years in Walter/ horo, and it is evidently a paying investment, for we note from the Press and Standard that the capital stock of the concern has been doubled, and that the capacity has been trebled. ^ i>i ? The president has at last opened his mouth and condemned the out??;'V K ! * rageous robbing of the people in the Scgfe- prices of food, and it is to be hoped that both he and congress will do something besides talk. Some of these food robbers ought to be shot, and this robbery, as the president truly says, is not confined to the large wholesaler either. The retailer is as * % guilty as anybody else. The crisis * . . must come soon, if conditions are not bettered and that right speedily. However, we might as well put the blame where it rightly be_ longs, and that is on the government. They could have protected the consumer and they have not done it. P ? < > m After the United States declared war the government got down on its belly and groveled to labor, and it is now reaping what it sowed. At the r construction of the military camps in LUIS OLCLLC uunajcuus na^cs \?cic paid to most incompetent laborers, but the contractors did not worry? they were being paid a profit on the cost of construction, so the greater the cost the greater their profit. As a consequence of this, negro brick layers and other laborers whose work* v does not require any special skill or training are demanding and receiving wages about double what a skilled and expensively trained technical man is receiving. In this town negro brick masons are being paid $7.00 a day, and many white men, whose work requires fifty times the brains and skill, are receiving about half as much. Is it any wonder that the salaried man has little confidence in and less respect for the government? i? im cOne great trouble with the negroes gennerallv is that the vicious and ? iuff no V* ?arV? criminal negru siauua juol m&u in their esteem as the honest, industrious, law-abiding- negro. The white people?at least the Southern white people?differentiate between these two classes. A good negro can get along anywhere in the South, but a bad negro soon finds the atmosphere to warm for him and is forced to seek another home. Let the negro learn this lesson: let him refuse to countenance in church or society of any kind these members of his race who are vicious, immoral, and criminal, and lie will have gone a long way toward convincing the white people that he himself is a good citizen. ?es <?> A few days ago we noticed in a negro newspaper an editorial from the New York World, and along with it a half dozen or more letters to the editor congratulating him on the editorial. These letters were from negroes or from white people who are negro crazy, belonging to that class in the North who are fanatically try ins: to "uplift" tlie negro dv preacning social equality to him. But most of the letters were from bitter Northern negroes, and some of the expressions contained therein were of the character to produce trouble between the races. The editorial from the World had reference to the recent race riots in the North and West. Th's negro paper that we allude to is published in South Carolina, and is edited by a negro who runs an orphanage, supported by contributions, much of this support coming from Southern whites. He is too shrewd to give expression to such devilish views in his editorial columns, but he copies from Northern papers. This is the case with every negro newspaper in this State that we know of. They are doing more to create friction between the races than anybody else, and if there is trouble with the negroes in this State these papers will have had the major share in bringing it about. Again we repeat that the negro race has no worse en emy man me aveiage ucgiu newspaper, no matter where published, and one which will do him the greater harm. i? ^ C HA RL r'STG X. Charleston is the metropolis of of South Carolina. The result of the election in Charleston next Tuesday will likely be looked upon by the rest of the country as an, inbex to the people of this State. Will Charleston dis-Grace herself? We hardly believe it. The people of South Carolina are loyal, and we are not prepared to believe, now that the light has been shed on the disloyalty of Grace, that Charleston will do otherwise than repudiate Grace and the Charleston "American" in no uncertain manner. COTTOX PRICES. Recently the price 'of cotton advanced two cents a pound in a single day. Two or three days later cotton declined two cents in one day. Incidentally, it continued to decline some more during the few following days. In all cotton has declined in the space of about ten days some four or five cents a pound, going first up and then down. To the mind of the layman, there is no real or apparent reason for such tremendous fluctuations. One marked decline of two cents was attributed to the marine strikes. If someone will kindly tell us what the marine strikes has to do with the supply and demand for cotton, we would be glad of illumination. Of course, they will say that cotton cannot be exported with 4he shipmen on a strike. Anybody with intelligence knows that the strike will be over some time, and that not a bale less of cotton will be consumed because of it. Somebody