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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND feANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. I Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.001 ) Three months .50 MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1920 I Hi hied home. General Wood accepts defeat like a soldier. The Baptists run mighty well, asj well as dive deep. # i Some of the brethren around Abbeville, we imagine, will find it hard to vote against him. ; i Lincoln split rails, but he never had his place of business closed by the sheriff. ! Mr. Bryaa will also attend the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, > The republican convention was not Gomperized. It had that much backbone, and that much color. So far as we have read the republicans refused to nominate a whiskey barrel for either president or vice president. If father-in-law is living, we suggest that the next president, if it be Harding, make him conne in at the back door. We suspect that candidate Lowdei would feel better now had he al lowed someone else furnish a por tion of the campaign expenses. The newspapers which say that th< republican platform is colorless can not make tke same charge agains the Southern delegates. The editor of the Spartanburj Journal did not write the republicai platform. That is one reason why i , does. not. mention the name of Gen Frank McGee. Well, anyway, the democrats newspapers which rejoice so much ii the selection of poor republican can didates will have something to writ< about in November. They will the: explain how it happened. Perhaps when Mr. Bryan boughl the piece of head-gear which he folded up and put in his pocket when i1 .was not guarding the dove he recalled that somebody had mentioned cocked hats on another occasion. Irvin Cobb says that some of the delegates in Chicago who were nothing but deuces had a hard time looking like face cards. Col. Roche should have been there. Deuces and ten spots look good to him. " ' THE HOUSING PROBLEM. v Within twelve hours after The Press and Banner suggested that the Chamber of Commerce ask for subscriptions to the capital stock of a house-building corporation in Abbeville twenty-five thousand dollars had been subscribed by as many men. Originally intending to raise only this amount the workers have decided to push the subscription list to twice the amount stated. This guarantees that at least ten new houses will be in the course of construction within the next sixty days, and that parties who desire to buy homes will have an epportunity to do so. We said that fifty thousand dollars could be raised on the public square within an hour for this purpose. The result of the canvass by / President Nickles of the Chamber of finrnmpt'Cfi sneaks in evidence of the truth of our statement. We said that no better man could head the enterprise than Col. T. G. White of Greenville Streec. He does things. We are glad to know that he consents to become managing head of the new corporation. The public will understand that the enterprise is purely and solely a business enterprise intended to make money. Nobody need, therefore look to it as a charitable institution about to donate something to the publ ic or help the poor. But the people I ,vho have business foresight enough I ihead to want to buy homes will j have what they have not before had, an opportunity to buy homes. A Chamber of Commerce :s an asset when it does something. When it Joes nothing but make a noise, it amounts to nothing. The thing to do, as we have stated, is to keep busy. FOR FORMER SERVICE MEN Only three more weeks remain in which those of you who have allow! ed your government insurance to lapse may reinstate it. July 1 is the final day of grace. No more lapsed policies will be reinstated after that date. Payment of two months premiums on the original term insur ance is an mat is required ior reinstatement. Term insurance?the insurance that was in force during the war and which in case of death of the insured was payable to the beneficiary in monthly dribs of $57.50 over a score of years? can now be converted into any form of old line insurance. Converted insurance can now be made payable in a lump sum to the beneficiary upon the death of the insured, or it can be made payable in two other forms in the nature of installments. Premiums on converted insurance may be paid monthly, quarterly, semiannually: It is the cheapest insur1 ance on earth as well as the safest. No physical examination is required for those reinstating their govern; ment insurance. Better consult J. M. Nickles, the isurance officer of the local post, American Legion, anyway, before you make your ; final decision about your govern! ment insurance. .! NEGRO WORKERS AND s, NEGRO "RIGHTS' I ! According to Gerard Robinson 1 writing in the Freeman, the Ameri - can Negro is being forced into i - menacing disposition. He is 15, 000,000 strong, and has a greate degree of education and traininj JI than ever before. He desires certaii " immunities and privileges?free dom from lynching, for instance i equal educational opportunity . witi y'the white";, and the right to vote. I ^ih cannot get these from America: J liberals, he will seek them from A j merican radicals. His organs?th *j Crisis, the Messenger, the Negr j World?are preaching his power t c him. He may yet throw this powe rll to the "reds" as a last resort. In .jdeed, the Negro membership in th a' I. W. W. is already proportionated j1 larger than the white. TVio o rmcomiun/'oc nf cn/?Vi on o c* * ?