pockets the difference in price. Who gets it? After all, we are inclined to the belief that if the government fixed the price of cotton at a fair figure, everybody would be better off. You would know where you stood anyway. HIGH COST OF LIVING. President Wilson has laid down the law to congress on the high cost of living. The magnificent address of the president should cause some of those in congress to be ashamed of themselves. Their recent disgraceful conduct in seeking to ridicule the president, instead of doing something to benefit the country in these perilous times, has evidently got on the nerves of the president. As the president says, the country is now neither at war nor peace, due to the dilly-dallying of Lodge and some other senators and congressmen who are talking the country to death about the peace treaty. They grasp everything that they think they can possibly use against the president. And in the meantime the country goes on suffering. We are paying war prices for everything we buy. although the war has been over eight months. The president recommends the passage of needed legislation to get the country on a peace basis again, and we hope congress can stop wrangling long enough to accomplish something. That there is no sense in the prices being charged ought to be apparent to all thinking people. Somebody is making billions at the expense of the people, and it is high time this thing is stopped. ^ ! > CAN'T LIVE OX THANKS. The South Carolina Cotton association the other day very graciously rendered thanks to the newspapers of the State for the excellent publicity the cotton question has received at their hands. This was mighty nice of the cotton association. But newspapers down this way have ceased to live on thanks. Thanks, as much as they are appreciated, will not pay grocery bills nor buy the family shoes. The cotton association, we believe, voted to hire a publicity director. That's fine. Our cotton matter now wilfTje all dished up for us ready to serve. The publicity director, howevever, is not to work for honor and glory, we believe, like the newspapers. One hundred and sixty thousand dollars, we understand, is what they say is needed to carry on the cotton association programme in South Carolina. A magnificent sum of money. O .? 4- f lin f o r? nrc til OOO JL) U L ? 11 ? cxoooao uic laiuibic one hundred and sixty thousand dollars? Why not ask everybody else, like the newspapers, to work free? That would save quite a lot of mon-j ey. Give them thanks. The officers J of the association are more obligated to work free than the newspapers. We have not been receiving but about ten or fifteen columns of cotton association matter a week heretofore. We ought reasonably to expect the volume to be doubled, at least, now that the newspapers are to have a regular director of publicity; somebody to tell us just what to print and what not to print, you know. Through the postmasters of the country the war department has offered for sale 341,000,000 pounds of foodstuffs. The postmasters and rural carriers are to act as salesmen and in informing prospective customers as to price. NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE. Pursuant to an order of the Court of Common Pleas in the case of Mrs. Elise B. Walker vs. Elizabeth Baker, et al., the undersigned as Master for Bamberg county will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, at the Court House, Bamberg, S. C., on the first Monday in September, 1919, between the legal hours of sale on said day, the following described lot: "All that certain lot or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements mereon, situate, lying aiiu uemg m the town and county of Bamberg, in the State of South Carolina, measuring and containing one acre, and bounded on the south by Church street, measuring thereon two hundred and ten feet, on the east by lot of Jerome Smoak. and measuring thereon same distance: on the north by lot of J. J. Simmons, and measurj ing thereon same distance: and on the west by Cox avenue, and measuring thereon same distance: the same beina the lot conveyed to T. J. j Baker by Mrs. Felder." Terms of sale: Cash.; purchaser to pay for papers. J. J. BRABHAM, JR.. Master for Bamberg County. August 13, 1919. NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE. Pursuant to an order of the Court of Common Pleas in the case of the Equitable Home Company vs. Andrew J. Bennett, et al., the undersigned as Master for Bamberg coun ty will sell at puDiic auction to me highest bidder, at the Court House, Bamberg, S. C.. on the first Monday in September, 1919, between the legal hours of sale on said day, the following lot of land: "That certain lot or parcel of land situate in the town of Bamberg, county of Bamberg and State of South Carolina, containing two and three-fourths acres, more or less, and bounded on the north and west by lands formerly of E. M. Cox: south by the public road leading from Bamberg to Barnwell, and east by Cox avenue: said lot of land being the same of which Andrew J. Bennett died seized and possessed. Terms of sale: Cash; purchaser to pay for papers. J. J. BRABHAM, JR., Master for Bamberg County. August 13, 191t?. 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