*v WVUCVVJUVUVViJ VX UUVil Uil v? tion hold unpleasant possibilities t j Mr. Robinson's analysis and prophe | cy are the more disquieting becausi tj there is no question that the Negn has an economic power such as h< I has never possessed before. For the j first time in his history he is more j wanted industrially than wanting . He was once glad of a job and the j right to live. Toeiay speakers at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of At| lanta find that over 2,000,000 Negroes are now residents of northern states to 102,000 in 1910. This shift in population is acknowledgedly a response to a call for labor. Chicago has had evidence of it in a Negro industrial population sufficient to cause a race riot. Detroit^ has 35,000 Negroes, most of mom canea 10 ner snops. ;\or aoes the South view this migration with complacency. She is disturbed about it and anxious to check it while she can. So much white speakers have told us at Atlanta in the last few days. . , But this very attitude on the pare of southern whites is making against a Negro stampede to so-j cialism or anarchism. The economic j importance of the Negro is gaining him attention which apparently looks toward a new relationship. The mayor of Atalnta and the president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce have addressed the National Association for the Ad-, vancement df Colored People in its convention. The Atlanta plan, which has been operating for some time, indicates the possibility of composing differences peacefully | between the two races. The southern attitude, in other words, shows a susceptibility to modification. How far such modification can go no one will venture to say. The situation demands solutions. Like labor, however, it will probably devuloj code as it goes, instead of prose rib- j \ ing beforehand. While it shows anj 13 ability tc achieve results it is im S probable that radicalism will havt S the chance it hopes for. Negro in- B tellectuals are more interested in i | few simple reforms than in new M economic systems. They will pursue 'H these reforms while there is hope. B The very power which Mr. Robin- 3 son fears will carry them to the ?| "reds" is apparently giving them g the practical encouragement which jj will make them indifferent to an- ?1 archistic or socialistic doctrine.? j? N. R. Globe. J jj MODESTY LACKING H Tampa, Fla., Tribune. An Australian writing on the fg part America took in the war af- ?? fects to believe that if we take an jj undue credit to ourselves for the H result, and he seems to imply that J we do, the fault lies with the policy H of the allies. He says that the allies jS ; used the entrance of the United gg Cfo4-oo lrvf/\ wot* ,+a Krofllr Hnwn fee the morale of the Germans by . the m 1 exaggerated stories they told of the M part America would play in the con- J : flict. The great number of men we H would supply, the vast stock of |j i munitions we would furnish, the H .invincibility or our troops and the S inexhaustible resources we possess- |B ed were painted in furid colors in W the belief that some of it would filter into Germany. It did, he admits, _ and cut no mean figure in shatter, ing the courage of the foe. j But then he gets "rawther ' nawsty" and says that w? took for fact what the allies said we were 1 1 going to do and now think we did it. I Of course, he fails to explain what | I would have happened, probably, had j | not the allies been provided with j ; the weapon which he says they used j' ,! so advantageously against the Hun I morale. If we provided just what j was needed to win victory, as he _ . seems to concede, are we blowing a our own horn unduly when we say "we did it?" r Joshua once took Jericho by eng circling it with his army and blow# ing blasts on ramshorn trumpets. Joshua is entitled to credit for the .. success of his original bit of strate- 1 ? ^.gy, but he doubtless would have f conceded that it would not have n worked had he not had the trumpets with which to affect the morale of the people of Jericho. If America 0 [ had not entered the war the allies would have been deprived of their r trumpets. If we are assertive as to our part, we are at most not far in e advance of others.. We have observ- j ^ ed no conspicious modesty on the part ef any factor in the fight. IN MEMORIAM. ; Falling sweetly asleep on the j > morning of June 7th, 1920, Mrs. I Mary ^Walter Thomas Parker passed I from the kingdom of heaven created ! within her own heart to the mansion f prepared for her in her "Father's 1 house." Serene and onafraid she ! s j made the crossing, leaving behind her ! | the record of a long life filled with 1 , i beautiful deeds. Mary Walter Thomas was born at1 J Warrenton on May 19th, 1846. j I Christened in the Episcopal faith,: she was reared in that faith by a1 devoted Christian mother and grew I to young- womanhood in her Fath| p. 's home. Her education was begun' j in the Williamston Female Academy1 ! where she took the course taken by' i j ro many young ladies of that day ! and time, but her education was nevl 1 ' er completed for she was all her life long a constant reader of the best books devoting such time ana study -rto them that she grew daily in ten- vva j dcrness of heart, breadth of mind ma ' and intellectual understanding. , ^ j At the age of twenty-seven she was to married to William Calhoun Parker, ho; of Abbeville. After a few years of pr( ; happiness, he was "called home" and ! she was left alone to care for her ecj infant son, an only child. In spite of increasing invalidism, an ' she devoted her life to him working et? with her own hands that he might be as properly trained and educated. One m]l * * t i.?*? 1 * 1 ot nor most oeauuiui iraics wus nei 0? | constant industry. Her hands were never idle and she often declared that she would "wear out but never rust out." ; v > ! She was Christ-like in mat she v "went about doing goou" and her V loving kindness to others won the hearts of all with whom she was as- V sociated. |V I For the past twenty years she had V lived with her son, Edwin Parker, ^ helping Mrs. Parker, to whom she 1 J fn I The Counl | I THE HOME ( Theodore N. Vail, wh< Since that time he has railways in the Argent time to manage a firm With all his industry, dation for his millions Cultivate your saving partment. We Pay Five I I The attention^ all of do just as well as Mr. are young. Begin NO 5 . | / ? Count SOUND ill I lllfflllllllllillllilllllllllf'lffiBipiiai > The Nei ' ' . * t Time was 1 pretty noses a American shoe Walk-Over ox short vamp, an< 1 I the rage m Jrai women are m; new models, 1 s tenderly devoted, with the home iking and house-keeping and lining her grandchildren who were tioi- o cniirco r?f nrir?f? nnd lOV. The " "w?f? * - > - j me is left desolate without her jsence there. Children and grand- ^ ldren "rise up and call her bless- j Relatives, friends and neighbors ^ nk of her with tear dimmed eyes j d yet rejoice that she went to her ^ irnal home quickly and painlessly j she had often wished that she ( pht do. Her heart was as the heart a little child and "of such is the. ngdom of Heaven." ' Bessie Thomas Wilson. ,, ?SEE? Vi "IN OLD KENTUCKY" V < OPERA HOUSE FRIDAY V: AND SATURDAY V1 ADMISSION 25 and 35 cents V ] t ty Savings B< ^ \ 3F MISTER FIVE P 3 died recently, began his caree 5 improved the Railway. Mail Se ine; helped Bell develop the tel l in Vermont. he combined the saving habit, w . Industry and saving are an unl habit through regular deposits i Per Cent. On Savings our Bbvs is called to the above i Vail if you will learn the 8avii W. A deposit of $1.00 will sta y Savings SAFE I vest Style in Paris and > K when Parisian women t t American footwear, j s and boast of them.' 1 ford is in the latest style d fuller rounded toe. A :is. In our large Americ iking it one of the most it's the thing! ?v M. Anderson C< FINGER-PRINT CENSUS ! * Detroit, June 12.?A federal la\Vj requiring the registration by finger arint of every person in the coun- j ;ry, establishing of municipal wireess stations for use of police dejartments in cities of 50,000 popuation or lftore and uniformity of < vehicular laws were recommended 3 yspeakers before the convention +Vio Tn+ornnfinnnl Pnlipp PVlipf's Association here yesterday. The universal finger-print regis- j :ration was "necessary to the well-] jeing of our government in these : roubulous-times" Eugene Van Bus- i cirk, head of the bureau of crim- j nal identification at Washington, ^ leclared. 1 The .U. S. Navy Department is ( banning 18-inch guns for some of 1 ;he new battleships. Such guns, for [ experiment, are now being made. ? Kl 5r as a telegrapher. B srvice; built electric lephone and found 9 K 'hich built the foun^eatable combination. H in our Savings De- ... B Deposits. statement. You oan rig Habit while you fl\ rt you. ' \ . n V ' ;'i _ ? * <-a -jp I J The PARISIAN' K ' ; Price / B (11.00 I I % i Br IV*' Jew Vnrlr h " xu? jl a. urned up their V Now they wear ft rhis well-made H ^ ? Louis heel, B . new cut, quite B an cities, smart B : stylish of the B j^K* Jew ojfl 1 * 1 VsyS/v^S/S^S/S/S/NA>Aw^AVSA>/VV/S^>/S/S/N/SAVS/S/NAVN/VV,^>/VVV>/S GEORGIA FARMS FOR SALE i 2650 Acres $40 per acre 700 Acres $50 per acre 300 Acres $35 per acre oaa a fl>r?r ^uu Acres $oo per acre 245 Acres $25 per acre ^11 the above is adjoinng or near Hazlehurst, 5a. E. L. THOMAS, Hazlehurst, Ga. ^